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2 unusual facts about Pancho Barnes


Lauren Kessler

She is also author of Washington Post best-seller Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era, a biography of Elizabeth Bentley, and the Los Angeles Times best-seller and Oregon Book Award finalist The Happy Bottom Riding Club, a biography of aviator Florence Pancho Barnes.

Richard T. Heffron

He worked on many television series such as The Rockford Files and films including I Will Fight No More Forever (1975), Futureworld (1976), Foolin' Around (1980), the 1982 Mike Hammer film I, the Jury, Pancho Barnes (1988), and La révolution française (1989).


Happy Bottom Riding Club

A made-for-TV movie aired on the CBS TV network, Pancho Barnes (1988), starring Valerie Bertinelli as Pancho, featured a fictionalized version of Barnes' life and events relating to The Happy Bottom Riding Club.


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