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This country singing-and-playing perennial earned the nickname of "Shug" early in life from his mother, who used to call him "sugar" as an infant. The native Oklahoman was born George Clinton Fisher in 1907, the son of a Scots-Irish father and part Choctaw mother. He learned how to play the mandolin, fiddle and guitar by the time he went on the road and later added comedy schtick to his traveling act. He finally took the plunge and headed west to California toiling in a series of side jobs (oil field cabler, tool dresser) before getting some work on radio. He joined various country groups, including the "Hollywood Hillbillies," in which he played bass fiddle, and the "Beverly Hill Billies." He finally found "gold up in them thar hills" saddling up with Roy Rogers in his western films and singing with the renown group "Sons of the Pioneers."
On various radio broadcasts with the group, Shug's talents soon included songwriting. Some of his songs included "Out on the Open Range" and "Ridin' Down to Santa Fe," tunes later recorded by such established stars as Merle Travis. Shug first joined the Sons of the Pioneers in 1943 as a bass player and comedian and appearing on their Lucky U Ranch radio program. He also performed with Stuart Hamblen's "Lucky Stars" and partnered on and off with singer/actor/comedian Pat Brady. Following his break with the Pioneers, he worked with pre-Festus actor Ken Curtis (of "Gunsmoke" fame) in movies and on TV and radio. He returned once more with the Sons of the Pioneers (1955-1959), then went on to appear with Red Foley's and his Ozark Jubilee TV show for a couple of years.
Shug continued on as various character types on TV and enjoyed a regular role with friend Curtis on the Ripcord (1961) adventure series. He also is remembered for his recurring role as Shorty Kellums on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), and appeared in several films and TV episodes for Walt Disney in later years. He died in March 1984 after a lingering illness, with old friend Ken Curtis by his side.- Actor
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Reynaldo Rey was born on 27 January 1940 in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Friday (1995), White Men Can't Jump (1992) and First Sunday (2008). He was married to Evelyn. He died on 28 May 2015 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Production Manager
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Joan Gail Bradshaw is the daughter of John Powers Bradshaw (1907-1987) and Mary Elizabeth Merkle (1912-1998), who married in 1935 in Carter County, Oklahoma. After Joan's birth in 1936, the family settled eventually in Houston, Texas, where her father owned an ice cream company. He also acquired some horses and Joan began riding as early as age 3.
Joan was listed as a sophomore student at Houston's John Reagan High School in the 1952 school yearbook. It turned out to be her final school year. She quit school at age 15. She entered several beauty pageants and various beach contests. She won her first beauty contest at age 16. Joan was crowned Miss Texas USA on July 4, 1953, in only the second year of the pageant, and was a semi-finalist (top 15) in the Miss USA pageant held in Long Beach, California, on July 16, 1953. The Miss Universe pageant was held at the same time and venue in those days. Joan competed but did not win. She later admitted, like many of the other girls competing, that she was under the minimum age of 18 required for the pageant. Her physical description at that time was 5 feet, 4 inches tall, 113-15 pounds, brunette, brown eyes, with measurements of 36-23-36. Her bust size increased to 38 a few years later. Her talents for the pageant were singing, sport, and ice skating.
Joan returned to Houston where she worked as a receptionist for the Texas Company, which later became Texaco. Eventually, she went to New York and became the girl who danced the mystery dance on the weekly Arthur Murray Party television show. She met actress Jean Simmons, who suggested a movie career. So she headed west. She scored ten acting roles in her first 14 months in Hollywood and became a starlet and model in the mid- to late 1950s. She scored a social coup at celebrity clothier Sy Devore's Halloween party by arriving with Elvis Presley in 1957.
At age 25 in 1961, she married 56 year-old movie producer, Frank Ross (1904-1990), and she promised to give up her acting career forever. She did. Contrary to erroneous reports, the gorgeous Joan Bradshaw so famously photographed by Earl Leaf walking down Hollywood and Vine with her toy poodle in September 1957 did not go on to become a successful movie producer. The producer by the same name is a different person.
