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In each of the films, Burnette played Autry's comic sidekick, Frog Millhouse, with his trademark floppy black hat and trick voice (imitating a deep, froglike croak). Their association produced 62 feature-length musical Westerns.
Smiley endeared “Frog Millhouse” or just “Frog” to fans across the United States and Europe. “Old Frog” donned a checkered shirt, a tattered black Stetson cowboy hat with turned up brim, and a white horse with a black ringed eye.
In the thirties and forties, kiddies sat bug-eyed through Saturday afternoon Westerns, laughing themselves blue at a rotund, jolly cowboy character called Frog Millhouse. Today, the man who made Frog synonymous with bliss to almost everyone in the now-over-30 set, is still the children's delight.
Nov 3, 2016 · Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) and his little brother Tadpole (Joseph Strauch, Jr.) entertain the rodeo audience with their humorous number "Keep it in the Family" from the Republic...
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May 6, 1997 · Smiley Burnett is Frog Millhouse by Smiley Burnette released in 1997. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
Smiley became well known as Gene's plump sidekick Frog Milhouse, and they worked together in over 80 Westerns. After Gene, Smiley provided the comic relief for other cowboy stars at Republic such as Sunset Carson and Charles Starrett (The Durango Kid).
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Gene Autry's side kick Frog Millhouse, played by Smiley Burnette, sings about good, hard work in the song "There's Nothing Like Work" from the Republic Pictures film "Home on the Prairie"...
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