Public cowboy no. 1 : the life and times of Gene Autry / Holly George-Warren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

George-Warren, Holly.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Singers--United States--Biography.

Singers.

Autry, Gene, 1907-1998.

Autry, Gene.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Public cowboy number one

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes filmography: p. [382]-385.

Includes discography: p. [337]-381.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-336) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-988429-3

1-281-15664-7

9786611156640

0-19-803947-6

OCLC:

437094050