The Girl of the Golden West is a
1938The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of "Dorothy" in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture. Ray Bolger is cast as the "Tinman" and Buddy Ebsen is cast as the "Scarecrow". At Bolger's insistence,...
musicalThe musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are usually used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but some musical films simply plop the songs in as unrelated "specialties" - as with Carmen Miranda's...
western film. It was adapted from the play of the same name by
David BelascoDavid Belasco was an American playwright, impresario, director and theatrical producer.-Biography:Born in San Francisco, California, where his Sephardic Jewish parents had moved from London, England during the Gold Rush, he began working in a San Francisco theatre doing a variety of routine jobs...
, better known for providing the plot of the opera
La fanciulla del WestLa fanciulla del West is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco...
by
Giacomo PucciniGiacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
. A frontier woman falls in love with an outlaw.
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The Girl of the Golden West is a
1938The year 1938 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*January — MGM announces that Judy Garland would be cast in the role of "Dorothy" in the upcoming Wizard of Oz motion picture. Ray Bolger is cast as the "Tinman" and Buddy Ebsen is cast as the "Scarecrow". At Bolger's insistence,...
musicalThe musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are usually used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but some musical films simply plop the songs in as unrelated "specialties" - as with Carmen Miranda's...
western film. It was adapted from the play of the same name by
David BelascoDavid Belasco was an American playwright, impresario, director and theatrical producer.-Biography:Born in San Francisco, California, where his Sephardic Jewish parents had moved from London, England during the Gold Rush, he began working in a San Francisco theatre doing a variety of routine jobs...
, better known for providing the plot of the opera
La fanciulla del WestLa fanciulla del West is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco...
by
Giacomo PucciniGiacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
. A frontier woman falls in love with an outlaw.
Cast
- Jeanette MacDonald
Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy...
as Mary Robbins
- Nelson Eddy
Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and movie star who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he...
as Ramirez
- Walter Pidgeon
Walter Davis Pidgeon was a Canadian actor who lived most of his adult life in the United States.-Early life:...
as Sheriff Jack Rance
- Leo Carrillo
Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo , was an actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist.-Family roots:...
as Mosquito
- Buddy Ebsen
Buddy Ebsen was an American character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he had starring roles as Jed Clampett in the 1960s television series, The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones.-Early years:He was born Christian Rudolph...
as Alabama
- Leonard Penn as Pedro
- Priscilla Lawson
Priscilla Lawson , born Priscilla Shortridge, was an American actress known for her role as Princess Aura in the original Flash Gordon serial ....
as Nina Martinez
- Bob Murphy as Sonora Slim
- Olin Howland
Olin Howland , was an American film actor. He appeared in 200 films between 1918 and 1958.He was born in Denver, Colorado, and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:* Janice Meredith...
as Trinidad Joe
- Cliff Edwards
Cliff Edwards , also known as "Ukelele Ike", was an American singer and musician who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929...
as Minstrel Joe
- Billy Bevan
Billy Bevan , was an Australian film actor. He appeared in 254 films between 1916 and 1950....
as Nick
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