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HARD-ridin' straight-shootin', tough-fightin', soft-talkin' gunslinger, Jack Mahoney, is TV's newest Western star, better known to his fans as the Range Rider.
Ten years ago, Jack went out to Hollywood bent on becoming a movie actor. He thought it would be a lead-pipe cinch to land an acting job. But, believe it or not, the six-foot-four two-hundredpounder got plumb scared in front of the camera, couldn't mumble a line of dialogue, much less make any gestures. Jack was kind of discouraged at that point, and found that the only jobs he could get were stunt parts for other actors less athletic than Mahoney.
Jack was an expert rider and swimmer, so Hollywood put him to work doing difficult scenes for the stars. He felt right at home doing
film stunts, because in his native Davenport, Iowa, Jack had been an all-around athlete ever since he climbed his first tree. Matter of fact, Jack had spent so much time at athletics that he was forced to drop out of his pre-medical course at college — games' were taking too much of the time he should have been plugging away at books.
When Gene Autry first saw Jack, he figured the lean Iowan would be a natural for the character, Range Rider — especially since TV budgets make it necessary for the leading man to do all . his own stunts. By this time, Jack had overcome his fear of the camera and, when Gene asked him to try out for the part, he came through better than he ever dreamed of doing ten years before.
He is still a single man.
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Lucy Knoch, currently playing straight girl to Red Skelton on TV, is the kind of girl things just happen to. The lovely blue-eyed blonde from Nashville, Tennessee, is always in the right place at the right time.
The first right place Lucy went to was Tucson, Arizona. She and her sister visited friends there just after Lucy was graduated from high school. It was the right time, because actress Paulette Goddard was in Tucson then, too. Through mutual friends, Lucy met the film star, who invited the sisters to come on a grand tour of Paramount studios if they ever stopped in Hollywood.
Well, Lucy managed to get out film-capital way, and sure enough found a note from Paulette at the studio instructing the powers that
be to give Lucy a "grand tour." Once again Lucy just happened to meet up with a company executive, who just happened to notice how pretty she was, and the next thing she knew, Lucy Knoch was taking, a screen test.
The screen test was successful and Paramount signed her, turning Lucy's brief visit into a permanent stay. The yqung actress credits Hollywood with teaching her how to work before cameras, use make-up, and wardrobe tricks — a great help to her in TV. After completing her first picture, Lucy was feeling kind of blue, and considered going back home. But, at that moment, Red Skelton and his manager just happened to see Lucy sitting in a restaurant. They needed a pretty girl to dress up Red's TV show. Lucy got the job.