Arkie Whiteley

Untamed Youth (1957)

Actors: Mamie Van Doren (actress), Les Baxter (actor), Lurene Tuttle (actress), Keith Richards (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), John Russell (actor), Leon Tyler (actor), Robert Banas (actor), Wally Brown (actor), Robert Foulk (actor), Terry Frost (actor), William Henry (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Alex Montoya (actor), Aubrey Schenck (producer),

Plot: Sisters Jane and Penny are arrested for hitchhiking on their way to Los Angeles when they stop for a quick skinny dip in a rural town. Local agricultural magnate Trump is a sponsor for a local prison work program and the women get put in the fields to work off their sentence. Trump is dating the widowed judge in order to ensure a stable supply of cheap labor in order to undercut his competition. The prisoners suffer ill treatment, but the judge's son has signed on as a hired hand and begins to figure out the scam as he begins falling in love with Jane, and Penny dreams of making it big in showbiz.

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Abroad with Two Yanks (1944)

Actors: Eddie Hall (actor), Dell Henderson (actor), Jimmy Aubrey (actor), Fred Graham (actor), John Abbott (actor), Sam Harris (actor), George DeNormand (actor), George Cleveland (actor), James Conaty (actor), Herbert Evans (actor), James Flavin (actor), William Bendix (actor), William Forrest (actor), Leslie Denison (actor), Arthur Hunnicutt (actor),

Plot: Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do. When they meet the beautiful Joyce, however, they both fall head over heels for her, and start competing for her attentions. As their R&R; time begins to run out, the schemes they each come up with to win her affection and foil the other's plans to do the same become more and more outrageous.

National Barn Dance (1944)

Actors: Bob Burns (actor), James Millican (actor), Jack Mulhall (actor), Robert Benchley (actor), Charles Marsh (actor), Wilbur Mack (actor), Oliver Blake (actor), Frank Faylen (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor), Pat Buttram (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), Arthur Q. Bryan (actor), William Desmond (actor), Billy Lechner (actor), Ronald R. Rondell (actor),

Plot: Made at the time when the National Barn Dance program, on radio station WLS (for World's Largest Store and owned by Sears & Roebuck) in Chicago, was as big on a national scale listening audience as "The Grand Ole Opry" out of Nashville. The film highlights the leading acts then performing on the program; comedian Pat Buttram ('Pat Buttram (I)' (qv)), announcer Joe Kelly ('Joe Kelly (I)' (qv)),(before his Quiz Kids stint), Lulubelle & Scotty ('Scotty Wiseman' (qv) and wife 'Myrtle Wiseman' (qv))), the Dinning Sisters trio, Arkie the Arkansas Wood Chooper ('Luther W. Ossenbrink' (qv)) and the Hoosier Hot Shots quartet, whose musical abilities and creativity were vastly underrated. The piffle of a story begins in the early days of radio (Calvin Coolidge was President) but otherwise seems to take place in 1944, which made things easier on the Art and Set directors. Agent John Berke ('Charles Quigley' (qv)) thinks advertising executive Mitcham ('Robert Benchley' (qv)) wants to put together a program of hillbilly performers---a term used until later years when Nashville went uptown and changed it to Country & Western---and hies himself down to a country town where Lulubelle (Myrtle Wiseman) & Scotty (Scott Wiseman) hold a barn dance in their barn every Saturday night featuring themselves and their farm hands, although it is not quite clear just what chores the Dinning Sisters perform. He signs all hands to a contract, brings them to Chicago and learns that Mitcham has no intentions of putting together such a program to be sponsored by the Garvey Soup Company owned by the Garveys ('Charles Dingle' (qv) and 'Mabel Paige' (qv)). A bit of plot contrivance---a small bit--- changes all of that, and the National Barn Dance is born.