AMANDA BLAKE

Updated 05-May-2020.

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Amanda Blake Died of AIDS, Doctor Says

Friends—and Her Doctor—say AIDS, Not Cancer, Killed Gunsmoke’s Amanda Blake: In life, controversy seldom touched Amanda Blake, the straight-shooting Miss Kitty of TV’s Gunsmoke, but now, three months after her death in Sacramento, Calif., at…

Amanda Blake – IMDb: Amanda Blake, Actress: Gunsmoke. Amanda Blake was born in Buffalo, NY, of English and Scottish descent. She and her parents moved to Claremont, California, while Amanda was still in high school, and she graduated from Claremont High. She enrolled at Pomona College but, due to her avid participation in community and theater productions, she was devoting much more time to acting …

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Amanda Blake was an american actress best known for the role of “miss Kitty Russell” on the western television series Gunsmoke . she ran one of the first successful programs for breeding cheetahs Blake was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers in 1968 . she was the third performer inducted, after Tom Mix and Gary Cooper . Blake was best known for her 19-year stint as the saloon- Blake guest-starred as Betty Lavon-Coate in the episode titled “Coate of Many Colors” she made two feature-film appearances: in the Boost, a drug-addiction drama starring Blake joined with others in 1971 to form the Arizona Animal Welfare League . in 1985, she helped finance the start-up of the Performing Animal Welfare Society . Blake reportedly was a one-time board member of the Humane she became a supporter of the american cancer society . she was the recipient of the society’s annual Courage Award . Blake died at age 60 on august 16, 1989 . the popular media later widely reported that Blake’s doctor claimed that she had actually died of AIDS . her close friends have insisted that she was not a drug user or sexually promiscuous . the cause of death was