In Old Santa Fe is a U.S. 1934 Western

Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...

 film starring Ken Maynard

Ken Maynard

Ken Maynard was an American motion picture stuntman and actor.-Biography:Born Kenneth Olin Maynard in Vevay, Indiana, he was one of five children. His younger brother, Kermit Maynard, also became a stuntman and actor....

 and George "Gabby" Hayes. The movie features the first screen appearance of Gene Autry

Gene Autry

Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...

, singing a song with a bluegrass

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

 band that includes Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

Lester Alvin Burnett , better known as Smiley Burnette, was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 musical...

. Although both Autry and Burnette were unbilled, the scene served as a screen test

Screen test

A screen test is a method of determining the suitability of an actor or actress for performing on film and/or in a particular role. The performer is generally given a scene, or selected lines and actions, and instructed to perform in front of a camera to see if they are suitable...

 for the duo for a long series of subsequent singing cowboy films, beginning with The Phantom Empire

The Phantom Empire

The Phantom Empire, starring Gene Autry the Singing Cowboy, was a 12-chapter 1935 Mascot serial that combined the western, musical, and science fiction genres. The first episode is 30 mins, the rest about 20 minutes...

, which had originally been slated for Maynard.

Cast

• Ken Maynard
  Ken Maynard
  Ken Maynard was an American motion picture stuntman and actor.-Biography:Born Kenneth Olin Maynard in Vevay, Indiana, he was one of five children. His younger brother, Kermit Maynard, also became a stuntman and actor....
  
   as Ken aka 'Kentucky'
• Evalyn Knapp as Lila Miller
• H.B. Warner as Charlie Miller
• Kenneth Thomson as Matt Korber, alias Mr. Chandler
• Wheeler Oakman as Tracy
• George 'Gabby' Hayes
  George 'Gabby' Hayes
  George Francis "Gabby" Hayes was an American radio, film, and television actor. He was best known for his numerous appearances in Western movies as the colorful sidekick to the leading man.-Early years:...
  
   as Cactus (billed as George Hayes)
• George Burton as Henchman Red
• George Chesebro as Henchman Nick
• Gene Autry
  Gene Autry
  Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...
  
   as singer (unbilled)
• Smiley Burnette
  Smiley Burnette
  Lester Alvin Burnett , better known as Smiley Burnette, was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, playing sidekick to Gene Autry and other B-movie cowboys. He was also a prolific singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 musical...
  
   as accordionist/singer (unbilled)
• Bob Nolan
  Bob Nolan
  Bob Nolan was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." He is generally regarded as one of the...
  
  as Ken aka 'Kentucky' (singing voice only, unbilled)