Frank Sinatra stars in Higher and Higher at Iowa Theater
Frank Sinatra makes his first starring film appearance in Higher and Higher a musical comedy at the Iowa theater for a week with a New Year’s Eve midnight show also scheduled. Michele Morgan Jack Haley and others support with four Sinatra songs woven into the plot about servants plotting to reclaim fortune amid romance and deception.
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Frank Sinatra
Iowa
Michele Morgan
Jack Haley
Miss Morgan
Haley
Sinatra
Leon Errol
Paul and
Grace Hartman
Marcy McGuire
Mary Wickes
Mel Torme
Ivy Scott
Dooley Wilson
Barbara Hale
Victor Borge
Margo
Robert Ryan
Major New York Films at Paramount State Iowa Showings
Alice Faye leads The Gang s All Here at Paramount while James Cagney stars in Johnny Come Late ly at State. Bette Davis heads Old Acquaintance at the Iowa with Miriam Hopkins and Gig Young. Guadalcanal Diary opens at Paramount and Hold Back the Dawn stars Boyer and de Havilland at the State. Laurel and Hardy return in The Dancing Masters at the State with Trudy Marshall. Sinatra stars in Higher and Higher opening at the Iowa with Jack Haley and Michele Morgan.
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Iowa
Bette Davis
Miriam Hopkins
Gig Young
John Loder
Dolores Moran
Miss Davis
Miss Hopkins
Alice Faye
Paramount
The
John Leder
Charles Boyer
Olivia de Havilland
Hollywood
Stan Laurel
Oliver Hardy
Trudy Marshall
Bogart Film Tops Marion Program in Sahara Engagement
Humphrey Bogart stars in Sahara opening at Marion theater for three days. He leads a desert mission with the tank Lulubelle and crew Waco Hoyt and Jimmy Doyle as they encounter Allied and Axis figures. Companion feature Prairie Chickens stars Jimmy Rogers and Noah Beery Jr. News completes the bill.
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Sahara
Desert
Humphrey Bogart
Marion Theater
Art
Lulubelle
Waco
Hoyt
Bruce Bennett
Jimmy Doyle
Dan Duryea
Jimmy Rogers
Noah Beery, Jr
Local Star Aids Elderly Publisher in Tiny Southwest Town
Cagney arrives in a small southwestern town to assist the elderly woman publisher of the Shield and Banner, the community’s oldest newspaper. This marks his first role since winning the Academy Award.
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the Shield and Banner
Cagney
Iowa to Present Boris Karloff in Arsenic and Old Lace
Boris Karloff stars in Arsenic and Old Lace at the Iowa theater Monday evening January 17. The comedy centers on two demure sisters who poison with a wink, acclaimed as a top stage hit of the last decade with a supporting cast including Jean Adair and Jack Whiting. Tickets will be announced later.
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Boris Karloff
Iowa Theater
A. H. Talbot
New York
Cedar Rapids
Karloff
Jean Adair
Jack Whiting
Ruth McDevitt
Donald Macdonald
Malcolm Beggs
Joseph Kesselring
Howard Lindsay
Russel Crouse
Father
Sunday Theater Schedule Highlights Featured Multiple Films
The Gazette lists Sunday showings across theaters Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Times Strand and Marion. Notable screenings include The Gang's All Here Dixie Old Acquaintance Rookies in Burma Leather Burners My Sister Eileen Street of Chance Sahara and Prairie Chickens with varied times.
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Iowa
Burma
Eileen
Crosby Lamour Star In Dixie At Palace
Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour headline the Technicolor Dixie at the Palace theater today through Wednesday. The minstrel show era forms the film’s core with veteran comedians Lynne Overman Raymond Walburn and Eddie Foy Jr. plus Marjorie Reynolds. The program also includes the companion Spitfire comedy Mexican Spitfires Blessed Event with Leon Errol and Ora Velez.
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Bing Crosby
Dorothy Lamour
Leon Errol
Ora Velez
New James Cagney Picture to Open At State Friday
The new James Cagney film Johnny Come Lately opens at the State Theatre Friday at 3 p.m. The feature, from Louis Bromfield, stars Grace George Marjorie Main Marjorie Lord and Hattie McDaniel with Cagney as a vagabond newspaperman. It runs through New Year’s Eve and continues from New Year’s Day.
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James Cagney
Marjorie Lord
Louis Bromfield
Johnny Come
America
Hollywood
State Theater
William Cagney
Grace George
Marjorie Main
Hattie McDaniel
Miss George
Cagney
Dive Bomber Heads Double Bill at Rialto
Dive Bomber leads a Rialto three day stand with Errol Flynn as a flight surgeon and Fred MacMurray as a test pilot who resolve feuds while solving a pilot blackout. Co feature Cattle Stampede stars Buster Crabbe and Al St. John as rival schemers with Frances Gladwin in the feminine lead. Short subjects will be chapter.
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Rialto Theater
Errol Flynn
Fred MacMurray
Ralph Bellamy
Alexis Smith
Robert Armstrong
Regis Toomey
Allen Jenkins
Buster Crabbe
Billy, the Kid
al “Fuzzy
St. John
Frances Gladwin
Guadalcanal Diary comes to Paramount theater Friday
The Paramount will show Guadalcanal Diary, directed by Lewis Seiler, starring William Bendix, Lloyd Nolan, Preston Foster, Richard Conte and Anthony Quinn. The film adapts Richard Tregaskis's best selling book and focuses on the Guadalcanal story and the men who fought there. It is released by Twentieth Century Fox. At Paramount also screens Riding High, a technicolor western unit.
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Tregaskis
Twentieth-Century Fox
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