Trowbridge as Gov. Johnson Clem Bevans as Hank Billings Jeff York as Big Joe Stanley Andrews as Commissioner Emerson Wade Crosby as Jeb Chief Yowlachie as Chief Yellow Feather Iron Eyes Cody as Chief Iron Eyes John Maxwell as Village gossip Tom Kennedy as Bartender Henry Brandon as Wapato (Medicine Man) Francis McDonald as Lance Frank Hagney as Greg Skelton Knaggs as Pete Olin Howland as Undertaker George Chandler as First Patient Nestor Paiva as Second Patient Production The Paleface was filmed at the now defunct Conejo Valley Airport and also at Deerwood Stock Farm, both in Thousand Oaks, California. The Painless Peter Potter character was to some extent inspired by a real dentist named Painless Parker. Reception The Paleface was a critical and commercial success, earning $4.5 million in domestic rentals, which made it Paramount's most successful film of 1948. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: 2004: AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs: "Buttons and Bows" – #87 The film is listed in the reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Radio adaptations The Paleface was presented on Stars in the Air March 6, 1952. The 30-minute adaptation starred Bob Hope and Jane Russell recreating the roles they had in the film. Hope and Russell also starred in an adaptation on Screen Directors Playhouse on March 3, 1950. References External links 1948 films 1940s Western (genre) comedy films American Western (genre) comedy films Cultural depictions of Calamity Jane Films that won the Best Original Song Academy Award Paramount Pictures films Films directed by Norman Z. McLeod Films with screenplays by Frank Tashlin Films scored by Victor Young 1948 comedy films Films shot in Ventura County, California 1940s English-language films 1940s American films