Bob Hope
"Painless" Peter Potter
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Paleface, The (1948) -- (Movie Clip) Buttons And Bows Now married for her convenience and joined in a wagon train, secret government agent Calamity Jane (Russell) snoozes while her city-loving dupe husband Painless (Bob Hope) warbles a Livingston and Evans tune, in The Paleface, 1948.
The Paleface. Summaries. Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover. Someone is selling guns to the Indians and in order to find the culprit Calamity Jane and a secret agent go undercover posing as man and wife.
Calamity Jane (Jane Russell) is working undercover for the U.S. government, trying to capture a gunrunner named Terris (Robert Armstrong) in exchange for a pardon for her previous misdoings.
The Paleface (1948) was a Comedy - Western Film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and produced by Robert L. Welch. SYNOPSIS. This hilarious send-up of gunslinging oaters has Hope's mail-order dentist encountering famed outlaw Calamity Jane, played by a sly, luscious Russell.
The Paleface is a 1948 American Comedy Western film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope as "Painless Potter" and Jane Russell as Calamity Jane. In the movie, Hope sings the song "Buttons and Bows" (by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans ). The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year. The Paleface.
The Paleface (1948) directed by Norman Z. McLeod • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd. 1948 Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Like Merry Xmas and Happy New Year…They belong together!
Overview. Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws and Indians. Norman Z. McLeod. Director. Edmund L. Hartmann. Screenplay. Frank Tashlin.
