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Destry Rides Again ( AKA The Man from Montana ) ( 1939 ) is a western starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart.
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In 1996, Destry Rides Again was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".
Famed Western writer Max Brand contributed the novel, Destry Rides Again, but the film also owes its origins to Brand's serial " Twelve Peers ", published in a pulp-magazine.
* Universal Pictures released an earlier version, also titled Destry Rides Again ( 1932 ), directed by Benjamin Stoloff and starring Tom Mix and Zasu Pitts.
* A Broadway musical version of the story, Destry Rides Again, opened in New York at the Imperial Theater on April 23, 1959, and played 472 performances.
In 1939, she accepted producer Joe Pasternak's offer ( and a pay cut ) to play against type in her first film in two years: that of the cowboy saloon girl, Frenchie, in the light-hearted western Destry Rides Again, opposite James Stewart.
During the filming of Destry Rides Again, Dietrich started a love affair with co-star Jimmy Stewart, which ended after filming.
One of the early films he worked on was Destry Rides Again ( 1939 ), for which he wrote the lyrics to " See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have ", sung by Marlene Dietrich.
The studio was eager to duplicate the success of Destry Rides Again starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart with a vehicle starring West and Fields.
* Destry Rides Again ( 1959 )-musical-director and choreographer-Tony Award Nomination for Best Direction of a Musical and Tony Award for Best Choreography
He created the Western character Destry, featured in several cinematic versions of Destry Rides Again, and his character Dr. Kildare was adapted to motion pictures, radio, television and comic books.
Additional Broadway credits include Fanny ( 1954 ), Destry Rides Again ( 1959 ), I Can Get It for You Wholesale ( 1962 ), in which Barbra Streisand made her Broadway debut, and The Zulu and the Zayda ( 1965 ), which dealt with racial and religious intolerance.
One of her most famous roles was in the Western Destry Rides Again ( 1939 ) in which her character, Lillibelle, gets into a famous " cat-fight " with Frenchie ( Marlene Dietrich ) over the possession of her husband's trousers, won by Frenchie in a crooked card game.
In 1939, he played the lead villain in Destry Rides Again and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the ruthless Sergeant Markoff in Beau Geste, although the Oscar went to Thomas Mitchell for Stagecoach.
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In late 2008, DaRosa formed the band Destry which also features Sam Means of the indie rock group The Format, as well as Shaun Cooper from Straylight Run.
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* An almost shot-for-shot remake of the 1939 production, Destry ( 1954 ), was also directed by George Marshall and stars Audie Murphy and Thomas Mitchell.
The apogee of the studio system may have been the year 1939, which saw the release of such classics as The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again, Young Mr. Lincoln, Wuthering Heights, Only Angels Have Wings, Ninotchka, Babes in Arms, Gunga Din, and The Roaring Twenties.
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But what the mayor doesn't know is that Dimsdale was a deputy under the famous lawman, Tom Destry and is able to call upon the equally formidable Tom Destry, Jr. ( James Stewart ) to help him make Bottleneck a lawful, respectable town.
Destry confounds the townsfolk by refusing to strap on a gun in spite of demonstrating that he is an expert marksman.
A final confrontation between Destry and Kent's gang is inevitable, but " Frenchy " is won over by Destry and changes sides.
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As filmed in 1932, with Tom Mix in the starring role, the central character differed in that Destry did wear six-guns in that version.
* ABC aired a short-lived television series in 1964, Destry, based on the first two films, starring John Gavin as the son of the movie's title character.
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While at Universal, he was cast as " Skeets Scanlon " in the serial, Scouts to the Rescue, and he was seen in one sequence of the James Stewart-Marlene Dietrich favorite, Destry Rides Again.
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Produced by David Merrick, the show had a book by Leonard Gershe, music and lyrics by Harold Rome, and starred Andy Griffith as Destry and Dolores Gray as Frenchy.
In his 1959 promotional film shown to potential sponsors, Rod Serling summarized an earlier version of this episode's plot under its original title, " Death, Destry, and Mr. Dingle.
" Escape Clause " was one of the three episodes-in-production mentioned by Rod Serling in his 1959 promotional film pitching the series to potential sponsors, the others being " The Lonely " and " Mr. Denton on Doomsday " ( referred to as " Death, Destry, and Mr. Dingle ").
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