The Gal Who Took the West (1949) on Netflix
Approved19491h 24mComedyWestern
Lillian Marlowe wants to travel west, so she passes herself off as an opera singer. In 1890s Arizona she sets two cousins, Lee and Grant O'Hara, against each other.
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Plot summary
A reporter is putting together a piece on the O'Hara family, and the O'Haras recall Arizona in the 1890s, when a young woman named Lily became caught up in a feud between two cousins. Lily is Lillian Marlowe, who needed passage west and posed as an opera singer to get it, and her presence in Arizona sets the cousins Lee and Grant O'Hara at odds.
Cast
- Robert R. Stephensonas Ted (as Bob Stevenson)
- Robin Shortas Bartender
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
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- Bowers, who at the time had a $750-a-week contract with Universal, wrote the script in four weeks. He said Billy Wilder wanted to buy it for $100,000, but Bowers persuaded the studio to make the film themselves.
- An article in Life magazine about gunfighters who lived in a Prescott, Arizona nursing home was William Bowers' inspiration for the story, which gives three interpretations of a single incident, told in flashback from an old person's home.
- Bowers said the leads were going to be Susan Hayward, until a meeting where executives asked, "Why do we always go off the lot to get people? We got people here." They ended up making it with Yvonne DeCarlo, John Russell and Scott Brady.
