"THE ALL-AMERICAN COWBOY" JOHNNY MACK BROWN PHOTO BIOGRAPHY

Description: Mario DeMarco presents "THE ALL-AMERICAN COWBOY: JOHNNY MACK BROWN" (Paperback) (1982) --- Johnny Mack Brown was an All-American college football player and successful film actor --- Born and raised in Dothan, Alabama, Brown was a star of the high school football team, earning a football scholarship to the University of Alabama --- Playing the halfback position on his university's Crimson Tide football team, Brown helped his team to become the 1926 NCAA Division I-A national football champions --- In that year's Rose Bowl Game, he earned Most Valuable Player honors after scoring two of his team's three touchdowns in an upset win over the favored Washington Huskies. His good looks and powerful physique saw him portrayed on Wheaties cereal boxes and in 1927, brought an offer for motion picture screen tests that resulted in a long and successful career in Hollywood --- He appeared in minor roles until 1930 when he was cast as the star in a western movie entitled "BILLY THE KID" and directed by King Vidor --- Rechristened "Johnny Mack Brown," he returned to making exclusively westerns and eventually became one of the screen's top B-movie cowboy stars, making 127 western films during his career, including "RIDE 'EM COWBOY" with Abbott and Costello --- Brown also starred in four serials for Universal Studios (Rustlers of Red Dog, Wild West Days, Flaming Frontiers and The Oregon Trail) and was a hero to millions of young children at movie theaters and on their television screens --- Altogether, Brown appeared in over 160 movies between 1927 and 1966, as well as a smattering of television shows, in a career spanning almost forty years --- In recognition of his contribution to the motion picture industry, Brown was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6101 Hollywood Blvd. In 1969, Brown was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame --- (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) TABLE OF CONTENTS: (Title and Page Numbers) 1. A PHOTO BIOGRAPHY OF A GREAT ATHLETE & ONE OF THE SCREEN'S GREAEST WESTERN STARS - 1 2. FOUR DIFFERENT POSES OF JOHNNY AS AN MGM STAR - 3 3. INTRODUCTION - 4 4. THE JOHNNY MACK BROWN STORY - 7 5. NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION'S COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME - 24 6. FILMOGRAPHY OF JOHNNY MACK BROWN (1927-1966) - 27 7. JOHNNY MACK BROWN SCRAPBOOK - 45 8. THE ALL-AMERICAN FAMILY MAN - 52 9. AS TOLD BY JOHNNY MACK BROWN - 55 10. YAKIMA CANUTT - 63 11. RAYMOND HATTON - 67 12. JENNIFER HOLT - 69 13. FUZZY KNIGHT - 71 14. PIERCE LYDEN - 73 15. LAMBERT HILLYER (ONE OF THE GREAT PIONEER WESTERN DIRECTORS) - 76 16. SOME FACTS ON JOHNNY MACK BROWN'S FILMOGRAPHY - 78 100 pages - 1980. Spiral bound.

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