Walk East on Beacon with FBI Crackdown on Espionage Ring
A De Rochemont documentary style film frames an FBI crackdown on a Communist espionage ring. George Murphy Finlay Currie and Virginia Gilmore lead a small cast with Hoover era realism. The Technicolor production emphasizes precise detail and procedural suspense.
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Beacon
George Murphy
Finlay Currie
Virginia Gilmore
Cornel Wilde
Teresa Wright
Iowa Theater
Nadine Subotnik
Louis de Rochemont
FBI
de Rochemont
Old March of Times
92Nd Street
Eaton Falls
Leo Rosten
J. Edgar Hoover
Bureau
Hollywood
Murphy
Miss Gilmore
Orge Murphy
Hollywood Gossip and Movie News From Around the Studio
Judy Garland lookalike Peggy King draws Arthur Freed's interest as he tests her for a potential MGM debut. Cornel Wilde shines as a swordsman in California Conquest while Teresa Wright probes casting for The Ten Commandments. Liz Taylor rescues pets from England and Gloria Stewart faces a gall bladder scare on Durango location.
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Ollywood
INS
Judy Garland
Arthur Freed
Europe
New York
Peggy King
Hollywood
Judy
Arthur
Peggy
MGM
Red Skelton
Jimmy Durante
Gloria Stewart
Jimmy
Durango
Colo
Gloria
Good Samaritan Hospital
Nightlife Graduation Parties and Hollywood Guests
The passage recalls early graduation parties lasting all night with rounds of dinners and dancing. It mentions the Darryl Zanucks hosting a party for their son Dick from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., followed by breakfast elsewhere. It notes Zsa Zsa Gabor and George Sanders at Jack's at the Beach and lists Jane Wyman, Mau reen and Michael flying to New York, and Sonny Werblins in Connecticut. The group then dined with Lorena and L. B. Mayer before heading to Honolulu and San Francisco aboard the S S President Cleveland.
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Maggie
Darryl Zanucks
Ho-hum
Zsa
Zsa Gabor
George Sanders
Au Revoir
Jane Wyman
Maureen
Michael
New York
Sonny Werblins
Connecticut
Lorena
L. B. Mayer
Honolulu
San Francisco
Suzanne
S.S
Cleveland
Theater Time for Thursday Show Schedules
The Gazette lists today’s theater times across venues Paramount Iowa State Town Palace and others. Matinees and evening showings include Skirts Ahoy Pat and Mike Walk East on Bea con Denver and Rio Grande Ang sy Can Happen Montana Despera Casa Manana City Lights My Friend Flicka Thats the gist of the day’s written listings.
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Gazette
Paramount
Iowa
State
Stitches in Time Save Car After Skid Accident
In Salisbury New Hampshire a 20 year old motorist escaped serious harm after a collision left his car badly damaged. A physician stitched together the wrecked vehicle as Brook received 40 stitches to close injuries from the skid.
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Salisbury
N. H
George Brook
Stars ready for telethon this weekend
Vincent X. Flaherty reports Hollywood units gear up for a Bob Hope Bing Crosby Olympic fund telethon. Starting Saturday at 9 p.m. CST in Hollywood, Crosby and Hope perform all 14.5 hours with more than 100 stars. Crosby joins the cause after agreeing to television work to help raise at least a half million dollars for 400 athletes bound for Europe. Other volunteers include Dorothy Lamour, Paul Douglas, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Frank Sinatra, the Ritz brothers, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and Trig.
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Vincent X. Flaherty
Hollywood
INS
Hollywood Coordinating Committee
Theater Authority Committee
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting Company
Bing Crosby
Dorothy Lamour
Paul Douglas
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Frank Sinatra
the Ritz Brothers
Roy Rogers
Dale Evans
Trig
Telethon to Air Big Name Show Across WOC-TV
The list of participants includes Bell sisters Joe E Lewis Peggy Lee Frankie Laine Walter Pidgeon and many others with Milt Corum of the New York Journal American serving as national sports committee chairman. WOC TV Davenport will televise the Hope telethon Saturday 10 30 p m to midnight and Sunday 10 30 to 11 30 a m.
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Bell Sisters
Joe E. Lewis
Peggy Lee
Frankie Laine
Walter Pidgeon
Milt Corum
The
New York, Journal-American
Woc-Tv
Davenport
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Wendy Oaks Supper Club
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