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Roy, with leading lady Dal gun before Kiddy Show at Holl
Cheryl Darlene and Linda Lou are the only girls in his life
I'TSTTIL Roy Rogers came over the Hollywood horizon into view again (my view, anyway) I didn’t realize how little we know about the private lives of the movie cowboys.
Sure, we know that Roy and the Gene Autrys, Bill Elliotts and Bill Boyds break box-office records with their rootin’, tootin’ horse operys. We know some of them are rich and live on ranches in the Valley.
But what do we know about them as men, human beings with problems of the heart, marriage and careers as real as any of the dramas in the lives of Van Johnson, Gregory Peck or Cary Grant?
The answer is — a good snappy nothing — or very little. They are not, as a group, habitues of Mocambo or Giro’s, nor do they change wives with such regularity
that you have to keep a check on whether the current “missus” is their fourth or fifth.
But recently, Hollywood and I have rediscovered Roy Rogers as a person and a personality — and ironically, it was a personal tragedy in his life that brought this about.
His wife died in childbirth, and suddenly and sadly we were all conscious of Roy as a man alone, with three small children to raise — not as a handsome Westerner with a sombrero atop his head and boots on his feet.
I’ve known him for a long time, many years in fact, but never very well. He was on my Hollywood radio show seven or eight years ago and I liked him very much. But, all in all, he was just another outdoor hero with all the personality trimmings, ( Cont’d on page 127)
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