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John Wayne and Dean Martin, The Sons of Katie Elder. The two had already made, Rio Bravo, and would be friends for the rest of their lives. John would say he would "be a liar if I didn't tell you that I love Dean. He has been my friend for the best years of my life. He’s done for me what he’s done for millions of people all over the world because, like so many of you, I feel good every time I see him. I’m entertained by him, I laugh with him, as well as at him.”During the filming John had his cancer scare and Dean remarked “Someone else would have laid around feeling sorry for himself for a year. But Duke, he just doesn’t know how to be sick. He’s recuperating the hard way. Me, when people see me, they sometimes say, ‘Oh, there goes Perry Como.’ But there’s only one John Wayne, and nobody makes any mistakes about that.”