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An Angel from Texas (1940)

An Angel from Texas poster
Directed by
Ray Enright
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man from Texas gets mixed up in the world of Broadway theater production. He navigates a series of comedic situations involving scheming producers and a budding romance.

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What happens

An Angel from Texas is a 1940 comedy film directed by Ray Enright and written by Fred Niblo Jr. and Bertram Millhauser, based on the hit 1925 play The Butter and Egg Man written by George S. Kaufman. The film stars Eddie Albert, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on April 27, 1940. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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