Among her many films are True Grit, in which she played a 14-year-old when she was 21 years old; The Strawberry Statement (1970); Norwood (1970); The One and Only (1978); Better Off Dead (1985); and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).

James Stacy and Kim Darby The 20-year-old Kim Darby, who would soon go toe-to-toe with the Duke in True Grit, played Angel, a young woman who falls hard for the scoundrel Bob Johnson. The actors fell for each other, too, getting hitched in 1968.

In "True Grit" (1969), his new film, the 62-year-old actor plays the disreputable, one-eyed, drunken, rascally Rooster Cogburn, a federal marshal and fat old man. And as Rooster, John Wayne looks like the distillation of fat old men, as if he had been aging and fattening for years to get there.

When she nabbed her Oscar-nominated role in True Grit, a 13-year-old Steinfeld was told: “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Take it all in.” Few actors ever reach the Academy Awards, let alone before hitting the legal driving age.