The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
| The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend | |
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| Directed by | Preston Sturges |
| Produced by | Preston Sturges |
| Written by | Earl Felton (story) Preston Sturges |
| Starring | Betty Grable |
| Music by | Cyril J. Mockridge |
| Cinematography | Harry Jackson |
| Edited by | Robert Fritch |
| Distributed by | Twentieth-Century Fox |
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Release date
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May 27, 1949 (New York City/Los Angeles) June 1949 (U.S.) |
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Running time
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77 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,192,000 |
| Box office | $2,889,000 (US) |
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend is a 1949 romantic comedy Western film starring Betty Grable and featuring Cesar Romero and Rudy Vallee. It was directed by Preston Sturges and written by him based on a story by Earl Felton.
The film, Sturges' first Technicolor production, was not well received at the time it was released, and was generally conceded to be a disaster – even Betty Grable bad-mouthed it – but its reputation has improved somewhat over time, even though it is not considered to be in the same league as the intelligent comedies Sturges made at Paramount Pictures that he is known for.
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend would turn out to be the last American film that Sturges would work on – although he would receive credit for films that were remakes or adaptations of his earlier movies. Sturges directed only one more film in his life, the 1955 French comedy Les carnets du Major Thompson (released in the U.S. as The French, They Are a Funny Race).
Hot-headed Winifred "Freddie" Jones (Betty Grable) is a saloon singer in the Old West who catches her boyfriend, gambler Blackie Jobero (Cesar Romero), flirting with another woman and takes a shot at him with the six-shooter she always carries. Unfortunately, she hits a Judge (Porter Hall) instead, so she and her friend Conchita (Olga San Juan) take it on the lam. When they get to a tiny hole-in-the-wall town, Freddie and Conchita are mistaken for the new schoolmarm and her Indian maid. They meet the local muckety-mucks, including wealthy Charles Hingelman (Rudy Vallee), owner of a valuable gold mine, who starts to romance Freddie. When Blackie shows up while tracking Freddie down, complications ensue.
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