Cowboy and the Senorita (1944)

Description

This is the first of 28 films Dale EVans made with Roy Rogers and has for many years been available only in the fifty-three minute edited-for-television version.While making an inventory of the family's film archive, an unedited 16 mm print of the film was discovered by Dusty Rogers (Roy Rogers Jr.). When it was determined that it was in fact the only known enedited print, the family immediately decided to make it available to the millions of fans of Roy and Dale. Dale usually referred to this film as her favorite even though she was billed third (after Mary Lee), and it would be several films and a couple of years before she was to lay claim to the title "Queen of the West." Aside from the fact that it is Dale's first film with Roy, it is of interest because it is the first of the Western musicals that Republic Pircures' President Herbert Yates ordered to be written for Roy after being captivated by the Broadway musical "Oklahoma." Also featured in the film was Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Roy's sidekick Teddy Bear, and Fuzzy Knight in a rare appearance aay from Universal Pictures, where he had been sidekick to Johnny Mack Brown and Text Ritter.