by Marian Rossi; Photoplay, April 1970
Since Kim Darby's meteoric rise as an actress, reporters have been pounding at her door. When they do get to see her, they walk away with the image of a girl who's basically shy. They write stories about "the insecure Kim Darby," "the man-shy Kim." They point out that Kim's parents were divorced (a bitter divorce, too) by the time she was two years old and that Kim lived with her father's parents, seeing practically nothing of her mother till she was seventeen and very little of her father.
So, the interviews leave you with ... Read More
Category: 1971 and Earlier
June 21, 2013Laura
Teen Pin-Ups, April 1972
Pete Duel: Success hasn't changed Pete one bit. In fact, he appreciates the simple pleasures in life more than ever now. Nature still turns him on, so does the thought of sleeping out under the stars. As always, he loves to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city and to escape from the polluted water and air. That's why he packs his bags and heads for those wide open spaces every chance he gets!
June 21, 2013Laura
Teen World, April 1972
Pete Duel and Ben Murphy lead action-packed, adventurous lives on Alias Smith and Jones. And their personal lives are also quite busy and exciting. But they have quiet moments, too — moments of deep, serious thought, times when they ponder their pasts, think about what they're doing right now, and wonder what the future will bring. Want to share them?
THE TRAVEL BUG
Pete gets wanderlust often. Eventually he hopes to get to travel all over the world, but right now he satisfies himself by hopping into his four-wheel-drive camper and driving off into the country, mountains, plains, desert, ... Read More
June 21, 2013Laura
by Michael Harp; Silver Screen, April 1970
Can Kim Darby and Pete Duel find the fulfillment they want in marriage? Today they're totally in love at last. Their hopes have brought them the happiness they couldn't reach until now. They won't talk about the heartache that tore them apart for several grim weeks recently. Kim hid how wretched she felt. Pete was just as hurt, secretly, by her decision to not see him again.
Their abrupt break-up wasn't detected by the press, but it jolted all their friends. After eight months of constant devotion, Kim was determined that she had to forget ... Read More
June 21, 2013Laura
Teen Scene, April 1972
Pete Duel and Ben Murphy are bachelors, but they could give up the single scene — for the right kind of a girl.
"Sure I plan to get married," says Ben Murphy. "When I find the right girl." And Pete agrees. "I'm in no hurry to be married," he says thoughtfully, "but if that certain girl came along tomorrow, well..."
[M]aybe you're turned on by Pete Duel, the other star of Alias Smith and Jones. You've been wondering exactly what it would take to make him happy. Could you be "that certain girl" who'd make him give up ... Read More
June 21, 2013Laura
16 Magazine, April 1971
Pete Duel — the "Smith" in ABC's new hour-long western Alias Smith and Jones — is no stranger to TV-viewers. He starred in the old TV series Gidget and Love On A Rooftop — and more recently he was in NBC's Movie of The Week, The Psychiatrist.
Pete was born in Rochester, New York, on February 24 and soon after he and his family moved to Penfield, New York. Pete's father was a physician, as were a long line of Deuels before him. As a child, Pete dreamed of becoming a pilot, but when he enrolled at St. ... Read More
June 19, 2013Laura
by Kay Gardella; New York Sunday News, April 25, 1971
He's Hannibal Heyes, alias Joshua Smith, in ABC-TV's Alias Smith and Jones, and he's lucky. It's Pete Duel we're talking about and he's lucky because he's starring in a comedy-adventure series that's being returned to the television schedule next fall, despite mass-mayhem committed on the majority of TV shows this season.
When you consider that 34 television shows have been dropped from the schedule, the slightly sinister-looking actor, with the deep set eyes and black hair, should be bowing to Universal every afternoon at sundown. But like all individualists, he has his ... Read More
June 19, 2013Laura