Interviews with 25 Actresses from the Silent Era to the Television Westerns of the 1950s and 1960s
This collection features a diverse mixture of leading ladies of Westerns, along with several who are not quite as well known. Some toiled in B westerns, others worked exclusively at the A level, and a few were relegated to television. Those interv...
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The late Michael G. Fitzgerald was an accountant and the organizer of the annual Universal Players Reunion. He lived in El Dorado, Arkansas. Boyd Magers, president of Video West, has contributed to scores of magazines and several television documentaries. He is coauthor of The Films of Audie Murphy (with Bob Larkins, 2004) and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fitzgerald and Magers coauthored Westerns Women (1999).