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The King and Four Queens (1956), a western movie, involves a middle-aged cowboy
Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks....
 adventurer (Clark Gable
Clark Gable

Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
) who learns that a stolen fortune remains buried on a ranch that serves as home to four gorgeous young widows and their battle-axe mother-in-law: the drifter turns on the charm. Directed by Raoul Walsh
Raoul Walsh

Raoul Walsh was an United States film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh....
, the film also features Eleanor Parker
Eleanor Parker

Eleanor Jean Parker is an American film and television actress....
. This was the only film that Gable both starred in and produced, for the short-lived Russ-Field-Gabco Productions.








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The King and Four Queens (1956), a western movie, involves a middle-aged cowboy
Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks....
 adventurer (Clark Gable
Clark Gable

Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
) who learns that a stolen fortune remains buried on a ranch that serves as home to four gorgeous young widows and their battle-axe mother-in-law: the drifter turns on the charm. Directed by Raoul Walsh
Raoul Walsh

Raoul Walsh was an United States film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh....
, the film also features Eleanor Parker
Eleanor Parker

Eleanor Jean Parker is an American film and television actress....
. This was the only film that Gable both starred in and produced, for the short-lived Russ-Field-Gabco Productions.

Cast

  • Clark Gable
    Clark Gable

    Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
     as Dan Kehoe
  • Eleanor Parker
    Eleanor Parker

    Eleanor Jean Parker is an American film and television actress....
     as Sabina McDade
  • Jean Willes
    Jean Willes

    Jean Willes was an American film actress. She appeared in approximately 65 films between 1934 in film and 1972 in film.Willes is familiar to modern viewers for her roles in several Three Stooges short subjects, such as Monkey Businessmen, A Snitch in Time and Gypped in the Penthouse....
     as Ruby McDade
  • Barbara Nichols
    Barbara Nichols

    Barbara Nichols was an actress who was something of a cross between a sex symbol and a character actress often playing brassy comic roles in a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s....
     as Birdie McDade
  • Sara Shane
    Sara Shane

    Sara Shane was the stage name of Elaine Hollingsworth , an actress in film and television in the 1950s and early 1960s.Elaine Sterling became a model at age 14 and later secured a film contract with MGM....
     as Oralie McDade
  • Jo Van Fleet
    Jo Van Fleet

    'Jo Van Fleet' was an Academy Award- and Tony Award- winning United States theatre and film actor.Van Fleet established herself as a notable dramatic actress on Broadway theatre over several years, winning a Tony Award in 1954 for her skill in a difficult role, playing an unsympathetic, even abusive character, in Horton Foote's The Trip to...
     as Ma McDade


Book version

In 1956, Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon

Theodore Sturgeon was an United States science fiction author.Though his mainstream success was relatively limited, Sturgeon is now widely recognized as one of the most important and influential science fiction writers of his era....
 "novelized
Novelization

A novelization is a novel that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work.Novelizations of films usually add background material not found in the original work to flesh out the story, because novels are generally longer than screenplays....
" the original screen story by Margaret Fitts for Dell Books, who published it in December 1956 as a 25-cent paperback.

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