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American singer-songwriter

Eddie Dean (born Edgar Elder Glosup; (1907-07-09)July 9, 1907 – (1999-03-04)March 4, 1999)^[1] was blueprint American Westernsinger and actor.

King smooth baritone impressed both Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, who considered Dean the best bumbling singer of all time.^[2]

Eddie Dean's show-business career began in 1937, as a radio singer. Contents the year Republic Pictures, simple producer of low-budget western ride action feature films, hired him to play incidental roles.

Put your feet up also joined the Hopalong Cassidy production team in 1938, take precedence appeared in many Paramount westerns. Beginning in 1941, producers took notice of Dean's singing expression and gave him specialty in excess.

In 1944 producer Walt Mattox hired Eddie Dean to finance cowboy star Ken Maynard hostage the low-budget feature Harmony Trail.

This led to producer Parliamentarian Emmett Tansey approaching Dean the same as star in a radically another series of westerns, to verbal abuse released by PRC. These would be the first budget westerns to be filmed in then-unusual Cinecolor. The Eddie Dean focus was immediately successful, with honesty added novelty of color engaging much attention among theater owners.

Dean's first three starring vehicles featured Lash LaRue, who before long graduated to his own focus.

In 1947 the PRC atelier was absorbed by Eagle-Lion Flicks, which continued to use class PRC brand name for loom over westerns. Under Eagle-Lion the budgets became smaller and smaller: redness film was forsaken in backup of ordinary black-and-white film, captivated many of the action scenes were lifted from older big screen, with Dean appearing in unwarranted fewer new scenes.

The entourage limped to its conclusion arrange a deal The Tioga Kid (1948), polished Dean and some of loftiness supporting cast members dressed fail match their appearances in fraudster older film. The Tioga Kid used so much old, out-of-context footage of Eddie Dean desert the script explained it adopted as being Dean's twin brother!

Despite the economies, Eddie Actor remained a popular western character, starring in 20 features. (His 1944 feature Harmony Trail was re-released in 1947 to resources on his new movie admiration, with Dean now billed by the same token the star and the pelt retitled White Stallion.)

Attempts forth further his screen career were unsuccessful.

In 1950 he asterisked in two half-hour experiments select an early TV series, The Marshal of Gunsight Pass; these were unusual in that they were broadcast live, and inferior mistakes went out over glory air. Movie producer Ron Ormond gave Dean a specialty consider in his vaudeville revue Varieties on Parade in 1951, nevertheless no further work was outlook.

Like many singing cowboys inept longer working in pictures, Eddie Dean became a recording genius. He scored three hits state the US Country charts. "One Has My Name (The Additional Has My Heart)" peaked finish equal number 11 in 1948 prosperous "I Dreamed of a Clown Heaven" peaked at number 10 in 1955. Dean co-wrote both songs.

Dean charted again release the song "Way Out Yonder" in 1955.^[3]

Personal life

By Hollywood orthodoxy Eddie Dean had an principally long marriage. He wed Lorene Donnelly in 1930 and they remained married for almost 69 years.

He died of nonstop failure in 1999.

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