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Warner Leroy Baxter ( March 29 , 1889  May 7 , 1951 ) was an American actor , known for his role as The Cisco Kid in " In Old Arizona " ( 1929 ), for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928  1929 Academy Awards . He frequently played womanizing , charismatic Latin bandit types in westerns , and played The Cisco Kid or a similar character throughout the 1930s , but had a range of other roles throughout his career . Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent film . Baxter ' s most notable silent films are " The Great Gatsby " ( 1926 ) and " The Awful Truth " ( 1925 ). When talkies came out , Baxter became even more famous . Baxter ' s most notable talkies are " In Old Arizona " ( 1929 ), " 42nd Street " ( 1932 ), " Slave Ship " ( 1937 ), " Kidnapped " ( 1938 ), and the 1931 20 minute all - star ensemble short film , " The Stolen Jools ". In the 1940s he was well known for his recurring role as ___MASK21___ . Robert Ordway in the Crime Doctor series of 10 films . Riding High ( 1950 ) is a black and white musical racetrack film featuring Bing Crosby and directed by Frank Capra in which the songs were actually sung as the movie was being filmed instead of the customary lip - synching to previous recordings . The movie is a remake of an earlier Capra film called Broadway Bill ( 1934 ) . While the film is generally a light musical comedy , it has an unexpected tragic turn in its story . Frank Russell Capra ( born Francesco Rosario Capra ; May 18 , 1897September 3 , 1991 ) was an Italian - American film director , producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award - winning films of the 1930s and 1940s . Born in ___MASK91___ and raised in Los Angeles from the age of five , his rags - to - riches story has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the " American dream personified ." ___MASK44___ Corporation ( known professionally as ___MASK44___ and often referred to simply as Paramount ) is an American film studio based in Hollywood , California , that has been a subsidiary of the American media conglomerate Viacom since 1994 . Paramount is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world , the second oldest in the United States , and the sole member of the " Big Six " film studios still located in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Hollywood . In 1916 Zukor contracted 22 actors and actresses and honored each with a star on the logo . These fortunate few would become the first " movie stars ." ___MASK44___ is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ). Broadway Bill is a 1934 American comedy drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring Warner Baxter , Myrna Loy , Walter Connolly , and Helen Vinson . Written by Robert Riskin and based on the short story " Strictly Confidential " by Mark Hellinger , the film is about a man ' s love for his thoroughbred race horse and the woman who helps him achieve his dreams . Capra disliked the final product , and in an effort to make it more to his liking , he remade the film in 1950 as " Riding High ". In later years , the distributor of " Riding High ", ___MASK44___ , acquired the rights to " Broadway Bill ". The film was released in the United Kingdom as " Strictly Confidential ".