Randolph Scott
(January 23, 1898 – March 2, 1987)
Here’s to my favorite cowboy star — make that favorite Movie Star — on his birthday. If I called the shots around here, the Post Office would be closed.
Randolph Scott’s contribution to 50s Westerns, and how they’re thought of today, is impossible to overestimate. That’s Angie Dickinson with Randy in Shootout At Medicine Bend (1957), a film that’s sadly hard to find.
Every day is Randolph Scott Day around this house, but we don’t always have a birthday cake. If ever there was a day to bake a celebratory cake, this is it.
great star did not see that one either gonna look for it .he is missed .Toby you run a great website
Thanks for the compliment. I sure appreciate it.
My favorite cowboy too Toby – but I guess you already knew that.
We’re both pretty transparent on that one!
Loved your tributes to both Randolph Scott and Dan Duryea — so cool that this pair of great men shared the same birthdate. You inspired me to post a tribute of my own to these favorites!
Best wishes,
Laura
This is just an average western. However, I enjoy the song Kiss Me Honey Kiss Me to this day. Best regards.
“Shootout at Medicine Bend” is an odd little movie, mostly played for laughs (at least I think they were playing for laughs), that also features a very young James Garner. Well worth seeing if it ever pops up.
Toby:
Thanks for the reminder; Randolph Scott is one of my favorites as well. I’m sure you’re probably aware of it, but you’re going to be very busy with birthday wishes in May. Almost every major (and minor) western star was born in May. I uncovered this phenomenon when I was researching an article on women in western movies. A partial list of May western movie stars includes: John Wayne, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood. I’ll be glad to forward the list to you if you’d like. I love your site and wish you the best of luck with it. Let me know about thel ist.
Scott is my 2nd favorite Western star, he was also very funny in the Cary Grant movie “My Favorite Wife”. Randolph was one of the real major Western stars, nothing more you can say about him, he was one of the very best. My 4 favorite Western guys, Duke, Scott, Joel McCrea & Wild Bill Elliot, they don’t come any better than these guys. I salute them all.
My favorite western star too. I love so many of his 50s westerns and watch them a lot. I just want to visit that rock formation in Lone Pine where Lee Marvin faced off to Randolph in Seven Men From Now.
A few years ago when I started collecting western home videos one of the great treasures I found was the 5 movie set of the Scott/BB films. I am so glad I bought it. Not that it is unavailable now, it is there to buy and I would recommend it to anyone who might be new to the site or not know about it. But anyway, Scott was great.
Waall, a late Happy Birthday to Randolph! 😀 Anybody seen him in “Last of the Mohicans”? He was really good. I enjoyed that movie.
Scott has always been my number one western star and I love his stuff from all periods but my three favourites are Coroner Creek, A Lawless Street and Guns in the Afternoon.