Duke: A Love Story -- A rare 1983 interview with Pat Stacy, John Wayne's secretary and final love
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- Опубликовано: 17 дек 2024
- John Wayne's secretary and girlfriend, Pat Stacy, participates in the only available video interview unearthed so far of her years spent with Duke. The video quality drops considerably in quality as it progresses; however, the audio is perfect.
Hired after Duke's longtime secretary, Mary St. John, retired in 1972, Stacy & the legendary actor became a couple while on location for McQ in June 1973. She remained by his side until his death from stomach cancer six years later.
Stacy is asked some tough questions by Connie Martinson, a local San Diego television personality, on July 21, 1983, shortly after the publication of her book, "Duke: A Love Story."
Candid to a fault, Stacy discusses her actual paycheck, the Wild Goose (Duke's beloved boat), Duke's family, the man behind the image, Pilar Wayne, their relationship, his valiant battle against cancer and inexplicable attempt to end his life, and much more.
Sadly, Stacy would pass away 12 years later in 1995 of lung cancer. She is rarely mentioned in recent projects authorized by the Wayne estate, but she was definitely a major part of his life. Her memoir is available on Amazon or eBay in used copies only.
The video is for educational purposes only. No copyright infringement is intended, and it is courtesy of the Drucker Institute via Claremont Colleges Library.
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I fell in love with John Wayne as a child and still relish his movies and admire the man offscreen as well as onscreen. As a young, teenage girl, I was simply devastated when his character died in The Cowboys. My own dear, sweet Father looked and sounded quite a bit like John Wayne. My Father was the best man I will ever know. It pleases me to know The Duke had love and companionship in the last years of his life. It is lovely to give the world insight into the man rather than the roles he played. However, I cannot help but feel he would have preferred Pat keep more intimate facts about their relationship private. He struck me as being private about private matters. He was a class act in a world diminished by current celebrities.
I agree! Thank you. I think anyone who knew anything about John Wayne and all he stood for would be ashamed of what this woman says in this interview. I would never buy or read this book so I can’t comment on that. But I agree. She disgraces him and therefore, disgraces herself. What a shame.
I’m so glad you had a wonderful father. God bless you.
Thanks for the honest comment.
i made a jail set for his move Rio Lobo in 1970 i talked to him i found he was one of the warm. friendly s man i have every talked with .he was great .
Love your reminiscences and to hear what a warm and friendly man he was. I'm 64 and still a big fan of John Wayne's and the movies he did with John Ford.
I'm from San Francisco and It wasn't until I moved to Liverpool, England In the 1970s that I realized how immensely popular John Wayne westerns were and are. One of the people I used to run into a lot at our neighborhood pub was Kenny the Cowboy. Kenny always had his big cowboy hat on when he did his pub rounds.
Kenny, I believe spent a lot of time watching John Wayne movies. Those were the days when you didn't have to leave theater after he showing was over. Kenny knew lines from John's movies and I swear he would even tear up a bit during the sentimental speeches.
He had lots of fans, but Kenny Jones on Wavertree Road had to be the biggest!
i was a young copper in london in 75 when i met him while controlling crowds during the shoot out in brannigan filmed in little venice he was fit happy and very polite the ill health that dogged him during the shootist was non apparent.he was amazing to his fans and after the shot was filmed took us judy geeson all the crew and stuntmen into a local pub for lunch not reserved but walked in off the street like any tourist. bought drinks and food for everyone including the locals got into a marathon drinking session with londoners and was courteous to all signed autographs posed for pictures and was a genuine pleaure to be with.finally he called it a day thanked the staff insisted on giving everyone working in the pub a hundred dollar tip even the cook and paid the huge bill out of his own pocket my collegue said you are very good to your fans the duke replied ..no they are very good to me im nothing they are what makes me a star and i never forget.a lovely man and boy could he drinkbeer wine and a bottle or two of whiskey and he seemed as sober as when he walked in a true legend
mike kemp Wow, I wish I could have been there.
Michael Allbright that Must’ve Been a Great A Great thrill 4U..I’m Huge Duke Fan.! That was a Great Movie it was the last of the Trio, U did A Really Great Job On the Movie..I’m Such a Huge Fan Of John Wayne.. We Need a Duke Wayne in America Now a Days compared to the JUNK WE HAVE NOW IN HOLLYWOOD
@@mikekemp9877 thanks for that story!
She’s a very beautiful person and I believe she and him seems to have been great friends and companions and God Bless you Mam for being with Duke through a difficult time My husband and I was going through that other a family member because that’s a wonderful time and a horrible time when someone has cancer and lives with a person that they love is so very difficult and omg a labor of love to see them out of this world as they suffer from horrible pain and they are not themselves at times so I’m very glad to hear Duke had a companion that assisted and loved John Wayne as he was a wonderful father, person and a great star but I loved Duke because of the man he was!
my mother loved John Wayne so much she has every movie he ever made and my grandpa was actually in two of them but best of all she named me after him duke bless her soul even as much trouble it may have brought me it is a joy to hold his name as i too love his movies and now have inherited all of them after my mothers passing thanks mom i wish i was half the man he was
I just finished her book. I wanted to see what she was like. I'm sending a blessing to her.
