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  • Nov 22, 1936
    "Song Of The Gringo" opens, with Tex Ritter in his first starring movie role. It features him performing his trademark song "Rye Whiskey"
    Dec 20, 1936
    Tex Ritter's second movie, "Headin' For The Rio Grande," opens. Ritter is tasked with breaking up a ring of Mafia-like cattle rustlers
    Jan 2, 1937
    Tex Ritter begins filming the movie "Trouble In Texas"
    Jan 30, 1937
    Tex Ritter's third movie, "Arizona Days," opens. The Prairie Ramblers' Floyd "Salty" Holmes appears on-screen, playing harmonica
    Mar 6, 1937
    "Trouble In Texas" opens, starring Tex Ritter and Rita Hayworth with roles for bandleader Bob Crosby and guitarist Rudy Sooter. Ritter plays a cowboy on the rodeo circuit, where riders are dying from poisoned needles
    Apr 3, 1937
    "Hittin' The Trail" opens, offering Tex Ritter his fifth starring role, in which he unwittingly wins stolen horses while playing roulette. Also in the picture: Ray Whitley and His Range Ramblers
    May 22, 1937
    Tex Ritter stars in the opening of "Sing, Cowboy, Sing," in which he's wrongly jailed while trying to help save a freight line
    Jul 2, 1937
    "Riders Of The Rockies" opens, starring Tex Ritter, as the Texas Rangers battle cattle rustlers. Among Ritter's performances is the familiar "Home On The Range"
    Aug 6, 1937
    Tex Ritter and his white horse, Flash, star in the debut of "Mystery Of The Hooded Horsemen." With Ku Klux Klan overtones, Ritter dons a hood to investigate a ring of anonymous crooks. Ray Whitley makes an appearance
    Oct 29, 1937
    Tex Ritter's "Tex Rides With The Boy Scouts" debuts. He receives musical aid from Los Angeles radio act The Beverly Hill Billies

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