If the purpose of a "prairie flower" was to help distract the cowboy hero from the bad guys and/or his horse, then lovely blonde actress June Storey fit the bill. She certainly inspired guitar-strumming balladeer Gene Autry to warble a few ditties in ten of his popular Republic Pictures' oaters. The Toronto-born leading lady was raised in the ...
Making the films with Gene [Autry] was one of the most relaxing periods of my life. The crew and the actors were one big family. I was the youngest one under contract, and they were good to me.
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Became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
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According to author Laura Wagner, the teenager auditioned and was strongly considered for the title role in Paramount's _Alice in Wonderland (1933), but allegedly her father nixed the idea as he felt a movie career was not a dignified business for her to be in.
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Had one son, Eric, from her first marriage to rancher Freed Bohling and a daughter Marina from her second marriage to Nick Ostreyko.
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Severely injured in a 1950 car accident when she was rammed by a logging truck. It took some time before she could walk again.
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Was featured on the packages for Hollywood brand curlers and hair pins during the mid-1940s.
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Surviving a near-fatal car accident in later years, she subsequently took up nursing.
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For years was a western favorite at nostalgia conventions and fairground events.
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