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Dru married popular vocalist and actor Dick Haymes in 1941. The couple had three children. [6] Divorced from Haymes in 1949, Dru married Red River and All the King's Men co-star John Ireland less than a month later.
Joanne Dru is one of the actresses who appeared opposite John Wayne in two films, Red River and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. She played a pioneer woman who rejected Wayne's character in the former and a love interest of both Wayne and John Agar in the latter.
A personal ranking of the actresses who co-starred with John Wayne in his films, from Vera Miles to Maureen O'Hara. Joanne Dru is at No. 8 for her role as Tess Millay in Red River, spurning Wayne's proposal and choosing Montgomery Clift instead.
She continued to appear in westerns - Vengeance Valley (1951), Return of the Texan (1952), Outlaw Territory (1953) and The Siege at Red River (1954), but these were routine affairs.
Sep 13, 1996 · Joanne Dru, who starred opposite John Wayne in the westerns ''Red River'' and ''She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,'' died on Tuesday at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 74.
The daughter of a West Virginia druggist, Joanne Dru came to New York in 1940. In New York she worked as a model and was cast by Al Jolson as one of the showgirls in his Broadway play "Hold Onto Your Hats." When the show closed in 1941, she married popular singer Dick Haymes and went with him to Hollywood.
Sep 12, 1996 · Joanne Dru, heroine of 1940s and 1950s western films including Howard Hawks’ classic “Red River,” has died. She was 74. Dru died Tuesday night in her Beverly Hills home of respiratory ...
