Roy Rogers & William Witney! Cheryl Rogers & Jay Dee Witney interviewed + FREE Rex Allen TV show
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- Two Hollywood Icons, Roy Rogers & William Witney. They made movie magic together in a series of tough, two-fisted post war westerns at Republic Studio. Roy was the King of the Cowboys, the #1 ranked Western Star. Many of his most popular films were directed by William Witney, who had a knack for staging and executing action sequences. Together, they made classics. How did Leonard Slye, co-founder and singer of The Sons of the Pioneers, become a leading man? How did the relationship begin with serial director Witney? What was it like being the daughter and son of motion picture icons?
Find out in this exclusive interview with Roy's daughter, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett and Witney's son, Jay Dee. They both joined producer/host Rob Word at a location that their Father's loved, Lone Pine, California, during the 31st annual Lone Pine Film Festival, October 2021.
You're in for a double treat on today's tribute to Father's on A WORD ON WESTERNS. First the interviews and then an episode from FRONTIER DOCTOR directed by William Witney starring Rex Allen and Gloria Winters (SKY KING).
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Always a great way to start a Sunday morning. Word on Westerns brings back so many memories!
So true … these presentations really transport us back filling us with joyful memories ❤️
Great interview, Rob. This interview was terrific! Roy Rogers was a phenomenal person - an icon of the Western genre and television star.
Roy and Dale were very decent people and great role models for kids.
Roy Rogers. Every kids hero. He taught through example to behave, do good deeds, respect and be kind to animals. Shook his hand at the Rodeo in Casper, Wyoming when I was a kid and Trigger was BEAUTIFUL
The only time I met him was at his museum. There were so many people there telling him their life stories that all I thought I should do was tell him how much I've enjoyed his work. He looked tired and I didn't want to bother him with the conversation that I WANTED to have about his films.
@@mjemigh3304 thats a shame. once in a lifetime opportunity. he was a gentleman and would never be rude but I think I would have waited your turn. Sorry that happened to you in any case
@@idahojune5307 Oh, he was very nice and appreciated what I told him, but he did look pretty weary and not up to a long conversation. He turned his little vehicle around and headed out right after that.
Nobody could ride a horse like Roy Rogers. I watched his show as a kid and still watch today.Lived Roy Dale Pat Trigger and Bullet.Pat was hilarious.
you always do such delightful interviews Roy Rogers daughter who is delightful to listen to I always liked his pictures
Thank you for the Father's Day treat! Roy, Gene and Hoppy were the greatest!
Rex Allen was cool too!
What a great Sunday evening show Rob! I love the films w/lots of the “wild horses”. This had to be quite a filming work. Happy Fathers Day to all those cowboy Dad’s! Thank you for letting this cowgirl in on the special for the Dad’s. Thanks to all the cowhands that help you Rob. 🤠
Thank you, Sue. Glad you enjoyed it.
Many thanks, Rob. Fascinating interview.
Rob, what a delightful informative interview. Sons of the Pioneers were my Dad’s group singers. He told me they were a multi-talented group of men. Made Ken Curtis an actor tho he kept his name. Even as a girl playing cowboys and Indians w/my brothers and cousins it was fun play. We knew what real guns did as Dad shot many a coyote harassing our cattle. He was a WW2 Marine veteran who served in Pacific Theatre and taught us respect for guns as a tool. Roy Rogers was a hero on the screen for we kids as he stood for the morals we were learning in home, school, church and community. That is so lacking in many children’s lives today. It’s sad.😢 These two you interviewed are a testament to the good we learned too. 🤠
Thank you for your comments, Sue.
I love Cheryl's interviews. Roy Rogers is awesome! His & Dale's lives were so interesting & inspiring. Thank you, Rob. Happy Father's Day!
Thanks, LP. It was a tremendous day for me.
My most favorite role model and hero was Roy Rogers! Thanks for sharing these with us all Rob. 👍👍 5⭐ countless♥️🥇️🏆
Excellent interview and editing in of the old Roy Roger's movies. Cheryl is a sweet gal😊
One of the first shows I saw in Madison Square Garden was a Rodeo featuring Roy Rogers and I loved it. I was about 10 years old. It was an amazing experience which I. Have never forgotten. It made me a fan of Roy Rogers and his movies and TV show. Thanks Rob for a wonderful interview.
Thank you, Rich.
Roy Rogers King Of The Cowboys And A Great Man and Father Love Him
My favorite Cowboy of all time. Thanks Rob
Wonderful piece of western movie history in this wonderful interview. Blessings
Thanks, Homey.
Another GREAT interview, Rob! As a kid, I loved everything Roy Rogers. As an adult, I realized that his Billy Whitney films were my favorites. Hearing from these two "children" was a delightful experience.
