The Girl and the Gambler

{{short description|1939 film by Lew Landers}}

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| name = The Girl and the Gambler

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| director = Lew Landers
James Anderson (assistant)

| producer = Cliff Reid

| writer = Joseph A. Fields
Clarence Upson Young

| based_on = play The Dove by Willard Mack

| starring = Tim Holt
Leo Carrillo

| music = Roy Webb

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| studio = RKO Radio Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1939|06|16|ref1={{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=8199 | title=The Girl and the Gambler: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate=April 12, 2014}}}}

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| country = United States

| language = English

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The Girl and the Gambler is a 1939 Western film, from RKO Radio Pictures, starring Tim Holt. It was an early starring Western for Holt, who soon replaced George O'Brien as the studio's main Western star.{{TCMDb title|76284}}

The film was based on a play which had been filmed by RKO in 1932 as Girl of the Rio.Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p132

It was originally called The Dove.{{Cite news|title=R.K.O. Will Release Laurel-Hardy Comedy: Donat Films Named Stevenson Gets Lead Newlywed Series Set Guild Plans Cinema MacMurray Testing|author=Schallert, Edwin|date=May 10, 1939|work=Los Angeles Times|page=19}}