| Description |
1 online resource (406 pages, 64 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography: pages 382-385. |
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Includes discography: pages 337-381. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-336) and index. |
| Summary |
The only performer to earn five stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame--for film, recordings, television, radio, and live performance--Gene Autry was the singing cowboy king. Journalist George-Warren offers the first serious biography, tracing Autry's climb from farm boy to multimillionaire. Autry's loving mother died on the brink of her son's success, while his ne'er-do-well father married five times and wandered the West. Autry battled his own demons but emerges here as one of America's most charitable benefactors, known for his boundless generosity, and a patriot who enlisted during World War II. The book provides colorful details of Autry's lengthy radio and recording career; his movie career, where he breathed new life into the Western genre; and his role in early television, the first movie star to develop his own TV shows. Along the way, he invested shrewdly, becoming the only entertainer listed among 1990's Fortune 400.--From publisher description. |
| Contents |
The Autrys and the Ozments -- Cross timbers -- Tioga -- Workin' on the railroad -- Musical mentors -- A new name, a new profession -- The Oklahoma yodeling cowboy -- Hillbilly recording artist -- Midwestern buckaroo -- Uncle Art -- From "High steppin' Mama" to "Silver haired daddy" -- Sweet home Chicago -- "The singing and yodeling marvel" -- Motherless son -- WLS radio star -- Cowboy balladeer -- Smiley, Patsy, and Pee Wee -- Celluloid cowboy -- Negotiations by post -- Republic pictures star -- Battles--on screen and off -- The singing cowboy -- Public cowboy No. 1 -- Strike! -- At home and abroad -- Melody ranch -- A town called Gene Autry -- War! -- Sergeant Gene Autry -- Don't fence me in -- Back in the saddle -- Gene Autry, Inc. -- From horses to reindeer, from big screen to small -- Last of the pony riders -- On the road again--and again -- The last round-up. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Autry, Gene, 1907-1998.
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Autry, Gene, 1907-1998. |
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Autry, Gene, 1907-1998. |
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Autry, Gene. |
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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Motion picture actors and actresses. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Singers -- United States -- Biography.
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Singers. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1929-1964 |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Public cowboy number one |
| Other Form: |
Print version: George-Warren, Holly. Public cowboy no. 1. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006036369 |
| ISBN |
0198039476 (electronic book) |
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9780198039471 (electronic book) |
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0195177460 (Cloth) |
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9780195177466 (alkaline paper) |
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