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January 2009 Update – The Cowboy Quarterback 1/30/2009

Hi folks!  Just a quick note to let you know that in honor of Superbowl Weekend,  Turner Classic Movies will be running football movies *all day* on Friday, January 30th – including a repeat performance of  The Cowboy Quarterback at 3:45PM Eastern time.  This 1939 Warner Brothers picture features Bert Wheeler, in his first solo [...]

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The Cowboy Quarterback (1939 – Warner Bros)

Bert Wheeler’s first movie since the death of Robert Woolsey and his last film as a leading man. It is best remembered for his comic vocal performance of “Mother MacCree” with Eddie Foy Jr., another old vaudevillian and a personal friend of Wheeler. Overall, the film isn’t the best example of Wheeler’s work, but it [...]

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Wheeler and Woolsey Movies on TV

Dixiana poster There are no fewer than four Wheeler and Woolsey movies coming up in next six weeks, and one film starring Bert Wheeler. On September 3, 2008, Turner Classic Movies will be celebrating the start of football season by showing Hold ‘Em Jail, the 1932 prison football romp co-starring Edna Mae Oliver (one of [...]

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