Jimmy Boyd

And a list of films (see IMDB) including "Inherit The Wind" with Spencer Tracey. He died in Woodland Hills, California from lung cancer and throat cancer. Jimmy showed he had comedic talents in TV series including, Bachelor Father, Date With The Angels, Betty White Show, Broadside, My Three Sons, Mother Inlaws etc. He was married twice, to the actresses Adrienne Ames and Francesca De Scaffa. Jimmy had several other number one records teaming up with Frankie Laine "tell Me A Story" "Dennis The Menace " with Rosemary Clooney. Cabot's final film appearance was in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). The Frank Sinatra Show CBS soon followed, then Columbia Records and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus", which to date has sold over sixty million records. The eleven films in which they appeared together include The Comancheros (1961), The Green Berets (1968), The Undefeated (1969) and Chisum (1970).

Jarvis immediatly announced Jimmy would be a regular on the show. A lifelong friend of Wayne, they first acted together in Angel and the Badman (1947). Al Jarvis had a five hour talk show everyday on KLAC with a few regulars on it, including Betty White called "Make Believe Ballroom". Cabot continued acting into the early 1970s, with many of his later performances being supporting roles in John Wayne films. Upwards of twenty thousand telegrams and phone calls. Among his other films are Fury (1936), The Last of the Mohicans (1936), Dodge City (1939), Susan and God (1940), The Quiet American (1965) and Cat Ballou (1966). Jimmy to his astonishment won the talent show, and the next day Al Jarvis and KLAC were literally deluged in telegrams and telephone calls from viewers. His most widely seen performance was in King Kong (1933) opposite Fay Wray.

Jimmy auditioned for Al Jarvis and was such a hit they put him on the show that night. Born Etienne Pelissier Jacques de Bujac in Carlsbad, New Mexico, Cabot made his film debut in 1931 and during the course of his career appeared in almost one hundred feature films. they were told about auditions being held for the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV. Bruce Cabot (April 20, 1904 - May 3, 1972) was an American film actor. While in L.A. Cataract surgery in the forties was a serious operation, and had to be done in Los Angeles.

Leslie had cataracts in both eyes and had to have surgery. Fifty dollars was a lot of money for the Boyds, but Jimmy enjoyed performing and would have done it for nothing. They offered to pay Jimmy fifty dollars every show. After the dance was over, Texas Jim Lewis and the manager of a local radio station came to Jimmy's parents and asked if he could come sing every Saturday night, and be a part of the hour long radio show they planned to broadcast from the dance.

Jimmy sang and played and the crowd went wild. Texas Jim Lewis, the band leader, called little Jimmy up on the stage. Jimmy's older brother Kenneth, about nine years old at the time, went up to the bandstand and told the band leader he should hear his little brother sing and play the guitar. Leslie and Winnie ocassionaly took the kids with them to a Country and Western dance, held in a barn in Colton, California a few miles from Riverside.

Leslie got a meanial job cleaning up construction sites. Although there was no cotton in California to pick, this time they were determined to stay. The family after being sent back to Mississippi a year earlier by the Welfare Department for not having any skills to get a good job. Leslie had been a farmer when the draught hit and there were no more crops, he picked cotton, he could pick over five hundred pounds of cotton a day himself, and was paid twenty five cents. Hoboing from Mississippi, Louisiana and as far as West Texas, picking cotton to help support his own family of twenty-one brothers and sisters.

He hitchhiked on freight trains to join his family in California, something he had done growing up through the Depression. Having sold everything they owned, and only having enough money for his wife's ticket and the two toddler boys, Leslie rode the rails. In 1941 his father Leslie Boyd put his wife Winnie, their two sons Kenneth four years old, and Jimmy two years old on a train bound for Riverside, California. He was born January 9, 1939 in an old farmhouse in McComb, Mississippi.

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