In 1936, he was signed to a contract by Grand National Pictures and moved to California. He appeared as “Tex” in the 1936 low-budget western "Song of the Gringo." He was paid $2,400 for his ...

The powers to be in the movie industry were convinced that the 'hayseeds" of country music could not fill the bill in major motion pictures. But in 1952, Tex Ritter was about to disprove all that.