Square Dance Jubilee

• Director: Paul Landres
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Musical
• Main Cast: Mary Beth Hughes, Wally Vernon, Spade Cooley, John Eldredge
• Release Year: 1949
• Country: US
• Run Time: 78 minutes

Plot

Lippert's Square Dance Jubilee was aimed squarely at the rural movie market. Don Barry and Wally Vernon play a pair of talent scouts, searching for authentic country-western performers to appear on Spade Cooley's TV show. Somehow, the duo finds time to rescue a lovely young rancher (Mary Beth Hughes) from cattle rustlers. The plot is serviceable but hardly necessary: the sole "raison d'etre" for Square Dance Jubilee was its parade of C&W talent. In addition to Spade Cooley, the musical roster includes Cowboy Copas, Ray Vaughan, Claude Casey, Johnny Downs, The Broome Brothers, Smiley and Kitty, the Elder Lovelies and the Tumbleweed Tumblers. Yee-hah! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Mary Beth Hughes - Barbara
• Wally Vernon - Seldom
• Spade Cooley - Spade
• John Eldredge - Stratton

Thurston Hall - G.K.; Britt Wood - Grubby; Chester Clute - Yes-Man; Tom Kennedy - Bartender; Max "Alibi" Terhune - Sheriff; Tom Tyler - Buck; Clarke Stevens - Bert; Lee Roberts - Smokey; Marshall Reed - Charlie; Cliff Taylor - Short Comic; Ralph Moody - Indian Chief; Alex Montoya - Second Indian; Hal King - Television Operator; Claude Casey; Johnny Downs; Don "Red" Barry - Don; Slim Gaut - Tall Comic

Credit

Fred Preble - Art Director, Paul Landres - Director, Hugh Wynn - Editor, Walter Greene - Composer (Music Score), Walter Greene - Musical Direction/Supervision, Ernest W. Miller - Cinematographer, Ron Ormond - Producer, William L. Nolte - Screen Story, Ron Ormond - Screenwriter, Dan Ullman - Screenwriter