Check out the “Gene Autry and the Twentieth Century West” exhibit at the Autry National Center’s Museum of the American West in Griffith Park. It opens Friday.
We attended last night’s preview, and the exhibit is a fascinating and colorful glimpse of an era that has faded for most people. Autry was famously the Singing Cowboy, and he also went on to become a radio and TV entrepreneur and baseball team owner. The show commemorates his 100th birthday and, as Kenneth Turan notes in today’s LA Times, “reveals Autry as someone who accomplished so much in so many areas it practically makes your head spin.”
Gene Autry also is the subject of a new biography, Public Cowboy No. 1.
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