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COUNTRY MUSIC STAR IS 67 YEARS YOUNG

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Reba Nell McEntire is a country music singer and actress. She is
often referred to as
"
the Queen of Country and has sold more
than 75 million records worldwide. Since the 1970s, McEntire has
placed over 100 singles on the Billboard
Hot Country Songs chart,
25 of which reached number one.

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WESTERN HERO BORN IN PORTLAND

SCVHistory.com LW2196 | Film-Arts | Bob Steele

Bob Steele - [1907-1988] His main career progressed in 1927, when he was  hired by FBO to star in a series of W… | Cowboy films, Old western movies,  Western movies

COWBOY BORN IN PORTLAND, OREGON | PDX RETRO
Bob Steele (Robert Adrian Bradbury)
(January 23, 1907 – December 21, 1988)

Steele was born in Portland, Oregon, into a vaudeville family.

His parents were Robert North Bradbury and the former Nieta
Quinn. He
had a
twin brother, Bill, also an actor.

After years of touring, the family settled in Hollywood in the
late 1910s, where his father soon found work in the movies,
first as an actor, later as a director.

Steele’s career began to take off in 1927, when he was hired
by production company
Film Booking Offices of America to
star in a series of
Westerns. Renamed Bob Steele, he soon
made a name for himself, and in the late 1920s, 1930s and
1940s starred in
B-Westerns for almost every minor film
studio,

Steele is said to have been the inspiration for the character
"Cowboy Bob" in the Dennis The Menace comic strip.

BILLY THE KID'S FIGHTING PALS (1941) by Sam Newfield, Cinefania
  1941

Hidden Valley (1932) - Watch on Tubi or Streaming Online | Reelgood
1936

Bob Steele Western #3
(1950-1952) Fawcett comic books.


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A HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISH TO THE CAPTAIN

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William Shatner in The Twilight Zone episode: Nightmare At
20,000 Feet. (1963)    

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Shatner is best known for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk
of the
USS Enterprise (above) in the Star Trek franchise; from the
second pilot in 1965 to his final appearance as Kirk in the 1994 
Star Trek Generations



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Actor William Shatner is 91 years young today.


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ANOTHER COWBOY HERO WE REMEMBER

After the Silents: Hop-a-long Cassidy (1935) – Movies Silently


“Hop-along Cassidy” is a fictional
cowboy hero created in 1904 by
the author
Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of short stories
and novels based on the character.

In the first film, Hopalong Cassidy (then spelled "Hop-along") got
his name after being shot in the leg. Hopalong’s "drink of choice"
was the nonalcoholic
sarsaparilla.

From 1949 to 1953, NBC aired 52 theatrical films of "Hopalong
Cassidy". This series, consisted of 40 new episodes made for
TV, a half-hour in length, plus 12 additional theatrical features
that were edited to fit the 30-minute time slot.

Possible razing of Palm Desert bungalows stirs Hopalong Cassidy memories

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William Lawrence Boyd
(June 5, 1895 – September 12, 1972)

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Clarence Edward Mulford
(3 February 1883 – 10 May 1956)

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ACTOR WILLIAM HURT HAS DIED AT AGE 71

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William McChord Hurt (March 20, 1950 – March 13, 2022)

It was announced in May 2018 that Hurt had terminal prostate
cancer
that had already metastasized to the bones.

Hurt died from complications of the disease at his home in
Portland, Oregon.

William Hurt, was one of the 1980s’ foremost leading men in
movies such as "Broadcast News," "Body Heat" and "The Big
Chill,"

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2004

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