Ethan Wayne, Duke's youngest son, recently confirmed that Pat made up the romance.
She died in 1995.
I used to see her driving around Newport Beach in a brown metallic ford Granada ,sometimes with the duke.John Wayne drove his customized station wagons with gloves.
Wow. It must have been cool to see him driving around!!
As far as she goes, I now know I’ll never buy or read this book. What a shame she divulges his last most sacred moments. No one has any excuse to do that.
A great actor with human faults and failures to show he was a normal, talented human being.
The Wild Goose anchored in Rivers Inlet BC routinely and John fished salmon there with us. He tried to stay low profile, but as he trolled by for salmon you could hear the other fishermen holler greetings across the water... We miss him fishing with us... Pappy
What a great guy. I would have loved to have met him.
I met him once, when he was filming "The Hellfighters" in Houston. They used my workplace oil company bldg to film. He was very friendly and talkative. That was March 1968.
Please get this tope remastered this is history rip Duke.
I miss duke❤️🇸🇪🙏
thanks for your insightful remarks, SouthernGirl72364; just to add a bit, while Duke's family largely ignored Pat, notable friends such as Claire Trevor, Maureen O'Hara, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Rock Hudson, producer Hal Wallis, and Senator Barry Goldwater all endorsed the book (you can see their remarks inside the book jacket)
Yes. Mr Wayne was human, older and he needed someone. Glad she was there for him. Pilar was a pill - with a bad temper as some of Duke’s friends have said. The family should have been nice to her.
If this women is a journalist...I’m the Pope...obviously she’s one that Can’t Understand Normally Thinking. Pat’s a better person than me...I would’ve walked out. There’s a reason she was put into his life.
THE worst interviewer i have ever seen! Her questions were beyond rude. Pat was the epitome of grace and style, i commend her. She seemed like a warm, genuine person to me and Duke was lucky to have her and I'm sure he knew it.
I respectfully disagree. If this woman was so great. She would never have been in this interview because she knew this woman and what she was about. The fact is, ppl do interviews to sell books.
Also, if you really listen to this Pat, you’ll hear her liberal slights at the Duke. I think it’s a disgrace. Too bad ppl have to profit off of what should have been his most private time of his life.
Says a lot about her, I say.
I agree the t some of what she revealed about his final days is way too personal for the public. He deserved his dignity protected. I think I read somewhere that his family was not happy with her over this. I do not think she remained friends with them. She sadly passed away from cancer herself.
I could not get video to work corridors. Apparently it’s the programs fault. Video starts then stops starts n stops. Would of love to here the Love story of the Duke n Pat Stacy. So sad. Gave u a thugs down for technical problems.
I don't know what Pat Stacy's motivation was for writing the book, maybe it was because after Duke's death the family ignored her. She was a university graduate, unlike Duke's three wives, and she shows her "class" and intelligence in this interview. She didn't go on all the network morning shows to publicize her book, she was a "low key" person. She did too young of cancer in 1995. RIP, Pat.
SouthernGirl72364 are you kidding. She slept with a married man. She wrote the book for money
@@robingagan6288
Yes, you are right.
I always wanted to meet olé John Wayne & once visited Hollywood when he was in the area but I never got to meet him. I did meet Dan Blocker, Purnell Roberts , Michael Landon of Bonanza fame & even got to joke around with ole (hoss). I also met Jack Elam & Richard Burton who knew my 1st cousin Merrell Williams an actor with a PhD & was who the movie "The Insider" was made about.
John Wayne is no doubt one of the greatest actors of last century as was Richard Burton, Marlon Brando & Betty Davis.
Joe G. Bowen
Miss Gulf Coast
Riviera of the South
Vbv
What are you racist bastard
John Wayne was a racist bastard
god, this is painful.
Could someone find a more exciting journalist? I was almost willing to hear the rest until "He takes you to his sort of bedroom"? A real wrist slasher this one.
She loved him, she stayed with him through all of his hard time and illnesses.
John Wayne is my hero 💕
Iff he hadn't made that film in a Nuclear testing ground !!! R.I.P. John Wayne, a true legend.
He smoked up to 120 cigarettes a day.
@@markharrison2544 True, and those 120 cigarettes per day were the "unfiltered" Camels. I'm surprised he didn't develop the lung cancer years earlier. God bless Duke's memory!!
My favourite man,of all time.
Loved John Wayne as an actor. But he was human and her comment about him being a 1 woman man when he was in a relationship is wrong. His 1st wife left him for having an affair. It doesn't take anything away from who he was as an actor.
I'm glad Duke found love with Pat Stacy after Pilar left him.
Did she leave him before or after he slept with stacy?
@@robingagan6288according to daughter Aissa in her book "John Wayne My Father," Pilar quit sleeping with him in 1968 and moved out in 1973. All before Pat Stacy.
Why did Pilar leave?
