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Kirby Grant

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Kirby Grant (November 24, 1911 – October 30, 1985), born Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., was a long-time B movie and television actor, mostly remembered for having played the title role in the Western-themed adventure television series Sky King. [1]

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Abbott and Costello

Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work on radio and in film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and early 1950s.

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Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Adventure

An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking.

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Adventures of Superman (TV series)

Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Arthur Lake (actor)

Arthur Lake (born Arthur Silverlake Jr., April 17, 1905 – January 9, 1987) was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of Blondie, to life in film, radio and television.

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B movie

A B movie or B film is a low-budget commercial movie, but not an arthouse film.

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Brevard County, Florida

Brevard County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Butte, Montana

Butte is a town in, and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Call of the Klondike

Call of the Klondike is a 1950 American Northern/western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Kirby Grant, Anne Gwynne and Lynne Roberts.

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Cape Canaveral

Cape Canaveral, from the Spanish Cabo Cañaveral, is a cape in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of the state's Atlantic coast.

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Cessna

The Cessna Aircraft Company was an American general aviation aircraft manufacturing corporation headquartered in Wichita, Kansas.

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Cessna 310

The Cessna 310 is an American four-to-six-seat, low-wing, twin-engined monoplane produced by Cessna between 1954 and 1980.

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Cessna AT-17 Bobcat

The Cessna AT-17 Bobcat was a twin-engined advanced trainer aircraft designed and made in the United States, and used during World War II to bridge the gap between single-engined trainers and twin-engined combat aircraft.

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Child prodigy

In psychology research literature, the term child prodigy is defined as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer.

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Color blindness

Color blindness, also known as color vision deficiency, is the decreased ability to see color or differences in color.

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Corporal Rod Webb

Corporal Rod Webb and his faithful dog Chinook were the major characters in a series of films made by the American studio Monogram Pictures between 1949 and 1954.

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Destination Tokyo

Destination Tokyo is a 1943 black-and-white submarine war film.

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Doolittle Raid

The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on Saturday, April 18, 1942, was an air raid by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on the island of Honshu during World War II, the first air operation to strike the Japanese Home Islands.

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Dragnet (franchise)

Dragnet was an American radio, television, and motion-picture series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners.

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Fangs of the Arctic

Fangs of the Arctic is a 1953 American western film directed by Rex Bailey and starring Kirby Grant, Lorna Hanson and Warren Douglas.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Gale Storm

Gale Storm (born Josephine Owaissa Cottle, April 5, 1922 – June 27, 2009) was an American actress and singer who starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show.

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Gateway to Hollywood

Gateway to Hollywood is an American old-time radio talent show.

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Gloria Jean

Gloria Jean (born April 14, 1926) is an American actress and singer who starred or co-starred in 26 feature films between 1939 and 1959, as well as making numerous radio, television, stage, and nightclub appearances.

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Gloria Winters

Gloria Winters (November 28, 1931, in Los Angeles, CaliforniaGates, Anita. The New York Times, August 27, 2010; page D8.. – August 14, 2010, in Vista, San Diego County, California) was an actress most remembered for having portrayed the well-mannered niece, Penny King, in the 1950s – 1960s American television series Sky King.

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Gunman's Code

Gunman's Code is a 1946 American western film directed by Wallace Fox and starring Kirby Grant, Fuzzy Knight and Jane Adams.

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In Society

In Society is a 1944 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.

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John Archer (actor)

John Archer (born Ralph Bowman; May 8, 1915 – December 3, 1999) was an American actor.

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Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers.

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Missoula, Montana

Missoula is a city in the U.S. state of Montana and is the county seat of Missoula County.

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Monogram Pictures

Monogram Pictures Corporation is a Hollywood studio that produced and released films, mostly on low budgets, between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.

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Montana

Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.

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Northern Patrol (film)

Northern Patrol is a 1953 American western film directed by Rex Bailey and starring Kirby Grant, Marian Carr and William Phipps.

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Northwest Territory (film)

Northwest Territory is a 1951 American Northern film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Kirby Grant, Gloria Saunders and Warren Douglas.

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Olsen and Johnson

John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen (November 6, 1892 - January 26, 1963) and Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson (March 5, 1891 - February 26, 1962) were American comedians of vaudeville, radio, the Broadway stage, motion pictures and television.

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Orlando Sentinel

The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida and the Central Florida region.

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Parrish Medical Center

Parrish Medical Center is a public, not-for-profit, 210-bed acute care hospital in Titusville, Florida, within sight of the launch towers of Kennedy Space Center.

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Penny Singleton

Penny Singleton (September 15, 1908 – November 12, 2003) was an American film actress.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Rod Cameron (actor)

Rod Cameron (born Nathan Roderick Cox, December 7, 1910 – December 21, 1983) was a Canadian-born film and television actor whose career extended from the 1930s to the 1970s.

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Ron Hagerthy

Ronald F. "Ron" Hagerthy (born March 9, 1932) is a former American actor known primarily for his guest-starring and supporting roles on television westerns.

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Silver Bow County, Montana

Silver Bow County is a county in the U.S. state Montana.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sky King

Sky King was an American radio and television series.

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Snow Dog

Snow Dog is a 1950 American western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Kirby Grant, Elena Verdugo and Rick Vallin.

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Song of Idaho

Song of Idaho is a 1948 American Western musical film directed by Ray Nazarro.

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Space Shuttle Challenger

Space Shuttle Challenger (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was the second orbiter of NASA's space shuttle program to be put into service, after ''Columbia''.

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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of (OV-99) broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists.

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Stage name

A stage name is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers, such as actors, comedians, singers and musicians.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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The Wolf Hunters (1949 film)

The Wolf Hunters is a 1949 American western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Kirby Grant, Jan Clayton and Edward Norris.

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Titusville, Florida

Titusville is a city in and the county seat of Brevard County, Florida, United States.

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Trail of the Yukon

Trail of the Yukon is a 1949 American western film directed by William Beaudine and starring Kirby Grant, Suzanne Dalbert and Bill Edwards.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Valley Center, California

Valley Center is a census-designated place (CDP) in North San Diego County, California.

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Violin

The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.

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Virginia Vale

Virginia Vale (born Dorothy Howe, 20 May 1920 – 14 Sep 2006) was an American film actress.

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Waco Aircraft Company

The Waco Aircraft Company (WACO) was an aircraft manufacturer located in Troy, Ohio, United States.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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William Gargan

William Gargan (July 17, 1905February 17, 1979) was an American film, television and radio actor.

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Winter Springs, Florida

Winter Springs is a city in Seminole County, Florida, United States.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yukon Gold (film)

Yukon Gold is a 1952 American western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Kirby Grant, Martha Hyer and Harry Lauter.

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Yukon Manhunt

Yukon Manhunt is a 1951 American western film directed by Frank McDonald and starring Kirby Grant, Gail Davis and Margaret Field.

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Yukon Vengeance

Yukon Vengeance is a 1954 American western film directed by William Beaudine and starring Kirby Grant, Monte Hale and Mary Ellen Kay.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_Grant

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