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Sugarfoot
''Sugarfoot'' is an American Western television series that aired for 69 episodes on ABC from 1957-1961 on Tuesday nights on a "shared" slot basis – rotating with ''Cheyenne'' (first season); ''Cheyenne'' and '' Bronco'' (both second and fourth seasons); and ''Bronco'' (third season). The Warner Bros. production stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot. ''Sugarfoot'' was the first comedy western TV series, debuting five days before '' Maverick''. Hutchins was the only regular on the show. In four episodes, Hutchins also plays the dual role of Abram Thomas, "the Canary Kid", leader of an outlaw gang who is a dead ringer for Brewster. In each of these episodes, Brewster is joined in the fight against the Canary Kid's plans by Christopher Colt—i. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sugarfoot (1951 Film)
''Sugarfoot'' is a 1951 American Western film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Randolph Scott. Aside from the title, the film has nothing to do with the 1957 television series of the same name, which was inspired by Michael Curtiz's '' The Boy from Oklahoma'' (1954) starring Will Rogers Jr. However, because of the lingering popularity of the TV show, Warner Brothers temporarily changed this film's title to ''A Swirl of Glory'' when it was first syndicated to television in 1962. More recent appearances of the film though, particularly online, indicate that the original title has since been restored to the movie's opening credits. Plot Jackson Redan, a Confederate States Army veteran of the American Civil War, attempts to rebuild his life by moving to Arizona Territory. His politeness and courtly Southern gentleman demeanor cause the residents of Prescott to name him Sugarfoot. Among his new acquaintances are merchant Don Miguel Wormser and saloon singer Reva Cairn. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Hutchins
Marshall Lowell Hutchason (May 5, 1930 – April 21, 2025), known professionally as Will Hutchins, was an American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer Tom Brewster, in the Western television series '' Sugarfoot'', which aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961 for 69 episodes. Early life Hutchins was born in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles. As a child, he visited the location filming of '' Never Give a Sucker an Even Break'' and made his first appearance as an extra in a crowd. He attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he majored in Greek drama. He also studied at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he enrolled in cinema classes. During the Korean War, he served for two years in the United States Army Signal Corps as a cryptographer in Paris, serving as a Corporal with SHAPE. Following his enlistment he enrolled as a graduate student at UCLA in their Cinema Arts department on the G. I. Bill. Hutchins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maverick (TV Series)
''Maverick'' is an American Westerns on television, Western television series with Comedy, comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins and originally starring James Garner as an adroitly articulate poker player plying his trade on riverboats and in saloons while traveling incessantly through the 19th-century American frontier. The show ran for five seasons from September 22, 1957, to July 8, 1962 on American Broadcasting Company, ABC. Overview ''Maverick'' initially starred James Garner as poker player Bret Maverick. Eight episodes into the first season, he was joined by Jack Kelly (actor), Jack Kelly as his brother Bart Maverick, and for the remainder of the first three seasons, Garner and Kelly alternated leads from week to week, sometimes teaming up for the occasional two-brother episode. The Maverick brothers were both poker players from Texas who traveled the American Old West by horseback and stagecoach, and on Mississippi River, Mississippi riverboats, constantly getting into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy From Oklahoma
''The Boy from Oklahoma'' is a 1954 American western film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Will Rogers Jr., Nancy Olson and Anthony Caruso. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Plot Cast * Will Rogers Jr. as Sheriff Tom Brewster * Nancy Olson as Katie Brannigan * Lon Chaney Jr. as Crazy Charlie * Anthony Caruso as Mayor Barney Turlock * Wallace Ford as Postmaster Wally Higgins * Clem Bevans as Pop Pruty, Justice of the Peace *Merv Griffin as Steve * Louis Jean Heydt as Paul Evans * Sheb Wooley as Pete Martin * Slim Pickens as Shorty * James Griffith as Joe Downey * Tyler MacDuff as Billy the Kid * Harry Lauter as Jim (uncredited) Background The film became the basis for the 1957 Warner Bros. television series '' Sugarfoot'', in which Will Hutchins replaced Rogers as lead character Tom Brewster. The movie features Lon Chaney Jr. and includes one of future TV talk show host Merv Griffin's few theatrical film roles. In the movie version, Rogers as Bre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westerns On Television
Television Westerns are programs with settings in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, Western Canada and Mexico during the period from about 1860 to the end of the so-called "Indian Wars". More recent entries in the Western (genre), Western genre have used the neo-Western subgenre, placing events in the modern day, or the space Western subgenre but still draw inspiration from the outlaw attitudes prevalent in traditional Western productions. When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama. In the 1990s and 2000s, slickly packaged made-for-TV movie Westerns were introduced. History Radio and film antecedents The ''Saturday Afternoon Matinee'' on the radio were a pre-tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronco (TV Series)
''Bronco'' is a Western television series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin. Overview ''Bronco'' premiered in the fall of 1958 when Warner Bros. executives and actor Clint Walker clashed over Walker's contract on the series ''Cheyenne''. Walker had walked out on his show over such stringent clauses as a requirement that he return half of all personal appearance fees to Warner Bros., and that he only record for Warner music labels. When the two sides came to an impasse, the network hired newcomer Ty Hardin to play the new character of Bronco Layne, but kept the title of ''Cheyenne''. When Walker came back to his series, ''Bronco'' became a spin-off of ''Cheyenne''. ''B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheyenne (TV Series)
