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| | Tex Ritter |
 | | Though his birth year is often reported as 1907, Woodward Maurice Ritter was born on January 12, 1905 in Panola County, Texas, and was one of six children. |
 | | Fascinated with music, Ritter did stage plays in New York and elsewhere including a lengthy run in Green Grow the Lilacs (which would be the basis for the later musical, Oklahoma). |
 | | Ritter's first, SONG OF THE GRINGO (GN, 1936), was a reasonably solid oater and featured a better-than-usual cast of Joan Woodbury, Fuzzy Knight, Monte Blue, William Desmond and Warner Richmond. |
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