LFL graduate hits the big screen - Margie Small helped produce ‘World of the Fight Doctor’ doc

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HOUSTON – Singer, actress, talent promoter – a former Lady Dogger has worn many hats in the entertainment industry.

Margie (O’Brien) Small is the chief executive officer of a film production company and recently helped produce the documentary “World of the Fight Doctor,” a film exploring the life of Ferdie Pacheco, the personal physician and cornerman of champion boxer Muhammed Ali. “World of the Fight Doctor” was awarded Best Documentary at the Gulf Coast Film Festival in Houston last week.

Small said she enjoyed getting to know Pacheco.

“He’s an amazing guy,” she said. “We thought the story would be really good and touch a lot of people.”

Small added she hopes to have the documentary entered into other film festivals at Telluride, Colo., and the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Small was adopted from Fort Washakie and lived in Fort Laramie. She is a graduate of Lingle-Fort Laramie High School and now lives in Decatur, Texas, with her husband, Curtis. She still has relatives living in the area and comes back to visit on occasion.

Small’s most recent venture in the entertainment business is acting as CEO of Knobby Brown Integrity Productions, which is dedicated to celebrating Native American heritage, history, customs and ancestry through the media of film, documentaries and television. Small is an enrolled Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapahoe member of the Wind River Tribe.

Her newest venture, though, certainly isn’t her first. Small was a recording artist in Nashville for four years and promoted talent in such films as “Dances With Wolves,” “Far and Away” and “Northern Exposure.”

It seems the entertainment business runs in the family. Small’s son, Cody, has been working in Hollywood for about five years now.

“He’s doing very well,” Small said. “He just finished work on ‘The Lone Ranger’ and ‘Cowboys and Aliens.’”

Small is also a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and Army National Guard. She will be attending a flag ceremony for one of her relatives, Moses Starr Weed Sr., Starr Weed was a World War II veteran and prisoner of war in Germany. He, too, was from Fort Washakie.

Although life in the entertainment business can be very busy, Small said she enjoys her work.

“It’s just so much fun going out and meeting people,” she said. “I never thought I’d end up here. It’s by the grace of God, I guess.”

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