how the duke got his walk

[Noodles_SlowStir]

I've seen on TCM a program in which Robert Osborne sits down with Lauren Bacall and interviews her for about an hour.  She talks about her career, Bogart, blacklisting and so on.  I think it's more than a few years old.  They broadcast it every now and again.  I've seen it a couple of times. She got to talking about The Shootist and John Wayne.  She actually talked about him a lot.  She said although she very much disagreed with his politics, she got along with him very well.  The way she talked about him and described the experience of working with him, it was apparent there was a mutual respect and fondness.  She told Osborne the thing about Wayne was that he was a big man, but he had small feet for his size.  According to her, that was why he had a peculiar step.  Not sure if there's anything to that, but I remembered it from that interview.   

[sargatanas]

the duke's boot size was only a 7. truckin round all that mass w/ tiny size 7 feet and bingo, that's how he got the walk