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...floats and gigantic, inflated rubber animals were scheduled as usual. But Macy's, in one of its super coups, -had also procured the services of the noblest drugstore cowboy of them all-none other than television's black-clad, white-haired, 55-year-old William ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd...
During his early years in Hollywood, anyone who had predicted that he would end up as the rootin'-tootin' idol of U.S. children would have been led instantly off to a headshrinker.* Boyd, an Ohio-born laborer's son, went to California in 1915 because he yearned for money, fame, pretty girls and fun. He was a husky, handsome, good-natured youth with wavy platinum hair, and he hoped the motion-picture business would provide all. It did. He married a Boston heiress, whom he met while toiling as the chauffeur of a for-hire car; when...
...romantic star of such films as The Volga Boatman, Two Arabian Knights, Dress Parade, earned $100,000 a year-and spent $127,000 a year. It was the era of Theda Bara, Rudolph Valentino, the fantastic low-taxed Hollywood salary and the uninhibited Hollywood way of life. Bill Boyd accumulated a mansion in Beverly Hills, a beach house at Malibu, a ranch in the coastal hills, numerous bootleggers, and-with his pals Wallace Reid, Jack Pickford, Rod La Rocque-paddled happily with the tide. He got married and divorced three more times, and once during a party bought a yacht...
This full, rich life ended with a bang in 1931. It was a time when many a silent star suddenly became a has-been. Boyd has another reason for his decline: another actor named William Boyd (who had played Sergeant Quirt in the Broadway version of What Price Glory?) was raided by the police during a noisy party and thrown into jail for possession of illegal whisky and gambling equipment. Hopalong-to-be suffered; when newspapers ran his picture by mistake, Radio Pictures tore up a $3,000-a-week contract, pushed him adrift...
...four years before he got a steady job, playing the part of Hopalong Cassidy in a series of B westerns produced by an oldtime horse-opera manufacturer named Harry Sherman. Boyd and Sherman made 54 Hopalong pictures. Then in 1943, because of rising costs, Sherman stopped producing them. Boyd made twelve more on his own hook, finally was forced to quit too. In 1947, at the age of 52, he was on the beach again, this time apparently for good. But he refused to believe he was through...