''Cheyenne'' is an American Westerns on television, Western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from 1955 to 1962. The show was the first hour-long Western, and was the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film studio, which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Bros. original series produced by William T. Orr. Synopsis The show starred Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie, a physically large cowboy with a gentle spirit in search of frontier justice, who wanders the American West in the days after the American Civil War. The first episode, "Mountain Fortress", is about robbers pretending to be Good Samaritans. It features James Garner (who had briefly been considered for the role of Cheyenne, but could not be locat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randolph Scott
George Randolph Scott (January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987) was an American film actor, whose Hollywood career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in dramas, comedies, Musical film, musicals, adventures, war films, war, horror and fantasy films, and Western (genre), Westerns. Out of his more than 100 film appearances, more than 60 of them were Westerns.Buscombe, 1988. p 382. At , lanky and muscular, Scott displayed a Southern drawl that offset his limitations. During the early 1950s, Scott was a consistent box-office draw. In the annual ''Motion Picture Herald'' Top Ten Money Making Stars Poll, Top Ten Polls, his name appeared on the list for four consecutive years, from 1950 to 1953. Scott also appeared in Quigley's ''Top Ten Money Makers Poll'', from 1950 to 1953. Early years Scott was born January 23, 1898, in Orange County, Virginia, and reared in Charlotte, North Carolina, the second of si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montgomery Pittman
Montgomery Pittman (March 1, 1917 – June 26, 1962) was an American television writer, director, and actor. Among his notable credits are his work writing and directing various episodes of ''The Twilight Zone'', ''Maverick'' and ''77 Sunset Strip''. Early years According to his own account in the 1950s, Pittman was born in Louisiana in 1917 and reared in Arkansas. This is verified by his California death certificate, Social Security records, and other official documents. Career Pittman left home and joined a carnival as a snake oil salesman. He eventually made his way to New York City, hoping for at least a small Broadway role. There he met actor Steve Cochran, who hired him as caretaker of his Los Angeles home around 1950. In Los Angeles he tried to break into acting, getting small, mostly uncredited film and TV roles through 1951 and '52. Around this time, Cochran introduced Pittman to Maurita Gilbert Jackson, the widowed mother of three child actors: Curtis Jr., Gary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayde Preston
Wayde Preston (born William Erskine Strange; September 10, 1929 – February 6, 1992) was an American actor cast from 1957 to 1960 in the lead role in 67 episodes of the ABC/Warner Bros. Western television series, '' Colt .45''. Background Preston was born William Erskine Strange in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He grew up in Laramie, Wyoming, and his father taught in a high school there. He was a park ranger and performed musically on the rodeo circuit before he got his break as an actor. Preston attended the University of Wyoming and served years in the Army, half of that time in Korea. He served with anti-aircraft forces, paratroops and tanks before coming out as a first lieutenant in 1954. Acting career In ''Colt .45'' he played Christopher Colt, a government undercover agent who masquerades as a Colt 45 revolver salesman traveling throughout the Old West. Preston also played the role of Christopher Colt in 1958 and 1959 in four episodes relating to "The Canary Kid" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Bros
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American film studio, filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios Burbank, Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). Founded on April 4, 1923, by four brothers, Harry Warner, Harry, Albert Warner, Albert, Sam Warner, Sam and Jack L. Warner, Jack Warner, the company established itself as a leader in the American film industry before diversifying into animation, television, and video games. It is one of the "Major film studios, Big Five" major American film studios and a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The company is known for its film studio division, the Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, which includes Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Castle Rock Entertainment and the Warner Bros. Television Group. Bugs Bunny, a character created for the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenderfoot
Tenderfoot or The Tenderfoot may refer to: __NOTOC__ Common meanings * Tenderfoot Scout (Boy Scouts of America), a Scouting rank * A guest at a guest ranch, also known as a "dude" Film and television * ''The Tenderfoot'', a 1917 American film starring and directed by William Duncan * ''The Tenderfoot'', a 1919 American comedy film starring and directed by Marcel Perez * ''The Tenderfoot'' (film), a 1932 film starring Joe E. Brown * Alternate title of '' The Dude Goes West'', a 1948 comedy Western film featuring Eddie Albert * Alternate title of ''Bushwhacked'' (film), a 1995 film starring Daniel Stern * ''Tenderfoot'', the name under which the series ''Sugarfoot ''Sugarfoot'' is an American Western television series that aired for 69 episodes on ABC from 1957-1961 on Tuesday nights on a "shared" slot basis – rotating with ''Cheyenne'' (first season); ''Cheyenne'' and '' Bronco'' (both second and fo ...'' was first shown in the UK in 1960 * ''The Tenderfoot'' (miniserie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
