page_title: The Terror of Tiny Town
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: The Terror of Tiny Town / Cast
caption_attribution_description: English: Billy Curtis &amp; Yvonne Moray in The Terror of Tiny Town - publicity still
context_page_description: The Terror of Tiny Town is a 1938 American Western film produced by Jed Buell, directed by Sam Newfield, and starring Billy Curtis. It is the world's only musical Western with an all-dwarf cast. The film was filmed at a sound studio in Hollywood and partly at Placeritos Ranch in Placerita Canyon, California. The inspiration of the film came when Jed Buell overheard an employee jokingly say “If this economic dive keeps going, we'll be using midgets as actors”.
  Using a conventional Western story with an all-diminutive cast, the filmmakers were able to showcase gags such as cowboys entering the local saloon by walking under the swinging doors, climbing into cupboards to retrieve items, and dwarf cowboys galloping around on Shetland ponies while roping calves.
context_section_description: Billy Curtis as The Hero (Buck Lawson)
  Yvonne Moray as The Girl (Nancy Preston)
  Little Billy Rhodes as The Villain (Bat Haines) (as Little Billy)
  Billy Platt as The Rich Uncle (Jim 'Tex' Preston) (as Bill Platt)
  John T. Bambury as The Ranch Owner (Pop Lawson) (as John Bambury)
  Joseph Herbst as The Sheriff
  Charlie Becker as The Cook (Otto)
  Nita Krebs as The Vampire (Nita, the dance hall girl)
  George Ministeri as The Blacksmith (Armstrong)
  Karl Karchy Kosiczky as The Barber (Sammy) (as Karl Casitzky)
  Fern Formica as Diamond Dolly (as Johnnie Fern)
  William H. O'Docharty as The Old Soak (as W.H. O'Docharty)
  Jed Buell was able to find about 60 cast members for the film, with an average height of 3’8”. He located most of them through talent agencies, newspaper ads, and radio broadcasts. The film presents Jed Buell's Midgets.  Many of the actors were former members of the performing troupe Singer's Midgets., and played Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz, released in 1939.
caption: Billy Curtis and Yvonne Moray
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