Complex sentence: After making "The Big Trail", Wayne found stardom only in low-budget serials and features (mostly Poverty Row westerns); it would take nine years--and the film "Stagecoach"--to return Wayne to mainstream prominence.
Split into simpler sentences: After making "The Big Trail", Wayne found stardom only in low-budget serials and features (mostly B-westerns). It would take another nine years--and the film "Stagecoach"--to return Wayne to mainstream prominence.