On another note, the treatment of Roy's films has been horrendous through the years. Roan did a few nice restorations, but it was apparently a financial bust. Some can never be back to where they once were, since the musical sequences went into the trash at TV edit time. Others can be brought back if anyone has the cash to make it happen. I'm sure I'll never see it in my lifetime.....but then, I said that about Laurel & Hardy when Hallmark bought them to rot away a couple of decades ago. So, maybe. Just maybe.
What a way to start Father's day with interviews with Cheryl Rogers and Jay Dee Witney discussing the origins of Roy Rogers one of the great dad's on TV and Movies and how WWII changed movies and affected the brand new medium of TV.
Rob. Thank you again. Enjoyed the interview
Loved Roy and Dale! They were a wonderful team. Films did become more violent in the 1940's but I never was aware of this until listening to this interview. Very informative.
Thanks, Joan
🤠 Rob, yet again you knocked it out of the park 👍
There's a lot I could say but for now just a big THANK YOU for sharing with us all!!!
Yes, great show, Rob! I recently purchased and read a used copy of 'Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys' that Roy penned himself in a folksy, downhome, honest style with many pictures. I really enjoyed it. And, thanks for the episode of 'Frontier Doctor.' I don't know if you visited it before, but the Rex Allen Arizona Cowboy Museum is in Willcox where Rex Allen was born and raised. It's small but is real nice and worth a visit. It is an 81 mile drive from Tucson. Rex Allen died of a tragic accident at his home in Tucson in 1999. He had a great singing voice and was a darn good actor. Thanks, again!
Thanks, Joe. Yes, very sad and tragic the way Rex died.
Great interview and good movie. Thank you!
Another great interview and an enjoyable film. Thanks Rob you always seem to find something interesting and entertaining as well as informing. My name is something that we didn't know no matter what age we are.
What a great interview! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the tv show Rob. Rex Allen was awesome. It was very good.
The interview was as always stellar. I learned much about Roy Roger's and William Witney's career's that I didn't know. It put what I did know into a more fully informed context. I didn't mind Roy Rogers, but was a bigger Rex Allen fan, so this episode was a total win win for me.
Thanks, Jim.
Great interview Rob. Not the first time I was confused by the term Alabama Hills. I thought, what the heck is a western film company doing in Alabama? Then I looked it up and discovered it’s proximity to Lone Pine. Amazed at all the films & tv shows filmed there, and not just westerns. Your interviews are just a treasure trove of behind the scenes stuff that makes revisiting these classics much more meaningful and enjoyable. Thanks!
Thanks, Joe. Your comment make certainly makes our efforts worthwhile.
Rob, thank you! Marvelous interview as usual, you deliver beautifully.
Thanks, Nicole.
In William Witney's autobio, In a Door, Into a Fight, Out a Door, Into a Chase, he wrote that taking a leaf from WB's great Busby Berkeley's method of choreographing strenuous dance sequences, he began choreographing the fight and action sequences as a dance in the Republic serials. I loved those serials and the Roy Rogers movies as a kid, and currently have a video collection of Roy's movies and the Republic serials. Great interview, Rob, with Cheryl Rogers and Jay Dee Witney.
That’s really interesting. It makes sense.
Yes, as an adult I became fascinated by his choreography of fight scenes. That led me to his book.
Thanks, Thom
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thanks Rob ⭐️
Loved the "Frontier Doctor" episode...fire scene and effects were outstanding!... .poor Mr. Peabody a good man who only lived for justice and truth living in a very familiar environment.....had a feeling Miss Clinton....err..uh...Wilson was involved....👍
Love this interview.Met Cherykl several time.Have fb talked Whitney a few times.
Surprised by Frontier Doctor episode Flaming Gold after the interview.
I thought having a William Witney film was a nice touch. Thanks.
For those who don't know, the "film" in question is an episode of Frontier Doctor (those in Gen Y, which I'm part of, have never heard of this show except through, let's say, CZcams), which just happened to be its last.
Roy Rogers was an example of integrity for young people. I saw a commercial where they were selling Roy Roger pistols and children playing cowboys and Indians. That would not go over in today's world
Nice interviews and flick! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I would love to talk to them about their legendary parents
Many years ago my sister had a life-sized poster of Roy that I found among my things years later. I had it professionally framed for her as a gift, and the day I presented it to her happened to be the Roy Roger's died.
Sweet.
Thanks Rob well done. My Dad was more of a Hop a Long, Lash LA rue kid but my younger uncle's loved Roy Roger's so I got a good dose of both and glade of it& glade your keeping this particular part of cinema history alive because there ain't a whole lot of people doing such. T.C.B.
I'm a happy cowboy spreading the western film gospel, Eric. Thanks.
