1. The daughter of a small-town physician, Davis was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, but was raised in McGehee, Arkansas until her family moved to Little Rock.
11 Facts About Gail Davis
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Gail Davis had a younger sister, Shirley Ann Grayson.
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Betty Jeanne and her husband, Bob Gail Davis, moved to Hollywood to pursue a film career.
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Gail Davis told an interviewer how she acquired her professional acting name.
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Gail Davis then appeared in minor roles in another four films, the first being The Romance of Rosy Ridge, then landed a supporting role to that of star Roy Rogers in the 1948 The Far Frontier.
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From 1948 to 53, Gail Davis appeared in 32 feature films, all but three of which were in the Western genre.
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In 1950, Gail Davis began to guest star in television Westerns, notably in The Cisco Kid, in which she appeared six times in two roles, including that of a niece whose uncle is trying to stop her pending marriage to a gangster.
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Between 1954 and 1957, Gail Davis starred in the Annie Oakley series which ran for 81 episodes.
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An adroit horseback rider, Gail Davis toured North America in Gene Autry's traveling rodeo.
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Gail Davis believed her success as Annie Oakley undermined other opportunities she might have had for other roles in the future.
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Gail Davis is interred there in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills.