ACTRESS DRU, OF RESPIRATORY AILMENT, AT 74.Byline: Associated Press Joanne Dru, a veteran film actress who starred with John Wayne in the classic westerns ``Red River'' and ``She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,'' died at her home. She was 74. The cause of her death late Tuesday was respiratory ailment ail·ment n. A physical or mental disorder, especially a mild illness. that developed from lymphedema, a swelling of the extremities. Chemotherapy she received over her lifetime affected her lymph nodes Lymph nodes Small, bean-shaped masses of tissue scattered along the lymphatic system that act as filters and immune monitors, removing fluids, bacteria, or cancer cells that travel through the lymph system. , said her brother, television host Peter Marshall. Dru was a model in 1946 when she was discovered by director Howard Hawks and cast in her first film, ``Abie's Irish Rose Abie’s Irish Rose comedy by Anne Nichols ran for 2327 performances on Broadway. [Am. Lit.: Benét, 3] See : Longevity .'' She was then cast opposite Wayne in Hawks' ``Red River,'' the big Chisholm Trail cattle-drive epic of 1948. The next year Dru was again with Wayne in director John Ford's cavalry Technicolor story ``She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.'' In 1950 she was again heading West across the big screen, this time in Ford's ``Wagonmaster'' with Ben Johnson in a Mormon wagon train bound for Utah in the 1870s. Among her other films were ``All the King's Men'' with Broderick Crawford, ``711 Ocean Drive,'' ``Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell,'' ``The Pride of St. Louis'' and ``Thunder Bay'' with Jimmy Stewart. In 1960, she starred in the ABC-TV sitcom ``Guestward Ho '' She played Babs Hooten, a refugee from New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. transplanted to a decrepit de·crep·it adj. Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use. See Synonyms at weak. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin d dude ranch in New Mexico. She was a guest on many other television shows. Dru was born Jan. 31, 1922, in Logan, W.Va., and became a model in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of before moving to Beverly Hills with her first husband, actor Dick Haymes. They were married from 1941 to 1949 and had three children. She was married to actor John Ireland from 1949 to 1956, and then for 22 years to the late C.V. Wood. CAPTION(S): PHOTO Joanne Dru Starred opposite John Wayne |
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