George Houston having success on the Broadway stage was enticed to Hollywood for some singing work in musicals in the mid 1930s Hired by Grand National Studios he appeared in the lead role for the tuneful seafaring yarn Captain Calamity 1936 and as Wild Bill Hickcock in Frontier Scout 1938 With the success of singing cowboys in motion pictures he was signed at MGM starring in The Great Waltz and for Warner Bros in Blockade both 1938 From 1939 to 1940 he starred in an eightpart short film production Tales of Billy the Kid for PRC Producers Distributing Corporation but the series was never released Houstons last film was The Lone Rider 1942
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