Film homage Chill Wills Stubby Pringle's Christmas 1978 ghost town Silver Plume Colorado 1971
by David Lee Guss
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Film homage Chill Wills Stubby Pringle's Christmas 1978 ghost town Silver Plume Colorado 1971
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Hallmark Hall of Fame movies are consistently excellent. Chill Wills' (1902-1978) final film role was in Hallmark's "Stubby Pringle's Christmas" aired two days after his death.
The made for TV movie was partly shot in the ghost town of Silver Plume, Colorado.
Wills' first film was an uncredited bit as a campfire singer in W.C. Field's masterpiece "It's a Gift" (1934).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y189-69cQPs
Wills started out as a singer in both vaudeville and films. He formed and headed the Avalon Boys singing group. Here he can be heard as the bass singer in Laurel & Hardy's "Way Out West." He is the guitar player seen fleetingly at the end of the delightful musical dance number.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SvuNcPx2dg
This image of a row of shuttered buildings was taken shortly after Christmas in 1971.
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May 31st, 2013
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