The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
“She had the biggest Six-Shooters in the West!!!”
1949 · 1 h 17 min
Preston SturgesCast
Betty Grable 
Cesar Romero 
Rudy Vallee 
Olga San Juan 
Porter Hall 
Hugh Herbert
Credits
Written by: Earl Felton
Plot
A saloon singer who shoots a man by mistake flees to a small Western town and becomes its schoolteacher.
Sinekatalog’s take
Preston Sturges's Technicolor Western farce, with Betty Grable, Cesar Romero and Rudy Vallée, is a famous flop, loud and frantic with flashes of wit.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.0 / 10 (1,110 votes)
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