Posted on 07/18/2014 10:23:53 AM PDT by EveningStar
It was a composite of small town/rural life all over the south.
Pappy Lee O’Daniels was the Governor of Texas, the song You Are My Sunshine was written by someone in Louisiana, there was a town mentioned (can’t remember the name right now) that is in Oklahoma. It is my favorite movie of all times and my earliest memories were of the small east Texas town that my mother was from and the whole movie reminded me of Cleveland Texas in the 1940’s.
I have been to that bar.... once.....
I never met him. I worked for the cya and he was one of our celebrity ex-inmates.
Hmm. I hadn't thought of it that way. I just remember it being set in Mississippi. Though you're right; the governor in the movie was based on a governor of Texas.
It was Jimmie Davis who wrote You Are My Sunshine. Also you neglected to mention the Tennessee Valley Authority, which was also part of the plot.
I had forgotten about the connection to Tennessee Valley Authority. There were probably other places mentioned. The Oklahoma town was Tishamingo.
The song You Are My Sunshine was a very popular song, my mother sang it to me when I was young.
That is a really pleasant mental image.
A Mother singing “You Are My Sunshine” to her little child.
Yes :)
The way the ‘Texans’ talked and acted was corny. 4th generation and I’ve never heard any Texan talk or act like that.
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