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Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 musical instruments, some simultaneously. His career, beginning in 1934, spanned four decades, including a regular role on CBS-TV's Petticoat Junction in the 1960s.
Lester A. Burnett (he added the final "e" later in life) was born in Summum, Illinois, on March 18, 1911, and grew up in Ravenwood, Missouri. He began singing as a child and learned to play a wide variety of instruments by ear, yet never learned to read or write music. In his teens he worked in vaudeville and, starting in 1929, at the state's first commercial radio station, WDZ-AM in Tuscola, Illinois.
Burnette came by his nickname while creating a character for a WDZ children's program. He was reading Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" at the time, which included a character named Jim Smiley. He named the radio character Mr. Smiley and soon adopted the moniker as his own, dropping the title.
Actors: James Sweeney (editor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Champion (actor), Carleton Young (actor), Armand Schaefer (producer), Gerald Geraghty (writer), Gerald Geraghty (writer), George Archainbaud (director), Gene Autry (actor), John Doucette (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Cactus Mack (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor), Paul McGuire (actor), Neyle Morrow (actor),
Plot: When Ed Wheeler shoots Jim Granby, Gene brings him in. But Wheeler says even if Granby dies he cannot he charged because he has already served 10 years for Granby's supposed murder. Then in flashback Wheeler relates how he and Granby founded Goldtown based on an exaggerated supply of gold and how when Granby blackmailed him, he thought he killed him and confessed to the murder.
Keywords: 1880s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, b-movie, b-western, circuit-rider, conviction, daughter, deathActors: Richard Alexander (actor), Frank O'Connor (actor), Gene Autry (actor), Champion (actor), Bill Coontz (actor), William Bailey (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Harry Lauter (actor), Tom London (actor), Frankie Marvin (actor), Kermit Maynard (actor), Mathew McCue (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), Tex Terry (actor),
Plot: When Sunshine Valley settlers face disaster because of a food shortage and medicine shortage, Gene Autry and Dan Coleman, father of Gene's friend Jennifer, buy supplies in Trail's End, but additional supplies promised by the operators of the town's only store, Lola Riker and her partner Ross McLain are not forthcoming. With the aid of the law and his friend Smiley, Gene gets a shipment through to Sunshine Valley, battling off a hi-jacking attempt but too late to prevent a little girl, Judy, from dying because of a lack of medicine. Gene heads for a showdown battle with McLain.
Keywords: actor-shares-full-name-with-character, ambush, avalanche, bad-girl, breach-of-contract, capitalist, comic-sidekick, cowboy, cowboy-and-outlaw, cowboy-bootsActors: Smiley Burnette (actor), Jerry Colonna (actor), John Derek (actor), Jock Mahoney (actor), Ralph Staub (actor), Donald Woods (actor), Ruth Warrick (actress), Ralph Staub (producer), Ralph Staub (writer), Ralph Staub (director), John Ireland (actor), Nan Grey (actress), Joanne Dru (actress), Frankie Laine (actor), Charlotte Austin (actress),
Plot: Frankie Laine and his wife, Nan Grey, open up an antique store in Hollywood, and many film actors drop by to wish them success. Among the droppers-by, all working in or appearing in recent films produced by Columbia Pictures, are John Derek, Joanne Dru, Smiley Burnette, Jock O'Mahoney, John Ireland and Ruth Warrick. Frankie Laine does not sing in this short, but he does sing a lot in the Columbia film this short was made for to plug, "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder."
Keywords: antique-shop, hollywood, movie-star, musician, one-reeler, small-businessActors: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (actor), Mischa Auer (actor), Jack Benny (actor), Milton Berle (actor), El Brendel (actor), Joe E. Brown (actor), Joe E. Brown (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), George Burns (actor), Charles Butterworth (actor), Charles Chaplin (actor), Charley Chase (actor), Andy Clyde (actor), Jerry Colonna (actor), Bud Abbott (actor),
Plot: Actor Joe E. Brown narrates this compilation of film clips and behind-the-scenes footage of some of the screen's most famous comics, ranging from Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle to W.C. Fields and Andy Clyde.
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Charles Starrett (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Emile Avery (actor), Paul Borofsky (editor), Carl Sepulveda (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Sam Flint (actor), Joel Friedkin (actor), Teddy Infuhr (actor), Jerry Jerome (actor), Zon Murray (actor), Ray Nazarro (director), J. Benton Cheney (writer), Colbert Clark (producer), Matty Roubert (actor),
Plot: Marshal Steve arrives in Phantom Valley to try and find out who is causing all the trouble between the ranchers and the homesteaders. He finds three suspects and when one of them is shot, he finds evidence implicating the other two. But some one releases the two from jail and tries to kill them. The Durango Kid breaks it up and Steve then identifies the real culprit by comparing handwritten notes.
Keywords: 1880s, b-western, cattle-rancher, cattleman, deception, dual-role, durango-kid, held-at-gunpoint, henchman, homesteaderActors: Lane Bradford (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Steve Darrell (actor), Eddie Parker (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Blackie Whiteford (actor), Colbert Clark (producer), Barry Shipman (writer), Paul Borofsky (editor), Nolan Leary (actor), Ted Mapes (actor), Tex Palmer (actor),
Plot: An outlaw gang is trying to stop the reopening of a mine as they look for the money left there by the famous outlaw Dusty Morton. After a ten year absence, Morton has apparently reappeared and Steve arrives looking for him. He finds his son who also wonders if his father is still alive. With the gang soon after him, the Durango Kid goes into action and Steve tries to learn who the real Dusty Morgan is.
Keywords: ambush, b-movie, b-western, bandit, capture, doctor, drunkenness, dual-role, durango-kid, father-son-relationshipActors: Ed Earl Repp (writer), Richard Fantl (editor), Ray Bennett (actor), Ray Nazarro (director), Smiley Burnette (actor), Budd Buster (actor), Roy Butler (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Forrest Taylor (actor), Colbert Clark (producer), Nolan Leary (actor), Kermit Maynard (actor), Merrill McCormick (actor), John Merton (actor), Bob Reeves (actor),
Plot: The cattle herds of some Arizona ranchers are being stampeded and stolen, so the Arizona Stockmen's Syndicate sends ace investigator Steve Reynolds in to find out who is responsible. Steve poses as a vicious gunslinger named Buck McCloud to work his way into the gang, and then becomes the Durango Kid to disrupt the activities he learns about. Jud Temple is the loyal fiancée of town banker Grat Hanlon who turns out to be the brain-trust behind the gang.
Keywords: 1880s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, arizona, b-movie, b-western, barber-shop, cattle-ranch, cattle-stampedeActors: Ray Nazarro (director), Smiley Burnette (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), George Chesebro (actor), Tommy Coats (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), Charles Starrett (actor), John Tyrrell (actor), Blackie Whiteford (actor), Robert Williams (actor), Colbert Clark (producer), Ed Earl Repp (writer), Chick Hannan (actor), Jack Kirk (actor), Bob Kortman (actor),
Plot: A United States Marshal, Steve Landry ('Charles Starrett' (qv)), is appointed to serve in the town of Rim Rock, which he quickly finds is ruled over by a lawlessness element who prefer the town be wide open. When the outlaws are out of his jurisdiction, he assumes his role of "The Durango Kid" to bring them to justice. But he leaves tracks that appear to be just what the gang needs to rid themselves of both the marshal and Durango.
Keywords: 1890s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, archive-footage, b-movie, b-western, barroom, capture, chase, comic-sidekick, dancehall-girlActors: Norman Willis (actor), Dick Botiller (actor), Henry Batista (editor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Tom Chatterton (actor), Tommy Coats (actor), Bud Geary (actor), Herman Hack (actor), Hal Taliaferro (actor), Colbert Clark (producer), Nolan Leary (actor), Frank McCarroll (actor), John Merton (actor), Post Park (actor), Ray Nazarro (director),
Plot: Dakota Indian Agent Steve Reynolds receives a copy of the Bonanza City Nuggett from Jim Mallory and reads a story blaming the Durango Kid for recent gold mine raids. Steve, also the Durango Kid, and his pal Smiley head for Bonanza City to contact Mallory and Rance Hudson, his partner in the mining machinery business. Mallory sells his interest in the business to Hudson for $50,000 and heads for California. Seeing him off are Hudson's secretary Anne Parker, her father Sam Parker, owner of the Gold Moon Mine and his miners Hank Penny and the Plantation Boys (Harold Hensley, Noel Boggs, Sanford Williams and Fenton Reynolds). Hudson plans to rob the wagon train and blame the Durango Kid, and sends Curlew and his henchmen to do the job. Killing Mallory in the raid, Curlew caches the money rather than taking it to Hudson. Despite that, Hudson learns that Carter plans a gold shipment and orders Curlew to rob the stage. Steve and Smiley hit town and Steves decides that Curlew and his brother Red could bear watching. The Durango Kid breaks up the first robbery attempt, but a second one is successful, although Durango learns from a wounded henchman that the Curlew gang has a hideout in Lost Canyon.
Keywords: 1880s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-full-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, ambush, b-movie, b-western, buffoon, business-partnerActors: Ernie Adams (actor), Eddie Hart (actor), Smiley Burnette (actor), Jack Byron (actor), Neil Hamilton (actor), Reed Hadley (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), Yakima Canutt (actor), Noble 'Kid' Chissel (actor), William Haade (actor), Robert Homans (actor),
Genres: Mystery, Romance, Sport,
Gene Autry and his pal Smiley Burnette sing-a-long with a gramophone recording of the song “Fetch Me Down My Trusty Forty-Five” from the Columbia Pictures 1953 film “Winning of the West.” Smiley also plays a variety of interesting instruments during this performance. © Autry Qualified Interest Trust and The Autry Foundation Buy the DVD of “Winning of the West”: http://www.autry.com/musicmovies/dvds/geneautrycollection6.html Visit the Official Gene Autry website for more about America’s Favorite Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry! http://www.geneautry.com FETCH ME DOWN MY TRUSTY FORTY-FIVE FETCH ME DOWN MY SHOOTIN’ IRON I’M GOIN’ HUNTIN’ FETCH ME DOWN MY TRUST FORTY-FIVE SEE THE FIRE IN MY EYE WATCH THE SMOKE WHEN I GO BY FETCH ME DOWN MY TRUSTY FORTY FIVE I USED TO CALL MY COWS WITH A WHI...
Strarring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Mary hart (Lynne Roberts), Fred Kohler, Morgan Wallace, Wade Boteler, Edwin Stanley and Horace Murphy. Directed by Joseph Kane. Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Mary Hart (Lynne Roberts), Morgan Wallace, Fred Kohler Sr., Wade Boteler, Edwin Stanley, Joseph Murphy and Joseph Creehan. Directed by Joe Kane. In his second starring film, Roy plays a dual role as the notorious frontier outlaw, Billy the Kid, and as a driftin' cowboy, who takes advantage of his striking resemblance to the desperado, and rides to protect homesteaders from the hungry land barons. Release date: September 4, 1938.
Here's Smiley Burnette singing "Ring the Bell" while making a batch of biscuits. This is from the 1946 Durango Kid movie, "The Desert Horseman". Smiley's a chef in this, his 6th appearance in a Durango Kid movie. He sidekicked nine Durango Kid movies in 1946.
Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette sing the Jimmie Rodgers classic “In the Jailhouse Now” from the 1938 Republic Pictures movie “Prairie Moon.” © Autry Qualified Interest Trust and The Autry Foundation Buy the DVD of “Prairie Moon”: http://www.autry.com/musicmovies/dvds/geneautrycollection7.html Visit the Official Gene Autry website for more about America’s Favorite Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry! http://www.geneautry.com IN THE JAILHOUSE NOW GENE AUTRY: I HAD A FRIEND CALLED RAMBLIN’ BOB WHO USED TO STEAL, GAMBLE AND ROB HE THOUGHT HE WAS THE SMARTEST GUY IN TOWN BUT I FOUND OUT LAST MONDAY THAT BOB GOT LOCKED UP SUNDAY THEY’VE GOT HIM IN THE JAILHOUSE WAY DOWN TOWN HE’S IN THE JAIL HOUSE NOW IN THE JAIL HOUSE NOW I TOLD HIM ONCE OR TWICE TO QUIT PLAYIN’ CARDS AND SHOOTIN’ DICE HE’S IN T...
Smiley Burnette sings “Five Man Band” from Gene Autry’s 1936 Republic Pictures movie “The Old Corral.” © Autry Qualified Interest Trust and The Autry Foundation Buy the DVD of “The Old Corral”: http://www.autry.com/musicmovies/dvds/geneautrycollection7.html Visit the Official Gene Autry website for more about America’s Favorite Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry! http://www.geneautry.com FIVE MAN BAND ONE MAN PAY FOR A FIVE MAN BAND GONNA CATCH HECK FROM THE UNION MAN FIVE MUSICIANS ON THE SHELF PLAY THE GADGETS ALL MYSELF VEE VEE VEE VEE VEE VEE VEE VEE VEE VEE VEE VEE WHOA WHOA VEE VEE VEE VEE VEE VEE VEE DOODY BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH BOH Composer: Smiley Burnette
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.--- Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor Writers: Chester Gould (based on cartoon strip by), Barry Shipman (screenplay) | 3 more credits » Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette |
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick. Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor Writers: Chester Gould (based on cartoon strip by), Barry Shipman (screenplay) | 3 more credits » Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette |
Leon McAuliffe (January 3, 1917 – August 20, 1988), born William Leon McAuliffe, was an American Western swing musician from Houston, Texas. He is famous for his steel guitar solos with Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, inspiring Wills's phrase, "Take it away, Leon." McAuliffe, at age 16, first played with the Light Crust Doughboys, playing both rhythm guitar and steel guitar. In 1935, at age 18, he went on to play with Bob Wills in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He stayed with Wills until World War II. While with Wills he helped compose "San Antonio Rose". He is more noted, however, for his most famous composition, "Steel Guitar Rag", and his playing, along with that of [Bob Dunn (musician) |Robert Lee Dunn] (Milton Brown's Musical Brownies), that popularized the steel guitar in the United States. His...
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick. Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor Writers: Chester Gould (based on cartoon strip by), Barry Shipman (screenplay) | 3 more credits » Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette |
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick. Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor Writers: Chester Gould (based on cartoon strip by), Barry Shipman (screenplay) | 3 more credits » Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette |
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick. Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor Writers: Chester Gould (based on cartoon strip by), Barry Shipman (screenplay) | 3 more credits » Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette |
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick. Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor Writers: Chester Gould (based on cartoon strip by), Barry Shipman (screenplay) | 3 more credits » Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette |
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick. Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor Writers: Chester Gould (based on cartoon strip by), Barry Shipman (screenplay) | 3 more credits » Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette |
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick. Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor Writers: Chester Gould (based on cartoon strip by), Barry Shipman (screenplay) | 3 more credits » Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette |
Live on the Barge Stage, Stratford Summer Music Festival 2014 James Anderson - harmonica Neil Kirby - Upright bass/vox Ryan Shotton - banjo/vox Gavin Millikin - guitar/vox Thomas Roussin - vox/mandolin
Singing Cowboy Gene Autry, his side kick Smiley Burnette, and friends sing a medley including the classic songs "You Are My Sunshine," "Home on the Range," and "Deep in the Heart of Texas" from his 1942 Republic Pictures film "Stardust on the Sage." © Autry Qualified Interest Trust and The Autry Foundation Buy the DVD of the movie "Stardust on the Sage": http://www.geneautry.com/musicmovies/dvds/stardustonthesage.html Visit the Official Gene Autry website for more about America's Favorite Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry! http://www.geneautry.com MEDLEY - You Are My Sunshine, Home on the Range & Deep in the Heart of Texas YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE, MY ONLY SUNSHINE YOU MAKE ME HAPPY WHEN SKIES ARE GREY YOU NEVER KNOW DEAR HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU PLEASE DON'T TAKE MY SUNSHINE AW...
