Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about AMANDA BLAKE!
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