Candy Candido

Candy Candido entertained audiences for 66 years and is best remembered as a talented musician, comedian and “Walt Disney” voice-over artist.
He briefly teamed with Bud Abbott for a personal appearance tour in the early 1960s after Lou Costello died. Candy even managed to appear in a couple of Western films during his long and varied career. Such are 1938′s Cowboy from Brooklyn starring Dick Powell and Ronald Reagan and the 1959 Republic gem, The Plunderers of Painted Flats, with John Carroll, Grorge Macready and Joe Besser, and filmed in wide screen Naturama.
Candy passed away in his sleep at age 85.

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Western film and television shows helped shape the moral values of many people in this country. Children grew up watching Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, and many other heroes of the silver screen following the "Code of the West." The battle of wrong vs. right was the theme of virtually every Western movie and television show, and the right always prevailed.

Wildest Westerns is a Western magazine that is dedicated to revisiting those "thrilling tales of yesteryear" in the articles, interviews, reviews, and photos on our magazine pages. Some of America's most respected and remembered heroes and villains came from these Western genres. It is our hope that this Western magazine will awaken the memories in your heart, and also help bring to light the values of the Western to those who didn't have the benefit of knowing these wonderful heroes and villains. We will always remember them, and would like to say "Thank You" to all the actors, actresses, directors, producers, studios, and all the unsung heroes behind the scenes that brought us the Western.