Western film, country TV performer Frankie Scott dies

<p>Frankie Scott, singer, dancer, model, actress and comedienne, died Saturday after a stroke. She was 84.</p><p>Scott stepped into the entertainment field as a model in Atlanta in the late 1930s. She married country music pioneer Ramblin' "Doc" Tommy Scott in 1940 shortly before he became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.</p><p>"It will be hard to go on without my Frankie but I know that she is now in a place where Rosebuds will bloom forever," Tommy Scott said Saturday. "The last thing she said to me was 'I love you'."</p><p>Tommy Scott refers to his popular song of the late 1940's "Rosebuds and You" that he wrote for his longtime co-star. The song became a regional hit in the South and West for Tommy Scott in 1950; it was later covered by dozens of artists including Country Music Hall of Famer George Morgan, The Willis Brothers and Red Sovine.</p><p>When Tommy Scott ventured west to Hollywood, Frankie joined him co-starring in the 1949 release of the Edward Dymytrk film "Trail of the Hawk," as well as other 1940s films "Mountain Capers," "Hillbilly Harmony," "Southern Hayride," among others.</p><p>When the Ramblin' Tommy Scott TV show hit the airwaves in the late 40s, she debuted as a television pioneer dancing, singing and doing comedy on the variety series.</p><p>She returned to television in the 1950s when Scott's Smokey Mountain Jamboree aired in syndication around the country.</p><p>In the 1960s, Frankie Scott retired from performing on stage and took a role as co-producer of her husband's road show, "Doc" Scott's Last Real Old Time Medicine Show. It featured stars such as Col. Tim McCoy, Al "Fuzzy" St. John, Sunset Carson, Billy Grammar, Junior Samples and Clyde Moody.</p><p>She is survived by her husband, daughter Sandra Scott Whitworth and son-in-law Charles Whitworth, a granddaughter and two great grandchildren.</p><p>Services are Monday at 2 p.m. at the Whitlock Funeral Home in Toccoa. Interment will follow in the Eastonallee Baptist Church Cemetery.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x286fae4)</p>