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In 1971, she helped form the Arizona Animal Welfare League which is today Arizona's oldest and largest "no-kill" animal shelter.
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In the meantime, she had battled oral cancer in the early 1980s.īlake performed in her last movie in 1988, "The Boost,” starring James Woods and Sean Young.īlake was a noted animal rights activist. She passed four years later on Augfrom a form of hepatitis which is generally AIDS related. Mark Spaeth was a City Councilman in Austin, Texas and was openly bi-sexual. Her first three marriages ended in divorce and her fourth ended in 1985 after only about a year with the death of her husband of AIDS.
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In addition to games shows and made for TV "Gunsmoke" movies, she had guest roles in TV sitcoms such as “Hart to Hart” and “The Love Boat.”īlake's personal life was turbulent.
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She was a panelist in the game shows "Hollywood Squares," "Tattletales" and the "Match Game." She held roles in several TV dramas.Īmanda left "Gunsmoke" in 1974, a year before the series ended. In addition to "Gunsmoke," she appeared in other TV shows, including in a regular comedic routine in "The Red Skelton Show." She was the third performer after Tom Mix and Gary Cooper to receive this honor. In 1968, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum inducted Blake into the Hall of Great Western Performers.
Her first lead in a movie was in "Miss Robin Crusoe" in 1954.Īfter appearing in movies such as “A Star is Born” and “The Glass Slipper,” Blake landed the role which made her famous, "Gunsmoke’s" Miss Kathleen “Kitty” Russell. "Stars in My Crown" (1950) and "Cattle Town" (1952) were among her first motion picture appearances. Before beginning her acting career she served as a telephone operator. She moved with her family to Claremont, California while she was in high school, graduating from Claremont High. 20, 1929, as Beverly Louis Neill and was an only child. With both radio and TV versions airing at the same time, there was an overlap of over five years during which different Miss Kitty's appeared in each version of Gunsmoke.īlake's TV version of Miss Kitty lasted much longer - 19 years with Blake appearing in all but the final season of the TV show.Īmanda Blake was born to Jesse and Louise Neill in Buffalo, New York on Feb. But the character evolved to owner as she became more important to the plot. Initially, Kitty was a saloon girl in the Long Branch Saloon. They cast Amanda Blake as Miss Kitty as a female addition to the male TV cast. In the meantime, the television version of "Gunsmoke" began airing on September 10, 1955. The radio version ended abruptly with its final episode airing in June 1961. However, the creators stuck to their guns and sought out sponsorship on their own. They felt Miss Kitty would be better received if she lived on a ranch with her parents instead of running a saloon.
Prospective sponsors insisted the creators "clean up" their story lines by having less violence, no saloon, and rewrite the part of Miss Kitty.
The radio show had no sponsors during its first year of production. For over five years there were two ”one and only" Miss Kitty's on the airwaves of America.ĭuring the first few episodes of the "Gunsmoke" radio show in 1952, the saloon girl, played by Georgia Ellis and known as Miss Kitty, was only a small recurring role that soon evolved into a dramatic part of the show.
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