Week at Cedar Rapids Theaters Brims With Stars
Cedar Rapids theaters present star laden line up this week led by The Secret Heart at Paramount with Claudette Colbert Walter Pidgeon and June Allyson Also Blue Skies at Paramount featuring Bing Crosby Fred Astaire and Joan Caulfield It’s a Wonderful Life at the Iowa with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed plus Dick Tracy vs Cueball at the Iowa Co features North of the Border Home Sweet Homicide Earl Carrolls Sketchbook and more Second run titles include Saratoga Trunk The Seventh Veil Cowboy Blues The Dark Corner Breakfast in Hollywood The Kid From Brooklyn and Strange Holiday at multiple venues across the city
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Claudette Colbert
Walter Pidgeon
June Allyson
Paramount
Miss Allyson
Miss Colbert
Pidgeon
Lionel Marshall Barrymore
Thompson
Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson Are Also In the Cast. Now At the Paramount
Bing Crosby
Fred Astaire
Joan Caulfield
Irving Berlin
Man I Love
Ida Lupino
Robert Alda
Andrea King
Bruce Bennett
Iowa
Miss Lupino
Martha Vickers
Alan Hale
Dolores Moran
John Ridgely
Morgan Conway
Anne Jeffreys
the Iowa
Jimmy Stewart
Donna Reed
Steven Geray
Micheline Cheirel
William Holden Expands Ventures In Hollywood
William Holden invests in a helicopter company and joins Arthur Treacher, Carl Hoff, and Andrew G. Hickox to form Hickox Productions Inc. The new radio transcription firm will market musical and dramatic programs to radio stations.
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Hollywood
William Holden
Arthur Treacher
Carl Hoff
Andrew G. Hickox
Hickox
Cedar Rapids Theaters List Future Films
Cedar Rapids movie houses announce headline films for January dates. The Iowa shows The Magnificent Doll on Jan 16, The Jolson Story on Jan 23, The Return of Monte Cristo on Jan 30, with Sinbad the Sailor and The Locket scheduled soon after. The Best Years of Our Lives is slated for an unlisted date.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
David Niven
Burgess Meredith
Jolson
al Jolson
Larry Parks
Monte Cristo
Louis Hayward
Barbara Britton
Sinbad the Sailor
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Maureen O’hara
Walter Slezak
Locket
Laraine Day
Brian Aherne
Robert Mitchum
Gene Raymond
Samuel Goldwyn
New York
Myrna Loy
Fredric March
Dana Andrews
Teresa Wright
Virginia Mayo
Paramount
Ben Ames Williams
Strange Woman
Hedy Lamarr
Sterling Hayden Receives Silver Star for OSS Service
Hollywood actor Sterling Hayden is awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action. The recognition cites his undercover OSS work as a Marine. presentation occurred at Paramount Studios where he is filming Blaze of Noon after release from service.
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Hollywood
John Hamilton
Sterling Hayden
Hayden
O.S.S
Paramount Studios
Europe
West Indies
Oss
Italy
Yugo
Frances Heflin Attracts Bids From Three Studios
Hollywood news says Frances Heflin, sister of Van Heflin, arrived to visit and already racks up bids from three major studios for a contract. Despite no film experience yet, she has Broadway credits including I Remember Mama and Skin of Our Teeth.
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Hollywood
van Heflin
Frances
Miss Heflin
Film lineup reveals stars in Technicolor musical at Paramount
George Raft Sylvia Sidney and Donna Reed appear in a blended comedy drama fantasy now playing at the Iowa. Bing Crosby Billy De Wolfe perform in Blue Skies with Fred Astaire and Jean Caulfield at Paramount. June Allyson Lynn Bari and Lupino also feature in the night club sequence.
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Upper Center
Donna Reed
Jimmy
The
Iowa
Bing Crosby
Billy de Wolfe
Paramount
Fred Astaire
Jean Caulfield
Bing
Bing Crosby Tops Recording Field With 60 Million Sales
Bing Crosby leads the recording field with over 60 million records sold in the past fourteen years marking a standout era for the popular entertainer and his music.
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Bing Crosby
Crosby
Paramount Blue Skies and Local Theaters Schedule
The listing shows film times for Paramount with Blue Skies and short subjects, Iowa with It’s a Wonderful Life and So Dark the Night, State with Home Sweet Homicide and Earl Carroll’s Sketchbook, Palace with Saratoga unknown and short subjects, Rialto with The Seventh Veil and Cowboy Blues, Times with The Dark Corner and Breakfast in Hollywood, Strand with Danger Signal and The Great John L, Marion with The Kid from Brooklyn and Holiday.
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Iowa
Earl Carroll
Rialto
Hollywood
Strand
Danger Signal
John L
Marion — “the Kid
Brooklyn
Lewis Allen’s Path to The Perfect Marriage Director Seat
Lewis Allen directed The Perfect Marriage for Paramount after two years studying motion picture technique at the studio. He hails from New York and has a London theater background shaping his first film direction attempt.
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Lewis Allen
Paramount
New York
London
Marine verifies Carey as film actor after meeting
Herbert Elmore of New Rochelle New York a former private in the air warning squadron with Carey in the South Pacific writes to Carey at Paramount confirming Carey is a movie actor He mentions reading about Carey in a film with Fred MacMurray and says he now believes the reports are true.
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Hollywood
Macdonald Carey
South Pacific
Carey
Herbert Elmore
New Rochelle
N. Y
Air Warning
Paramount
Elmore
Fred MacMurray
Hollywood Stars Swap Tales on Work and Weekend Plans
Dane Clark eyes a postproduction vacation but fears a prizefight role may push it aside. Mary Astor loves a new washing machine as her set reveals a gift not a holiday token. June Allyson, Dick Powell enjoy Pasadena crowds while Elizabeth Taylor and Marshall Thompson travel with mothers. Hillary Harts, newborn and teething surprise, stars on Green Dolphin Street set. Iturbi schedules two tours after The Birds and the Bees with Jose plans for concerts across Mexico City to Argentina.
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INS
Dane Clark
Warners
Dane
Deep Valley
Mary Astor
Mary
MGM
Pasadena
June Allyson
Dick Powell
Columbia
Treasury
June
Richard Harts
Hillary
Green Dolphin Street
Ose Iturbi
Mexico City
Havana
Venezuela
Brazil
Chile
Argent Ee
Jose
Sneak Preview at Paramount Tuesday
A major movie will have a sneak preview at the Paramount theater Tuesday evening at 7 30 in addition to the current feature Blue ies.
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Paramount
Paramount Theater
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Randolph Scott
Peggy Ann Garner
Dean Stockwell
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Edna Ferber
Gary Cooper
Ingrid Bergman
Ann Todd
James Mason
Charles Starrett
Mark Stevens
Lucille A
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Tom Will
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Vera-Ellen
Marion
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Barbara Bates
Hares
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Bonita Granville
Andy Russell
Lucille Ball
Clifton Wees
William Bendix
Jerome
Robert Walker
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Stewart
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Silver Star
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Goldwyn
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Barbara Bate
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Sidney
the Paramount
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Saratoga
Home Sweet Homicide
Ann Garner
James Gleason
Terre Rhevre
Teresh
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James Oliver Curwood
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John Todd
Marshall Thompson
Elizabeth Taylor
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