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Melody Ranch is a 1940 Western musical film directed by Joseph Santley and starring Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, and Ann Miller.Written by Jack Moffitt, F. Hugh Herbert, Bradford Ropes, and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who returns to his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the frontier town. [2]
A decade after he purchased Melody Ranch, a brushfire swept through in August 1962, destroying most of the original standing sets and dashing Autry's plans to turn it into a museum. However, the devastated landscape did prove useful for productions such as Combat!. A complete adobe ranch survived at the northeast section of the ranch. [21] [22]
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch is a Western variety radio show in the United States.A 15-minute pilot show aired on December 31, 1939. The program ran from January 7, 1940 to August 1, 1943, and from September 23, 1945 to May 16, 1956. [1]
After Gene Autry purchased the property in 1953, he renamed it as 'Melody Ranch.' It is located near Santa Clarita, California, just north of Newhall Pass. In 1962 a brush fire destroyed most of the western town sets on the ranch, and Autry sold 98-acre (40 ha), most of Melody Ranch.
Ann Miller (born Johnnie Lucille Collier; April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004) was an American actress and dancer.She is best remembered for her work in the classical Hollywood cinema musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch Buffalo Bill, Jr. The Gene Autry Show is an American western / cowboy television series which aired for 91 episodes on CBS from July 23, 1950 until August 7, 1956, originally sponsored by Wrigley's Doublemint chewing gum.
Melody Ranch: Himself Joseph Santley Ann Miller: Jimmy Durante: Republic Pictures 1941 Ridin' on a Rainbow: Himself Lew Landers: Carol Adams Smiley Burnette Republic Pictures 1941 Back in the Saddle: Himself Lew Landers Julie Bishop: Smiley Burnette Republic Pictures 1941 The Singing Hill: Himself Lew Landers Virginia Dale: Smiley Burnette ...
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