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George-Warren dutifully records Autry's ongoing battle with the bottle and his pursuit of co-star Gail Davis, resulting in an affair of several years, to the chagrin of his wife.
His ongoing affair with Gail Davis, who was leading lady in many of his later movies, and of his half-hour TV shows, nearly caused his wife, Ina, to divorce him before he finally brought it to an end.
1: Gene’s first marriage was to Mae Spivey, but he had a sustained affair with actress Gail Davis. Davis played Annie Oakley on the TV show of the same name.
Beginning in September 1950, through September 1954, she appeared in 15 episodes of The Gene Autry Show, sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint gum. Gail Davis was the answer to a long-held dream of Autry's—providing Western programming with a star to whom girls could relate.
During this marriage he had a sustained affair with Gail Davis, the actress who played Annie Oakley in the television series of the same name that Autry produced. [42]
In 1949 Gail hooked up with Gene Autry, appearing in a string of 14 features at Columbia and 15 of the singing cowboy’s TV shows before Gene’s Flying-A production company started “Annie Oakley”. Many of these features co-starred the irascible Smiley Burnette.
She reconnected with Gene Autry, and he took her under his wing. Davis would appear with him in Sons of New Mexico in 1949.