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http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/231114/

The writer mentions such notable folks as Louis L'Amour, Charles Dazey, who wrote with William S. Hart, and Angie Dickinson.

There were a few other North Dakota connections to the movies that the article left out. Long-time character actor Carl Stockdale was born in a Minnesota town, but lived for a time in Grand Forks, ND (a fact noted in some local newspaper ads in the mid-1910s). A now-deceased friend of mine had collected info on several old western actors originally from North Dakota, whose names I can't recall at the moment, other than Leroy Mason.

Unfortunately the article you link to is no longer accessible on line without a paid subscription, but I don't recall it mentioning Virginia Bruce. While she was born in Minneapolis, she grew up in Fargo (you'd think the Fargo Forum, of all papers, would have been aware of that) and local movie ads from the early 1930s sometimes acclaimed her as "North Dakota's Own."

--Christopher Jacobs
http://www.und.edu/instruct/cjacobs

I'm sorry about the dead link (I've been told it's better to copy and paste an article's text for that reason--links die!). That list is by no means complete--William S. Hart spent part of his youth in the Dakotas, according to his autobiography (Those were the days of the Dakota Territory).

There are actually people in North Dakota LOL?!