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The Gay Desperado is a 1936 American musical-comedy film starring Ida Lupino, Leo Carrillo, and Nino Martini and directed by Rouben Mamoulian, produced by Mary Pickford and Jesse Lasky and originally released by United Artists. The film is a spoof of the Hollywood gangster genre.

The Gay Desperado earned the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Director of 1936 for Mamoulian.

The film was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Mary Pickford Foundation, and released on DVD in 2006 by Milestone Pictures after being out of distribution for many years.

Portions of the film were shot in Tucson, Arizona and show the old adobe quarter Barrio Libre of 19th Century Tucson and Mission San Xavier del Bac.

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