Editing Roy Acuff (section)

===Grand Ole Opry===
In 1938, the Crazy Tennesseans moved to Nashville to audition for the Grand Ole Opry. Although their first audition went poorly, the band's second audition impressed Opry founder [[George D. Hay]] and producer Harry Stone, and they offered the group a contract later that year. On Hay and Stone's suggestion, Acuff changed the group's name to the Smoky Mountain Boys, referring to the [[Great Smoky Mountains|mountains near where his bandmates and he grew up]].<ref name=goo /> Shortly after the band joined the Opry, Clell Summey left the group and was replaced by [[Fiddle]] player Beecher (Pete) Kirby—best known by his stage name [[Bashful Brother Oswald]]—whom Acuff had met in a Knoxville bakery earlier that year.<ref name=goo /> Acuff's powerful lead vocals and Kirby's dobro playing and high-pitched backing vocals gave the band its distinctive sound. By 1939, Jess Easterday had switched to bass to replace Red Jones, and Acuff had added guitarist Lonnie "Pap" Wilson and banjoist Rachel Veach to fill out the band's lineup. Within a year, Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys rivaled long-time Opry banjoist [[Uncle Dave Macon]] as the troupe's most popular act.<ref name=goo />
In the same period, he was initiated to the [[Masonic Lodge]] of East Nashville No. 560.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/textfiles/famous.html | title = List of famous freemasons | website = freemasonry.bcy.ca | access-date = September 30, 2018 | language = en | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20011004153632/http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/textfiles/famous.html | quotation = East Nashville No. 560, TN [19]| archive-date = October 4, 2001 | url-status = live}}</ref><ref name ="stjohnslodgedc.org" /><ref>{{cite book | author1 = al Manhal | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Qc5aDwAAQBAJ&q=%22Lodge+No.+560+Nashville+TN.+%22%2BAcuff%2BRoy&pg=PA231 | title = Initiation in Freemasonry | language = ar | year = 2009 | access-date = September 30, 2018 | page = 231 | publisher=Al Manhal |isbn = 9796500150710}}</ref>

In spring 1940, Acuff and his band traveled to Hollywood, where they appeared with Hay and Macon in the motion picture ''Grand Ole Opry''. Acuff appeared in several subsequent B movies, including ''[[O, My Darling Clementine]]'' (1943), in which he played a [[singing cowboy|singing sheriff]]; ''[[Night Train to Memphis]]'' (1946), the title of which comes from a song Acuff recorded in 1940; and ''Home in San Antone'' (1949), in which he starred with [[Lloyd Corrigan]] and [[William Frawley]].

Acuff and his band also joined Macon and other Opry acts at various tent shows held throughout the Southeast in the early 1940s. The crowds at these shows were so large that roads leading into the venues were jammed with traffic for miles.<ref name=goo /> Starting in 1939, Acuff hosted the Opry's ''Prince Albert'' segment. He left the show in 1946 after a dispute with management.<ref name=tehc>Cusic, Don (2009)."[http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=3 Roy C. Acuff]." ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''. Retrieved February 11, 2013.</ref>