Rainbow Over Texas
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Initial release May 9, 1946 (USA) Running time 1h 5m | 6.2/10 IMDb Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Music director R. Dale Butts, Charles Maxwell Cast (Roy Rogers), Trigger (Trigger, Roy's Horse), George 'Gabby' Hayes (Sheriff 'Gabby' Whittaker), (Jackie Dalrymple, posing as Jackie Larkin), (Kirby Haynes), Robert Emmett Keane (Wooster J. Dalrymple)Similar movies Hidalgo , Tangled , Marnie , Goldfinger , A View to a Kill , Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rainbow Over Texas is a film from 1946 in which Roy Rogers plays himself as a famous cowboy-singer returning to Texas. Directed by Frank McDonald from a story by Max Brand, it co-stars George "Gabby" Hayes and Dale Evans.
The self-portrayal of Roy Rogers as a more glamorous version of himself in Rainbow Over Texas revealed the great lengths to which Hollywood film studios would go in promoting their own film stars and made patently clear the self-referential advertising employed by studio productions in order to garner greater box office sales.
Since that time, "rainbow over Texas" has become a colloquialism for anyone who self-aggrandizes their own life in mythic and fantastical terms. For example, an individual who confabulates their previous experiences or resume out of either ignorance or self-importance is likened to a "rainbow over Texas".
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Rainbow Over Texas WikipediaRainbow Over Texas IMDb Rainbow Over Texas themoviedb.org