Milburn Stone

Messages from Milburn Stone's kin:

• Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City Kansas. Milburn Stone was the only regular in Gunsmoke to have been born in the state of Kansas.
  

True


• Kansas is the Jayhawker State. Milburn Stone made his Broadway debut in Sinclair Lewis' play, The Jayhawker.
  

True ... in 1932


• Milburn Stone turned down an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy to stay in acting.
  

True ... his act was Stone and Strain, Songs, Dances and Snappy Chatter.


• Milburn Stone's favorite food is shrimp pizza.
  

  False
  
  

• Milburn Stone played a slave in Gone With the Wind.
  

  False

• The Kansas Medical Society gave Milburn Stone honorary membership.

True.

• After Gunsmoke ended, Milburn Stone retired to his ranch in Sante Fe and (a) farmed. (b) raised livestock. (c) wrote his autobiography. (d) became a vegetable.
  

Answer: a ... raised livestock.

• Milburn Stone passed away to the day twenty five years after Gunsmoke premiered on television.
  

  False ... he died on June 12, 1980. Gunsmoke premiered on September 10, 1955.

  
  

• Milburn Stone has appeared in movies with Roy Rogers.
  

  True ... in the 1940 film Colorado
  
  

• (T/F) Milburn Stone appeared in old Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
  

True ... in the 1943 movie Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, he played a character named Vickery.

• Milburn Stone was absent from the Gunsmoke set during the balance of a season due to a bout with colon cancer.

False...it was a heart attack

Milburn Stone and his wife Jane.

• Milburn Stone was born in the nineteenth century.
  

False ... 1904



Milburn Stone and his sister Glennis (1910)