Hollywood picks roll through Cedar Rapids theaters this week
A raft of new releases and popular stars head to Cedar Rapids venues. Frank Sinatra Cary Grant and Batman headline openings at the World and Iowa while Doris Day Cary Grant and others appear in color features. The Sound of Music continues at the Times as Darling advances.
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Robert Shaw
Robert Ryan
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Pier Angeli
Barbara Werle
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Top Ten Disks This Week New York Billboard Survey
The top ten singles for the current week as ranked by a Billboard magazine survey of sales and broadcast time. 1 Summer in the City Lovin Spoonful 2 Lil Red Riding Hood Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs 3 They're Coming To Take Me Away Napoleon XIV 4 Wild Thing The Troggs 5 The Pied Piper Crispian and St Peter 6 I Saw Her Again The Mamas and the Papas 7 Sunny Bobby Hebb 8 Mothers Little Helper Rolling Stones 9 Somewhere My Love Ray Conniff and the Singers 10 Sweet Pea Tommy Roe
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Drive-In Lineup at Cedar Rapids and Twixt Town
The Marion venue runs tonight through Tuesday with a matinee showing Night of the Grizzly. Cedar Rapids Drive-In screens Paradise Hawaiian Style and Johnny Reno. Twixt Town features Peter Sellers comedies Tonight through Tuesday including Shot in the Dark and Pink Panther.
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Fountain to honor Oscar Hammerstein II in Central Park mall
A memorial fountain for Oscar Hammerstein II will be erected next spring on the Central Park Mall. The tribute to Broadway lyricist will stand at the promenade’s southern end between statues of Shakespeare and Columbus, forming an impromptu hall of fame.
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Weekend Theater Times and Showings
Theater listings for Paramount World Iowa Marion and other venues show film schedules with titles such as Lost Command Glass Bottom Boat and Night of the Grizzly. Drive ins feature Paradise Hawaiian Style Johnny Reno and other titles. Screenings include multiple daily showtimes and shorts blocks.
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Debate Can Be A Beginning for Julie Sommers
Julie Som Mars, a shy but soft voiced Aberdeen South Dakota native, rose from Central High School debater champion in 1958 to a film and television actress. She is described as Rita Hayworth and Judy Holliday combined and has appeared on TV and stage, with a film debut planned in The Pad.
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Broadway Plans Jack London Play for 50th Death Anniversary
A Broadway production planned for this fall will adapt Jack London’s career into a play titled Dear Comrades. The script was tested by a California community theater group and drew favorable remarks ahead of the premiere.
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Merle Oberon Aids Orphan Trade School Plan
Hollywood star Merle Oberon says she will devote all earnings from her role in Hotel to building a trade school for 60 orphan boys in Acapulco Mexico. She lives there with husband Bruno Pagliari and their two children after nine years of marriage.
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Hollywood Glamor and Career Moves Across 1960s Films
Dorothy Dallmour rejects a leading aging siren role in Universal’s Winchester 73 remake and may return to Hollywood for a real comeback. Joan Blondell lands the part instead. Dorothy’s son Tom and U S Marines spouse Bill Howard travel between Las Vegas and Baltimore as Caesar’s Palace opens. Mia Farrow Sinatra debuts Peyton Place in London while MGM eyeing Sharon Tate as a rising star.
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