A 70-year-old woman who served as an extra and stunt double in many Westerns filmed in Kanab, Utah, during the genre's heyday will become only the second local inducted into the "Little Hollywood Walk of Fame."
Jackie Hamblin Rife will receive the honor during the Western Legends Round-Up in August.
"It's kind of embarrassing, yet I think it's nice," she said recently. "It's embarrassing, in that I got to be there. I'm kind of a quiet person; I don't like a lot of hoopla. It was a job for me."
Rife appeared in about 50 movies and eventually led the county's film commission, helping producers choose local shooting spots. So many were shot in Kanab that the town got the nickname "Utah's Little Hollywood."
Her movie career ended in 1957 after she was trampled by horses while filming "War Drums."
Already boasting plaques on Main Street are Ronald Reagan, for his television series "Death Valley Days"; actors Tom Mix, Dale Evans, Dale Robertson, and the cast of "Gunsmoke"; and Fay Hamblin, Rife's late cousin who was credited with bringing Hollywood to southern Utah for Westerns.