@@Student____2025__1 According to book, she made new friends, new religion, new activities that excluded Duke, She lost interest in his work, and did not adhere to his old fashioned ways or ideas. They legally separated. Pilar left 4 husbands, divorcing 3 of them.
Duke had trouble with his marriages
Real life isn't a movie where everything is scripted
Still some marriages are successful
Charlie heston seemed to have lasted the full course!
As he was quoted as saying
If you cant handle marriage
Best to leave it alone!
An amazing interview. I have many books on Duke Wayne, including her book. 1st time i have listened to Pat Stacy tho. Very interesting.
I’d like to read about his life, but not in the way this woman writes. I think she disgraces him by exposing his most private last years, struggling with a terrible disease. Anyone with real morals and dignity, who truly loves someone, and has had the privilege of caring for them in their passing, knows that there are many moments that are absolutely sacred and couldn’t possible share them with anyone. But she does. $$$
Anyway, would you suggest what the best bios are of the Duke? I’ve become a fan these past few years and I’d love to read about his life from a well discerned honoring position. Thank you.
what a lovley story
This interview was poorly conducted. The questions are so rude and the wording was awful. Poor Pat, what a tough interview... She didn't have a chance. Come on, if you are going to interview someone, PLEASE form your questions in an OPEN format... give your interviewee a chance... without your BIAS or was it just ignorance she was so rude? Sheesh
Bgt
From What year is this
Kerstin Dahlqvist it says in the title, 1983.
I have never heard a more rude interview by a "professionally" educated journalist. I think it is pretty clear that Ms. Martinson had a clear agenda in trying to draw Pat Stacy into a confrontation. I don't know how Stacy held it together. Even if you don't personally care for your guest, as an interviewer, you should have a little more class.
SOUND ???
He was a married man you should have kept these secrets to yourself now your hurting his family...just to make a buck!
He had separated from this third wife in 1967.
@@markharrison2544 No. He & 3rd wife Pilar officially separated in 1973 & stayed that status all the way up until his death. He took up w/ Pat right after the separation. Albeit, according to Scott Eyman's biography of him, Duke & Pilar Wayne stopped sleeping together about two years after their youngest child Marisa was born, which would've been sometime in 1968. Apparently, it was a marriage in name only from then until their official separation in 1973.
No - he was separated
Carolyn Nuss Yes - they led separate lives for many years. Pilar just wanted to be Mrs JW - bottom line.
@@MTknitter22
Shut up Charlotte the harlot. And quit giving yourself thumbs up.
what a rude interview I would have just got up and walked out
Too bad this woman takes this iconic man’s last days and divulges them. Whether true or not, I think it’s disgraceful. Anyone who truly loves anyone and is there is their last days, knows that there are moments that are so sacred and no moral human being could divulge them.
The comments she makes about, what is she “going to do for work after he fires her?” Is ludicrous because the host of the show opens up with how could this young accomplished collage graduate ends up with this older man.
The comments the host makes about how John must have been more liberal because he was generous in buying the author’s dresses, is ridiculous. John Wayne made no bones about being a flag waving, true American Republican. Therefore, its also a disgrace when this author comments on how lucky she was to be with John after “all of that Viet Nam stuff”. I wouldn’t buy or read this woman’s book if she paid me.
I’m not distracting her. I think she did a fine job of that all by herself.
Worst interview I have ever seen. As for the video .... must have been done by armatures
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don collier has some different observations
Care to elaborate?
I AGREE.... THIS VIDEO SHOULD BE PULLED. NOBODY'S BUSINESS AT ALL!!! PULL THIS PLEASE. TERRIBLE !
The book should be pulled too.
How unkind. No wonder this is the only video interview anyone can find. Jesus.
It’s because it was 38 years ago. The unkind one was the interviewer. Pat had class but was no saint. Are you?
Since Duke only married hispanic women because supposedly they were not aggressive, maybe if he had met a Southern girl like Pat who was also a university graduate to begin with, unlike his three wives, he'd have stayed married!!!! We Southern girls KNOW how to keep our men happy!!!! She lost her Louisiana accent after she moved to California, and it's probably because people there "made fun" of her Southern accent!!!! SO SAD, we shouldn't all be "homogenized" in the United States!!!!
What a ridiculous comment!🙄
Pilar was anything but non aggressive -
@@MTknitter22
Shut up Charlotte.
@@Berlin19811 THANK YOU!!! I agree!! And as if “university graduate” is the be-all, end-all. Give me a break. If it was, then why does she talk about not “knowing what she was going to do when he first fired her. Go work at the casino?” If being a “university graduate” was so great, and even causes the host of the show (liberal no doubt) to suggest that this Pat was going well beneath herself in being with John Wayne because she was a college graduate, then why did this Pat talk like she was so lost when John Wayne first fired her? On one hand she makes a big deal about being an elite college graduate, but on the other hand she conveniently becomes so inept to be able to find another job?
Ridiculous woman. Ridiculous book. I’d never touch it.
God bless the Duke.
Its irrevelant now but its true . Bad interviewer.
#LuckyGirl
Bull!