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Reba Nell McEntire was born in 1955 in McAlester, Oklahoma. The reigning queen of country music has pursued a musical career since she was 5. In Junior High school, she performed with her musical siblings, aka the Singing McEntires. A fine athlete, Reba McEntire followed in the footsteps of her rodeo champion father in competitive barrel racing. Her performance of the "Star Spangled Banner" at the 1974 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City caught the attention of songwriter Red Steagall, who suggested she consider a career in country music. She has since earned 7 gold and 5 platinum albums and 2 Grammy Awards. She has also explored other avenues of entertainment, serving as a guest-host on Good Morning America (1975) & earning generally favorable reviews for her acting in the movie titled "Tremors" & TV mini-series, Buffalo Girls (1995). In 1988, she formed Starstruck Entertainment to oversee the very numerous aspects of her musical & acting careers.
She is extremely fortunate that she was not along with her seven band members and her touring manager when tragedy occurred and the airplane they were in crashed on Saturday, March 16th, 1991. There were eight lives lost that tragic Saturday.- Frequently appearing for or alongside her actor/writer husband of 50 years, noted stage, screen and TV heavy and writer Leo Gordon, actress Lynn Cartwright is probably best remembered for one of her early screen roles as the brusque, Brooklyn-accented switchboard operator in the cult horror The Wasp Woman (1959), and for her touching final screen appearance as the older, sweet-faced WWII-era baseball player Dottie Hinson (played throughout most the film by Geena Davis)) in the final scenes of the Penny Marshall-helmed comedy A League of Their Own (1992).
The willowy, auburn-haired performer with the highly distinctive cheek bones was born on February 27, 1927, in McAlester, Oklahoma, the daughter of U.S. Congressman Wilburn and his wife Carrie (née Staggs) Cartwright. Lynn's younger sister, Wilburta, born a year later, went on to become an artist. Other politically-minded Oklahomans from her family tree include Legislator Buck Cartwright and former Attorney General Jan-Eric Cartwright.
Lynn enrolled in acting lessons at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York in the late 1940s. Here is where she met Gordon, an ex-con who was trying to turn his life around as an actor. The couple married in February of 1950 and began married life touring together on the Borscht Belt stages. They went on to have a daughter together, Tara Gordon.
Leo's career took off after he landed an agent and moved the family West to Los Angeles. His brutally hard looks and massive brick-wall presence easily took on evil dimensions and after a chilling breakthough perf in City of Bad Men (1953), cemented his screen infamy with the powerful role of the psychotic prisoner in director Don Siegel's Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954). Lynn (using her real first name Doralyn before condensing it to Lynn) found a couple of meager TV assignments ("Rin Tin Tin," etc.) during this early time, but began finding more roles once Leo managed to parlay his acting career into a successful writing one as well. Lynn, in fact, made her film debut in the very first film script Leo sold, Black Patch (1957), which included parts for the two of them.
Lynn also appeared in her writer/husband's script The Cry Baby Killer (1958) which was produced by Roger Corman and introduced Jack Nicholson to film audiences, and can be spotted as one of Zsa Zsa Gabor's Venusian sirens in the campy cult opus Queen of Outer Space (1958). She ended the decade with minor TV drama work in "Target," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Peter Gunn," "Bat Masterson" and "Highway Patrol".
The 1960's proved to be lean years. Other than a couple of unbilled film parts in The Apartment (1960), which won Oscar's "Best Picture" that year and the totally obscure The Girls on the Beach (1965) in which Lynn and Leo were glimpsed as waiters, acting offers were few and far between. By the end of the decade she was appearing in her husband's soft-erotica scripts, including All the Loving Couples (1969), which focused on wife swappers, and in The Erotic Adventures of Robin Hood (1969), which is self-explanatory, as the villainous Lady Sallyforth. The former was based on Leo's own written novel.
Lynn appeared without Leo in the sex-minded teaser film Gabriella, Gabriella (1970) and in The Lucifer Complex (1978) starring Robert Vaughn. She also worked (with and without Leo) from time to time in association with writer/director/producer Rod Amateau in such frisky movie vehicles as Where Does It Hurt? (1972) starring Peter Sellers and The Seniors (1978) starring Dennis Quaid and Priscilla Barnes, as well as Amateau's Nazi-themed lowbudget Son of Hitler (1979) with 'Bud Cort' in the unlikely title role, the teen-oriented Lovelines (1984), and the bizarre and controversial The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (1987).
