“I don't mind being run over in stampedes, falling off cliffs, or fighting wild animals; but when a bunch of women tear my clothes off, I quit!” #GeneAutry

Opera singer Vladimir Trubin as Mephistopheles Tsarist Russia,1909

Opera singer Feodor Chaliapin as Mephistopheles Tsarist Russia, 1907

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." #ShakespeareSunday

Michelangelo Antonioni and Monica Vitti in Paris. Antonioni was BOTD in 1912.

"If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there to play on a piano!" Jerry Lee Lewis in Jamboree (1957)

“I was the first of the singing cowboys. If I'd come into pictures five years earlier or five years later, I might not have succeeded. As I look over my life, I'd say the most important thing is to be at the right place at the right time.” #GeneAutry

"It occurs to me that music, with the possible exception of riding a bull, is the most uncertain way to make a living I know. In either case you can get bucked off, thrown, stepped on, trampled--if you get on at all. At best, it is a short and bumpy ride." #GeneAutry

“In my day, most people thought dance hall girls actually danced.” Cactus Kate giving #GeneAutry a western greeting in Pioneertown.

"I was born feet first, and I've been jumpin' ever since." #JerryLeeLewis