Charles Starrett
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Charles Robert Starrett was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the Durango Kid westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features:
Starrett in 1940
L-R: Eddie Borden, Clarence Geldart, Charles Starrett, and Anita Page in Jungle Bride (1933)
Smiley Burnette
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Lester Alvin Burnett, better known as Smiley Burnette, was an American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and
Charles Starrett
…six-month contracts and cast as cowgirls in Starrett westerns. Dub Taylor, as comic sidekick "Cannonball", worked with Starrett until 1946. At that time, Smiley Burnette, who had been a very popular sidekick to Gene Autry, was brought in to replace Taylor. Burnette, appropriately enough, played a character called "Smiley…
Burnette in 1937
Grave of Smiley Burnette, at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills