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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1949
Page
7
The famed dance duo will rejoin for a Broadway era style musical. Fans flooded MGM with over 700 letters in five days praising the reunion. Rogers speaks of the joy of singing and dancing anew with Astaire, after weeks of grueling rehearsals and preparations.
Geraldine Brooks shares feminine honors with Janis Paige in Warner Bros new Technicolor film The Younger Brothers. She once impersonated movie stars in Broadway musicals and uses that talent to break into Hollywood. Brooks plays the girl back home waiting for Bruce Bennett as he awaits a pardon in this Western debut since her move to Hollywood.
In the Technicolor musical The Barkleys of Broadway, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers reunite on screen. Dozens of blonde beauties appear in walk-on or minor speaking parts, cast for charm and lightness as the film showcases Astaire escorting a handsome blonde in running gags.
Local residents and relatives report a flurry of travel and visits. Renee Beazley and Tommie Sue returned from Colorado Springs by Braniff to Dallas. Facetious variety includes Jimmie Watson on a 30 day leave in San Francisco, and many family visits across Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, and Louisiana with kin in Ravenna Dallas Fort Worth and Bonham.
In this tale based on river memories and the Treasure of Sierra Madre myth, Jamia and Gerry Brooks share top recognition as fiancée and leader among a rugged outlaw gang led by Janis. The story places familiar ground for the cast amid outlaw dynamics.
The action packed western The Younger Brothers starring Wayne Morris Janis Paige Bruce Bennett Geraldine Brooks and Robert Hatton debuts at the American Theatre. The film follows four Morris brothers seeking to reclaim their lost ranch and confront hostile rivals in a rugged old west tale.
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