Bette Davis Stars in Payment on Demand at Paramount
The film portrays a nearly 30 year marriage facing a breakup. Bette Davis is the wife seeking wealth and status while Barry Sullivan plays the unhappy husband who ultimately seeks a divorce. Retrospective scenes highlight the couple’s core rift, supported by Jane Cowl Kent Taylor and Betty Lynn in prominent roles.
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Paramount Theater
Miss Davis
Sullivan
Skirball
Curtis Bernhardt
Jane Cowl
Kent Taylor
Betty Lynn
Frances Dee
Walter Sande
John Sutton
Tension Grows Between Davis and Sullivan in Payment on Demand
Bette Davis and Barry Sullivan star in Payment on Demand at the Paramount Theater as their on screen marriage strains under pressure. The film screens today and tomorrow, drawing audiences to a dramatic pairing and tense courtroom style.
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Bette Davis
Barry Sullivan
Paramount Theater
Pioneer Romance On Capitol Bill
John Wayne and Martha Scott star in War of the Wild Cats a re release of In Old Oklahoma at the Capitol. Albert Dekker rivals Wayne for oil lands while both pursue Scott in a drama built on a Thomas Burtis magazine story.
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Southwest
Republic
Old
Oklahoma
Capitol Screen Today
John Wayne
Martha Scott
Thomas Burtis
Albert Dekker
Soldiers Three at State Theater Plays Kipling Adventure
Rudyard Kipling’s action story comes to life in Soldiers Three at the State Theater. Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, and David Niven lead a British cast as three rambunctious soldiers in 1890s India, with Newton, Cusack, and Greta Gynt rounding out the lineup in this 1951 MGM release.
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His Majesty's Army
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Mirzabad
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Private Ackroyd
King Solomon's Mines
Walter Pidgeon
Brunswick
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Pimpernel
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Granger
Robert Newton
Cyril Cusack
Newton
Jamaica Inn
Long John Silver
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Dublin
Abbey Theater
Greta Gynt
Crenshaw
Norway
Miss Gynt
The Kid from Amarillo cast in Durango Kid film
The complete Amarillo cast includes Don McGowan Fred Sears George Lewis Henry Kulky Jerry Scroggins and George Chesebro for Columbia's Durango Kid feature with Charles Starrett and Smiley Burnette in the lead roles.
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Amarillo
Don McGowan
Fred Sears
George Lewis
Henry Kulky
Jerry Scroggins
George Chesebro
the Kid
Columbia
Charles Starrett
Smiley Burnette
Brushed by Color Film Woman Claims Color Flicker
Barbara Hale calls the film Small Wonder a black and blue picture not black and white, with Robert Cummings forcing scenes across the Columbia lot. The remark frames a troubled production attitude and public image around the project.
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Barbara Hale
Robert Cummings
Columbia
Crosby at Star In Mr Music
Bing Crosby headlines Paramount musical Mr Music at the Star Theater today and tomorrow. Nancy Olson Charles Coburn Ruth Hussey and a host of guests including Groucho Marx Peggy Lee The Merry Macs Dorothy Kirsten and the Champon dance team star in a bright song and dance romance.
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Bing Crosby
Paramount
Star Theater
der Bingle
Nancy Olson
Charles Coburn
Ruth Hussey
Groucho Marx
Peggy Lee
Merry Macs
Metropolitan Opera
Dorothy Kirsten
Marge and
Gower Champion
Veteran actor Basil Ruysdael stars in Boots Malone owner role
Basil Ruysdael, a veteran character actor, will portray the owner of a one horse racing stable in Milton Holmes Columbia production Boots Malone. He recently completed a leading role in Dr Praetorious at 20th Century Fox.
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Basil Ruysdael
Milton Holmes
Columbia
Boots Malone
Ruysdael
Dr. Praetorius
20Th Century-Fox
Vera Vague Comedy Films At Columbia Studio
Two Vera Vague comedies were filmed simultaneously at Columbia with Jules White producing and directing from Felix Adler scripts last week. Supporting cast includes George Lewis and Christine McIntyre.
