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Gene Autry, who parlayed a $5 mail order guitar, charm and a smooth voice into a career as Hollywood's first singing cowboy, died Friday. He was 91. Autry, who also built a multimillion-dollar ...
The Autry Museum in Griffith Park, originally the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage, was co-founded by Jackie and Gene Autry and Joanne and Monte Hale. With the opening of the Museum in 1988, Gene Autry realized his dream "to build a museum which would exhibit and interpret the heritage of the West and show how it influenced America and the ...
Jun 16, 2017 · 9 Some Gene Autry cowboy suits were made of flammable fabric. Two children died from fires and others were hurt. Autry was the target of several lawsuits over the product. 10 George-Warren, 182. 11 Life, July 12, 1943. 12 Autry is credited as co-writer on more than 300 songs, but many of those are “star credits.” Singing stars often took ...
Gene Autry was an American singer, songwriter, actor, musician, and rodeo performer who gained fame as the "Singing Cowboy" in a series of films released between 1934 and 1953. He was one of the most popular and financially successful stars of his era. Autry was born on September 29, 1907, in Tioga, Texas.