Gail Davis
Gail Davis (October 5, 1925 – March 15, 1997) was an American actress, best known for her starring role as Annie Oakley in the 1950s television Western series Annie Oakley.
Life and career
Early years
The daughter of a small town physician, she was born as Betty Jeanne Grayson in a Little Rock, Arkansas hospital, but was raised in McGehee until her family moved to Little Rock.
She had been singing and dancing since childhood. After graduating from Little Rock High School, she studied at the Harcum Junior College for Girls in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, before completing her education at the University of Texas at Austin. She had a younger sister, Shirley Ann Grayson (August 26, 1937–February 23, 1971).
Film
She and her husband, Bob Davis, moved to Hollywood to pursue a film career. She told an interviewer how she acquired her professional acting name. "I went under contract to MGM around 1946. They told me 'we can't have a Betty Davis, because of Bette Davis, and we can't have a Betty Grayson because of Kathryn Grayson'.... Then a guy in the casting department said 'how about Gail Davis?' So that's where it came from."
Davies, Gail Filmography
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2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
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1996, role: actress , character name: Herself
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1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
Davis, Gail Filmography
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2009, role: actress , character name: Wicked Witch
Davies, Gail Filmography
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1973, role: actress
Gail Davies
ALBUMS
- The Songwriter Sessions released: 2005
- Live and Unplugged at the Station Inn released: 2001
- Greatest Hits released: 1998
- Eclectic released: 1994
- The Best of Gail Davies released: 1991
- The Other Side of Love released: 1990
- Pretty Words released: 1989
- Givin' Herself Away released: 1982
The Songwriter Sessions
Released 2005- With a Friend Like You
- A Love That Could Last
- Heat It Up
- Bucket to the South
- You Need Someone Like Me
- Better Love Next Time
- Someone Is Looking
- Soft Spoken Man
- With a Boy Like You
- I've Had Enough
- It's Just a Matter of Time
- Where Does Love Come From
- Tell Me Why
- Never Coss That Line
- Love Ain't Easy
- Remember How It Was
- I'm Hungry, I'm Tired
- Hometown Gossip
- Waiting Here for You
- Reaching Out for Him
- I'm a Little Bit Lonely
- The Game
- Pretty Words
Live and Unplugged at the Station Inn
Released 2001- Introduction
- It Ain't Me Babe
- Get Out of My Way
- Trouble With Love
- Are You Teasing Me
- Poison Love
- Ashes of Love
- I'm Hungry, I'm Tired
- Blue Heartache
- Round the Clock Lovin'
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
- Right by You
- The Fox Hunting Song
- Grandma's Song
- Bucket to the South
- Lovesick Blues
- Tomorrow Is a Long Time
- Reaching Out for Him
- Wedding Invitation
Greatest Hits
Released 1998- Waiting There for You
- Tell Me Why
- Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart
- Someone Is Looking for Someone Like You
- I'll Be There
- It's a Lovely Lovely World
- Blue Heartache
- Grandma's Song
- Bucket to the South
- I'm Hungry, I'm Tired
- You Turn Me on I'm a Radio
- Boys Like You
- You're a Hard Dog
- Not a Day Goes By
- Singing the Blues
- Kentucky
- Unwed Fathers
- What Can I Say
- Round the Clock Lovin'
- Mama I'm Sick