When the Gene Autry Rodeo rides into town, they do it with a song! Gene, Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), Tadpole (Joseph Strauch, Jr.) and all the cowboys and cowgirls sing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" in the Republic Pictures film "Under Fiesta Stars" (1941). © Autry Qualified Interest Trust and The Autry Foundation Read about the film here: http://www.autry.com/geneautry/motionpictures/filmography/underfiestastars.html Buy the DVD here: http://www.autry.com/musicmovies/dvds/underfiestastars.html Visit the Official Gene Autry website for more about America's Favorite Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry! http://www.geneautry.com THE MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE HE FLOATS THROUGH THE AIR WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE HIS ACTIONS ARE GRACEFUL, THE GIRLS...
Tex Ritter's Ranch Party was a classic country and western TV show that aired on ABC from 1959 to 1961. The show was hosted by Tex Ritter, a music and movie star of the era. Ritter was known for his work in cowboy movies and his career as a singing cowboy who had such hits as, "Do Not Forsake Me O My Darling." Tex Ritter's Ranch Party featured traditional country entertainers, singing cowboys, and rock singers of the day. Some popular entertainers who appeared on Tex Ritter's Ranch Party were The Collins Kids, Carl Perkins and Smiley Burnett. While many country shows of this period did not feature rock and roll acts, Tex Ritter's Ranch Party offered viewers some cutting edge musical acts. The show was filmed in front of a live audience and was hosted by the folksy and affable Ritter who in...
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Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette sing the Jimmie Rodgers classic “In the Jailhouse Now” from the 1938 Republic Pictures movie “Prairie Moon.” © Autry Qualified Interest Trust and The Autry Foundation Buy the DVD of “Prairie Moon”: http://www.autry.com/musicmovies/dvds/geneautrycollection7.html Visit the Official Gene Autry website for more about America’s Favorite Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry! http://www.geneautry.com IN THE JAILHOUSE NOW GENE AUTRY: I HAD A FRIEND CALLED RAMBLIN’ BOB WHO USED TO STEAL, GAMBLE AND ROB HE THOUGHT HE WAS THE SMARTEST GUY IN TOWN BUT I FOUND OUT LAST MONDAY THAT BOB GOT LOCKED UP SUNDAY THEY’VE GOT HIM IN THE JAILHOUSE WAY DOWN TOWN HE’S IN THE JAIL HOUSE NOW IN THE JAIL HOUSE NOW I TOLD HIM ONCE OR TWICE TO QUIT PLAYIN’ CARDS AND SHOOTIN’ DICE HE’S IN T...
Welcome to Hollywood Graveyard, where we set out to remember and celebrate the lives of those who lived to entertain us, by visiting their final resting places. Today we conclude our tour of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills, where we'll find such stars as: Brittany Murphy, Dorothy Lamour, Gene Autry, and many more. Part 1: https://youtu.be/g_Mw0o2_lE4 Part 2: https://youtu.be/ejbqQwG2PUY Map of this tour: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LsW... Full list of stars visited today: Brittany Murphy, George Stevens, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, Ricky Nelson, Marjorie Main, Gabby Hayes, Judith Barsi, Noah Beery Jr, Fritz Lang, Roy Disney, Smiley Burnette, Gene Autry, Bob Barker, Jack Webb, Jack Soo, Michael Hutchence, Dorothy Lamour, Solomon Burke, Miklos Rozsa, Fred Moore, ...
Strarring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Mary hart (Lynne Roberts), Fred Kohler, Morgan Wallace, Wade Boteler, Edwin Stanley and Horace Murphy. Directed by Joseph Kane. Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Mary Hart (Lynne Roberts), Morgan Wallace, Fred Kohler Sr., Wade Boteler, Edwin Stanley, Joseph Murphy and Joseph Creehan. Directed by Joe Kane. In his second starring film, Roy plays a dual role as the notorious frontier outlaw, Billy the Kid, and as a driftin' cowboy, who takes advantage of his striking resemblance to the desperado, and rides to protect homesteaders from the hungry land barons. Release date: September 4, 1938.
Starring Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette, Ona Munson, Virginia Grey, Onlsow Stevens. Harry Shannon, Dick Purcell, The Robert Mitchell Boys Choir and Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers. Directed by Joseph Kane. Roy sets out to prove that a former criminal, now respected judge and a pillar of the community, is being framed for crimes as part of a blackmail scheme by crooked saloon owner, Belle Bonner. This is the 68 minute version of this song-filled, action-packed Roy Rogers western. Most versions shown on television and available on DVD run 53 minutes or less. Subscribe to Captain Bijou! More vintage videos, trailers and commercials are added almost daily! To buy classic films, westerns, serials, commercials and vintage television shows on DVD -- plus original movie posters, autograp...
