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Actress, Smith Ballew, was born Sykes Smith Ballew on Jan 21, 1902 in Palestine, TX. Ballew died at the age of 82 on May 2, 1984 in Longview, TX .

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Contrary to popular opinion, Ballew did NOT dub John Wayne's singing voice in Riders of Destiny (1933), which is generally considered to be the first "singing" western. Wayne's voice was dubbed by Bill Bradbury, an actor who was the son of the film's director, Robert N. Bradbury.

Attended the University of Texas and got his first part-time job as a singer on a local radio station.

According to Don Creacy in an in-depth article on Smith in Classic Images (April 2010), the cowboy actor retired from Hollywood and moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where he became a manager in the missiles division of an aircraft company.

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