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                   JEANNE BATES

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          What can you say about a lady who lived almost up to the age of 90, 
and who was married for almost 40?  
          The lucky man was radio writer and director Lew X. Lansworth.  
What remains of his radio work are thirteen episodes of Family Theater.  


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          Bates played Diana Palmer 
in the 1943 serial version of The Phantom.  


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          Catch Jeanne Bates as a femme fatale 
in the Screen Director's Playhouse radio version of 'D.O.A.'     
Bates is deadly at delivering these lines 
to walking fatality Edmond O'Brien:  
"And don't get any ideas, because I'm not afraid to use this... "  
"You lie and I'll blow your head off!"  
"If I were a man, I'd punch your dirty face in."  



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Well-worn homesteader wife in Gunsmoke.

          Jeanne Bates' first experience with gunsmoke 

was not in Gunsmoke.  It was an episode of Wild Bill Hickok 
which aired on February 20, 1952,  titled  'Gunsmoke and Violet.'  



          Bates appeared in all four of CBS's best radio westerns.  
Besides  Fort Laramie and Frontier Gentleman, 
she did twenty-six episodes of Gunsmoke 
and fourteen of  Have Gun-Will Travel.  


          There's hoofers, and then there's hoofers.  

Away from Gunsmoke, in an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 
called  'The Kay Bellamy Matter,' 
Jeanne Bates does a good turn as a mysterious entertainer 
who walks away from a bright career 
and goes back to doing burlesque.  


          'The Story of the 10:08'  is not really 
one of the better episodes of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 
but the last scene puts Jeannes Bates through her paces as an actress.  
First, as one of a pack of thieves, she has to be indignant 
when she discovers she is not being given her fair share of the loot; 
then, after being slapped and dismissed, she must explode 

into a fierce pistol-packin' mama, 
blasting down one of her duplicitous partners;  
last, she is made to soften and agonize 
over spending the rest of her life outside the law, 
or cooperating with the forgiving insurance investigator 
and returning to the straight and narrow.   



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