The Singing Hill (1941)

Curiosità

The Singing Hill is a 1941 American Western film directed by Lew Landers and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Virginia Dale. Based on a story by Jesse Lasky Jr. and Richard Murphy, the film is about a singing cowboy and foreman of a ranch that may be sold to an unscrupulous banker by the young madcap heiress who is unaware that the sale will result in the local ranchers losing their free grazing land and their ranches. In the film, Autry performed the 1940 song "Blueberry Hill", first recorded by Sammy Kaye, which would become a standard recorded by such artists as Louis Armstrong (1949), Fats Domino (1956), and Elvis Presley (1957).

Production

The Singing Hill was filmed March 11–24, 1941. The film had an operating budget of $86,869 (equal to $1,901,488 today), and a negative cost of $87,184.

Virginia Dale was a former Earl Carroll showgirl. Working for Paramount as a contract player, she was loaned out to Republic Pictures for The Singing Hill when the studio's original choice, Patricia Morison refused the part because of the unsuitability of the story and the clothes.

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