Cedar Rapids Week Movie Bills Set With Ava Gardner Ties
The Iowa films program lists I’ll See You in My Dreams about Gus Kahn songs starring Doris Day and Danny Kaye, with Kahn’s tunes and multiple co stars. The schedule also features The Hideout with Howard Keel, Valerie Hobson, and other titles at the Iowa, Paramount, State, Palace, and Strand theaters through Tuesday.
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Cedar Rapids
Gus Kahn
Danny
Iowa
Doris Day
Mrs. Kahn
Frank Lovejoy
Patrice Wymore
Kahn
Howard Keel
Valerie Hobson
The
Frances Langford
Gene Autry to Perform in Cedar Rapids Tuesday
Gene Autry the singing cowboy will headline two shows at Memorial Coliseum Cedar Rapids on Tuesday at 4 30 and 8 30 featuring Champion and Little Champ and a lineup of western entertainers including Smiley Burnette Patt Buttram Johnny Bond the Cass County Boys and more Tickets go on sale at the Coliseum Autry will speak at a Young Men's Bureau dinner meeting at 6 15 that evening.
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Cedar Rapids
Champion
Little Champ
Memorial Coliseum
Smiley Burnette
Patt Buttram
Johnny Bond
Cass County Boys
Strong Four
Coliseum
Autry
Young Men’s Bureau
Iowa Announces Movie Bookings
The Iowa theater reveals its forthcoming bookings per manager A H Talbot. Titles include Boots Malone with William Holden, On Dangerous Ground with Robert Ryan Ida Luino co star, This Woman S Dangerous with Joan Crawford and Dennis Morgan, and more. Later reports list The Las Vegas Story Jane Russell Victor Mature and A Girl in Every Part Groucho Marx Marie Wilson Don De Fore.
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Iowa
A. H. Talbot
Boots Malone
William Holden
Robert Ryan-Ida
Luino Co-Starrer
Joan Crawford
Dennis Morgan
Las Vegas
Jane Russell
Victor Mature
Groucho Marx
Marie Wilson
Don DeFore
Want You
Dorothy McGuire
Dana Andrews
Farley Granger
Fredric March
Duchow Orchestra at Danceland Bandstand Tuesday
Lawrence Duchow and his Red Ravens perform at the Danceland bandstand on Tuesday January 29. The band records for RCA Victor and has played on Chicago radio from the Trianon ballroom. Their music blends modern and old-time styles.
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Red Ravens
RCA Victor
Chicago
Trianon Ballroom
Theaters Release Daily and Monday Show Schedules
Paramount Distant Drums and Iowa Man in the Saddle lead listed matinees and evening shows for today and tomorrow across Paramount Iowa State Palace Times Strand Marion with titles including Red Badge of Courage Callaway Went Thataway Tarzan Triumphs and Prehistoric Women.
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Burt Lancaster
Elliott Reid
Carla Balenda
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O’hara
Spencer Tracy
Katie
Ann Blyth
Times
Tarzan
Strand
Marion
Wile Missouri
Clark Gable
Ricardo Montalban
John Hodiak
Adolphe Menjou
Maria Elena Marques
Reid
Miss Balenda
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Paramount
Iowa
State
Callaway
Thataway
O'Hara
Missouri
Broadway Stardom for Julie Harris Captures Early Night
Julie Harris earned Broadway stardom after her performance in I Am a Camera. In the Empire theater foyer she received praise from Katharine Cornell Helen Hayes Gertrude Lawrence and Dorothy Stickney. Harris spoke of feeling honored and responsible to live up to the title.
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New York
Julie Harris
John van Druten
Empire Theater
Maude Adams
Peter Pan
Katharine Cornell
Helen Hayes
Gertrude Lawrence
Dorothy Stickney
Miss Harris
NBC Today Show Preview and Hollywood TV Battle
Reader recalls watching NBC Today’s Studio of Tomorrow and Garroway, noting new technology and fast-paced clips. The piece also previews Saturday Evening Post’s multi-part look at Hollywood vs Television, quotes Charles Skouras on theater disruption, and reviews Richard Brooks’s novel The Producer with industry chatter.
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New Saturday Evening Post
Milton MacKaye
A Month of Sundays seeks Broadway glory amid headaches
John McClain traces the long, costly path to mounting A Month of Sundays at the Martin Beck theater. Investors raise 180000 for rights and production while producers, designers, and stars like Gene Lockhart and Nancy Walker pour effort into rehearsals and final touches before Broadway opening.
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New York
INS
Martin Beck Theater
B. G. Shovelove
Albert Selden
Victor Wolfson
Astraight
Stuart Holmes Reaches Sixth Hundred Screen Role in Famous
Hollywood veteran Stuart Holmes is signed for his 600th screen part in the musical drama Famous. He co stars with Bing Crosby Jane Wyman and Ethel Barrymore and serves as trustee of St Hilarys girls school run by Miss Barrymore. Holmes is known for The Prisoner of Zenda of 1921 and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse which made Rudolph Valentino a star.
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Stuart Holmes
Bing Crosby
Jane Wyman
Ethel Barrymore
St. Hilary’s
Miss Barrymore
Holmes
Zenda
Rudolph Valentino
Footlighters Swap Antigone Into Season Schedule
The Footlighters announced their fourth show will be the modern Antigone rather than Petrified Forest, with mid March dates. Director Donald Tescher cited its adaptability for local casting and its strong state versus individual conflict themes. The troupe also plans Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit as their third production starting February 6.
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Donald Tescher
Lewis Galantiere
Jean Anouilh
Katharine Cornell
Cecil Hardwicke
Tescher
Noel Coward
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