Eventually she returned to her home state of Texas, where she operated a tiki bar and motel for several years. She sold her bar and still splits her time between South Padre Island, Texas, and Los Angeles, California.- Guy Prescott was born on 19 January 1914 in Lincoln County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for The Unearthly (1957), The Book of Acts Series (1957) and Rocky Jones, Space Ranger (1954). He was married to Cynthia Leighton. He died on 7 March 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- While most actors like to play cowboy, Tom Smith was one. He was born to a family of poor German farmers who were originally from Germany. The shiftless Smith eventually made his way to California where he got into the motion picture business.
Staring in the 1920s, Smith worked in countless westerns. His prowess with a horse, his long hair, and his big bushy mustache was the very ideal image of what an old western outlaw looked like. Smith was so trusted with horses that he was taken across the country in 1930 so he could appear in Raoul Walsh's epic film The Big Trail.
Smith did not usually have dialog in the films that he appeared in but his appearance helped him gain work in countless films and television. By the 1930s, he was constantly appearing in Republic films typically appearing in posse or bar scenes. Through his connections, he was able to gain work in some of the better western productions and frequently appeared in higher-budgeted films as his career went on.
While most cowboys either retired or passed away, Smith found a new avenue of income with the introduction of television. He could regularly be seen appearing in some Universal Studios productions and in some of the more well-known westerns like Gunsmoke but during this period, he primarily did a lot of shows at For Star Productions studios where you can see him appear in bar scenes of shows like Zane Grey Theatre, The Rifleman, Black Saddle, and many other productions.
By the late 1960s, westerns were no longer as plentiful as they once were and Smith's career started to wind itself up. He spent his last few years making sporadic appearances on television shows like Gunsmoke and Barbary Coast until he passed away in 1976 leaving behind a legacy of being a true cowboy on-screen and off of it. - Actor
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Actor and singer-songwriter, Brennin Hunt, is known as the lead role, Roger Davis, in FOX's Rent Live. Brennin began his acting career in 2015 when he guest starred on ABC's hit series "Nashville" as Sullivan Fitzgerald. He filmed his first movie role as Marco Figueroa in "Walking With Herb," which was written by Oscar nominated screenwriter Mark Medoff and stars George Lopez and Oscar nominated actors Edward James Olmos and Kathleen Quinlan. The movie is set to release spring 2020, which will also feature Brennin's original song "Can't Hold a Candle." In the summer of 2019 he made his Broadway debut as the lead role, Edward Lewis, in Pretty Woman: The Musical.
Brennin has also been pursuing his music passion over the past decade earning his first major cut as a songwriter with "I Can't Do This" recorded and co-written by Vince Gill and featured on Gill's album "Down To My Last Bad Habit." Brennin has independently released several songs that have generated millions of streams on Spotify, Apple Music and Pandora. He earned his first feature in "Rolling Stone Country" as one of the "10 Artists You Need To Know" in 2016. Last year, he partnered with YWCA for his single "Rip off the Rearview" featuring Vince Gill. The music video became Brennin's first #1 video on CMT and also earned his second feature in "Rolling Stone Country."
Brennin has performed and toured all over North America, Europe, and the Middle East opening for mainstream artists, most recently with the legendary band America. He and his music have been featured on numerous TV shows including "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," "Ellen," and season 1 of "The X Factor." He has performed the U.S. National Anthem at countless events across the nation including NBA regular season and playoff games and U.S. military events and galas for Joint Chiefs of Staff.- Oral Roberts was born on 24 January 1918 in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967), A City of the King (1971) and Oral Roberts: Christmas Is Love (1975). He was married to Evelyn Lutman Fahnestock. He died on 15 December 2009 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
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Born in Oklahoma, she left for Hollywood to work in movie and radio. After a supporting role in A Gentleman After Dark (1942), she received the leading role in Fog Island (1945). After some other little roles in movies, she moved to the small screen of TV, where she did some work, but resumed her radio career later.- Additional Crew
C.V. Wood was born on 17 December 1920 in Woods County, Oklahoma, USA. C.V. is known for The Special London Bridge Special (1972). C.V. was married to Joanne Dru and Mary Margaret Dickinson. C.V. died on 14 March 1992 in Houston, Texas, USA.- Carl R. Botefuhr was born on 12 November 1925 in Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for The Devil Horse (1932) and Hawaii Five-O (1968). He was married to Kyoko Yosimura, Autumn Russell and Vonnie Laverne Hill. He died on 1 May 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Cal Tinney was born on 2 February 1908 in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Bat Masterson (1958), The Missouri Traveler (1958) and Roaming the Emerald Isle with Will Rogers (1927). He was married to Juanita White Cummings and Mary Maxine Noble. He died on 2 December 1993 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
- Steve Maurice Powell was born on 13 May 1930 in Sharon, Woodward County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Foreman Scotty Show (1956). He died on 17 November 1994 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA.
