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Message: [QUOTE="Aluminny69, post: 3575781, member: 103"] From 1935 to 1939, Gabby Hayes played the part of Windy Halliday, the humorous "codger" sidekick of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopalong_Cassidy']Hopalong Cassidy[/URL] (played by [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(actor)']William Boyd[/URL]). In 1939, Hayes left that role at [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures']Paramount Pictures[/URL], in a dispute over his salary. and moved to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_Pictures']Republic Pictures[/URL]. Since Paramount held the rights to the name Windy Halliday, they renamed him Gabby Whitaker, in virtually the same role. As Gabby, he appeared in more than 40 films between 1939 and 1946, usually with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Rogers']Roy Rogers[/URL] (44 times), but also with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Autry']Gene Autry[/URL] (7) and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Elliott']Wild Bill Elliott[/URL]. Hayes was also repeatedly cast as a sidekick of the Western stars [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Scott']Randolph Scott[/URL] (six times) and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne']John Wayne[/URL] (fifteen times, some as straight or villainous characters). He moved to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television']television[/URL] and hosted [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gabby_Hayes_Show']The Gabby Hayes Show[/URL][/I], a Western series, from 1950 to 1954 on [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC']NBC[/URL] and, in a new version in 1956, on [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company']ABC[/URL]. The show was sponsored by Quaker Oats, whose products were prominently advertised during the show. Gabby would promote the puffed wheat product by saying to stand back from the screen and firing a cannon loaded with cereal at the screen as a tie in to their ad slogan ‘shot from a guns’. He introduced the show, often while whittling on a piece of wood, and would sometimes throw in a tall tale. Halfway through the show, he would say something else, and at the end of the show, also, but he did not appear as an active character in the stories. [ATTACH type="full"]55143[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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