2007 Festival Guests
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The stars posed
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Carol
Adams
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Ms.
Adams, who began her movie career as a dancer at 20th Century
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Adrian Booth |
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One of the great leading ladies of the Western Cinema returned to Memphis after her appearance with us in 2000. Adrian Booth will be joining us in our 100th birthday tribute to John Wayne with whom she appeared in "Dakota" and "Red River Range" (shown below). Adrian has one of the most varied lists of film credits in Hollywood including appearing in serials (such as "Perils of Nyoka", "Captain America" and "Daughter of Don Q"). Other credits include starring opposite Boris Karloff in "The Man They Could Not Hang" and with Buster Keaton and The Three Stooges in various comedy shorts. She has a long list of westerns to her credit working with a virtual "Who's Who" list of western stars including Monte Hale, Clayton Moore, Bob Steele, Roy Rogers, Don 'Red' Barry, Rod Cameron, Bill Elliot and many, many more. |
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Don Collier |
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Rugged
Western actor who starred as ranch foreman
"Sam Butler" on The High Chaparral television series. Also played the lead on TV's Outlaws and worked alongside John Wayne in three films: The Undefeated (as seen below with Wayne, Ben Johnson and Rock Hudson), The War Wagon, and El Dorado. |
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Bill Hale |
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We were pleased to welcome a gentleman who has had a lot of experience in Hollywood's ol' West - Bill Hale ! Bill appeared in several Western films with the likes of Gene Autry, George Montgomery, Johnny Mack Brown, Charles Starrett and others. Later he went on to have a successful western TV career appearing in more series than can be listed here including "Rawhide", "Wild Bill Hickok", "Range Rider", "Gunsmoke", "Rin Tin Tin", "Wagon Train" and many others. Bill is also the brother of legendary film cowboy Monte Hale and helped us celebrate Monte's 88th birthday on the second day of the festival - June 8th! One of the show's highlights was a live phone-hookup with Monte on that special day! |
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Ty Hardin |
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Ty
starred as the rugged "Bronco Layne"
on that popular TV series |
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Whitey Hughes |
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This
veteran stuntman and 2002 Golden Boot Award recipient has been in
the business for more than 50 years.
His slim frame and short stature made him a natural for doubling many juvenile actors and women. These included Bobby Diamond on Fury, Jon Provost on Lassie, and Anne Lockhart on B.J. and the Bear. He also served as Stunt Coordinator for The Wild, Wild West (he is shown above in character posing with Ross Martin playing "Artemus Gordon" from that series. Mr Hughes' movie career is equally impressive, having worked for director Sam Peckinpah several times. He was also associated with such films as The Wild One, Sitting Bull, Geronimo and Men in Black. |
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Mickey
Kuhn
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Mickey Kuhn has had an impressive career in films and has starred alongside some of Hollywood's finest stars. Among his outstanding credits are the classic films "Juarez", "Gone With the Wind" (in the role of Beau Wilkes), "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", "Dick Tracy, Detective" and "Broken Arrow". Mickey joined us for our John Wayne tribute to share his memories of playing "Matthew Garth" in one of the Duke's best films, "Red River" (shown both above and below). |
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Caren
Marsh
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Caren
Marsh has an
unique claim in Hollywood history - she was Judy
Garland's stand-in for one of the greatest films of all-time,
"The Wizard of Oz"! Caren returned to the Memphis festival after being with us in 1999. |
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Lisa
Montell
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Although
she was born in Europe, Ms. Montell
often played Latin beauties or Native Americans. She guested
on a long list of television series, including several Westerns,
such as The Gene Autry Show, Maverick,
Cheyenne, Sugarfoot,
Bat Masterson, and Tales
of Wells Fargo.
A few of her feature films include Escape to Burma with Barbara Stanwyck, Ten Thousand Bedrooms with Dean Martin, and The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold. She was also featured in such Roger Corman classics as Naked Paradise, and The She Gods of Shark Reef along with the sci-fi thriller World Without End. |
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Gregg
Palmer
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After
a very successful appearance with the festival in 2006, Gregg
Palmer made a return appearance in 2007 where he will be
helping us celebrate the 100th birthday of John
Wayne. He also guested on several TV series including "Gunsmoke" (more than a dozen times), "Bonanza", "The Wild, Wild West", "Wyatt Earp" and many, many others. |
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Tom
Reese
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Don
Kay
"Little Brown Jug" Reynolds |
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Don
has worked with
some of the greatest western stars in film history including several
films with Charles "Durango Kid"
Starrett, Roy Rogers, Dale
Evans and Eddie Dean. Don will be taking part in our centennial birthday tribute to Gene Autry and will be reminiscing about the films he made with Mr. Autry - "Beyond the Purple Hills" and "The Last Round-Up".
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Don
also sold copies of his book, "The Last
Little Beaver of the Movies", at this year's festival
! This pictorial biography chronicles his long career in films ranging from his early films as "Little Beaver" in the "Red Ryder" series to his experiences working with Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Charles Starrett and other Western stars even up and including his recent experience in Hollywood training animal performers including "Shadowfax" in the epic "Lord of the Rings" series. |
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Jean
Rouverol
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The festival's tribute to Gene Autry continued to become more complete as we had the opportunity to visit with another of his leading ladies. Jean Rouverol will be sharing memories of her time co-starring with Gene Autry in "Western Jamboree". Some of her other
films include “Law West of Tombstone”
with Harry Carey and Tim
Holt, “Bar 20 Rides Again”
with William Boyd, and “It’s
A Gift” with W.C. Fields.
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Jean
Van
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Jean Van made a rare appearance at the show to help us celebrate the life of Gene Autry. Ms. Van appeared with Gene Autry in his popular western, "Saddle Pals". Her first major film role was in "The Southerner" (under the name Jean Vanderwilt), the classic Jean Renoir film about a struggling farm family, in which she played the young daughter of Zachary Scott and Betty Field. Other movies she appeared in include "Little Mr. Jim" with "Butch" Jenkins and "Fiesta" which starred Esther Williams. |
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Johnny
Western
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Johnny
Western has become
a legend in the entertainment world of cowboy music and has appeared
at music and film festivals worldwide. He was everyone's first
choice to play the role of "Gene Autry"
in the show's radio re-creation of Gene's
"Melody Ranch" program. |
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