One of television's best-kept secrets (that nobody went out of their way to keep secret) is the fact that Peter Graves and James Arness, two of the most iconic leading men of their era, were real-life ...
The career of James Arness almost came to a very pointed end, just as Gunsmoke was taking off. Arness etched his name in the halls of pop culture history as Marshall Matt Dillon, the heroic lawman who ...
Offscreen, James Arness traded Dodge City’s saloon dust for the comfort of his own king-size bed. Photographed in 1956, the towering Gunsmoke star relaxes with a script for an upcoming episode, ...