''The Light of Western Stars'' is a 1930 American
pre-Code
Pre-Code Hollywood was the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in film in 1929LaSalle (2002), p. 1. and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines, popularly known ...
Western
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Places
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*Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
*Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
*Western world, countries that id ...
produced and distributed by
Paramount Pictures. It had two directors,
Otto Brower and Edward H. Knopf. This film is the third filming of
Zane Grey
Pearl Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author and dentist. He is known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American fronti ...
's novel, ''
The Light of Western Stars''.
Richard Arlen
Richard Arlen (born Sylvanus Richard Mattimore, September 1, 1899 – March 28, 1976) was an American actor of film and television.
Biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Arlen attended the University of Pennsylvania. He served in Canada as a ...
and
Mary Brian
Mary Brian (born Louise Byrdie Dantzler, February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002) was an American actress who made the transition from silent films to sound films.
Early life
Brian was born in Corsicana, Texas, the daughter of Taurrence J. ...
starred. Previously
filmed by Paramount as a silent in 1925.
The film was the first adaptation of Grey's works to be made with sound. Star
Richard Arlen
Richard Arlen (born Sylvanus Richard Mattimore, September 1, 1899 – March 28, 1976) was an American actor of film and television.
Biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Arlen attended the University of Pennsylvania. He served in Canada as a ...
sang in this, his second Western film, performing "a cowboy chantie, accompanied by an harmonica and a jews-harp."
Cast
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Richard Arlen
Richard Arlen (born Sylvanus Richard Mattimore, September 1, 1899 – March 28, 1976) was an American actor of film and television.
Biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Arlen attended the University of Pennsylvania. He served in Canada as a ...
as Dick Bailey
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Mary Brian
Mary Brian (born Louise Byrdie Dantzler, February 17, 1906 – December 30, 2002) was an American actress who made the transition from silent films to sound films.
Early life
Brian was born in Corsicana, Texas, the daughter of Taurrence J. ...
as Ruth Hammond
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Regis Toomey
John Francis Regis Toomey (August 13, 1898October 12, 1991) was an American film and television actor.
Early life
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was one of four children of Francis X. and Mary Ellen Toomey, and attended Peabody High ...
as Bob Drexell
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Fred Kohler
Fred Kohler (April 20, 1888 – October 28, 1938) was an American actor.
Career
Fred Kohler was born in Kansas City, Missouri or in Dubuque, Iowa. As a teen, he began to pursue a career in vaudeville, but worked other jobs to support himself. ...
as H. W. Stack
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Guy Oliver as Sheriff Grip Jarvis
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George Chandler as Slig Whalen
*William Le Maire as Griff Meeker
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Lew Meehan
James Lew Meehan (September 7, 1890 – August 10, 1951) was an American film actor.
Meehan appeared in more than 200 films between 1921 and 1947. He was often the main villain in silent Westerns, but in sound films he was usually an "anon ...
as Rifleman
*
Syd Saylor
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as Square Toe
References
External links
''The Light of Western Stars'' imdb.com
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1930 films
Paramount Pictures films
Films based on American novels
Films based on Western (genre) novels
Films directed by Otto Brower
1930 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) films
Films based on works by Zane Grey
American black-and-white films
1930s American films
1930s English-language films
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