Rex Allen

What do you know about Rex Allen?
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1. From a successful singing career, Republic Pictures hires him as a possible replacement for the departing Roy Rogers.  In 1950, he makes his first film.
What is the name of the Western?

2. Early in his singing career, he had a nickname. 
What was it?

1. The Arizona Singer

2. Cactus Rex

3. Saguaro Sam

3. Who was NOT a Rex Allen Sidekick?

1. Buddy Ebsen

2. Fuzzy Knight

3. Pinky Lee

4. I Dream of Jeanie is a movie about the life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.  Rex is the narrator.

• True or False?

5. He would become the narrator of many Disney wildlife films.  However, What film is his most noted?

1. Charlotte's Web

2. Charlie, the Lonesome Cougar

3. A Country Coyote Goes Hollywood

6. What was his horse's name?

1. Jingles

2. KoKo

3. Mission

7. In 1958, he stars in a TV series. 
What was the series?

8. One of Allen's most successful singles was "Don't Go Near the Indians," which reached the top 5 of Billboard magazine's Hot Country Singles chart in November 1962.

• True or False?

9. In the 1953 Shadows of Tombstone, Rancher Rex Allen captures a bandit, Delgado (Ric Roman), a henchman for crooked Sheriff Webb (Emory Parnell) and saloon owner Mike, who run the town to suit themselves, but Rex forces the sheriff to jail Delgado.
Who plays the saloon owner Mike?

1. Roy Barcroft

2. Parnell Roberts

3. Slim Pickens

10. In 1973, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

• True or False?

11) Allen died in Tucson, Arizona, of a massive coronary, causing him to collapse in his driveway. He suffered additional injuries when his caretaker accidentally ran over him in the driveway of his home.

• True or False?

12) Where is Rex Allen buried?

1. Cremated, his ashes were scattered near Willcox, AZ

2. Saguaro Cemetery, Tucson, AZ

3. Allen Family Cemetery, Willcox, AZ

Answers

1) A.  2) B. 3) C. 4) True 5) A. 6) B. 7) A. 8) True 9) A. 10) False.  In 1983.  11) True 12) A.

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