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Robert Horton said he knew his wife loved him when she told him to quit ''Wagon Train''
Horton knew instantly that his wife was one for him.
Not to get all mushy on you, but how can you tell if someone is "The One"? How do you know that the person you're in love with is actually the person that you'd be willing to spend the rest of your life hanging out with? It's a tough question to answer in a few simple words, and many people have spent their entire lives searching for the answer, only to come up with their hands empty.
By the time Wagon Train actor Robert Horton married his wife, Marilynn in 1960, he had already been acting in the series for about two years. In an interview with the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Horton was offered a five-year contract on Wagon Train, where after the allotted time, he would be invited to renew the contract and stay on the show. Faced with a difficult decision, Horton turned to his wife for advice.
He said, "One night I went home and asked Marilynn what she thought about my quitting the series, and she said 'I think you should.' Those words were music to the actor's ears, who continued, "That's when I knew she really loved me."
While the series provided a consistent source of income, Marilynn knew that if her husband stayed on the series, he wouldn't get to explore any other acting opportunities."
Horton acknowledged, "Sure, money's nice. It makes it easier to meet your responsibilities." But he also countered, "Your sights keep growing as you learn more and more about your profession. And unless you're lazy, which I'm not, you want to try and do more and more things."
The couple loved each other so much, in fact, that they later began working as a duo act. Horton said of the experience, "The only difference I notice is that Marilynn and I have a certain ease with each other that you might not have with a costar you had just met for the first time. In that case, I think it's an asset for us."
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I am with another person who said to replace The Big Valley. Perhaps add Lawman and The Restless Gun!
