by Hans J. Wollstein
biography
Dialect comedian Willie Howard, the skinny member of vaudeville's Eugene and Howard, played a Jewish-accented cowboy (singing Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin's "I Got a Girl in Cal-i-for-ni-ay") in the 1935 version of David Belasco's ancient operetta Rose of the Rancho (1936). It was a screen highlight of sorts for a comedian otherwise mainly seen in early Vitaphone shorts and Al Christie comedy two-reelers.
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Broadway Melody of 1938
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1937 | |||
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Rose of the Rancho
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1936 | |||
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Millions in the Air
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1935 |
