''Springtime in Texas'' is a 1945 American
Western
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*Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
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film directed by
Oliver Drake and written by
Frances Kavanaugh
Frances Kavanaugh (February 5, 1915 – January 23, 2009) was an American screenwriter known for penning B-Westerns.
Biography
Beginnings
Born in Dallas, Texas, to Clyde and Robbie Kavanaugh, Frances grew up in Houston around ranching, co ...
. The film stars
Jimmy Wakely
Jimmy Wakely (February 16, 1914 – September 23, 1982) was an American actor, songwriter, country music vocalist, and one of the last singing cowboys. During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, he released records, appeared in several B-Western movies ...
,
Dennis Moore,
Lee "Lasses" White
Leroy Robert White (August 28, 1888 – December 16, 1949), better known as Lee "Lasses" White or Leroy (sometimes Le Roy or Lee Roy) "Lasses" White, was an American vaudeville pianist, songwriter and entertainer who became an actor of the stage, ...
, Marie Harmon,
Rex Lease
Rex Lloyd Lease (February 11, 1903 – January 3, 1966) was an American actor. He appeared in over 300 films, mainly in Poverty Row westerns.
Biography
Lease arrived in Hollywood in 1924. He found bit and supporting parts at Film Booking O ...
and Pearl Early. The film was released on June 2, 1945, by
Monogram Pictures
Monogram Pictures Corporation was an American film studio that produced mostly low-budget films between 1931 and 1953, when the firm completed a transition to the name Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. Monogram was among the smaller studios i ...
.
Plot
Cast
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Jimmy Wakely
Jimmy Wakely (February 16, 1914 – September 23, 1982) was an American actor, songwriter, country music vocalist, and one of the last singing cowboys. During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, he released records, appeared in several B-Western movies ...
as Jimmy Wakely
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Dennis Moore as Denny Moore
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Lee "Lasses" White
Leroy Robert White (August 28, 1888 – December 16, 1949), better known as Lee "Lasses" White or Leroy (sometimes Le Roy or Lee Roy) "Lasses" White, was an American vaudeville pianist, songwriter and entertainer who became an actor of the stage, ...
as Lasses White
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Marie Harmon
Marie Harmon (October 21, 1923 – January 25, 2021) was an American actress and businesswoman, who worked as an actress primarily in the 1940s during the Classical Hollywood cinema, Golden Age of Hollywood. She is best known for her lead role in ...
as Kitty Stevens
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Rex Lease
Rex Lloyd Lease (February 11, 1903 – January 3, 1966) was an American actor. He appeared in over 300 films, mainly in Poverty Row westerns.
Biography
Lease arrived in Hollywood in 1924. He found bit and supporting parts at Film Booking O ...
as Pete Grant
*Pearl Early as Prunella Bumstead
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Horace Murphy
Horace Murphy (June 3, 1880 – January 20, 1975) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1953.
Early years
Born in Osceola, Arkansas, Murphy was playing cornet by age 11, and six years later led the ...
as Mayor Lem Grainger
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I. Stanford Jolley as Marshal Set Rawlins
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Wally Wales
Floyd Taliaferro Alderson (November 13, 1895 – February 10, 1980) was an American film actor who specialized in westerns. After serving in the Great War, he began his career in the era of silent films, when he frequently used the name Wally ...
as Red Higgins
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Budd Buster
Budd Leland Buster (June 14, 1891 – December 22, 1965), usually credited as Budd Buster (and sometimes Bud Buster), was an American actor known for B western films. He sometimes was credited as George Selk in his later work.
Early life
Bus ...
as Jed Stevens
*Roy Butler as Sam Monroe
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Johnny Bond
Cyrus Whitfield Bond (June 1, 1915 – June 12, 1978), known professionally as Johnny Bond, was an American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer and publisher, who co-founded a music publishing firm, he was active in the musi ...
as Johnny Bond
*Frankie Marvin as Frankie Marvin
References
External links
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{{Oliver Drake
1945 films
American Western (genre) films
1945 Western (genre) films
Monogram Pictures films
Films directed by Oliver Drake
American black-and-white films
1940s English-language films
1940s American films