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Gail Davis (born October 5, 1925; died March 15,
1997) was an United States|American actress.

The daughter of a small town medical doctor, she
was born Betty Jeanne Grayson in a hospital at
Little Rock, Arkansas. Her family lived in
McGehee, Arkansas where she was raised until they
moved to Little Rock. She had been singing and
dancing since childhood and after graduating from
high scool in Little Rock, she went to study drama
at girl's college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
before completing her education at the University
of Texas in Austin, Texas|Austin. While at
university she met and married Bob Davis with whom
she had a daughter.

She and her husband moved to Hollywood, California
to pursue a career in motion pictures and in 1947,
as "Gail Davis," she made her motion picture debut
in a comedy short film|film short. She then
appeared in minor roles in another four films
until landing a supporting role under star Roy
Rogers in a 1948  Western film called The Far
Frontier. Between then and 1953, Davis appeared in
more than three dozen films, of which all but
three were in the Western genre and that included
fourteen films with the singing cowboy star, Gene
Autry. In 1950, she began to guest star in
television Westerns, notably in the "Lone Ranger"
and "Cisco Kid" series plus more than a dozen
appearances on the "Gene Autry Show".

Between 1954 and 1956, Gail Davis starred as the
Western sharpshooter, Annie Oakley in the Annie
Oakley (TV series)|Annie Oakley television series
on the American Broadcasting Company|ABC network.
An adroit horseback rider, Davis also toured North
America in Gene Autry's travelling rodeo. After
her retirement from the entertainment business,
she made guest appearances at western memorabilia
shows and film festivals.

Gail Davis passed away from cancer in 1997 in Los
Angeles, California and was interred there in the
Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

For her contribution to the television iductry,
Gail Davis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame at 6385 Hollywood Blvd. In 2004, she was
posthumously inducted into the National Cowgirl
Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.

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