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Under a Texas Moon (film)
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Under A Texas Moon is a 1930
musical western film photographed entirely in Technicolor
. It was based on the novel Two-Gun Man (from 1929) which was written by Stewart Edward White
. It was the second all-color all-talking feature to be filmed entirely outdoors as well as being the second western in color. The film features one theme song by the title of "Under A Texas Moon."
The film survives as a single nitrate Technicolor print, copied by the UCLA Film and Television Archive
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participated. She later told Bert Corona
that the experience "motivated her to work on behalf of unifying the Spanish-speaking communities."
1930 in film
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musical western film photographed entirely in Technicolor
Technicolor
Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...
. It was based on the novel Two-Gun Man (from 1929) which was written by Stewart Edward White
Stewart Edward White
Stewart Edward White was an American author.-Biography:Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan he attended Grand Rapids High School, and earned degrees from University of Michigan ....
. It was the second all-color all-talking feature to be filmed entirely outdoors as well as being the second western in color. The film features one theme song by the title of "Under A Texas Moon."
The film survives as a single nitrate Technicolor print, copied by the UCLA Film and Television Archive
UCLA Film and Television Archive
The UCLA Film and Television Archive is an internationally renowned visual arts organization focused on the preservation, study, and appreciation of film and television, based at the University of California, Los Angeles. It holds more than 220,000 film and television titles and 27 million feet of...
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Cast
{in credits order)- Frank FayFrank Fay (American actor)Frank Fay was an American film and stage actor, emcee, comedian, best known as an actor for having played "Elwood P. Dowd" in the play Harvey by the American playwright Mary Coyle Chase on Broadway...
as Don Carlos - Raquel TorresRaquel TorresRaquel Torres was a Mexican-born American film actress. Her sister was actress Renee Torres....
as Raquella - Myrna LoyMyrna LoyMyrna Loy was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles...
as Lolita Romero - Armida VendrellArmida VendrellArmida, born Armida Vendrell, was an American actress, singer, dancer, and vaudevillian born in Aguascalientes, Mexico.-Early life:...
as Dolores - Noah Beery as Jed Parker
- Georgie Stone as Pedro
- George CooperGeorge Cooper (actor)George Cooper was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared on stage first, then in 210 films between 1911 and 1940...
as Philipe - Charles SellonCharles SellonCharles Sellon was an American stage and film actor. He appeared in 108 films and stage acts between 1901 and 1935. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and died in La Crescenta, California. His grave is located in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery.-Selected filmography:-External links:...
as José Romero - Jack CurtisJack Curtis (actor)Jack Curtis was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 157 films between 1915 and 1950. He was born in San Francisco, California and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:* Graft...
as Buck Johnson - Sam Appel as Pancho Gonzalez
- Tully MarshallTully MarshallWilliam Phillips was an American character actor known as Tully Marshall, with nearly a quarter century of theatrical experience behind before he made his first film appearance in 1914.-Career:...
as Gus Aldrich - Mona MarisMona MarisMona Maris was an Argentine film actress who was born in Buenos Aires.-Ancestry and education:Her given name was Mona Maria Emita Cap de Vielle. Her mother was a Spanish Basque and her father a French Basque...
as Lolita Roberto - Francisco Marán as Antonio
Response
New York Latinos led by Gonzalo González protested the film, characterizing it as "anti-Mexican." Police brutalized the picketers, killing González. The murder sparked a Pan-Latino protest, in which the Latino civil rights activist Luisa MorenoLuisa Moreno
Luisa Moreno was a leader in the United States labor movement and a social activist. She unionized workers, led strikes, wrote pamphlets in English and Spanish, and convened the 1939 Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española, the "first national Latino civil rights assembly", before "voluntarily"...
participated. She later told Bert Corona
Bert Corona
Humberto Noé "Bert" Corona was an American labor and civil rights leader. Throughout his long career, he worked with nearly every major Mexican-American organization, founding or co-founding several. He organized workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations and fought on the behalf of...
that the experience "motivated her to work on behalf of unifying the Spanish-speaking communities."