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'''Dale Evans Rogers''' (October 31, 1912 &ndash; February 7, 2001) was an [[United States|American]] [[actress]], [[singer]], and  songwriter, the third and last wife of the singing [[cowboy]], [[Roy Rogers]].

'''Dale Evans Rogers''' (October 31, 1912 &ndash; February 7, 2001) was an [[United States|American]] [[actress]], [[singer]], and  songwriter, the third and last wife of the singing [[cowboy]], [[Roy Rogers]].

She lived in Osceola in eastern [[Arkansas]] with a physician-uncle. At the age of fourteen, she eloped with and wed Thomas Frederick  Fox, with whom she had one son, Thomas, Jr., a year after the marriage. After a year, Fox abandoned her, and she was a single mother in [[Memphis]] [[Tennessee]], soon singing jazz, big band, and swing and playing the piano on local radio.<ref>Elise Miller Davis, ''The Answer Is God'', [[New York City]]: McGraw-Hill, 1955, pp. 59-62.</ref> After the first divorce, she assumed the show business name '''Dale Evans'''. Soon two more failed marriages followed, but no children were born from those unions. During her time at [[20th Century Fox]], the studio cast her as a sister of her teenage "brother" Tommy, her son Tom Fox, Jr. Then the showgirl was cast as co-star to Roy Rogers in the making of thirty-five motion pictures at Republic Studios.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262661/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm|title=Dale Evans Mini-bio|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 27, 2018}}</ref>

She lived in Osceola in eastern [[Arkansas]] with a physician-uncle. At the age of fourteen, she eloped with and wed Thomas Frederick  Fox, with whom she had one son, Thomas, Jr., a year after the marriage. After a year, Fox abandoned her, and she was a single mother in [[Memphis]] [[Tennessee]], soon singing jazz, big band, and swing and playing the piano on local radio.<ref>Elise Miller Davis, ''The Answer Is God'', [[New York City]]: McGraw-Hill, 1955, pp. 59-62.</ref> After the first divorce, she assumed the show business name '''Dale Evans'''. Soon two more failed marriages followed, but no children were born from those unions. During her time at [[20th Century Fox]], the studio cast her as a sister of her teenage "brother" Tommy, her son Tom Fox, Jr. Then the showgirl was cast as co-star to Roy Rogers in the making of thirty-five motion pictures at Republic Studios.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262661/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm|title=Dale Evans Mini-bio|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 27, 2018}}</ref>

From 1951 to 1957, Evans and Rogers appeared on [[NBC]]'s ''The Roy Rogers Show'', a family-oriented program in which Roy was a rancher and Dale operated a small restaurant.<ref name=rmarini/> Pat Brady appeared as Roy's sidekick in the series, which aired in reruns in the early 1960s on [[CBS[[. In their return to television in the fall of 1962, ''The Roger Rogers-Dale Evans Show'', a musical variety program with the Sons of the Pioneers, aired on [[ABC]] but was cancelled after thirteen episodes because of low ratings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055700/?ref_=_20|title=The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Show|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 27, 2018}}</ref>

From 1951 to 1957, Evans and Rogers appeared on [[NBC]]'s ''The Roy Rogers Show'', a family-oriented program in which Roy was a rancher and Dale operated a small restaurant.<ref name=rmarini/> Pat Brady appeared as Roy's sidekick in the series, which aired in reruns in the early 1960s on [[CBS]]. Dale composed the popular western tune, "Happy Trails". In their return to television in the fall of 1962, ''The Roger Rogers-Dale Evans Show'', a musical variety program with the Sons of the Pioneers, aired on [[ABC]] but was cancelled after thirteen episodes because of low ratings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055700/?ref_=_20|title=The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Show|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=April 27, 2018}}</ref>

Evans and Rogers were prominent Hollywood [[conservative]] [[Republican Party|Republicans]] and outspoken [[Christian]]s, who sometimes appeared at [[Billy Graham]] crusades.<ref name=evansbio/> In 1964, Dale Evans Rogers  spoke at a "Project Prayer" rally at the Shrine Auditorium in [[Los Angeles]]. Hosted by Anthony Eisley (1925-2003) of ABC's ''Hawaiian Eye'' series, the rally sought to persuade Congress to adopt [[school prayer]] in the wake of two decisions in 1962 and 1963 of the [[United States Supreme Court]] which struck down the practice as a violation of the [[Establishment Clause]] of the [[First Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]].<ref>Drew Pearson, ''The Washington Merry-Go-Round'', May 14, 1964.</ref>

Evans and Rogers were prominent Hollywood [[conservative]] [[Republican Party|Republicans]] and outspoken [[Christian]]s, who sometimes appeared at [[Billy Graham]] crusades.<ref name=evansbio/> In 1964, Dale Evans Rogers  spoke at a "Project Prayer" rally at the Shrine Auditorium in [[Los Angeles]]. Hosted by Anthony Eisley (1925-2003) of ABC's ''Hawaiian Eye'' series, the rally sought to persuade Congress to adopt [[school prayer]] in the wake of two decisions in 1962 and 1963 of the [[United States Supreme Court]] which struck down the practice as a violation of the [[Establishment Clause]] of the [[First Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]].<ref>Drew Pearson, ''The Washington Merry-Go-Round'', May 14, 1964.</ref>