Gunsmoke
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Revealing 10 Cowboy Actors Who Appeared on Gunsmoke Before Starring in Their Own Western Films
The road to stardom ran through Dodge City. Because of its long and legendary 20 season run into the 1970s,…
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Here is the advice James Arness gave to aspiring actors in 1970
This fair and just lawman was quite the quiet one. In 1970, Arness gave actors advice on how to keep…
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8 details you never knew about the very first Gunsmoke episode
When Gunsmoke premiered on September 10, 1955, who could have predicted it would run 20 seasons? Westerns became so ubiquitous…
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8 out-of-this-world facts about James Arness
For 20 years on television’s Gunsmoke, whenever rustling, gunfights or brawling ruffled the feathers of Dodge City, Marshal Matt Dillon was…
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Buck Taylor Reveals the One Surprising Challenge of Working with James Arness
If you’ve read his autobiography, James Arness: An Autobiography, you already know that as an actor and as a man, James…
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6 festive facts about Ken Curtis of Gunsmoke
From a childhood in a jailhouse to filling the shoes of Frank Sinatra. With his perpetual five-o’clock shadow, tattered hat…
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9 ‘Gunsmoke’ Stars You Won’t Believe Were Born After the Show Began Airing!
The show lasted so long, kids who were born when it started acted in Dodge City years later — sometimes…
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Amanda Blake Shocks the ‘Gunsmoke’ Set by Bringing a Lion to Filming!
It’s a good thing cowboys don’t ride zebras. In 1974, in her final season on Gunsmoke, series star Amanda Blake brought…
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Ken Curtis Reveals How His Mother’s Chilling Story Inspired a Haunting ‘Gunsmoke’ Plot
As a Western, the experiences of the characters in Gunsmoke definitely take place during a real-time period in American history. However, whether…
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10 things that came and went while Gunsmoke was on the air
The long-running western outlasted many products, bands and major historical periods. he classic Western Gunsmoke lasted so long that many things started……
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