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Columbia
Jules White
Felix Adler
George Lewis
Christine McIntyre
Hollywood stars weigh film roles and TV plans
In a Hollywood roundup Gary Cooper is linked to Across the River and Into the Trees while Clark Gable eyes Hemingway life story. Yvonne de Carlo debuts operatically at the Hollywood Bowl. Boris Karloff denies onstage feuds with Jean Arthur. Everett Crosby says TV film shifts threaten film crews. Actors push a Theatre Workshop plan for a weekly TV stock company and TV roles.
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Erskine Johnson
Hollywood
NEA
Gary Cooper
Ernest Hemingway
Clark Gable
Clark
Hemingway
Yvonne DE Carlo
Hollywood Bowl
Prince Orlovsky
Franz Waxman
New York
Yvonne
Jerome Hines
Vera-Ellen
Sally Forrest
MGM
Boris Karloff
Jean Arthur
Bob Ryan
Hugo Haas
Akim Tamiroff
Alan Ladd
Kirk Douglas
Lauter Lands Heavy Lead in Valley of Fire
Harry Lauter is signed by Armand Schaefer of Gene Autry Productions for the heavy lead in Valley of Fire, Autry’s next Columbia starrer. Lauter recently completed major roles in Hills of Utah and Whirlwind.
Matthews in Jungle Safari film with Weissmuller
Lester Matthews returns from The Son of Dr. Jekyll to star in Jungle Safari alongside Johnny Weissmuller. The feature marks Matthews’s next appearance in the Jungle Jim series produced by Columbia.
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Lester Matthews
Louis Hayward
Columbia
Son of Dr. Jekyl
Johnny Weissmuller
Pinky Drama Tackles Racial Passing in New Film
Darryl F. Zanuck presents Pinky at the Liberty Theater, a Twentieth Century Fox production described as a morally forceful screen drama about race. The story follows Pinky, a Negro-born woman who can pass as white in the North, exploring the costs and ethics of passing versus staying true.
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Darryl F. Zanuck
Pinky
Twentieth Century-Fox
Liberty Theater
Hollywood
Comegys Joins Columbia in Halburt’s Small Wonder
Kathleen Comegys moves to Columbia to play Robert Cummings' mother in the Halburt production Small Wonder starring Cummings and Barbara Hale. The noted Broadway actress recently finished a featured role in Mr. Belvedere Blows His Whistle with Clifton Webb at Twentieth Century Fox.
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Kathleen Comegys
Columbia
Robert Cummings
Halburt
Cummings
Barbara Hale
Miss Comegys
Mr. Belvedere
Clifton Webb
Twentieth Century-Fox
Comedy Cast Complete for Empty Head Columbia Short
Chester Conklin Grace Leonard and Margie Liszt join Vera Vague in Columbia's two reel comedy Empty Head being shot with Jules White producing and directing releases.
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Chester Conklin
Grace Leonard
Margie Liszt
Vera Vague
Columbia
Jules White
Mighty Joe Young at Leon Theater Tonight
A sensational melodrama features a vast educated gorilla created from a jungle expedition. Terry Moore Ben Johnson Robert Armstrong and Frank McHugh star as the publicity driven showman brings the creature to Hollywood where it tears a nightclub and later heroically saves an orphanage from fire.
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Joe Young
Leon Theater
Hollywood
Terry Moore
Ben Johnson
Robert Armstrong
Frank McHugh
Sheila Ryan Leads Jungle Jim Film at Columbia
Actress Sheila Ryan signed by producer Sam Katzman for the female lead opposite Johnny Weissmuller in Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land. The Columbia picture follows Ryan recent appearances with Gene Autry in Mule Train and in Autry television pictures.
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Sam Katzman
Johnny Weissmuller
Jungle Jim
Columbia
Gene Autry
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