Category: Cowboy Princess

Mar 29

Roy Rogers Appears on Broadway, June 29, 1938

Variety (Hollywood’s top trade paper even in 1938) ran the following article on June 29, 1938. The article was, of course, provided me by Larry Zwisohn. Roy Rogers, With Radio Rogues (3), Cowboy Act at Criterion (theater) “Introduced as the first western film actor to play Broadway since Tom Mix years ago, Roy Rogers, Republic …

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Mar 25

Roy Rogers and Trigger in Battle Creek Parade

Larry Z. has just sent me another super press release. This one is from the April 8, 1953 edition of the “Battle Creek Enquirer.” A western Pied Piper on horse back swept thousands of kids along Michigan Avenue yesterday. He was Roy Rogers, “King of the Cowboys.” a “good guy” in western films and television …

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