Cowboy from Brooklyn

Cowboy from Brooklyn
Cowboy from Brooklyn

Warner's promotional poster
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Written by Robert Sloane
Louis Pelletier
Starring Pat O'Brien
Dick Powell
Priscilla Lane
Ann Sheridan
Ronald Reagan
Dick Foran
Johnnie Davis
Music by Leo F. Forbstein
Adolph Deutsch
Adolph Deutsch
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) July 9, 1938
Running time 77 min.
Country United States
Language English
Priscilla Lane, the youngest of the Lane Sisters, in the trailer for Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938).

Cowboy from Brooklyn is a 1938 American musical comedy film starring Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Priscilla Lane, Ann Sheridan, and future US President Ronald Reagan.[1]

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Plot

Singer Elly Jordan, a Brooklyn man who is terrified of animals, ends up broke along with his two musical partners at Hardy's Dude Ranch in Two Bits, Wyoming. The Hardys, Ma and Pop, daughter Jane and son Jeff, hire the men to play for the dudes. Sam Thorne, Jane's self-appointed boyfriend, ranch cowhand and amateur crooner, is jealous of Jane's interest in Elly. Elly is so successful as a cowboy singer, that when theatrical agent Ray Chadwick arrives at the ranch on a vacation and hears him, he signs Elly immediately. Chadwick thinks that Elly is a real cowboy and Jane coaches him to talk like one. In spite of his fear of animals, he gets away with the deception. He makes a successful screen test as a cowboy, using the name Wyoming Steve Gibson, but he and Chadwick, who now knows the truth, fear that the deception will be revealed when the movie people arrive in New York from Hollywood with Elly's contract.

From the trailer.

Meanwhile, Jane and some of the ranch people are traveling East as well so Sam can sing on Captain Rose's Amateur Hour in New York. Jane tells Sam that she is in love with Elly and Sam is so angry that when he isn't a big success on the show, he blurts out the truth about Elly's background. To prove that Elly is on the level, Chadwick and his assistant Pat Dunn suggest that he compete in a rodeo. They take Elly to Professor Landis, who hypnotizes him. Under hypnosis, Elly leaps on a horse, rides to Madison Square Garden, enters the bulldogging contest and sets a new record. He sneezes and wakes from the hypnosis, but the movie people are convinced that he is a real cowboy. He signs the contract and kisses Jane to seal the deal.

List of songs

References

  1. ^ Rickey, Carrie. "Reagan's film persona: Cheerful, humble, kind." The Philadelphia Inquirer. June 6, 2004. National, A22.

External links

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1920s
The Heart of Maryland (1927) · Women They Talk About (1928) · The Singing Fool (1928) · Say It with Songs (1929)
1930s
She Couldn't Say No (1930) · Moby Dick (1930) · The Office Wife (1930) · Fifty Million Frenchmen (1931) · Kept Husbands (1931) · Sit Tight (1931) · Gold Dust Gertie (1931) · Honor of the Family (1931) · Manhattan Parade (1931) · 42nd Street (1933) · Picture Snatcher (1933) · Footlight Parade (1933) · Wonder Bar (1934) · Here Comes the Navy (1934) · In Caliente (1935) · Frisco Kid (1935) · Cain and Mabel (1936) · Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936) · Marked Woman (1937) · Ever Since Eve (1937) · San Quentin (1937) · A Slight Case of Murder (1938) · Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938) · Wings of the Navy (1939) · The Oklahoma Kid (1939) · Espionage Agent (1939) · Invisible Stripes (1939)
1940s
Brother Orchid (1940) · Knute Rockne, All American (1940) · Footsteps in the Dark (1941) · Larceny, Inc. (1942) · Silver Queen (1942) · Action in the North Atlantic (1943) · The Fighting Sullivans (1944) · Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) · Wake Up and Dream (1946) · Home Sweet Homicide (1946) · I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1947) · You Were Meant for Me (1948) · Mother Is a Freshman (1949) · It Happens Every Spring (1949) · Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
1950s
Kill the Umpire (1950) · The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) · Call Me Mister (1951) · The Frogmen (1951) · The Great Sioux Uprising (1953) · The French Line (1953) · She Couldn't Say No (1954)

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