Desc: Rodeo Girl: Directed by Jackie Cooper. With Katharine Ross, Bo Hopkins, Candy Clark, Jacqueline Brookes. Sammy Garrett, the wife of a champion rodeo performer, is tired of her subsidiary role at home as a housewife. So she becomes an aspiring rodeo rider herself, encouraged by her one-time performer mother and eventually confronts her new lifestyle despite her husband's disapproval. Based on the true story of rodeo champion Sue Pirtle.