{{short description|1951 film by Joseph Pevney}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = The Lady from Texas | image = File:The Lady from Texas.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Joseph Pevney | producer = Leonard Goldstein | screenplay = Gerald Drayson Adams<br>Connie Lee<br>(as Connie Lee Bennett) | story = Harold Shumate | starring = Howard Duff<br>Mona Freeman<br>Josephine Hull | cinematography = Charles P. Boyle | editing = Virgil W. Vogel | color_process = Technicolor | studio = Universal Pictures | distributor = Universal Pictures | released = {{film date|1951|09|01|}} | runtime = 78 minutes | country = United States | language = English }}

'''''The Lady from Texas''''' is a 1951 American comedy Western film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Howard Duff, Mona Freeman and Josephine Hull.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Mildred |date=1952-01-28 |title='Lady from Texas' Opens at Aldine |url= |access-date= |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |page=19}}</ref>

==Plot== A ranch cook and a cowboy save a poor old Civil War widow from a land grabber in the Old West.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1952-03-20 |title="The Lady from Texas" Showing at Ritz Here |url= |access-date= |work=The Abbeville Meridional |location=Abbeville, Louisiana |page=5}}</ref>

==Cast== * Howard Duff as Dan Mason * Mona Freeman as Bonnie Lee * Josephine Hull as Miss Birdie Wheeler * Gene Lockhart as Judge George Jeffers * Craig Stevens as Cyril Guthrie * Jay C. Flippen as Sheriff Mike McShane * Ed Begley as Dave Blodgett * Morgan Farley as Lucian Haddon * Chris-Pin Martin as José * Barbara Knudson as Mabel Guthrie * Kenneth Patterson as Craig Toland * John Maxwell as Mr. Deevers

== Reception == In a contemporary review for ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', critic Mildred Martin called the film "a winning, warm-hearted comedy" and wrote: "A sort of sage brush fairy story, 'The Lady from Texas' has appeal without sogginess, humor and gentleness. Joseph Pevney's direction has the light, right touch and Howard Shumate's original has been deftly whipped into an ingratiating script by Gerald Drayson Adams and Connie Lee Bennett."<ref name=":0" />

==See also== * List of American films of 1951

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|tt0043723|title=The Lady from Texas}} * {{AFI film|50172|title=The Lady from Texas}} * {{TCMDb title|80638|title=The Lady from Texas}}

{{Joseph Pevney}}

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