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RIN TIN TIN HORSES & RUSTY

from: Deb at Horse Fame
date: 2002-September
Recently and in the past I received 
email & message board info from people
concerning actor Lee Aaker.
Memories from Marlene Morris may or 
may not be fact. Just as identities
can be forged. You be the judge. 
 
My website, HORSE FAME, welcomes facts 
concerning horses used on Rin Tin Tin 
if any of the folks with knowledge on
that wish to send the horse stories, 
please do. Any other comments on the
subject can be posted on the Horse Fame
message board.

FAMOUS EQUINE TRAINERS

from: Lucille Rogers Barney

date: 2001-2-23

I had the honor of training
with Glenn Randall Sr. 
and lived with Pinky and Corky 
for a while back in the mid fifties. 
Glenn took a horse of mine and 
completely changed him from an 
obstreporus and unmanageable 
to adocile and much happier animal.
I kept my horse there for many months 
and was very fortunate to have 
witnessed the Randall family in action.
At the time they had
Roy Rogers, 
Gene Autry, 
Rex Allen, 
also 
Bobby Davenport
who was an astute horse trainer in his
own right and many other famous horse 
owner's in the barn. Their combined talents
in the industry were second to none. 





LEE AAKER where are you?

                  from: James Michael Hughes

date: 1999-12-10 

I have searching for information
on Lee Aaker for months.
I am writing and
producing a TV biography 
on the late actress
Geraldine Page. 
I would love to contact Mr.  Aaker. 
As you know he appeared in
 "Hondo" in 1953. 
Any and all information on where
to reach Mr. Aaker would be so helpful. 
We would like to invite him
to appear on-camera
for our biography. 

Fake LEE AAKER

from: Ancel Cook 

I attended a lot of functions with him
and was taken in like everyone else
Jim Allen was exposed
as a phoney in an article 
out of Paradise Valley, Arizona. 
He told a reporter some stories
that Andrea Canutt
got hold of and she wrote
the magazine and exposed him. 


OLD BUDDY LEE AAKER

from: 
Claude Cole 

date: 1998-8-30

I went to (Kelso) elementary school
and high school with Lee Aaker.  I
transferred to San Diego, California
Military Academy in my sophomore year
but returned to Inglewood, California 
one weekend a month,
plus summer vacations.  I saw
Lee at the "Witchstand" on occasion. 
He was always outgoing and gregarious.
Our parents (all dead now)
were aquainted with each other
for many years.
Lee and I were never what you 
could call "buddies" but we knew
each other.  
I can still remember the "limo" 
coming to pick him up from
school in the '50s. 
That was a big deal in those days.
I haven't seen him in over 40 years. 
Every time a Rin Tin Tin episode would air,
I wondered what happened to
little Lee. 
Where ever he is, I hope he's
happy and life's treating him well.

Audie Murphy 
was another regular at the "Witchstand".  
He liked the car hops, as I recall.  
He drove a large white Cadillac convertible.
Man, that was along time ago.