- Esther LeBarre was born on 7 April 1904 in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for The Daughter of Dawn (1920). She died on 31 March 1984 in Loudon, Tennessee, USA.
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Dan Hodge was born on 13 May 1932 in Noble County, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor, known for One More Shot (1996), DeadTrust (2010) and Dead Trust: Prequel (2011).- Writer
Elinore Stewart was born on 3 June 1876 in White Bead Hill, Garvin County, Oklahoma, USA. She was a writer. She was married to Henry Clyde Stewart and Harry Cramer Rupert. She died on 8 October 1933 in Rock Springs, Wyoming, USA.- Frank Colbert was born on 4 July 1898 in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Flames of Wrath (1923). He was married to Elizabeth Ellis Jones, Climie Turner and Emma Johnson. He died on 7 January 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
- Imogene Glover was born on 4 November 1924 in Texas County, Oklahoma, USA. She was married to Jack P. Smith and Wallin T. Glover . She died on 28 May 2023 in Guymon, Oklahoma, USA.
- Elmer Warren was born on 25 May 1919 in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Sundown Valley (1944). He died on 10 February 2010 in El Paso, Texas, USA.
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Lyman H. Russell was born on 8 September 1914 in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor. He died on 27 January 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Frankie Hewitt was born on 17 June 1931 in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, USA. She was a producer, known for All-Star Salute to Ford's Theater (1986), A Christmas Carol at Ford's Theatre (1979) and An American Celebration at Ford's Theater (1999). She was married to Don Hewitt and Bob Childers. She died on 28 February 2003 in Kensington, Maryland, USA.
- Johnny Frank Garrett was born on 24 December 1963 in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA. He died on 11 February 1992 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.
- B. Wayne Hughes was born on 28 September 1933 in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for 100 Mile Rule (2002). He was married to Patricia. He died on 18 August 2021 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
- Kenneth Earl was born on 31 March 1907 in Beaver County, Oklahoma, USA. He was a writer, known for Footlight Serenade (1942), The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) and Star Dust (1940). He died on 18 April 1992 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
- Marcella Pershing was featured in several silent-era two-reeler westerns, all released in 1921, eight opposite Hoot Gibson and two opposite Art Acord. The feature western 'Looped for Life (1924)_ was also made opposite Art Acord. While credited in 11 films, one writer on the silent era, 'George Katchmer', believes she was actually in more.
Born Florence Wilkinson, Marcella acquired her stage surname legitimately, as it was the maiden name of her paternal grandmother. Her third great-grandfather was Frederick Pershing, a Huguenot who emigrated from Alsace and settled a "tomahawk" possession in western Pennsylvania. She was a third cousin of Gen. John J. Pershing, who led the American Expeditionary Force in WWI. In 1922 she left moviemaking to marry and then move to Florida. At the time the Pershing genealogy was published, Marcella had one child, Helen, born March 31, 1924. - Ermer Robinson was born on 24 November 1922 in Logan County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for The Harlem Globetrotters (1951). He died on 29 December 1982 in San Diego, California, USA.
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Stan Wrightsman was born on 15 June 1910 in Gotebo, Kiowa County, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Blues in the Night (1941). He died on 18 December 1975 in Palm Springs, California, USA.- Charles Niemann was born on 10 November 1935 in Woods County, Oklahoma, USA. He died on 12 June 2013 in Boise City, Oklahoma, USA.
- Stoney Edwards was born on 24 December 1929 in Seminole County, Oklahoma, USA. He died on 5 April 1997 in the USA.