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Reno Browne

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American B-Western actress. Growing up in her native Reno, Nevada, she made her entree into films with small parts in films shooting on location in the Reno area. She travelled to Hollywood and got work as a trick rider and stuntwoman and eventually as a leading lady in low- budget Westerns for Monogram and Republic. She starred opposite Johnny Mack Brown in several films and married another cowboy star, Lash La Rue. She also had her own radio program in the 1940s, "Reno Rides the Range." She retired to her hometown of Reno and died there at the age of 70.
- IMDb mini biography by: Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

[on her family] I had two husbands--one was Lash La Rue. I didn't have any children. I have stepchildren--Lash La Rue's children by a previous marriage. They still call me Mom.
[on why she thinks westerns are no longer popular] Because there's very little sex in them; and, although everyone loves to see them, they were made with an extremely low budget. That is no longer possible. A picture at that time could be made for around $50,000. Today, people go to see big set movies.
The start of any new picture was always good because you learned more and met new people. You learned your script and the next day everything on the script would be changed. So you didn't really memorize the lines because you knew the next day they would give you new words. But they gave you time and worked patiently with you. We made a film in five days, or two in ten days. Sometimes you would go in a door with one outfit on and come back out and put another outfit on to go through the same door for a different picture. You didn't know which one you were working on sometimes!
[on Jimmy Wakely] Jimmy was such a quiet man with good humor and had a beautiful voice. He was very warm-hearted to all he met, a grand human being.
[on her favorite movie] The one I like the best is Fence Riders (1950) with Whip Wilson. I got to do some stunt things, and there was quite a bit of activity during the filming.

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