Buckles Blog: WADE #2

Thursday, September 06, 2018

WADE #2

9 comments:

Roger Smith said...: I saw this one long ago, and both the caption at the time, and yours truly, stand to be corrected. But-- the horse is supposed to be an early Trigger. We know this is not Roy Rogers, but he was ID'd as a young Glenn Randall, who trained not only all the Trigger horses, but also the palomino liberty act Roy worked on his rodeo tours.

Roy's first Trigger was originally named Golden Cloud, and was the palomino ridden by Olivia de Havilland, playing Maid Marion, in 1938's THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD. This was a major Technicolor production from Warner Bros., co-starring Errol Flynn as the bandit. Roy bought the horse on time, for $2,500.; 06 September, 2018 06:04
Wade G. Burck said...: Roger, I don't think this is Trigger. Trigger had a blaze and a "darker" palomino color. Could this be Tarzan with Ken Maynard. Tarzan was half Arabian, and this is a pretty headed horse. Supposedly, Tarzan was the first movie horse trained to do tricks, ie. bow, dance, until ropes, etc. which became the standard for cowboy's to follow. These movie/tv cowboy's, were such an important part of my early North Dakota life. I put my horse Dynamite through hell teaching him to rear when I whistled, to dump my brother's off, and to run up under the haymow door and stop, so I could jump out the door and onto his back and gallop off after varmints.

Wade Burck; 06 September, 2018 09:23
Chic Silber said...: There's a photo of Clyde Beatty

with a 1937 Studebaker that has

a lion & a tiger on the roof

Car looks identical to this one; 06 September, 2018 11:59
Roger Smith said...: Clyde and Harriett Beatty posed with that '37 Studebaker at Cole-Beatty Winterquarters, in Rochester, Indiana, and rumor had it they got one as payment.

Beatty also did print ads for Eveready flashlight batteries and Canadian whisky. Old Beatty show hands loved the story of returning from the immensely successful Canadian tour of 1946. The real props went ahead of the train in a truck, and got through OK. The Prop Wagon on the flatcar was jammed with bootlegged cases of whisky. Officials at the douanes took one look at the few props left stacked against the door, and did not demand unloading for customs inspection. Thus, a full wagon load of whisky rolled stateside minus the duty fees.; 06 September, 2018 18:13
Chic Silber said...: I recall his favorite whiskey brand

was Seagrams "VO" a Canadian blend; 06 September, 2018 18:56
Wade G. Burck said...: You are correct, Chic this is a 37 Studebaker like the one in the Beatty photo shoot. I had not noticed that before. I wonder if it was an ad campaign that Studebaker was doing with the 37 and media personalities with their animal partner's. May have been a precursor to Cal Worthington and his dog Spot.

Wade Burck; 06 September, 2018 22:24
Roger Smith said...: Yes, Beatty favored his VO and his Michelob. I sat with him in hotel bars when he wanted to get out of the Airstream, go into town, and watch his Friday night fights. He and Frank Orman laid bets on the fights, never caring who was in the ring, just betting for sport. I never saw Beatty take more than two drinks, and he would nurse them along for an hour at a time. Meaning, I never saw him affected. Johnny Pugh was once asked about Beatty's drinking, which was more of rumor than fact, and replied that he never saw the man mis-step in any way.; 07 September, 2018 14:57
Roger Smith said...: The photos of the Beatty's and the Studebaker show a license plate, so we might not know if this is the same car.; 07 September, 2018 21:55
Chic Silber said...: The same model but not the same car

The car from Wade has little extra

lights on top of the front fenders

The car with Beatty doesn't Roger; 07 September, 2018 22:45

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