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The Paleface is a 1948 American Comedy Western film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope as "Painless Potter" and Jane Russell as Calamity Jane. In the movie, Hope sings the song "Buttons and Bows" (by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans). The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year.
The Paleface: Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian. Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.
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- Comedy, Family, Western
- Norman Z. McLeod
- 1948-12-17
A comedy western starring Bob Hope as a dentist who marries an outlaw and gets involved in a plot to rob a bank. Watch clips, read reviews, and learn more about this classic film on TCM.
- Norman Z. Mcleod
- Bob Hope
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) is working undercover for the U.S. government, trying to capture a gunrunner named Terris (Robert Armstrong) in exchange for a pardon for...
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- Bob Hope
- Norman Z. Mcleod
- Western, Comedy
Overview. 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. Norman Z. McLeod. Director.
When the agent is killed Jane recruits a new husband -- none other than innocent dupe "Painless" Peter Potter, a totally inept dentist and confirmed coward who's main goal is to leave the barbaric west far behind.
Find out who starred in and worked on the 1948 comedy film The Paleface, directed by Norman Z. McLeod and written by Edmund L. Hartmann and Frank Tashlin. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, and more on IMDb.
