Vigil in the Night leads Iowa theater bill this week
Carol Lombard and Brian Aherne star in Vigil in the Night from the A J Cronin novel, a hospital drama set before the war. Also on the program are The Marines Fly High with Richard Dix and Lucille Ball, Swiss Family Robinson, The Saint's Double Trouble, Gone With the Wind roadshow, Congo Maisie with Ann Southern, and The Blue Bird at the State theater.
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A. J. Cronin
Iowa
Carole Lombard
Brian Aherne
Ann Shirley
Lucille Ball
U. S
Thomas Mitchell
Edna Best
Freddie Bartholomew
Anne Shirley
Iowa Theater
London
Mitchell
Australia
George Sanders
Leslie Charteris
Helene Whita Bela Lugosi
Jonathan Ale
Manuscript Rejected Takes Life With Gas
New York reports a rejected manuscript led Baxter Pickering to lethal gas. He died in his one room apartment after a gas jet and pillow suffocation. Police found torn manuscript fragments and the clue of a staged press rumor involving Wallis Kane.
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New York
INL
Baxter Pickering
Dale Baxter
Pickering
Gone With The Wind Plays State Theater On Roadshow
The film Gone With The Wind continues at the State theater on a roadshow basis through Wednesday. Seats are reserved for all night shows at 7 45 p m and the Sunday matinee at 2 p m with weekday matinees at 10 a m and 2 30 p m unreserved. Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh star with a large supporting cast including Olivia de Havilland Leslie Howard and Hattie McDaniel in full technicolor.
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David O. Selznick
Margaret Mitchell
State Theater
Miss Mitchell
Clark Gable
Rhett Butler
Vivien Leigh
Scarlett O’hara
Leslie Howard
Olivia de Havilland
Thomas Mitchell
Hattie McDaniel
Barbara O'Neil
Victor Jory
Ona Munson
Harry Davenport
Ann Rutherford
Texas Tap Dancing Star In White Scandals at Iowa Theater
Ann Miller a 19 year old Texas tap dancer stars in George White's Scandals coming to the Iowa theater for a one night show on February 28. Miller is famed for her film role Essie in You Cant Take It With You and appearances in New Faces of 1937 Radio City Revels Life of the Party Stage Door Room Service and Having Wonderful Time. The Mexicanga dance number is created by Miller and is the show’s highlight. Other stars include Willie How ard Eugene Howard Ben Blue and Ella Logan.
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Texas
Ann Miller
George White
Iowa Theater
Essie
Miss Miller
California
Willie
Eugene Howard
Ben Blue
Ella Logan
Jane Withers and Leo Carrillo at Strand in Chicken Wagon Family
Jane Withers and Leo Carrillo headline at the Strand through Tuesday in Chicken Wagon Family. Also on the bill are Lucky Night with Myrna Loy and Robert Taylor and a Popeye cartoon Leave Well Enough Alone.
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Jane Withers
Leo Carrillo
Strand Theater
Myrna Loy
Robert Taylor
Mischa Auer and Baby Sandy At Rialto In Unexpected Father
Sandy the two year old star of the screen appears at the Rialto today through Tuesday in Unexpected Father with Mischa Auer Shirley Ross and Dennis O Keefe. Sandy plays a boy as in East Side of Heaven. The second feature is Bob Livingston in Heroes of the Saddle plus Kit Carson comedy a Disney cartoon and news reel.
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Sandy
Rialto
Mischa Auer
Shirley Ross
Dennis O’keefe
Heaven
Bob Livingston
Kit Carson
Remember the Night at the Paramount with Stanwyck and MacMurray
Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray star in Remember the Night at the Paramount directed by Mitchell Leisen from Preston Sturges. The film follows a district attorney who bails out a jewel thief to spend Christmas with his mother in Indiana.
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the Paramount
Fred MacMurray
Barbara Stanwyck
Paramount Theater
Mitchell Leisen
Preston Sturges
Mack Murray
Indiana
Beulah Bondi
Elizabeth Patterson
Sterling Holloway
Paramount
Congo
Maisie
Ann Sothern
John Carroll
Victor McLaglen
Jackie Cooper
McLaglen
Cooper
Ona Munson
Peggy Moran
Ed Brophy
Film Contest Scandal Sparks Bermuda Trip Swap
Miss Matilda McCabe cannot travel and sells her Lex-Lohenlin contest prize to Maida Linn for a thousand dollars. Maida adopts the winner role and travels incognito while Wallis Kane pretends to be a milkman as theatre manager Milton Metziger orchestrates publicity. The plot thickens as Miss McCabe suspects a staged star build up.
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Mr. Metziger
Miss Matilda
Miss McCabe
Kane
Matilda McCabe
Linn
Bermuda
Maida Linn
Maida
Wallis Kane
Milton Metziger
Metziger
Matilda
Gary Cooper in Beau Geste Plays Palace Through Wednesday
A starring trio led by Gary Cooper with Ray Mil land and Robert Preston headlines Beau Geste at the Palace with action and excitement. The accompanying feature Grand Jury Secrets follows an overanxious newspaper reporter with John Howard and Gail Patrick in the cast.
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Gary Cooper
Ray Milland
Robert Preston
Palace Theater
Mace John Howard
Gail Patrick
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