The Paleface | BFI | British Film Institute

Year: 1948

Production Country: USA

Directed by Norman Z. Mcleod
Featuring Bob Hope / Jane Russell / Robert Armstrong

Stills (7)

Cowboy-Indian burlesque.

Cast & credits

Cast

'Painless' Peter Potter Bob Hope
Calamity Jane Jane Russell
Terris Robert Armstrong
Pepper Iris Adrian
Toby Preston Robert Watson
Jasper Martin Jackie Searl
Indian scout Joseph Vitale
Governor Johnson Charles Trowbridge
Hank Billings Clem Bevans
Joe Jeff York
Commissioner Emerson Stanley Andrews
Jeb Wade Crosby
Chief Yellow Feather Chief Yowlachie
Chief Iron Eyes Iron Eyes Cody
village gossip John Maxwell
bartender Tom Kennedy
Wapato, medicine man Henry Brandon
Lance Francis Mcdonald
Greg Frank Hagney
Pete Skelton Knaggs
Jonathan Sloane, the undertaker Olin Howland
first patient George Chandler
second patient Nestor Paiva
[Clem] Earle Hodgins
[Zach] Arthur Space
[sheriff] Edgar Dearing
[bath house attendant] Dorothy Grainger
[Mr 'X'] Charles Cooley
[Bob] Eric Alden
[woman on wagon train] Babe London
[bearded character] Loyal Underwood
[pioneer] Billy Engle
[pioneer] Al Hill
[pioneer] Houseley Stevenson
[guest] Margaret Field
[guest] Laura Corbay
[charwoman in bathhouse] Patsy O'byrne
[girl in bathhouse] Lorna Jordan
[woman in bathhouse] Jody Gilbert
[justice of the peace] Harry Harvey
[justice of the peace] Paul E. Burns
[handsome cowboy] Hall Bartlett
[onlooker] Stanley Blystone
[onlooker] Robert Kortman
[Western character] Oliver Blake
[tough looking galoot] Lane Chandler
[cowboy] Syd Saylor
[hotel clerk] Walden Boyle
[bellhop] John Skins Miller
[a Westerner] Len Hendry
[henchman] Duke York
[henchman] Ethan Laidlaw
[Indian] Rolando Barrera
[Indian] Rudolph Valentino
[the mayor] Dick Elliott
[child] Sharon Mcmanus
[horseman] Carl André
[horseman] Ted Mapes
[horseman] Trevor Bardette
[horseman] Kermit Maynard
[.] Paul Dunn
[.] Jerry Hunter
[.] Eugene Persson
[.] Billy Andrews
[.] Marlyn Gladstone
[.] June Glory
[.] Maria Tavares
[.] Betty Hannon
[.] Dee La Nore
[.] Charmienne Harker
[.] Jerry James
[.] William Meader
[.] Dorothy Abbott
[.] Lee Blanchard
[.] Kuka L. Tuitama
[.] Ralph Gomez
[.] Milton Frieburn
[.] Sonny Chorre
[.] Ralph Willingham
[.] Titus Spencer
[.] Leroy Johnson
[.] Tim Nelson
[.] Chick Hannon
[.] Ethel Bryant
[.] Richard Farnsworth

Credits

Direction

Director Norman Z. Mcleod
[2nd Unit Director] Gordon Jennings
Assistant Director Alvin Ganzer
[Assistant Director (2nd)] Daniel J. McCauley
[Assistant Director (2nd)] Micky Moore
[Assistant Director (2nd Unit)] Richard Mcwhorter
[Assistant Director (2nd Unit)] Ralph Axness
[Script Supervisor] Claire Behnke
[2nd Unit Script Clerk] Marvin Weldon

Production

Production Company Paramount Pictures
Producer Robert L. Welch
[Production Manager] Richard Johnston
[Production Manager] Charles Woolstenhulme
[2nd Unit Assistant Production Manager] Andrew J. Durkus
[2nd Unit Assistant Production Manager] Stanley Goldsmith

Casting

[Casting] Joe Egli
[2nd Unit Casting] Al Mann
[2nd Unit Casting] Eddie Morse

Writing

Original Screenplay by Edmund Hartmann
Original Screenplay by Frank Tashlin
[Contributor on Special Sequence] Monte Brice
[Contributor on Special Sequence] Barney Dean
[Contributing Writer] Melville Shavelson
Additional Dialogue Jack Rose

Photography

Director of Photography Ray Rennahan
[2nd unit Camera] Dev Jennings
[2nd unit Camera] W. Wallace Kelley
Technicolor Colour Director Natalie Kalmus
[Technicolor] Associate Monroe W. Burbank
[Camera Operator] Arch R. Dalzell
[Camera Assistant] Charles Leahy
[Technicolor Camera] Paul Hill
[Technicolor Camera] Harry Marsh
[Gaffer] Howard Kelly
[Electrician] Joe Schuster
[Grip] Darrell Turnmire
[2nd Unit Grip] E. Newmeyer

Stills

[Stills] Ed Henderson

Special Effects

Special Photographic Effects Gordon Jennings
Process Photography Farciot Edouart
[Transparencies Camera] W. Wallace Kelley

Editing

Editor Ellsworth Hoagland
[Assistant Cutter] Floyd Knudtson

Design

Art Director Hans Dreier
Art Director Earl Hedrick
[Assistant Art Director] Al Roelofs
Set Decorator Sam Comer
Set Decorator Bertram Granger
[Props] Art Camp
[2nd Unit Props] Joe Thompson
[Assistant Props] Charles Mason

Costumes

Costumes Mary Kay Dodson
Men's Wardrobe Gile Steele
[Wardrobe] Ed Fitzharris
[Wardrobe] Samuel M. Levine
[Wardrobe] Grace Harris

Make-up

Make-up Supervision Wally Westmore
[Make-up Artist] Charles Berner
[Make-up Artist] Bill Woods
[Make-up Artist] Frank Thayer
[Hairdresser] LaVaughn Speer
[Hairdresser] Gertrude Reade
[Hairdresser] Dean Cole

Music

Musical Score Victor Young
[Orchestrations] Sidney Cutner
[Orchestrations] Leo Shuken

Choreography

Dances Staged by Billy Daniels
[Dance Director] Josephine Earl

Sound

Sound Recording Gene Merritt
Sound Recording John Cope
[Recordist] George Hamer
[Stage Engineer] Paul Franz
[Cableman] Tony Denocenzo
[Mike Grip] John Smirch

Stunts

[Stunts] Don House
[Stunts] Vernon Wiles
[Stunts] George Bruggeman
[Stunts] Robert St. Angelo
[Stunts] R. Morales
[Stunts] L. Greenhill
[Stunts] P. Moore
[Double for Bob Hope] Henry Wills
[Double for Jane Russell] Willard Willingham

Consultant

[Technical Adviser] Joe De Yong
[Dialogue Coach] John Maxwell
[Dialogue Coach] Len Hendry
[Livestock] Bill Hurley

Publicity

[Publicity] Al Jermy