Broadway hits brighten Cedar Rapids screens this week
Screen versions of Bells Are Ringing and The Rat Race open this week in Cedar Rapids theaters. Bells Are Ringing stars Judy Holliday with Dean Martin and features songs like The Party Is Over and Just In Time. The Rat Race stars Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds in a Manhattan drama romance, with Jack Oakie Kay Medford and Don Rickles in supporting roles.
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Film Night Adds Peck Hayward Stars in Local Show
A trade listing notes Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward in a feature presented locally, alongside the musical Say One for Me with Bing Crosby Debbie Reynolds and Robert Wagner. The program highlights classic film attractions and star power.
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Miss Belgium Lucienne Au clair faces hard luck tale in Hollywood
Hollywood recounts Lucienne Au clair Miss Belgium 1956 who failed to sign with Columbia after Cohn’s death then built a Mexico City TV career. She battled hepatitis and a Malibu car crash that left facial injuries and a smashed knee, spending ten months in hospital. She aims to resume acting with Warner Brothers deal.
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Conway Twitty to perform at Danceland Saturday
Conway Twitty, a rising teen idol, will fill a Danceland date Saturday after hits on disk and appearances on Perry Como and Dick Clark shows. He also made his movie debut in Platinum High School.
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Pay or Die publicity in New York misread as fare rise
In New York a Hollywood publicity stunt by Allied Artists in subway terminals showed the words Pay or Die for a film about the Mafia starring Ernest Borgnine. Riders thought it signaled a fare increase to fund new trains, leading to widespread transit authority complaints and necessary tearing down of the posters.
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Cedar Rapids Community Theater Plans Summer Show Off
Cedar Rapids Community Theater announced a summer production of The Show-Off by George Kelly. Max Hahn directs. Tryouts set for next Sunday at 2 30 pm and Monday and Tuesday at 7 pm with sessions for technical staff. The cast includes 6 men and 3 women and dates will be in early August.
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No Wonder He Dropped Band
Hollywood AP reports Ray Anthony, famed for his big band, is courted for a film with Brigitte Bardot in Paris this fall. He left his band years ago after earning about a million dollars annually, noting he would have kept only a tenth.
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Las Vegas entertainer Ray forms flashy hotel lounge act
Ray forms a small combo with two girls, one resembling Marilyn Monroe and one like Jane Russell, thriving in the Sahara hotel lounge in Las Vegas. He has studied acting between gigs, appeared in over a dozen films, and says he now earns more than his earlier million a year, with Brigitte Bardot also mentioned.
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Movie Showings At Local Theaters This Sunday And Week
Paramount presents Hannibal with multiple daily showings and organ and shorts. Iowa screens Dinosaurus SOS Pacific and adventures of Huckleberry Finn with various times. Palace shows Giant of Marathon Cry Terror and Marion offers Happy Anniversary with shorts. C R Drive In shows Yellow Stone Kelly and Young Philadelphians. Twixt Town offers David and Bathsheba and Say One for Me.
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Dark Hair Opens Role for Yvonne Lime
Hollywood report that Yvonne Lime, a natural blonde, dyed her hair brunette to land a new film role. Producers reportedly prefer brunettes for the current project.
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