Frankie Scott(1920-2004)
- Actress
Frankie Scott is a singer, dancer, model, actress, and comedienne.
Scott stepped into the entertainment field as a model in Atlanta, Ga.
in the late thirties. She married country music pioneer Ramblin' Tommy
Scott in 1940 shortly before he became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
She became a fixture on radio and Scott's road show dancing, singing
and stepping into the shoes of the Minnie Pearl style character
"Clarabelle," which she portrayed on radio and in several film shorts.
When Tommy Scott ventured west to Hollywood, Frankie joined him
co-starring in the Edward Dymytrk film "Trail of the Hawk," as well as
films "Mountain Capers," "Hillbilly Harmony," "Southern Hayride," among
others. When the Ramblin' Tommy Scott TV show, credited as being the
first country music television series, hit the airwaves on television
in the late forties, she debuted as a television pioneer dancing,
singing and doing comedy on the variety series. She returned to
television in the 1950s when Scott's Smokey Mountain Jamboree hit the
airwaves airing in syndication around the country. Early television
appearances also include Johnny Carson. She is the subject of Tommy
Scott's top twenty Billboard hit "Rosebuds and You." In the 1960s,
Scott retired from performing on stage and took a role as co-producer
of Scott's road show, "Doc" Scott's Last Real Old Time Medicine Show,
which included co-stars such as western film star Col. Tim McCoy, Al
"Fuzzy" St. John, Sunset Carson, Billy Grammar, Junior Samples, Clyde
Moody, In the Heat of the Night star Randall Franks among others. The
show, founded by "Doc" V. O. Chamberlain in 1890, has performed over
29,000 times in towns across America and Canada up to the present.