Gunsmoke actors James Arness and Amanda Blake played U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon and Miss Kitty Russell for many ... Matt’s horse crossed paths with Mike, a young widowed farmer, who decided ...

it wasn't what Arness wanted to see on "Gunsmoke." He felt it would have been too much of a shift. Also, it was easy for Matt to avoid marriage because his relationship with Miss Kitty rarely left ...

He also had a soft spot for Miss Kitty, although the show ... Burt Reynolds came to Gunsmoke in season 8 as blacksmith Quint Asper, an angry young man. Dillon took a liking to him, and Quint ...

When he was 8, Gerald and his dad watched John Wayne introduce the first episode of Gunsmoke on television in 1955 — sitting glued to the family TV set as a young ... in Miss Kitty’s Long ...

A ctress Amanda Blake, who died from AIDS-related hepatitis in 1989, was one tough cookie, just like her most famous character, Miss Kitty Russell on TV’s long-running Western, Gunsmoke.As the ...

FAIRHOPE, Alabama -- Friends still call her "Miss Kitty" from the old days of the Gunsmoke series on TV. No longer is her hair red, but Kitty duMont Nava is still quite spirited and feisty ...