He started his production company in 1950 and was doing a weekly TV show as well."Īutry's career started far away from show business. "Later on, he was also the first of the Western film stars to get on TV. "Before James Brown and Elvis Presley, I think Gene Autry was the hardest-working man in show business," George-Warren says.
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Army during World War II, he returned to Hollywood, where he hosted his weekly radio series Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, recorded songs under the Columbia label, made frequent public appearances and continued his film career, sometimes making as many as seven or eight films in a calendar year. Autry appeared in more than 90 movies altogether, including 40-plus between the years of 19. 1, George-Warren traces Autry's life as he made his way from rural ranches in Texas and Oklahoma to one of Hollywood's most prolific acting careers. "Audiences just loved them - they had the music, they had the comedy and, of course, the action and those great fancy cowboy outfits, too." pretty much started the template of the musical Western," Autry biographer Holly George-Warren tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "He got an audition and got a bit part in, a Western in 1934, and unbelievably the ideas that came from this Western. In the 1930s, Gene Autry was working as a "singing cowboy" on the Chicago radio show National Barn Dance when he caught Hollywood's attention.
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