On the small screen Lynn could occasionally be found on such 70s and 80s shows as "Adam 12," "Little House on the Prairie," "Dynasty" and "Knot's Landing," some of which were scripted by her husband. In the 1970s Leo and Lynn joined the Group Repertory Theatre company in North Hollywood, California, which was founded by actor Lonny Chapman, where Leo tested and wrote (while Lynn appeared in) several of his stage plays.
Lynn ended her career on a sentimental high note after being cast as the senior version of Geena Davis' character who revisits her baseball-playing alumni at the end of the comedy hit film A League of Their Own (1992) starring Davis and Tom Hanks. The facial resemblance between the two actresses is so extraordinary that people often assume it is Geena herself wearing old-age makeup. Part of this mistaken belief has to to do with the confusion over Lynn's voice -- which was not used in the movie but dubbed in by Geena herself.
Illness dogged Leo's last years and he died in 2000 of cardiovascular disease at age 78, after 50 years of marriage. Lynn was never able to overcome her grief and her health quickly declined following his death with the advancement of dementia. She died four years later after a fall resulted in a hip fracture. She was interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. - Actor
- Sound Department
- Soundtrack
Jerry Jewell was born on July 30, 1976 in McAlester, Oklahoma. He is an American actor, singer, and voice actor working for Funimation and OkraTron 5000. He has provided voices for a number of English versions of anime. If you've ever watched an anime, it's very likely you've heard his voice.- Beverlee McKinsey was born on 9 August 1935 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Another World (1964), Guiding Light (1952) and Bronco Billy (1980). She was married to Berkeley Harris, Angus Duncan and Mark Howard McKinsey Jr.. She died on 2 May 2008 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Michael Wilson was born on 1 July 1914 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. He was a writer, known for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and 5 Fingers (1952). He was married to Zelma Wilson. He died on 9 April 1978 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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- Art Department
- Writer
Mary Blair was born on 21 October 1911 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. She was a writer, known for Alice in Wonderland (1951), Cinderella (1950) and Peter Pan (1953). She was married to Lee Blair. She died on 26 July 1978 in Soquel, California, USA.- Susie McEntire was born on 8 November 1957 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. She was previously married to Paul Luchsinger.
- Jackie Welton DiPillo was born on 12 February 1964 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. She is an actress, known for Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter (1986).
- Pake McEntire was born on 23 June 1953 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.
- Additional Crew
- Actor
You may have heard Tom Cooper on the radio, He's worked in Washington DC, Texas, Florida, North Carolina. He's has been a radio personality since 1973 and worked at an Oklahoma City station in the early 70's owned in part by Jimmy Stewart. His radio stunts include being buried alive for 3 days and living on a school bus for 8 days. He now resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma.- Micha Hancock was born on 10 November 1992 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.
- Jimmy Ashmore was born on 22 November 1964 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor, known for Welcome to Purgatory (2004) and Among the Joneses (2010).
- Melva Blancett was born on 22 August 1924 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for The American Girls (1978), The Emmett Smith Story (1979) and To Find My Son (1980). She was married to Lloyd Blancett. She died on 2 March 2010 in Mesa, Arizona, USA.
- Anne is a trial attorney, and one of the nation's most recognized legal analysts. Her practice emphasizes civil rights, employment litigation and criminal law. In her 29 year practice, she has been lead counsel for many highly-publicized court cases.
She graduated from Stanford University receiving a B.A. with honors, and as an attorney has a perfect 10 AVVO rating. Since 1994 Anne has consistently received the AV Preeminent Award, the pinnacle of excellence earned through a strenuous Peer Review Rating(TM) process that is managed and monitored by the world's most trusted legal resource - Martindale-Hubbell®. She has been voted one of the best lawyers in Seattle magazine and in Seattle Metropolitan magazine numerous times. Seattle magazine also voted her one of Seattle's Top 25 most influential people.
Anne has distinguished herself not only as a dedicated advocate for her clients, but also as an attorney who has achieved a level of peer recognition, and been honored with Distinctions, which few lawyers and even fewer women can claim.
As the Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the Criminal Division of the King County Prosecutor's Office in Seattle from 1983 to 1988, Anne specialized in prosecuting sex crimes, where she successfully tried over 200 cases.
Off-duty Anne is a Northwest Native who currently lives in Seattle. Dividing her time between her charities, trial work, and legal analysis, she stays extremely busy. However, if you are looking to find a way to her heart-find her a great steakhouse. Anne absolutely loves steak and some say it's the only food she eats. - Carl Albert was born on 10 May 1908 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. He died on 4 February 2000 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA.
- Donna Marie Carson was born on 13 November 1946 in McAlester, Oklahoma, USA. She was married to Hedges Capers. She died on 21 November 2019 in San Diego, California, USA.