A Lady Takes a Chance 1943 A New York bank clerk,Mollie Truesdale Jean Arthur, in the late 1930s, finds that her cherished dream of making a 17 day all expenses paid bus trip to the Pacific Coast and back, isnt all she thought it would be until she reaches Oregon and a bucking broncho tosses a rodeo performer on top of her and knocks her flat Duke Hudkins John Wayne, by way of apology, shows her the sights of Fairfield, Oregon, and she misses her bus, quarrels with the bewildered Duke, hitchhikes across a lot of desert and a romance is born