Photo of John Wayne and Gregory Peck from Hollywood’s Golden Age Poses a Mystery

By Nicholas Stix
 

Gregory Peck Lights One for John Wayne

Gregory Peck lights one for John Wayne pic.twitter.com/GoVBHHHOWI

— GoldenAgeHollywood (@ClassicalCinema) November 25, 2015

Vic Davey, of Golden Age Hollywood @ClassicalCinema asks, “Can't trace the film...any ideas??”

N.S.: This is not a shot from a movie; they made no movies together, excepting How the West was Won, about 12 years later, in which they appeared in different sections. This pic is circa 1950, around when Wayne made Rio Grande—note his hairline. My hunch? Either they were sharing dressing facilities while shooting two different pictures, or they were dressed up as movie characters for some sort of Hollywood charity event.