No One Believed These Andy Devine Stories! Until They Watched This!

No One Believed These Andy Devine Stories! Until They Watched This! Andy Devine's raspy, wheezing voice was supposed to end his Hollywood career before it began. He was so convinced of it that he nearly took his own life the night sound came to the movies. Instead, that voice became one of the most recognizable sounds of the Golden Age of Hollywood — and when he died, John Wayne and James Stewart openly wept at his funeral. In this video, we count down the 10 defining moments of Andy Devine's incredible life: the bizarre childhood accident at the Beale Hotel in Kingman, Arizona that changed his voice forever, the fake name he used to play semi-pro football, how Buster Keaton got him his first Hollywood job, the suicide attempt a landlady unknowingly prevented, his 19-year contract at Universal, replacing Gabby Hayes as Roy Rogers' sidekick Cookie Bullfincher, hosting Andy's Gang with Froggy the Gremlin, screaming "Hey Wild Bill, wait for me!" as Jingles P. Jones for 113 episodes, his legendary work with John Ford in Stagecoach and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and the 44-year marriage that revealed who the gentle giant really was. The thing the world tells you is your greatest weakness might be the only thing anyone remembers. Chapters: 0:00 The Voice That Should Have Ended Him 0:50 The Boy in the Beale Hotel 2:55 The Football Star Nobody Knew 4:43 The Lifeguard Who Became a Movie Star 6:30 The Voice That Refused to Die 8:04 Cookie Bullfincher and the King of the Cowboys 9:42 Plunk Your Magic Twanger, Froggy 11:15 Hey Wild Bill, Wait for Me 12:57 The Man John Ford Kept Calling Back 14:54 Because Ward Bond Cannot Drive Six Horses 17:07 The Gentle Giant Do you remember watching Andy's Gang or The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok? Tell us your favorite Andy Devine memory in the comments below. If this story moved you, subscribe and join us as we keep telling the stories Hollywood forgot — because the Golden Age was not just about the leading men. #AndyDevine #GoldenAgeOfHollywood #ClassicWesterns #OldHollywood #Stagecoach Facts and stories used to write the script of this video are well-researched. The following references are used: Andy Devine – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_De... Andy Devine: Hollywood's Sidekick Star – True West Magazine https://www.truewestmagazine.com/blog... Andy Devine's Divine Voice – True West Magazine https://www.truewestmagazine.com/arti... Sink or Swim (Stagecoach and the Ward Bond Story) – True West Magazine https://truewestmagazine.com/article/... Did Wild Bill Hickok Have a Sidekick Named Jingles? – True West Magazine https://www.truewestmagazine.com/arti... --- Tinsel Town Legends does not own all content featured in this video. All rights remain with the original copyright owners. We use portions of copyrighted material under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act (Fair Use) for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. If you are the copyright owner and believe any content is used incorrectly, please contact us and we will promptly review the request. Viewers may also contact us if they see any problem in the content being used Contact Email: [email protected]