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    • May 2, 1940
    Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette star in the debut of "Men With Steel Faces," with Autry discovering an advanced culture living underground. The movie's plot is similar to the 1935 western sci-fi that gave Autry his first starring role, "The Phantom Empire"
    May 5, 1940
    Bing Crosby portrays a singing construction worker in the New York debut of the comedy "If I Had My Way." The film includes a bit part for former Grand Ole Opry member Lee "Lasses" White
    May 9, 1940
    Tex Ritter is Tex Rockett in the debut of "Cowboy From Sundown," a western that features a minor role for "Dear Oakie" songwriter Doye O'Dell
    May 15, 1940
    Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette try to stop an on-screen kidnapping with the theater debut of "Gaucho Serenade"
    May 20, 1940
    Tex Ritter plays Tex Wright as "Pals Of The Silver Sage" debuts in movie theaters
    May 23, 1940
    Charles Starrett gets involved in a battle between transportation companies in the debut of "Texas Stagecoach." The Sons Of The Pioneers provide their now-standard theme: "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"
    Jun 1, 1940
    Mistaken identity is the theme of "Bad Man From Red Butte," a Johnny Mack Brown western that makes its national debut in theaters. Texas Jim Lewis And His Lone Star Cowboys provide music
    Jun 7, 1940
    "Hidden Gold," a mining-based episode in the Hopalong Cassidy western film series, debuts in movie theaters. "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" songwriter Eddie Dean has a secondary role
    Jun 14, 1940
    "Back In The Saddle Again" songwriter Ray Whitley has a minor musical part in the debut of the George O'Brien western "Prairie Law"
    Jun 19, 1940
    Ray Whitley, Lee "Lasses" White and steel player Frankie Marvin join musical forces in the 20-minute western "Corralling A Schoolmarm"



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