For 20 years, television audiences rode into Dodge City with Marshal Matt Dillon on a weekly basis, and when Gunsmoke finally ended in 1975, James Arness had quietly become one of the most familiar ...
James Arness' life changed in 1952 after a small performance in a little Hollywood theater. "I was in a play at The Player's Ring Theater," he recalled. "It was kind of theater in the round where the ...