Amanda Blake. Amanda Blake (February 20, 1929 – August 16, 1989) was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress, Miss Kitty Russell, on the western television series, Gunsmoke. Along with her third husband, Frank Gilbert, she ran one of the first successful programs for breeding cheetahs in captivity.
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Q What's become of Amanda Blake, who played Miss Kitty on the Gunsmoke TV series? Is she still alive? A Blake is alive and quite well. It was touch and go with the 58-year-old actress 10 years ago when she was afflicted with cancer. She's now fully recuperated and eager to work.
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The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television. When aired in the UK, the television series was initially titled Gun Law, later reverting to Gunsmoke. The radio series ran from 1952 to 1961.
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Kitty was played by Georgia Ellis on radio, and by Amanda Blake on TV. Georgia Ellis first appeared in the radio episode Billy the Kid (April 26, 1952) as Francie Richards, a former girlfriend of Matt Dillon and the widow of a criminal.
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Friends—and Her Doctor—say AIDS, Not Cancer, Killed Gunsmoke's Amanda Blake. In life, controversy seldom touched Amanda Blake, the straight-shooting Miss Kitty of TV’s Gunsmoke, but now, three months after her death in Sacramento, Calif., at age 60, a shocking truth has surfaced. Five times a wife, Blake didn’t die of oral cancer as originally reported.
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Edition: U.S. / Global. SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 7— Amanda Blake, the actress who played Miss Kitty on the long-running television series ''Gunsmoke,'' died of AIDS-related complications and not, as a hospital and her friends reported at the time, of cancer, her doctor says.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/08/us/amanda-blake-died-of-aids-doctor-says.html
James Arness as Matt Dillon in the television version of Gunsmoke (1956) Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman Macdonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West.
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This show was more realistic and the Gunsmoke cast had a lot of interesting characters. Although Marshall Matt Dillon was the star, the one I remember most was Miss Kitty.
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Published: November 8, 1989. SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 7— Amanda Blake, the actress who played Miss Kitty on the long-running television series ''Gunsmoke,'' died of AIDS-related complications and not, as a hospital and her friends reported at the time, of cancer, her doctor says.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/08/us/amanda-blake-died-of-aids-doctor-says.html
FAREWELL, MARSHALL DILLON. June 3, 2011 was a sad day for us Gunsmoke fans. James Arness, the tall, soft spoken actor who played Marshall Matt Dillon for 20 years, passed away peacefully as he slept.... a fitting end to the life of the quiet, intensely private man.
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who played miss kitty in gunsmoke
Amanda Blake played Miss Kitty in Gunsmoke.