Broadway drama leads at State with Raft and O'Brien
This week at the State theater features Broadway drama with George Raft and Pat O'Brien as they chase fame amid a speakeasy world and gangland killings. Supporting players include Janet Blair and Broderick Crawford. Co feature is Through Different Eyes. Also showing The Ghost of Frankenstein and Fingers at the Window.
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Broadway
George Raft
Pat O'Brien
State Theater
Raft
O'Brien
Janet Blair
Broderick Crawford
Anne Gwynne
Marjorie Rambeau
Frank Craven
Donald Woods
Mary Howard
Jerome Cowan
Movie listings preview new releases at local theaters
The page highlights several films now playing or about to open including They All Kissed the Bride with Lew Ayres and Joan Crawford at the Iowa, The Ghost of Frankenstein with Lon Chaney Jr. at the State, This Above All with Tyrone Power and Joan Fontain a at the Paramount, Sergeant York with Gary Cooper and Joan Leslie at the Town, Broadway with George Raft and Janet Blair at the State, and Take a Letter Darling starring Rosalind Russell at the Paramount.
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Melvyyn Douglas
Joan Crawford
Iowa
Lon Chaney, Jr
State
Evelyn Akers
Ralph Bellamy
Sir Cedric W Hardwicke
Lionel Atwill
Joan Fontaina
Tyrone Power
England
Eric Knight
Paramount
Gary Cooper
Alvin C. York
Joan Leslie
Gracie Williams
Warner Brothers
Story of the
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Sergeant York
Russell MacMurray Comedy at Paramount Friday
The romantic comedy Take a Letter Darling stars Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray as a boss and his secretary in a comic clash of orders and romance. Also showing There’s One Born Every Minute with Hugh Herbert and Guy Kibbee and This Above All starring Tyrone Power and Joan Fontaine. Flying with Music with Marjorie Woodworth accompanies the program.
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Rosalind Russell
Fred MacMurray
Paramount Theater
Miss Russell
MacMurray
MacDonald Carey
Constance Moore
Robert Benchley
Charles Arnt
Hugh Herbert
Guy Kibbee
Darryl F. Zanuck
Paramount
Eric Knight
Tyrone Power
Joan Fontaine
Clive Briggs
Prudence Cathaway
Clive
Dunkirk
WAAF
Prudence
Thomas Mitchell
Henry Stephenson
Nigel Bruce
Gladys Cooper
Philip Merivale
Sara Allgood
Alexander Knox
Marjorie Woodworth
Foxhead Hosts Four Clefs With Jimmie Marshal Monday
The Four Clefs return to the Foxhead for a Monday show led by Jimmie Marshal on piano and organ with Sonny Chapman on bass Chappy Chapman on drums and vocals and Happy Green on electric guitar. The group, formed in Springfield, Illinois, eight years ago, is recording favorites.
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Jimmie Marshal
Sonny Chapman
Chappy Chapman
Happy Green
Foxhead
Springfield
Iowa Screen Offerings Include They All Kissed the Bride
The new comedy romance They All Kissed the Bride stars Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas and debuts in Iowa, with Crawford as a million dollar heiress and career woman. Douglas plays a skeptic about romance, while Roland Young Billie Burke and others co star. Also on the bill Escape from Crime and India at War with Richard Travis Julie Bishop and Jack Gleason. Sergeant York return engagement continues with Gary Cooper and Joan Leslie. Sweetheart of the Fleet starring Joan Davis Jinx Falkenburg and Joan Woodbury rounds out the program.
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Joan Crawford
Melvyn Douglas
Iowa
Miss Crawford
Douglas
Allen Jenkins
Roland Young
Billie Burke
Andrew Tombes
Helen Parrish
Alexander Hall
Mr. Jordan
Richard Travis
Julie Bishop
Jack Gleason
India
Sergeant York
Gary Cooper
Alvin C. York
Joan Leslie
York
Walter Brennan
George Tobias
Margaret Wycherly
Joan Davis
Jinx Falkenburg
Joan Woodbury
Miss Davis
Radio Singers Rescue in Misidentified Trio Mixup
A radio program prank misidentifies three singers as troublemakers until the real Misses Falkenburg and Woodbury, Brenda and Cobina, step in to clear the scene and restore order.
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Brenda
Cobina
Falkenburg
Woodbury
Theatre, Golf, and Screen Notes in New York Scene
Polo Grounds for Mel Allen vows exit as Music Hall eyes eight week run for Mrs Miniver. Star and Garter draws women. Carrie Finnell sketch omitted to avoid trouble. Backstage changes as draft takes valets. Phil Baker aided by maid. Count Basie rumored groom of Helen Humes. Sigrid Lassen teases with Bruce Barnes tennis. Sue Bosley legally melted. Saroyan debuts Get Away Old Man about L B Mayer.
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Mel Allen
Music Hall
Wags
Carrie Finnell
Phil Baker
Count Basie
Helen Humes
Sigrid Lassen
Bruce Barnes
Sue Bosley
William Saroyan
L. B. Mayer
Rialto Presents They Died With Their Boots On and Sailors on Leave
The Rialto screens They Died With Their Boots On starring Errol Flynn as Custer with Olivia de Havilland as his wife. Supporting cast includes Arthur Kennedy and Anthony Quinn. Sailors on Leave, a predicment comedy, co features with Mundigan as the sailor hoaxed by an inheritance plot.
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Custer
Dakota
Black Hills
West Point
Errol Flynn
Olivia de Havilland
Arthur Kennedy
Charley Grapewin
Gene Lockhart
Anthony Quinn
William Mundigan
Shirley Ross
the Royal Mounted
Evening Theaters Schedule Roundup
Local listings show Paramount presenting This Above All at 1 15 4 08 7 01 9 59 and Flying with Music at 3 08 6 01 8 59. Iowa shows Sergeant York at 2 25 6 40 940, Sweetheart of the Fleet at 1 15 4 50 8 30, and more.
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York
Broadway with Walter Winchell and Hollywood Buzz
Walter Winchell reports Madeleine Carroll marriage rumors to Stirling Hayden on March 30 and other showbiz gossip. Dashiell Hammett disputes a line credited to him while Henry von Holt faces possible headlines in the Bronx.
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Madeleine Carroll
Stirling Hayden
Martha Raye
Dashiell Hammett
Skolsky
H Wood
Palace Screens How Green Was My Valley at Palace
Richard Llewellyn’s tale of a Welsh mining town shows at the Palace theater today through Wednesday. The 1941 best picture winner stars Walter Pidgeon Maureen O Hara Donald Crisp and Roddy McDowall in a simple honest story praised for its sturdy leadership and charm.
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Green
Valley
Palace Theater
Walter Pidgeon
Maureen O Hara
Donald Crisp
Roddy McDowall
Fiesta highlights Welsh chorus in technicolor show
A feature on a Welsh chorus performing folk tunes titled Fiesta with singing and dancing ensembles. The story notes a colorful technicolor photography approach and centers on a romantic subplot about a Mexican señorita being wooed by a fortune hunter.
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