We Sometimes Forget About The "Early Stars",,, Like Roy Rogers, and "Nellie Bell"... We Took Them For Granted,,, Turn On The TV On Saturday Morning,,, and There Was Roy.... They Could Really Ride,,, Oh Boy Could They... Roy Was Great,,, We Just Took It For Granted... Then Years Later,,, Along Came Others,,, That Were Not So Talented... As a Kid, I Always Thought That "Trigger" Made "Roy Rogers",,, No,,, "Roy" Made "Trigger"... That and,,, "Roy, and Dale",,, Were National Hero's, True Americans,,, With Deep Rooted CHARACTER,.. and Love For Family and Country... Do Your Homework On "Roy & Dale",,, a Real Love Story For The American Family,,,
My 2 Western heroes were Roy & Clayton Moore.
Good ones, George!
AS A Child Of The 50's, Coming From A Family of Parents That Did Not Show Their Feelings, I so Longed To Have Roy And Dale Adopt Me
I had always thought that Ken Curtis was hanging with the sons of the Pioneers prior to Roy Rogers. I guess I was wrong.
Whoa! That original Lone Ranger looked scary. Good thing they changed the look for the Boomer kids by the time Clayton Moore took over on TV or there might be a lot more seventy year olds in therapy right now.
Love these interviews from Lone Pine. Next to Monument Valley the most iconic and recognizable film location for Westerns.
Cheryl and her remembrances of her dad is always a treat.
Thanks, Hiram.
Cheryl is beautiful person!
Hey Rob maybe you could work something up on Charro,Flaming Star, Love Me Tender, Stay Away Joe.They say the only people were in awe of when he went out there were the cowboy hero's of his youth but I know you have a handful of what your doing,thanks.
Rob Word Is My ALL Time Favorite,,, "Western Movie Hero",,, Not "Casey Tibbs,",, Not "Ty Murry,",, Not "Tom Mix",,, But ROB WORD... Now For Some of The Rest... Second "Jimmy Arness",,, Third " Bobby Duvall",,, Fourth,,, "Roy Rogers"... A Lot of "Roy's" Movies, Just Don't AGE As Well As Some,,, But They Have a Special Meaning , Especially For a 10 Year Old Ranch Boy, and His "Side Kick",,, "Lil Beaver",,, Who Was Also His Little Sister... Good God Is This Woman Special,,,, So Special... Boy,,, Roy Could Ride,,, He Was GREAT... Like So Many,,, ie,,, "Jimmy Arness",,, "Gary Cooper",,, "Jimmy Stewart",,, But Still My "NUMBER ONE Western Hero",,, Is "Rob Word",,, The Real,,, "King of The Peacos",,,
As anyone who knows anything about Republic's owner and head Herbert Yates, when it came to paying his lead actors he was notoriously CHEAP!
Whether it was Gene Autry, John Wayne or Roy Rogers, it was always a battle to get any kind of pay raise... in fact with the serials, it was the legendary nine-man stunt team that were the highest paid due to their constant use in action and even non-action scenes.
Director William Whitney radically changed the stunt profession when he decided to copy the way choreographer Busby Berkley shoots complicated dance sequences and apply it to fight scenes and such. He would shoot bits and pieces of the fights from different angles and the action would be planned out and choreographed instead of the old way of just having stunt men looking at each other waiting to be hit unrealistically.
LONE PINE is indeed a fabulous iconic western locale that was shown at its most iconic best with the exciting wide-screen Cinerama Indian raid on the wagon train in HOW THE WEST WAS WON.
For me, ROY ROGERS really showed his true acting ability in a small but wonderful film from 1975 called MACINTOSH & T.J. -It also showed the true natural side of Roy. I'm sure as he aged he relished the chance to play an ordinary man, in this case an aging cowboy in modern-day America he befriends a runaway teenage boy and shows him the ropes to a better life.
And you ask yourself what would Roy think of America now? Or what would any movie cowboy hero, or any other hero for that matter think?
Rob, is there any chance of the Roy Rogers pictures being restored, and brought back to their original theatrical length? The copies I see on streaming services (mainly Prime) are in a sorry state.
It's happening on some of them, Matt. I hope that all of them are finally restored.
Met him when i was 5 years old at his museum at apple valley. He sat me on a 5,000 dollar saddle. I sad hi ya my name is Roy too.
Cute, Roy. Happy Trails.
Roy was the king of the cowboys but Catherine Ross is the queen of the cowgirls Sam Elliott is married to her lucky bastard
WHO WAS CHERYL ROGERS MOTHER???
Hi, Jim. Cheryl was adopted by Roy and his 2nd wife, Grace. They didn't think they could have a child but, as often happens, when they adopted Cheryl, Grace became pregnant with a daughter, Linda Lou. Grace became pregnant again with Dusty but had an embolism that went to her heart and she died when Dusty was only a week old, Nov 3, 1946. Roy married Dale New Year's Eve 1947.
no other Roy Rogers most likely not