John Wayne 101st Birthday Celebration May 25, 2008 Winterset Iowa

We celebrated John Wayne’s 101st Birthday with a Special Event on Sunday, May 25, 2008, with:

5:00pm Free Birthplace Tours and Social Hour

7:00pm Chuckwagon Supper

8:00pm Michael Martin Murphey Lone Cowboy Concert

9:00pm Special Screening of “The Cowboys”
with Special Appearance by actor Robert Carradine

Photos from the John Wayne 101st Birthday Celebration Event

The big screen is all ready for the showing of The Cowboys later in the evening.
Stormy weather cut the showing short, unfortunately.

Michael Martin Murphey and Robert Carradine

Cowboy singer Michael Martin Murphey and actor Robert Carradine (who played Slim Honeycutt in The Cowboys) greeted fans and signed autographs.

Birthplace Executive Director Brian Downes kicks off the festivities.

Just as with the chuckwagon cooks of old, John Schaffner does a cowboy poetry reading.

John cooks, Murph plays

Murph serenades the Birthday participants as John Shaffner gets the chuckwagon supper distributed.

Lone Cowboy plus one
Michael Martin Murphey performed his “lone cowboy” concert, and was joined by Robert Carradine at the end.

FREE BIRTHPLACE TOURS

Birthplace of John Wayne As part of this exclusive event, take a FREE tour of the home where Marion Robert Morrison was born on May 26, 1907. The house features a unique collection of John Wayne memorabilia including such items as an eyepatch from True Grit, a hat from Rio Lobo, and a prop suitcase used in the film Stagecoach. See rare photographs of Wayne including early family photos, and letters from friends and Hollywood pals like Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Stewart, Maureen O’Hara and more.

CHUCKWAGON SUPPER

7:00pm to 8:00pm, pull up a chair for the best authentic western-style chuckwagon grub you’re likely to ever taste! Legendary cook and cowboy poet John Schaffner (left) whips up an authentic trail drive meal of beef tips with gravy, cowboy hash brown potatoes, chuckwagon beans, biscuits or corn bread, and dutch oven deserts. There’ll be iced tea and genuine campfire coffee to wash it all down. If you were here for the Centennial Weekend last year you know just how good it is!

MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY LONE COWBOY CONCERT

Michael Martin Murphey, America’s #1 selling cowboy music singer presents classic cowboy songs and his original music in an intimate solo concert that tells the tale of the Old West and cowboy life that John Wayne portrayed so vividly in many of his films.

A six-time Cowboy Hall of Fame Award Winner and winner of the Texas Music Awards Song of the Year, Murphey’s first album made him the “best new songwriter in the nation” said Chet Flippo of Rolling Stone magazine. His song “Wildfire” is one of radio’s most played songs, in all formats. His Cowboy Songs was the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Marty Robbins, and Jack Hurst of Chicago Tribune said “His Cowboy Songs album is a classic.”

SPECIAL SCREENING OF THE JOHN WAYNE FILM “THE COWBOYS”

The Cowboys Finally, your chance to view Mark Rydell’s 1972 classic John Wayne film the way it was meant to be seen, on a giant 25-foot screen with pristine, crystal clarity! This is not a run-of-the-mill showing but a high-definition digital cinema projection that’s actually better than when the film was first shown in theatres! Robert Surtees’ top-notch Western cinematography captures the beauty of the wide open landscapes and every wrinkle on Duke’s face. With music by John Williams and performances by Robert Carradine (in his film debut), Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens, Roscoe Lee Browne and Bruce Dern in a very memorable role, this is an event not to be missed!

Sponsored in part by Warner Home Video

SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY ACTOR ROBERT CARRADINE

Robert Carradine launched his film career with role of young Slim Honeycutt, one of the boys John Wayne recruits for his cattle drive in The Cowboys. One of Hollywood’s busiest actors, he recently finished shooting the Hallmark Channel’s Jane Doe, the feature film Deep Winter in Utah and the national tour of the award-winning play The Exonerated. He’s still seen daily on the Disney Channel as bemused dad to Hilary Duff in the highly successful Lizzie McGuire TV series and movie. Over his 35-year career as an actor, writer, producer and director, he has more than 100 film, television and theatre credits to his name. Robert was literally born into acting as the youngest son of the legendary John Carradine, who appeared in four of John Wayne’s films. An acting dynasty was born with brothers Keith and David, niece Martha Plimpton, and Robert’s own daughter Ever Carradine.

Proceeds from this special fund-raising event benefit the new John Wayne Museum and Learning Center.

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$100.00

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