''Cowboy Canteen'' is a 1944 American
musical
Musical is the adjective of music.
Musical may also refer to:
* Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance
* Musical film
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western
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Places
*Western, Nebraska, a village in the US
*Western, New York, a town in the US
*Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
*Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
*Western world, countries that id ...
film directed by
Lew Landers
Lew Landers (born Louis Friedlander, January 2, 1901 – December 16, 1962) was an American independent film and television director.
Biography
Born as Louis Friedlander in New York City, Lew Landers began his movie career as an actor. In 1914, ...
and starring
Charles Starrett
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: ...
.
Plot
Entertainers perform on a dude ranch for soldiers.
Cast
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Charles Starrett
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the ''Durango Kid'' westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: ...
as Steve Bradley
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Jane Frazee as Connie Gray
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Barbara Jo Allen
Barbara Jo Allen (born Marian Barbara Henshall; September 2, 1906 – September 14, 1974) was an American actress. She was also known as Vera Vague, the spinster character she created and portrayed on radio and in films during the 1940s and 19 ...
as Vera Vague (as Vera Vague)
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Tex Ritter
Woodward Maurice Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was a pioneer of American country music, a popular singer and actor from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason and ...
as Tex Coulter
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Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams Guinn is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
*Bill Guinn or Lew Meehan (1890–1951), American film actor
*Colin Guinn, contestant in ''The Amazing Race'', a U.S. TV series
*Dominick Guinn, (born 1975), A ...
as Spud Harrigan (as Guinn
ig BoyWilliams)
*
The Mills Brothers
The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed the Four Mills Brothers, and originally known as the Four Kings of Harmony, were an American jazz and traditional pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies an ...
as The Mills Brothers
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Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys and Girls as Singing Group
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Jimmy Wakely and His Saddle Pals as Singing Group
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Max Terhune
Max Terhune (February 12, 1891 – June 5, 1973) was an American film actor born in Franklin, Indiana. He appeared in nearly 70 films, mostly B-westerns, between 1936 and 1956. Among these, Terhune starred in ''The Three Mesquiteers'' and ...
as Professor Merlin
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Dub Taylor
Walter Clarence "Dub" Taylor Jr. (February 26, 1907 – October 3, 1994),Dub Taylor, 87, Actor in Westerns, The New York Times, October 5, 1994, Section B, Page 12 was an American character actor who from the 1940s into the 1990s worked extens ...
as Cannonball
* Tailor Maids as Singers (as The Tailor Maids)
*
Bill Hughes as Bill Hughes
* Buck Chickie and Buck as Whip Act
See also
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List of American films of 1944
Below is a list of American films released in 1944. ''Going My Way'' won Best Picture at the 17th Academy Awards. The remaining four nominees were ''Double Indemnity'', ''Gaslight'', ''Since You Went Away'' and '' Wilson''.
A
B
C
D
E-F
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References
External links
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1944 films
1940s English-language films
Films directed by Lew Landers
1940s Western (genre) musical films
American black-and-white films
Columbia Pictures films
Films set on the home front during World War II
American Western (genre) musical films
1940s American films
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