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Article: Happy Trails for film festival: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Western Film Festival takes fans back in time.
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- Daily Press (Victorville, CA)
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- February 19, 2007
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Byline: Tatiana Prophet
Feb. 19--VICTORVILLE -- As a little girl growing up in a children's home in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mimi Swift didn't get to go to the movies much. But when she was 6 years old, a benefactor arranged for her to go to her very first movie. It was "Along the Navajo Trail," starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.
"I was just amazed," she said Sunday at the 10th Annual Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Western Film Festival at the Ambassador Hotel.
Little did she know that seven years later, she would meet the King of the Cowboys and Queen of the West while they were on tour -- and come to live with them at their home in California, ...