ABOUT ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI (1951) : EVELYN FINLEY, DOUBLING FOR MARIA ELENA MARQUES On the movie, Jack worked with Evelyn Finley, a stuntwoman and actress he also was associated with on Westward The Women and The Guns of Fort Petticoat. Evelyn Finley (March 11, 1916 – April 7, 1989), was born in Douglas, Arizona, Finley, an accomplished equestrian, started off as a stuntwoman in the 1936 film The Texas Rangers, playing the stunt double to actress Jean Parker, then later in the 1939 film The Light That Failed. She began acting in the early 1940s, on contract with Monogram Pictures, often starring opposite Tom Keene and Tex Ritter. Her first acting film role was alongside Ritter, in Arizona Frontier, released in 1940. In 1942 she starred opposite Max Terhune and Dave Sharpe in Trail Riders, and in 1943 she again starred alongside Max Terhune, with Ray Crash Corrigan, in Cowboy Commandos. Through the remainder of the 1940s and well into the 1950s she starred and performed stunts in numerous films, most notably Ghost Guns in 1944 and Sundown Riders in 1948. In Ghost Guns, she starred in the lead role, and also performed her owns stunts, a regular event throughout her early career, and she received high praise for her riding stunts in that movie. She has often been called one of the greatest horseback riders in film history, joining the company of Nell ODay and Betty Miles. Despite her age, she continued to work in the stunt business, either as an advisor or as an actual stunt performer, into the mid-1980s. The last films she worked on were Silverado and Tombstone. (Wikipedia biography)
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