GILBERT RECEIVES WESTERN HONOR HUSBAND BOXLEITNER TO PRESENT AWARD.Byline: Daily News NEWHALL - Melissa ``Half Pint'' Gilbert, all grown up from her days on the prairie and now president of the Screen Actors Guild, will be inducted next month into Newhall's Walk of Western Stars. The former child actor who starred on television's ``Little House on the Prairie'' will join the likes of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers
Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), who became famous as Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. and Dale Evans, John Evans, John, 1814–97, American founder of educational institutions, b. Waynesville, Ohio, grad. Lynn Medical College, Cincinnati, 1838. He practiced medicine in Indiana and was the first superintendent (1845) of the state hospital for the insane, which he had Wayne, Jane Russell Jane Russell (born June 21, 1921) is an American actress and sex symbol. Early life Born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell in Bemidji, Minnesota, she was the only daughter of Roy William Russell (January 5, 1890 – July 18, 1937) and Geraldine Jacobi (January and her husband, Bruce Boxleitner Bruce Boxleitner (born May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American actor. He is best known for his leading roles in the television series How the West Was Won, Scarecrow and Mrs. . In fact, Boxleitner will present the Walk of Western Stars award to Gilbert at a March 26 gala at the Hyatt Valencia. The event will be held in conjunction with the annual Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival. An actor since she was 3, Gilbert was 10 when she assumed the role of Laura Ingalls on ``Little House'' and was the youngest entertainer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a pavement along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, which is embedded with more than 2,000 five-pointed stars featuring the names of not only human celebrities but fictional characters honored by . It was series star Michael Landon who nicknamed the youngster Half Pint. Born in Los Angeles in 1964, Gilbert continues to act while also working as a director and president of SAG. She has starred in TV movies including ``The Miracle Worker,'' ``The Diary of Anne Frank'' and ``Sweet Justice.'' Each year, the community inducts Western entertainers into the Walk of Western Stars in downtown Newhall. Saddle-shape plaques are embedded in the sidewalks for the honorees. Aside from Gilbert, actor Keith Carradine, longtime stunt man Loren Janes and cowboy crooner Buck Page will be inducted this year. Tickets for the event are $100 apiece. For information, call the city of Santa Clarita at (661) 286-4021. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Melissa Gilbert starred in the beloved television series ``Little House on the Prairie'' as a child. (2 -- color -- ran in Valley edition only) Melissa Gilbert as Screen Actors Guild president. |
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