Golden Boot Award winners are Bruce Dern, Peter Fonda, David Huddleston, Stuart Whitman and stuntman Whitey Hughes. They’ll receive their awards Aug. 10 at the Beverly Hilton. Dale Robertson m.c’s. Stuntman Hughes (81) has worked for stars dating back to Edward G. Robinson and J. Carroll Naish to Gregory Peck as well as Anne Baxter, Lana Turner and Virginia Mayo! He did four pix with John Wayne and eight with Sam Peckinpah — and brags he was “the only man to tell him to take his movie and shove it.”

By Army Archerd, Daily Variety Senior Columnist


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