Melody Ranch [SEP] cast member
Melody Ranch
Melody Ranch is a 1940 Western musical film directed by Joseph Santley and starring Gene Autry, Jimmy Durante, and Ann Miller. Written by Jack Moffitt, F. Hugh Herbert, Bradford Ropes, and Betty Burbridge, the film is about a singing cowboy who returns to his hometown to restore order when his former childhood enemies take over the frontier town. In 2002, the film was added to the National Film Registry by the National Film Preservation Board and selected for preservation as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically
stills from the episode.
Characters.
- David Brisbin as Benjamin Ernst, Sr., ranch owner
- Kelly Brown as Bradley "Brad" Taylor, a riding instructor from a rich Grosse Pointe, Michigan, family
- Debra Kalman as Lucy, ranch hand
- David Lascher as Ted McGriff, senior staff
- Christine Taylor as Melody Hanson, lifeguard and dance instructor from Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Joe Torres as Danny Lightfoot, a Hopi Native American. Torres was cast after auditioning in Tucson for