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Hollywood Barn Dance
“IT'S RURAL, RHYTHMIC, ROMANTIC!”
5.0 / 10• 1947• 1h 12m•G• English
MusicWestern
Storyline
Based on and built around the west coast radio program, "The Hollywood Barn Dance", although no members of the 1947 cast of the program are in the film, but the better-known (on a national scale) Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadors, Jack Guthrie and Jimmy and Leon Short more than make up for that. The slight plot, around 18 songs, begins with Tubb and his band searching for $2000 needed to rebuild their town chuch after it burned down while they were rehearsing in it. Hollywood, here they come!
Cast & Crew
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Tubb
LeadHB
Helen Boyce
Esmeralda Perkins
LT
Lori Talbott
Helen Cartwright
AK
Ann Kunde
Ma Tubb
Earle Hodgins
Francis D. Cartwright
Frank McGlynn Sr.
Hiram Tubb
PC
Pat Combs
Young Ernest Tubb
Emmett Vogan
Cafe Owner
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Bernard B. Ray's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Hollywood Barn Dance is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
