Grand National Films
With the fame of the operetta Rose-Marie and singing cowboy films, a series of films with actor singer James Newill playing a singing Mountie, Renfrew of the Royal Mounted, were released by Grand National between 1937 and 1940.
Singing cowgirl Dorothy Page made three films for Grand National Pictures in 1939.
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