An Angel from Texas

Wayne Morris, Ronald Reagan, and Eddie Albert the trio of cadets that made Brother Rat a success are reunited for An Angel From Texas. The angel here is a financial backer in the theatrical sense.

Morris and Reagan are a pair of sharpie producers from the Max Bialystock school and Rosemary Lane is their secretary. She's an aspiring actress who left her small Texas town for a theatrical career. Eddie Albert is her hayseed boyfriend who comes to New York to find her.

Albert's bringing $20,000.00 to open in a business, but Morris and Reagan euchre it out of him on the condition that Lane star in the production. Fine but Ruth Terry is already committed and she has a gangster boyfriend in Milburn Stone who is getting out of the joint shortly and he's already invested some of his own coin on Terry's behalf.

All I can say is that Albert proves to be not quite the rube that Morris and Reagan take him for.

As for the plot you can find elements of The Producers and even more important Make Me A Star quite prominent in the story.

The ensemble players are perfectly cast Additional kudos also go to Jane Wyman who is both Ronald Reagan's wife in life and estranged wife in the movie. She is one smart dame who has a solution for all problems.

This was probably something meant originally for James Cagney and Pat O'Brien as the producers, but it works out fine here.