The Sons of the Pioneers are one of the United States' earliest Western singing groups. Known for their vocal performances, their musicianship, and their...

The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney films Pinocchio and Fantasia. The top ten 1940 released...

Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by Lester Orlebeck. Robert Livingston as Stony Brooke Raymond Hatton...

Fantasia is a 1940 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Productions, with story direction by Joe Grant and Dick Huemer and...

example, the Milky Way is made of milk and the Moon is made of green cheese). The short won the 1940 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, and was the first...

Arizona is a 1940 American Western film directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Jean Arthur, William Holden and Warren William. Victor Young was nominated...

was a Welsh-born American film and stage actress. She often played dowagers or spinsters in numerous Hollywood movies of the 1930s and 1940s, mostly in...

in the movie's fictional band The Regimental Singers that actually consisted of the Sons of the Pioneers; Curtis is not listed as a member of the principal...

was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water"...

of the Sons of the Pioneers, sang "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and "At the Rainbows End". Rio Grande (1938) West of Cheyenne (1938) The Durango Kid (1940)...

co-founder of the Sons of the Pioneers and then as an actor, the rebranded Rogers then became one of the most famous and popular Western stars of his era...

Kid (1940) 1st Durango Kid film West of Abilene (1940) Thundering Frontier (1940) The Pinto Kid (1941) Outlaws of the Panhandle (1941) The Medico of Painted...

(1940) – Tex Lawton Rolling Home to Texas (1940) – Tex Reed Ridin' the Cherokee Trail (1941) – Ranger Lt. Tex Ritter The Pioneers (1941) – Tex King of...

A list of American films released in 1940. American film production was concentrated in Hollywood and was dominated by the eight Major film studios MGM...

Vera West, née Flounders, (28 June 1897 – 29 June 1947) was an American fashion designer and film costume designer. From 1928 to 1947, she was the chief...

The cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the...

Women Film Pioneers Project". wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu. Retrieved January 16, 2018.[dead link‍] Maltin, Leonard; Beck, Jerry (December 1987). Of Mice and...

films: The Taming of the West (Oct 1939) Pioneers of the Frontier (Feb 1940) The Man from Tumbleweeds (May 1940) The Return of Wild Bill (June 1940)...

The following is a list of feature films produced and distributed by the American studio Columbia Pictures from 1940 until 1949. During these years Columbia...

co–founder of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Motion Picture Studios Bob Nolan (1908–1980), singer/actor in western musicals as leader of "The Sons of the Pioneers" Sidney...

featured, he played an antagonist opposing the white protagonist. For example, in the film "Young Buffalo Bill" (1940) he played Akuna, a renegade Native American...

Pioneer Days is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on November 20, 1930, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the twenty-fourth...

Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die (1942) - Jailer (uncredited) Sons of the Pioneers (1942) - Joe #1 - Henchman (uncredited) Riders of the West (1942) -...

November 6, 1940, in the Arizona Pioneers' Home Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona. Jo Van Fleet played Kate (surnamed Fisher) in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral...

Star Pioneers (1939) The Law Comes to Texas (1939) Overland with Kit Carson (1939) Serial The Taming of the West (1939) Pioneers of the Frontier (1940) The...

Beach and La Jolla playhouses in 1940, he worked as ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's stage manager for Bergen's 1941 tour of the country. Due to his resemblance...

West of Carson City (1940) - Foreman of the Jury (uncredited) My Little Chickadee (1940) - Barfly Drinking Straight Whiskey (uncredited) Pioneers of the...

colorful personalities and stories". The Arizona Republic. "Arizona Pioneers' Home". Arizona Pioneers' Home. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012....

earlier and looking for a new film, West accepted the role of Flower Belle Lee in the film My Little Chickadee (1940). Despite the stars' intense mutual dislike...

(uncredited) Heroes of the Saddle (1940) as Rodeo Indian (uncredited) Pioneers of the West (1940) as Indian Chief (uncredited) Brigham Young (1940) as Big Elk...