Roy stars as Billy the Kid in the retelling of the story of Billy the Kid. The movie also stars Smiley Burnette, Morgan Wallace,and Lynne Roberts. Joseph Kane directed the movie.
Ken Maynard and "Gabby" Hayes star in the film that introduced Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette.
Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by Oliver Drake, the film is about a cowboy who is robbed and then thrown from a train by an escaped murderer who then takes on the cowboy's identity. Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) is traveling to Mineral Springs Ranch to visit an old friend, Jefferson Lee (Carl Stockdale), whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years. On the train he is robbed and then thrown from the train by escaped murderer Wolf Benson (Boothe Howard). Believing Gene to be dead, Wolf plans to travel to Mineral Springs Ranch and pose as the radio celebrity in order to collect the $10,000 that Lee owes Gene. Meanwhile Gene is rescued by traveling actors Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnet...
Here's Gene Autry's side-kick, Smiley Burnette, with his 1949 recording of Swamp Woman Blues.
Gene Autry's pal Smiley Burnette has mistakenly bought a ranch of dairy cows instead of beef cattle. This of course, gives Smiley and the CBS-KMBC Texas Rangers something to sing about with the song "Cowboys Don't Milk Cows" from Gene Autry's 1939 Republic Pictures film "Colorado Sunset." © Autry Qualified Interest Trust and The Autry Foundation Read about the film here: http://geneautry.com/geneautry/motionpictures/filmography/coloradosunset.html Visit the Official Gene Autry website for more about America's Favorite Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry! http://www.geneautry.com COWBOYS DON'T MILK COWS WE DON'T KNOW A THING ABOUT MILKIN' BUT WE'LL TRY ANYTHING ONCE WE'D MUCH RATHER BE ROPIN' A STEER WE HOPE NOBODY CATCHES US HERE THAT FOOL COW WON'T SIT ON A BOTTLE SHE WON'T DO A THING BU...
Carol Burnett remembers late daughter Carrie Hamilton.
Singing Cowboy Gene Autry and his pal Smiley Burnette sing the Western classic song "Deep in the Heart of Texas" from his movie "Heart of the Rio Grande" from Republic Pictures 1942. © Autry Qualified Interest Trust and The Autry Foundation Buy it on CD or iTunes: http://www.autry.com/musicmovies/musiccds/goinbacktotexas.html Read about the film: http://www.autry.com/geneautry/motionpictures/filmography/heartoftheriogrande.html Visit the Official Gene Autry website for more about America's Favorite Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry! http://www.geneautry.com DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS THE STARS AT NIGHT ARE BIG AND BRIGHT DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS THE PRAIRIE SKY IS WIDE AND HIGH DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS THE COYOTES WAIL ALONG THE TRAIL DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS THE RABBITS RUSH AR...
Gene Autry's only appearance on Late Night. I had to edit out both film clips due to copyright issues.
Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 musical instruments, some simultaneously. His career, beginning in 1934, spanned four decades, including a regular role on CBS-TV's Petticoat Junction in the 1960s. When the cowboy movie genre waned, Burnette retired but made guest appearances on many country music radio and TV shows, including Louisiana Hayride, the Grand Ole Opry, and Ranch Party. He spent time in Springfield, Missouri, from the late 1940s into the 1950s producing a nationally syndicated 15-minute ra...
Oh, Susanna! is a 1936 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Frances Grant. Written by Oliver Drake, the film is about a cowboy who is robbed and then thrown from a train by an escaped murderer who then takes on the cowboy's identity. Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) is traveling to Mineral Springs Ranch to visit an old friend, Jefferson Lee (Carl Stockdale), whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years. On the train he is robbed and then thrown from the train by escaped murderer Wolf Benson (Boothe Howard). Believing Gene to be dead, Wolf plans to travel to Mineral Springs Ranch and pose as the radio celebrity in order to collect the $10,000 that Lee owes Gene. Meanwhile Gene is rescued by traveling actors Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnet...