Columbia Pictures presents Go West Young Lady Go West Young Lady
Go West Young Lady is a Western in the broadest sense … mostly cuz it has two great broads in it: Penny Singleton and Anne Miller.
Go West Young Lady
33-year-old Singleton was the Young Lady going West – and the top billed Star, but … we can see by at least 2 posters that an 18-year-old Anne Miller had easily muscled her way to the front – smiling all the way.
Go West Young Lady
“The Musical Western with OOMPH!”
Anything with Anne Miller was bound to have plenty of “OOMPH” !
Singleton and Miller vs Ford
In 1941 Penny Singleton was an established ‘box office’ Star with over 20 films, plus assorted stage work. Meanwhile Anne Miller had 15 movies under her 18-year-old heels and had been melting the scenery for quite a while. Young Glenn Ford, (25-years-old), sandwiched between Miller and Singleton would appear to be ‘in tough’. Yet he’s completely at ease and up to the task. Good job Glenn!
Glenn FordSingleton and FordMiller and Ford
Penny Singleton
Marion Davies …
In for a Penny … in for a pound.
Singleton … taking care of business
Anne Miller
Anne Miller
Anne Miller / Unstoppable!
The don’t make ’em like this any more. They don’t know how.
Anne Miller could crowd a rhino out of playpen – and had the kicks to back it.
She was brazen … she was blazing … she was brilliant. And she knew it.
She was a blistering bar top dancer … who loved what she was doing. And so did we.
Turner Classic Movies says:
“The chemistry between Singleton and Ford brings charm to this delightful “B” picture, while plenty of action keeps the plot moving at the pace of a speeding bullet. Numbers from Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, Penny Singleton and Ann Miller (who shines in an early role as saloon girl Lola) provide plenty of good music throughout. Some of the tunes include “Somewhere Along the Trail,” “I Wish I Could Be a Singing Cowboy”, and “Gentlemen Don’t Prefer a Lady”. http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/161277%7C0/Go-West-Young-Lady.html
“Well, if people didn’t try something new,
there wouldn’t be hardly any progress at all.”
– Jane Fonda / Cat Ballou
CAT BALLOU – JANE FONDACAT BALLOU – JANE FONDACAT BALLOU – JANE FONDACAT BALLOU – JANE FONDACAT BALLOU – JANE FONDACAT BALLOU – JANE FONDACAT BALLOU – JANE FONDACAT BALLOU – JANE FONDACAT BALLOU – JANE FONDACAT BALLOU – JANE FONDACAT BALLOU – JANE FONDACAT BALLOU – Jane and LeeCAT BALLOU Lee and JaneCAT BALLOU – Jane and LeeJane Fonda – Best Actress – ‘Coming Home’ 1978CAT BALLOU – The End
MFW: You’re right Marilyn … nobody knew he had it in him.
Cat Ballou – Rotten Tomatoes Review
Kid Shelleen (Lee Marvin) demonstrates his gun hand ….
Don’t do this at home folks …Kid Shelleen … shooting everything in the vicinity …Kid Shelleen … ready for actionKid Shelleen – Yee Haw !!Time for nap …Cat Ballou – Nat ‘King’ Cole and Stubby Kaye
The whole dang gang: Dwayne Hickman, Michael Callan, Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Tom Nardini
Lee makes it to the Top of the Mountain – A Western with John Wayne
The Comancheros bannerThe Comancheros – posters
… But he’s still 5th on the Bill
The Comancheros Trailer
A Western actor’s dream – a scene – and a drink with the Duke.Revisionist Postering … Lee moves to the front.The Comancheros – The DukeMarvin and WayneThe Comancheros – The End
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) BannerThe Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) postersThe Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) Marvin and BorgnineMarvin … Billed behind Borgnine
DVD Talk – Partial Review / Review by Stuart Galbraith IV | posted August 24, 2005
The Stranger Wore a Gun is a muddled mess made palatable by Scott’s likeable hero, a strong supporting cast, and the novelty of 3-D at its most nakedly exploitive.
The Raid (1954)
Recommended
USA Feature Film
Director: Hugo Fregonese
Writers: Sydney Boehm, Francis Cockrell, Herbert Ravenal Sass
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Composer: Roy Webb
Cast: Van Heflin, Anne Bancroft, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin,
Tommy Rettig, Peter Graves
Fregonese’s fact based US Civil War film, chronicling a confederate soldier’s infiltration of a small town in Vermont as he prepares to sack it, complicated by his meeting of an attractive young widow, is, with its excellent performances and uncompromising scripting, a thrilling yet intelligent examination of the ambiguities of war and human relationships.
“Nobody gets to be a cowboy forever.”
– Jack Palance
Monte Walsh
Monte Walsh … a real maverick
MFW: Monte Walsh seemed to get decent promotion – lots of excellent posters – and boasts a stellar cast … yet somehow seemed to slip under the fence.
But I believe this is one Western that will age well and eventually earn it’s rightful place at the bar.
Monte Walsh / Rotten Tomatoes
MFW: “100%” from critcs and “57%” from viewers ??
That’s a pretty large canyon.
But I liked it.
Back in 2013 I did some posts on Glenn Ford
