The Paleface (1948)
1h 31m
Running Time
December 17, 1948Release Date
The Paleface (1948)
1h 31m
Running Time
December 17, 1948Release Date
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Plot.
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Bob Hope
'Painless' Peter Potter
Jane Russell
Calamity Jane
Robert Armstrong
Terris
Iris Adrian
Pepper
Bobby Watson
Toby Preston
Jackie Searl
Jasper Martin
Joseph Vitale
Indian Scout
Charles Trowbridge
Gov. Johnson
Clem Bevans
Hank Billings
Monte Brice
Writer
Stanley Andrews
Commissioner Emerson
Jeff York
Big Joe
Barney Dean
Writer
Wade Crosby
Jeb
Norman Z. McLeod
Director
Chief Yowlachie
Chief Yellow Feather
Edmund L. Hartmann
Writer
Iron Eyes Cody
Chief Iron Eyes
Frank Tashlin
Writer
Jack Rose
Writer
John Maxwell
Village gossip
Robert L. Welch
Producer
Tom Kennedy
Bartender
Henry Brandon
Wapato (medicine man)
Victor Young
Composer
Ray Rennahan
Cinematographer
Francis McDonald
Lance (as Francis J. McDonald)
Frank Hagney
Greg
Ellsworth Hoagland
Editor
Skelton Knaggs
Pete
Olin Howland
Jonathan Sloane, undertaker
George Chandler
Patient #1
Nestor Paiva
Patient #2
Rolando Barrera
Indian (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
Dealer
Michael D. Moore
Second Assistant Director
Sam Comer
Set Decoration
Wally Westmore
Makeup Supervisor
Hans Dreier
Art Direction
John Cope
Sound Recordist
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Wiki.
The Paleface is a 1948 American Comedy Western film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope as "Painless Potter" and Jane Russell as Calamity Jane. In the movie, Hope sings the song "Buttons and Bows" (by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans). The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year.The film had a sequel, which is written and directed this time around by its co-writer Frank Tashlin, called Son of Paleface, in 1952. In 1968, Don Knotts remade the film as The Shakiest Gun in the West.
