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Amanda Blake (February 20, 1929 – August 16, 1989) was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on the television western ''Gunsmoke''. She and her third husband Frank Gilbert ran one of the first successful programs for breeding cheetahs in captivity. ==Early life and career== Amanda Blake was born Beverly Louise Neill in Buffalo, New York, the only child of Jesse and Louise (née Puckett) Neill. Her father was a banker, and she was a telephone operator before taking up acting. Catherine ″Kate" Moore Barry (1752–1823), one of her ancestors, was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War. She warned local patriots of Banastre Tarleton's approach, giving them time to group and prepare for the Battle of Cowpens (January 17, 1781), a major American victory that helped pave the way for the British defeat at Yorktown. Blake placed a cameo-sized portrait of Barry owned by her family in the Spartanburg, South Carolina, local history museum, where it remains on display to this day. Nicknamed "the Young Greer Garson", she became best known for her 19-year stint as the saloon-keeper Miss Kitty on the television series ''Gunsmoke'' from 1955 to 1974. In 1968, Blake was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Great Western Performers )〕 She was the third performer inducted, after Tom Mix and Gary Cooper, selected in 1958 and 1966, respectively. Due to her continuing role on television, Blake rarely had time for films. She appeared in a TV comedy routine with Red Skelton and was a panelist on the long-running ''Hollywood Squares'' and ''Match Game 74'', as well as making comedy appearances on the ''Dean Martin Celebrity Roast''. In 1957, she guest-starred as Betty Lavon-Coate in the episode titled "Coate of Many Colors" on Rod Cameron's crime drama, ''State Trooper''. After the ''Gunsmoke'' reunion film, she made two feature film appearances: in ''The Boost'', a drug-addiction drama starring James Woods and Sean Young, and in ''B.O.R.N'' (both 1988). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amanda Blake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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