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Frank Butler was born in County Longford, Ireland, and moved with his family to the United States at the age of 13. [1] While Butler's birth date is listed on his and Oakley's U.S. passport application as February 25, 1852, the obituary for Butler posted by the Associated Press in 1926 has his age as 76, which meant he was born in 1850. [2]
Annie and Frank Butler lived in Cincinnati for a time. Oakley, the stage name she adopted when she and Frank began performing together, [3] [31] [32] is believed to have been taken from the city's neighborhood of Oakley, where they resided. Some people believe she took on the name because that was the name of the man who had paid her train fare ...
Frank Butler (musician) (1928–1984), American jazz drummer Frank Butler (writer) (1890–1967), American film writer Frank E. Butler (1850–1926), Irish-American stage performer and marksman; husband of Annie Oakley
Blake Butler’s controversial book ‘Molly’ (about his wife who died by suicide in 2020) transforms this question in radical ways, argues culture critic Patricia Grisafi.
They were life-long friends of Frank E. Butler and Annie Oakley. [18] Crater died in hospital on August 13, 1957, following a heart attack. The news of her death was initially kept from her husband, due to concerns that he would not cope well with the news; he was only informed once a doctor was present, over a week later. [19]
The man assisting her is likely her husband, Frank E. Butler. Both were veterans of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. [2]: 201–202, 262 ...
Frank Sinatra with his wife Nancy Barbato Sinatra and their children Nancy, Tina, and Frank Jr. circa 1950. By 1951, though, Nancy agreed to a divorce, and Sinatra married Gardner within a few ...
The film was the first Western for both Stevens and Stanwyck. [2] While based on the real life of Annie Oakley, it took some liberties with the historical details. The film focuses primarily on Oakley's love affair with Toby Walker (representing Oakley's real-life husband Frank E. Butler) rather than on her career as an exhibition sharpshooter.