In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Theresa Kaminski discusses her latest biography, Queen of the West: The Life and Times of Dale Evans. This project has been ten years in the making, but the inspiration for it goes back to Theresa’s childhood when she watched television reruns of The Roy Rogers Show on Saturday mornings. She was intrigued by the major female character on the show. Dale Evans was the first female Western star. Dubbed Queen of the Westerns and, later on, Queen of the West, Dale Evans saw herself more as a singer of popular tunes and really wanted to appear in more musical comedies. In this episode, I’ll chat with Theresa about her writing journey, the differences between Dale Evans’s public celebrity image and her private persona, and just how much control Dale Evans had over her career as a woman in Hollywood.
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