Sacheen Littlefeather Says 1973 John Wayne Incident Was 'Most Violent Moment' in Oscars History

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sacheen Littlefeather is addressing her claim that John Wayne attempted to rush the stage and pull her off at the 45th Academy Awards.

In 1973, Littlefeather, 75, stood on the Oscars stage on behalf of Marlon Brando to turn down his Best Actor award for his performance in The Godfather, using the speech to call out the film industry's treatment of Native Americans.

The protest garnered mixed reactions from the audience. She later said that Wayne was restrained by six men backstage for trying to storm the stage at the time.

"I remember the faces in the crowd," Littlefeather recalled three decades after the event took place. "John Wayne, backstage, had to be restrained by six men from coming to get me and pull me off the stage."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/oscars/sacheen-littlefeather-says-1973-john-wayne-incident-was-most-violent-moment-in-oscars-history/ar-AA11QlLh

He was a racist chickenhawk piece of shit.

[Aristus]

1. I'm not exactly sure how assaulting a woman likely half his size was in any way masculine at all.

But people still see that cowardly, armchair warrior chickenhawk as the embodiment of American manhood. I heard Barbara Walters gushing over him once, and just about lost my lunch.

[prodigitalson]

5. It isn't. But it fits perfectly with this

“I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility.” ― John Wayne 1971

[FM123]

11. Every time I read this it just makes me want to throw up.

I remember watching his movies as a kid in the 1970's - never knew he was like that until I was an adult. An older adult....

[Tommy Carcetti]

2. Wayne was a racist freak.

And a shitty actor to boot.

[prodigitalson]

6. yes and yes

I did like his last movie. He played an old gunfighter dying of cancer - he was dying of cancer in real life at the time. I saw it again recently and it holds up. His acting was ok in that one but I guess it wasn't hard to get into character. Also, he probably got the cancer on the set of a movie where he played (I kid you not) Genghis Khan. A bunch of people on that set (including Samantha's mom on Bewitched) got the big C as it was downwind from an nuclear weapons test range.

Can't believe I just typed that much about John Wayne.

[Sky Jewels]

3. Orange County needs to change its airport's name.

Fuck John Wayne.

[DBoon]

10. They should name it Mike Ness International Airport

[Sky Jewels]

12. Good idea! Social D is a great band.

[prodigitalson]

4. was

Edit: It's a one hour loop.

[Mike Nelson]

7. Hmm...

... never heard that one. I'm sure he had a few choice words for her, especially if he'd already hoisted a few... but rushing the stage to violently pull her... that would have ended his career, I think...

[Midnight Writer]

8. If there was no John Wayne, there would have been no Ronald Reagan.

[hardluck]

9. Did that actually happen?

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-08-23/column-did-john-wayne-try-to-assault-sacheen-littlefeather-at-the-1973-oscars-debunking-a-hollywood-myth

The revival of the Wayne story caught the attention of one of our most learned and entertaining cineastes and film historians, Farran Nehme, who writes an indispensable film blog under the pseudonym Self-Styled Siren.

“Once again,” Nehme writes, “we’re flooded with the tale of John Wayne and the Six Security Men, the lousy variety act many people believe played the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion back in 1973.”

Her conclusion, after considerable reporting and research, is: “Never happened.” Rather, she says, the story began as an exaggerated yarn that Oscar telecast director Marty Pasetta started telling interviewers a year or so after the fact “that got more exciting each time it was told” until it became “a persistent urban legend.”