The Paleface
Like Merry Xmas and Happy New Year...They belong together!
6.1(79) 1948-12-17 91 minComedyWestern
Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians.
ScreenplayFrank Tashlin
ScreenplayEdmund L. Hartmann
DirectorNorman Z. McLeod
Original Music ComposerVictor Young
ProducerRobert L. Welch
Cast & characters
Bob Hope
as 'Painless' Peter Potter
Jane Russell
as Calamity Jane
Robert Armstrong
as Terris
Iris Adrian
as Pepper
Bobby Watson
as Toby Preston
Jackie Searl
as Jasper Martin
Joseph Vitale
as Indian Scout
Charles Trowbridge
as Gov. Johnson
Clem Bevans
as Hank Billings
Jeff York
as Big Joe
Stanley Andrews
as Commissioner Emerson
Wade Crosby
as Jeb
Chief Yowlachie
as Chief Yellow Feather
Iron Eyes Cody
as Chief Iron Eyes
John Maxwell
as Village gossip
Tom Kennedy
as Bartender
Henry Brandon
as Wapato (medicine man)
Francis McDonald
as Lance (as Francis J. McDonald)
Frank Hagney
as Greg
Skelton Knaggs
as Pete
Olin Howland
as Jonathan Sloane, undertaker
George Chandler
as Patient #1
Nestor Paiva
as Patient #2
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Rolando Barrera
as Indian (uncredited)
