Tom Mix

SAJAK: If people asked me to -- as you were growing up in Texas, who would have been your idol in movies -- they said for me to guess, I would have to go down a very long list before I got to name Tom Mix, the cowboy star.

CNN Transcript May 10, 2001

“I was going to say Tom Mix and his wonder horse Tony.”

Babylon Nights

Charlie Chaplin lived in a large Victorian mansion that overlooked Echo Park Lake; Tom Mix built the first movie studio in Los Angeles where a public storage facility and a Jack in the Box now sit.

The Madonnas of Echo Park

Charlie Chaplin lived in a large Victorian mansion that overlooked Echo Park Lake; Tom Mix built the first movie studio in Los Angeles where a public storage facility and a Jack in the Box now sit.

The Madonnas of Echo Park

Charlie Chaplin lived in a large Victorian mansion that overlooked Echo Park Lake; Tom Mix built the first movie studio in Los Angeles where a public storage facility and a Jack in the Box now sit.

The Madonnas of Echo Park

Charlie Chaplin lived in a large Victorian mansion that overlooked Echo Park Lake; Tom Mix built the first movie studio in Los Angeles where a public storage facility and a Jack in the Box now sit.

The Madonnas of Echo Park

The destination was Flagstaff, Arizona, more or less because Flagstaff, Arizona, sounded western and because Tom Mix was making successful westerns in nearby Prescott.

Empire of Dreams

His father ran a dry cleaning establishment as was (for those times) middle class, he and his two brothers were Eagle Scouts; He loved watching the old Tom Mix serials and hand cranked movies as a kid (he loved the West).

Morris "Mo" Gollub

His father ran a dry cleaning establishment as was (for those times) middle class, he and his two brothers were Eagle Scouts; He loved watching the old Tom Mix serials and hand cranked movies as a kid (he loved the West).

Archive 2009-02-01

Kennedy betrayed his earliest investors along with most members of his original "Irish Mafia," who loyally executed his orders, and performers like Fred Thomsen, a devout cowboy star rivaling Tom Mix.

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