It's interesting in these old show to look at the careers of the actresses in them. They are typically very attractive, (but made up more to the taste of modern offenses and not much like real women would have looked like in the old west). Very few of them had long careers: these are Warner's contract players, not their stars), even though many of them are clearly good actresses. It's a highly competitive business with a lot of sexual politics behind the scenes and many of them got married, often to executives in the industry and settled down to raise a family instead of continuing their efforts to be the next Bette Davis.
This episode has three main female characters: 'Princess Tania', a worldly woman who turns out not to be a Princess, Olive Turner, a teenage store clerk just beginning to attract the boys and Willie Ann Miles, a cute kid who has inherited a ranch run by her Uncle who will get it if something bad happens to her. Tom Brewster works for the 'Princess', who runs a travelling puppet and medicine show, has to fight off Olive and the boyfriend and tries to help Willie Ann while trying to avoid being accused of kidnapping by her uncle. It ends with a puppet show where all will be revealed.
The Princess is played by Erin O'Brien, who was born 1/17/34 and died 3/20/21 at age 87 She has 22 credits as an actress from 1957-67. Her first appearance in a dramatic role was in an epsidoe of another Warner's show, Colt 45, "Judgement Day", broadcast 10/18/57. Her last was in a 3/7/63 episode of Perry Mason, "The Case of the Golden Oranges". She did appear in the 196eelad in the 1958 film "Marjorie Morningstar". The IMDB says that Gene Kelly rejected her because she was too tall. Wikipedia said it was because she was too short. Off of her appearance on Sugarfoot, (she was also in the 3/18/58 episode "A Wreath for Charity Lloyd" and the fact that she played "Amazon #1", I think the IMDB is likely right. She had two marriages, the first to a public relations man. She would have been 24 years old when this was broadcast, possibly 23 when it was filmed.
Olive Turner is played by Olive Sturgess, born 10/8/33, (yes the ingénue actress is older that the worldly woman). Her credits begin with a 1954 shot, "Leave it to Harry" and end with The Rookies in 1974, although that is the only credit in that decade. She married a musician in 1064 and remained his wife until he died in 2003. She would have been 24 when this was broadcast and likely when it was filmed. It's a serious question as to who is cuter, Olive or the little girl.
The little girl is played by Ahna Capri, (Anna Maria Nanasi is her 7/6/44 birth name), who grew up to be a B movie sex pot in 1970's films. Her most famous role is probably in Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon". She has the most extensive resume in the IMDB, with 77 titles, starting with an appearance on the Red Skelton Show in 1955 as "Child Ballerina #1) on 6/7/55, when she would have been 10 years old, to an 11/22/79 episode of Mrs. Columbo. She seems not to have married and, very unfortunately, was killed in a collision with a 5 ton truck in 2010.
They all looked pretty good and performed well in 1958 on Sugarfoot.
This episode has three main female characters: 'Princess Tania', a worldly woman who turns out not to be a Princess, Olive Turner, a teenage store clerk just beginning to attract the boys and Willie Ann Miles, a cute kid who has inherited a ranch run by her Uncle who will get it if something bad happens to her. Tom Brewster works for the 'Princess', who runs a travelling puppet and medicine show, has to fight off Olive and the boyfriend and tries to help Willie Ann while trying to avoid being accused of kidnapping by her uncle. It ends with a puppet show where all will be revealed.
The Princess is played by Erin O'Brien, who was born 1/17/34 and died 3/20/21 at age 87 She has 22 credits as an actress from 1957-67. Her first appearance in a dramatic role was in an epsidoe of another Warner's show, Colt 45, "Judgement Day", broadcast 10/18/57. Her last was in a 3/7/63 episode of Perry Mason, "The Case of the Golden Oranges". She did appear in the 196eelad in the 1958 film "Marjorie Morningstar". The IMDB says that Gene Kelly rejected her because she was too tall. Wikipedia said it was because she was too short. Off of her appearance on Sugarfoot, (she was also in the 3/18/58 episode "A Wreath for Charity Lloyd" and the fact that she played "Amazon #1", I think the IMDB is likely right. She had two marriages, the first to a public relations man. She would have been 24 years old when this was broadcast, possibly 23 when it was filmed.
Olive Turner is played by Olive Sturgess, born 10/8/33, (yes the ingénue actress is older that the worldly woman). Her credits begin with a 1954 shot, "Leave it to Harry" and end with The Rookies in 1974, although that is the only credit in that decade. She married a musician in 1064 and remained his wife until he died in 2003. She would have been 24 when this was broadcast and likely when it was filmed. It's a serious question as to who is cuter, Olive or the little girl.
The little girl is played by Ahna Capri, (Anna Maria Nanasi is her 7/6/44 birth name), who grew up to be a B movie sex pot in 1970's films. Her most famous role is probably in Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon". She has the most extensive resume in the IMDB, with 77 titles, starting with an appearance on the Red Skelton Show in 1955 as "Child Ballerina #1) on 6/7/55, when she would have been 10 years old, to an 11/22/79 episode of Mrs. Columbo. She seems not to have married and, very unfortunately, was killed in a collision with a 5 ton truck in 2010.
They all looked pretty good and performed well in 1958 on Sugarfoot.
