Friends,
Perhaps I spoke to soon when I suggested that deans have little to do with John Wayne. One Dean did time with the Duke. That was Dean Martin.
Dean Martin co-starred with John Wayne and Ricky Nelson in Rio Bravo. The Dean played the character of The Dude, a former deputy to Wayne's sheriff John T. Chance. Suffering from lost love, The Dude lost his way, becoming El Borachon, the town drunk. In Rio Bravo, fate gives him an opportunity to sober up for justice and the law. He does so, regaining his position as an upright citizen while singing a duet or two with Ricky Nelson's Colorado Ryan character. The most memorable of these songs was "My Rifle, My Pony, and Me." It wasn't Don Giovanni, but it wasn't bad.
A few years later, the Dean and the Duke teamed up once again in The Sons of Katie Elder. This time Dean played a gambler and traveling man named Tom Elder. Elder joined his three brothers to seek vengeance for the murder of their father and the theft of their mother's farm. The other Elders were played by John Wayne as John Elder, Earl Holliman as Matt Elder, and Michael Anderson as Bud Elder.
One humorous sub-plot to the movie involved the three older Elders doing their best to send Bud to college. The degree was never specificed, but I'd like to think they wanted him to get a doctorate in design. And then shoot the bad guys.
Ken
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