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Rex Bell was a silent screen hero ... he married Clara Bow, the 'It' Girl ... and in later life, he became the Lt. Governor of Nevada.  In the 1930s, Bell rode the trail in series for Monogram, Resolute, and Normandy/Colony Pictures and he utilized several horses. In (FROM) BROADWAY TO CHEYENNE (Monogram, 1932), THE TONTO KID (Resolute, 1935), and IDAHO KID (Colony, 1936), he rode this white horse which I've labeled as "White Hoss #1 - the hoss with the mottled face" in the Trusty Steeds/Movie Horses section on the Old Corral. He rode a plain white hoss with few markings in WEST OF NEVADA (Colony, 1936).



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Above are stuntman Dave Sharpe and the titled cayuse from SILVER STALLION (Monogram, 1940), and the opening credits on the film list the real name of the hoss as Thunder.  Note that the face markings on this horse, as well as the one shown above with Rex Bell. More on this horse in the page on "White Hoss #1 - the hoss with the mottled face".



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Above - Dave Sharpe and his black hoss (which some have called 'Thunder'). I think people have confused the above horse with the white hoss in SILVER STALLION which was named Thunder. This is a publicity still for the Range Busters trio westerns, circa 1942. After the war, Sharpe rode the same black horse in COLORADO SERENADE (PRC, 1946) with Eddie Dean.



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Addison 'Jack' Randall, the younger brother of Three Mesquiteers star Bob Livingston, made 22 starring westerns for Monogram Pictures from 1937-1940, and he rode several different horses during those films. The name of the above paint horse is Lucky/Tex which was ridden by a bunch of B-western folks including: Raymond Hatton in his Johnny Mack Brown oaters; Jimmy Wakely in some of his Monogram westerns; John 'Dusty' King during his time as a member of Monogram's Range Busters.

Randall also rode Jack Perrin's Starlight and Rusty, the Wonder Horse. Rusty was also used by Tom Keene in his early 1941-1942 series at Monogram (and then Keene switched to a horse named Prince which had no face blaze). Hoot Gibson and Chief Thunder Cloud also rode Rusty during their Trail Blazers' films.


(Courtesy of Ed Phillips)

Above is Randall on Jack Perrin's horse Starlight. The heroine might be Louise Stanley, onetime wife of Randall, who appeared in five of his 22 oaters.


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Above - Jack Randall with Rusty, the Wonder Horse.




(Courtesy of Les Adams)

Bill 'Cowboy Rambler' Boyd rode Texas during his brief career as a B western hero in the PRC Frontier Marshal series (which co-starred Art Davis and Lee Powell).



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Gail Davis was TV's ANNIE OAKLEY, and her horse was named Target.



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