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Two Top Comedies Open at State and Paramount Theaters
The Saturday Evening Post tale The Turtles of Tahiti is adapted into a comedy starring Charles Laughton and Jon Hall opening Saturday at the State Theater. The plot follows the Tuttles of Tahiti amid cockfights debts and a windfall ending in a gay finale. In a second feature, Take a Letter Darling stars Fred MacMurray and Rosalind Russell at the Paramount with MacMurray hired as secretary to Russell in a spoof about gender roles.
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GARY+COOPER
York
Marshal Foch
Jean del Val
Sergeant York
Paramount
Lucky
Jon Hall
Tahiti
State Theater
Irene Gay
Nancy Gates
Linda Rivas
Alma Ross
Hall
Charles Laughton
Peggy Drake
Robert Benchley
Stooge
Rosalind Russell
Fred MacMurray
Saturday Evening Post
Charles Nordhoff
James Norman Hall
Laughton
Jonas Tuttle
Tuttle
Tuttles
Jonas
Dr. Blondin
Papeete
Chester Tuttle
San Francisco
Tamara
Chester
Charles Victor
Florence Bates
Victor Prancen
Gene Reynolds
Paramount Theater
MacMurray
Miss Russell
Mexico
MacDonald Carey
Gertrude Lawrence
Constance Moore
Cecil Kellaway