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Dale Evans
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Actor Born: October 31, 1912 in Uvalde, TX Death: February 7, 2001 in Apple Valley, CA Biography:American singer/actress "Dale Evans" took a stenographer's job while seeking out singing work. A widow at 17, she became a radio and nightclub songstress, married again and set out to try her luck in Hollywood. Few good parts came her way at the major studios (she is barely visible in 20th Century-Fox's "Orchestra Wives" [1942], which featured an equally unbilled "Jackie Gleason"), so she had to settle for leading roles at Republic Studios, a "B" factory. She wasn't keen on westerns, but westerns were what she got, co-starring in 20 oaters with Republic's Number One singing cowboy, "Roy Rogers". It wasn't until Rogers' first wife died in the late '40s that he and Evans realized that theirs was more than just a happy professional association. Rogers and Evans were married in 1947, assuming the honorary mantle of "King of the Cowboys and Queen of the West;" it was Evans who wrote the couple's enduring... Full Biography
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