Rhythm on the Range

Unless you are a Bing Crosby or a Louis Prima fan, this is an unremarkable musical. It is, however, the second A-Feature film the Pioneers appeared in. With the exception of a close-up when they introduce "I'm an Old Cowhand," the Sons of the Pioneers can be seen tucked away in the background.

Bing Crosby as Jeff Larabee
Frances Farmer as Doris Halliday
Bob Burns as Buck
Martha Raye as Emma Mazda
Samuel S Hinds as Robert Halliday
Warren Hymer as Big Brain
Lucile Gleason as Penelope Ryland
George E. Stone as Shorty
James Burke as Wabash
Martha Sleeper as Constance
Clem Bevans as Gila Bend
Leonid Kiskey as Mischa
Hank Bell as an uncredited rodeo cowboy
The Sons of the Pioneers

Wing Ding (instrumental & yodeling) (Hugh & Karl Farr)
Mr. Paganini (Sam Coslow)
Love in Bloom
Drink it Down

Bing Crosby's only western (outside of the 1966 version of Stagecoach), Rhythm on the Range stars Bing as a casual cowpoke on his way back to the Wide Open Spaces after an eastern visit. He meets a young train stowaway (Frances Farmer), whom he regards as a hoydenish vagabond until learning that she's the owner of the ranch where he works. Farmer resists Bing's charms until he rescues her from a gang of rustlers. Among the supporting cast is Mischa Auer, Bob "Bazooka" Burns, and, in her film debut, 19-year-old Martha Raye. The film also introduces the song hit "I'm an Old Cowhand," which is sung at one point or another by everyone in the cast, including Russian-born Mischa Auer. Rhythm on the Range was remade in 1956 as Pardners, with a few minor alterations—notably the casting of Jerry Lewis in the Frances Farmer role!