Directed by:
Charles LamontCinematography:
Russell MettyComposer:
Walter ScharfCast:
Donald O'Connor, Gale Storm, Walter Brennan, Vincent Price, Eve Arden, Hank Worden, Eddy Waller, Joe Sawyer, Chick Chandler, Lane Bradford, Terry Frost (more)Plots(1)
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek is an agreeable combination of the western, comedy and musical genres. Donald O'Connor plays Edward Timmons, a mild-mannered stagehand for a travelling repertory troupe. Edward is in love with ingenue Julie Martin (Gale Storm), but there's no love lost between Edward and the troupe's hammy leading man Tracy Holland (Vincent Price). Things begin percolating when Edward gets mixed up in the activities of infamous outlaw Rimrock (Walter Brennan). Even allowing for the considerable singing and dancing skills of Donald O'Connor and Gale Storm, the film's best musical number is rendered by Eve Arden, cast as an over-the-hill soubrette who happens to be the heroine's mother (and never mind that she was only ten years older than Gale Storm!) (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Donald O'Connor
USA
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Gale Storm
USA
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Walter Brennan
USA
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Vincent Price
USA
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Eve Arden
USA
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Hank Worden
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Eddy Waller
USA
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Joe Sawyer
Canada
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Chick Chandler
USA
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Terry Frost
USA
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Al Haskell
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Ferris Taylor
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Paul Maxey
USA
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Harry Shannon
USA
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Rex Lease
USA
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Edmund Cobb
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Johnny Carpenter
USA
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