Saturday, May 12, 2012

Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Monte Hale


Monte Hale (1919-2009) was a singing cowboy and B-Western film actor. 

He learned to sing and play the guitar at an early age, and was soon playing in Vaudeville and local rodeos throughout Texas.  During World War II he got a job as a replacement guitarist with the Stars Over Texas Bond Drive.  He worked with several Republic Pictures celebrities and staff during the bond drive, and Republic soon signed him to a contract.

His first starring role came in 1946 in Home on the Range (1946).  His film career began to fade in the 1950s, so he retired from movies and started performing at rodeos and circuses.

Monte Hale's Santa Susana locations filmography:

Along the Oregon Trail (1947) starring Monte Hale, Lorna Gray and Clayton Moore (Iverson Ranch) Republic


California Firebrand (1948) starring Monte Hale, Lorna Gray and Paul Hurst (Iverson Ranch) Republic
Home on the Range (1946) starring Monte Hale, Lorna Gray and Bob Nolan (Chatsworth Reservoir)(Brandeis Ranch)(Iverson) Republic
Last Frontier Uprising (1947) starring Monte Hale, Lorna Gray and Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart - Republic


Law of the Golden West (1949) starring Monte Hale, Paul Hurst and Gail Davis (Iverson Ranch) Republic


The Man from Rainbow Valley (1946) starring Monte Hale, Lorna Gray and Jo Ann Marlowe (Chatsworth Reservoir)(Iverson Ranch) Republic


The Missourians (1950) starring Monte Hale, Paul Hurst and Roy Barcroft (Iverson Ranch) Republic


The Old Frontier (1950) starring Monte Hale, Paul Hurst and Claudia Barrett (Iverson Ranch) Republic
Out California Way (1946) starring Monte Hale, Lorna Gray and Robert Blake (Chatsworth Reservoir)(Iverson Ranch) Republic - guest stars Roy Rogers and Allan Lane


Outcasts of the Trail (1949) starring Monte Hale, Paul Hurst and Jeff Donnell (Iverson Ranch) Republic
Pioneer Marshal (1949) starring Monte Hale, Paul Hurst and Nan Leslie (Iverson Ranch) Republic
Prince of the Plains (1949) starring Monte Hale, Paul Hurst and Shirley Davis (Iverson Ranch) Republic


Ranger of Cherokee Strip (1949) starring Monte Hale, Paul Hurst and Alix Talton (Iverson Ranch) Republic
San Antone Ambush (1949) starring Monte Hale, Bette Daniels and Paul Hurst (Iverson Ranch) Republic
Son of God's Country (1948) starring Monte Hale, Pamela Blake and Paul Hurst (Iverson Ranch) Republic
South of Rio (1949) starring Monte Hale, Kay Christopher and Paul Hurst - Republic
The Timber Trail (1948) starring Monte Hale, Lynne Roberts and James Burke - Republic


Under Colorado Skies (1947) starring Monte Hale, Lorna Gray and Paul Hurst (Iverson Ranch) Republic
The Vanishing Westerner (1950) starring Monte Hale, Paul Hurst and Aline Towne (Iverson Ranch) Republic

'Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas' is a continuing series about "six-gun heroes that performed on movie location ranches in Chatsworth, California.  For more information about Chatsworth filming locations see http://www.cowboyup.com/ to find information about my books: Rendezvous at Boulder Pass: Hollywood's Fantasyland - 2010 and Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas - 2008.


Index for 'Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas' -- Chatsworth's Six-Gun Heroes

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