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TOM MIX WAS BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1880
Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix (January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940)
Actor Tom Mix was a star of many early Western movies. He reportedly made
336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but nine of which were silent features. He
was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define
the genre for all cowboy actors who followed him.
THE KING MARRIED THE QUEEN ON THIS DAY IN 1947
Roy Rogers met Dale Evans in 1944 when she was cast in a movie along with
Roy. Following the death of his second wife ,Grace Arline, Rogers and Evans
soon fell in love, and Rogers proposed to her during a rodeo at Chicago
Stadium. They married on New Year’s Eve in 1947 at the Flying L Ranch in
Davis, Oklahoma, where a few months earlier they had filmed Home in
Oklahoma. Rogers and Evans remained married until Rogers’s death
in 1998.
LAST EPISODE OF RADIO SHOW ON THIS DAY IN 1954
The CBS radio western “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” featured movie star
Guy Madison as the lead, and film veteran Andy Devine as his sidekick Jingles. Both remained with the series for its entire run with the final episode airing on Friday, December 31,1954 . Kellogg’s was the sponsor of the show from start to finish. “The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok” was also on television (CBS/ABC) from 1951 to 1958
with the same cast as the radio show.
VETERAN ACTOR ELI WALLACH IS 96 TODAY
Eli Herschel Wallach is a film, television and stage actor who gained
recognition for his performance in the Elia Kazan black comedy Baby
Doll (1956). He won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden
Globe nomination. Considered to be his most famous roles is that of
Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).
Eli Wallach portraying Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
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