The Blue Spy
A lost, thirsty woman stumbles into the camp. She is an actress; she entertains the drovers with scenes from Romeo and Juliet. One of the men recognizes her as a Union spy whose betrayals cost the lives of many Southerners. Troubl...
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"In this Rawhide story the Gil Favor herd comes across a woman in the desert barely alive. It's the famous actress and Union spy Pauline Cushman played by Phyllis Thaxter. As these drovers are mostly Confederate veterans her arrival is not greeted with applause. But especially not from Lyle Bettger who got cashiered out of the Confederate army when he revealed some information that caused his troops to be decimated in an ambush. Bettger wants her dead, but Eric Fleming doesn't sanction coldblooded murder. But Bettger has some mutinous allies among the drovers. Nice guest star turns..."
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Pauline Cushman (birth name Harriet Wood) was an actress who operated as a Union Spy during the Civil War. Her reports and betrayals caused the deaths of many Confederate soldiers and Southern civilians. For a time Ms. Wood was celebrated, including acknowledgment by Ulysses S. Grant, and a commission as a Major in the Union Army. But after the War, she was largely forgotten. Pauline Cushman became a drug addict; she died from an overdose of morphine at the age of 60.
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A lost, thirsty woman stumbles into the camp. She is an actress; she entertains the drovers with scenes from Romeo and Juliet. One of the men recognizes her as a Union spy whose betrayals cost the lives of many Southerners. Troubl...