Apr 08
What became of the stars of the Saturday Matinee Westerns after the emergence of television and the demise of the “B” Westerns? Looking at the poll of “Top Ten Money Making Western Stars” in 1951, you find Roy Rogers in first place followed by Gene Autry. They were the two biggest stars of the Saturday …
May 15
Once signed, Rogers sat around for a few months doing nothing. Then he sang a song in a dust-storm picture “Under Western Stars.” The dust-storm sequence was shot on one of the windiest days that California had ever had. “We had wind machines along, but no wind machine could have equalled what Nature dished up,” said …