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Lucille Wood Smith, name changed in infancy to
Frances Octavia Smith, famous as Dale Evans, (31
October, 1912 - 7 February, 2001) was a prolific
writer, movie star, singer/songwriter and the wife
of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.

Born in Uvalde, Texas, Evans had a tumultuous
early life, eloping with her first husband Thomas
F. Fox at 14. She bore one son, Thomas Fox, Jr. at
15.  Divorced in 1929 at 17, she married August
Wayne Johns that same year until her divorce from
him in 1933. She took the name Dale Evans in the
early 1930s to promote her singing career.  She
married her accompanist and arranger Robert Dale
Butts in 1935. 

After beginning her career singing at the radio
station where she was employed as a secretary,
Evans had a productive career as a jazz, swing and
big band singer which lead to a screen test and
contract with 20th Century Fox studios.  During
her time at 20th Century Fox, the studio promoted
her as the unmarried supporter of her teenage
"brother" Tommy, actually her son Tom Fox, Jr.
This deception continued through her divorce from
Butts in 1945, and her development as a cow-girl
co-star to Roy Rogers at Republic studios. 

Evans married Roy Rogers on New Year's Eve 1946.
Rogers ended the deception regarding Tommy. Rogers
and Evans were a team on screen and off from 1946
until Rogers death in 1998. Rogers and Evans had
one child, Robin Elizabeth, who died of
complications of Down's Syndrome shortly before
her second birthday. Her life inspired Evans to
write her best-seller "Angel Unawares". 

From 1951 to 1957, Dale Evans and her husband
starred in the highly successful television series
The Roy Rogers Show in which they continued their
cowboy/cowgirl roles, her riding her trusty
buckskin horse, Buttermilk (horse)|Buttermilk. In
addition to her successful TV shows, over 30
movies, and 200 songs, Evans wrote the well known
songs "Happy Trails (song)|Happy Trails" and "The
Bible Tells Me So".

For her contribution to radio, Dale Evans has a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6638
Hollywood Blvd. and a second star at 1737 Vine
Street. for her contribution to the television
industry. In 1976, she was inducted into the
Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National
Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma.


See also: Notable figures in Western films|Other
notable figures in Western films

==External links==

*imdb name|id=0262661|name=Dale Evans

	Web Quotableonline.com Frasescelebres.org Greatbookscollection.org

Lucille Wood Smith, name changed in infancy to
Frances Octavia Smith, famous as Dale Evans, (31
October, 1912 - 7 February, 2001) was a prolific
writer, movie star, singer/songwriter and the wife
of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.

Born in Uvalde, Texas, Evans had a tumultuous
early life, eloping with her first husband Thomas
F. Fox at 14. She bore one son, Thomas Fox, Jr. at
15.  Divorced in 1929 at 17, she married August
Wayne Johns that same year until her divorce from
him in 1933. She took the name Dale Evans in the
early 1930s to promote her singing career.  She
married her accompanist and arranger Robert Dale
Butts in 1935. 

After beginning her career singing at the radio
station where she was employed as a secretary,
Evans had a productive career as a jazz, swing and
big band singer which lead to a screen test and
contract with 20th Century Fox studios.  During
her time at 20th Century Fox, the studio promoted
her as the unmarried supporter of her teenage
"brother" Tommy, actually her son Tom Fox, Jr.
This deception continued through her divorce from
Butts in 1945, and her development as a cow-girl
co-star to Roy Rogers at Republic studios. 

Evans married Roy Rogers on New Year's Eve 1946.
Rogers ended the deception regarding Tommy. Rogers
and Evans were a team on screen and off from 1946
until Rogers death in 1998. Rogers and Evans had
one child, Robin Elizabeth, who died of
complications of Down's Syndrome shortly before
her second birthday. Her life inspired Evans to
write her best-seller "Angel Unawares". 

From 1951 to 1957, Dale Evans and her husband
starred in the highly successful television series
The Roy Rogers Show in which they continued their
cowboy/cowgirl roles, her riding her trusty
buckskin horse, Buttermilk (horse)|Buttermilk. In
addition to her successful TV shows, over 30
movies, and 200 songs, Evans wrote the well known
songs "Happy Trails (song)|Happy Trails" and "The
Bible Tells Me So".

For her contribution to radio, Dale Evans has a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6638
Hollywood Blvd. and a second star at 1737 Vine
Street. for her contribution to the television
industry. In 1976, she was inducted into the
Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National
Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma.


See also: Notable figures in Western films|Other
notable figures in Western films

==External links==

*imdb name|id=0262661|name=Dale Evans