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Saturday Spotlight: Dale Evans' 100th birthday

   |   June 1, 2012   3:25 PM
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Categorized Under: Film and Television, History or Science, Local Events

In the Saturday Spotlight, we’re celebrating Dale Evans’ 100th birthday with a day of events at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth. Tour the museum, enjoy discussions of Evans’ impact on music and television, and see some of her most memorable movies.

  • Jac Alder

    It was in the ’70s when I got the job of directing Dale Evans as narrator in a multi media production involving a 100 voice men’s chorus and an orchestra. I’d known her from ’40s cowboy movies since my boyhood and found her performances to be pleasant, but hardly stunning. I was (rather snobbishly, I fear) concerned about her being able to master the rather complicated cues the script involved at her age and given the modest talent required of her in the rather simple minded movies. She endeared herself to me (and the 100 men singers) by delivering a poised, error-free and an emotionally on-target delivery of her narration — at the FIRST run-thru. What the lady was was an accomplished, experienced pro. JAC ALDER, TheatreThree, Dallas

  • Jac Alder

    It was in the ’70s when I got the job of directing Dale Evans as narrator in a multi media production involving a 100 voice men’s chorus and an orchestra. I’d known her from ’40s cowboy movies since my boyhood and found her performances to be pleasant, but hardly stunning. I was (rather snobbishly, I fear) concerned about her being able to master the rather complicated cues the script involved at her age and given the modest talent required of her in the rather simple minded movies. She endeared herself to me (and the 100 men singers) by delivering a poised, error-free and an emotionally on-target delivery of her narration — at the FIRST run-thru. What the lady was was an accomplished, experienced pro. JAC ALDER, TheatreThree, Dallas