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Director:
Robert Parrish
Writers:
Margaret Cousins (novel)
John Lee Mahin (writer)
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Release Date:
27 April 1956 (France) more
Genre:
Drama more
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User Comments:
Debutante stranded in a rough Texas oil boomtown uses her classy wardrobe to start an up-scale dress shop for the wives and daughters of the newly rich oilmen. more

Cast

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Jane Wyman ... Lucy Gallant

Charlton Heston ... Casey Cole

Claire Trevor ... Lady MacBeth
Thelma Ritter ... Molly Basserman
William Demarest ... Charles Madden
Wallace Ford ... Gus Basserman
Tom Helmore ... Jim Wardman
Gloria Talbott ... Laura Wilson
James Westerfield ... Harry Wilson
Mary Field ... Irma Wilson
Allan Shivers ... Himself (Governor of Texas)
Edith Head ... Herself
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Oil Town (USA) (reissue title)
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Runtime:
104 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:Btl

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The original story, "The Life of Lucy Gallant" by Margaret Cousins, appeared in the May 1953 issue of Good Housekeeping. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Edith Head: The Paramount Years (2002) (V) more
Soundtrack:
How Can I Tell Her more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Debutante stranded in a rough Texas oil boomtown uses her classy wardrobe to start an up-scale dress shop for the wives and daughters of the newly rich oilmen., 5 September 1999
Author: RitaK from California

Jane Wyman plays a refined and educated Eastern woman who arrives in a Texas Oil town to get married. After the wedding is off, she sells her trousseau to get the money to start a dress shop. After 20 years she runs the biggest department store in Texas and socializes with the Texas rich. Charlton Heston waits patiently in the background for her to realize that she can have love and a career. This is one of the few movies from this decade that allowed the leading lady to be something beyond a stereotypical 50's woman.

For many the costumes are the best part of the movie. The fancy department store has fashion shows with great 50's styles styles created by Edith Head and others. I would love for this to come out on DVD. It used to play on TV on Saturday afternoon about 30 years ago and I almost always watched it.

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