An Angel from Texas

An Angel from Texas is a 1940 comedy film directed by Ray Enright and written by Fred Niblo Jr. and Bertram Millhauser. The film stars Eddie Albert, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. The film was released by Warner Bros. on April 27, 1940. The film is based on the hit 1925 play The Butter and Egg Man.

Tex is just the angel for whom sharpshooter producers Mac McClure and Marty Allen have been waiting, because they have a play set for rehearsal but no money to produce it, and their leading lady, Valerie Blayne, is adding to their problems by threatening reprisals from her gangster boyfriend, Pooch Davis, unless the show opens on schedule. Tex agrees to invest his money in the show if Lydia is given the lead, and when Mac and Marty consent to his terms, the play goes into rehearsal as a drama with two leading ladies.When Valerie threatens Mac with bodily harm unless she plays the lead, Mac informs Tex that he is going to fire Lydia unless he buys the entire show. Sensing that the play would work as a farce, Martys wife Marge puts up the money on the condition that Tex play the male lead. ........

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