When he was a young man, Gene received an offer from a professional baseball team to become a player. Gene turned down the offer because it would have meant a fifty-dollar-a-month pay cut from his telegrapher's job.
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
from Under Fiesta Stars (1941)
When the Gene Autry Rodeo rides into town, they do it with a song! Gene, Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), Tadpole (Joseph Strauch, Jr.) and all the cowboys and cowgirls sing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" in the Republic Pictures film Under Fiesta Stars (1941).
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