Love Affair Tops Local Best of 1939 Film List
A reader lists Love Affair among the ten best 1939 films for Leo McCarey directed with a cast including Charles Boyer Irene Dunne and Maria Ouspenskaya. The review praises the blend of comedy and sentiment and notes the shipboard romance and pathos with Goofy and a Twelve Crowded Hours short.
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Leo McCarey
Delmer Daves
Donald Ogden Stewart
B. G. DeSylva
Harold Arlen
Ted Koehler
Mr. McCarey
RKO Radio
Towa
Terry Mackay
Irene Dunne Michel
Marnaay Erro
Charles Boyer
Marnay
Maria Oktspenskaya
Lois Svevene
Astrid Allwyn Coberé
Ceeeee Serseees
Maurice Moscovich
Irene Dunne
Maria Ouspenskaya
Iowa Theater
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Mme. Murnay
Walt Disney
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Grasshopper
Richard Dix
Lucille Ball
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How Family of 5 Can Eat Well On 12 a Week
A weekly menu plan targets a family of five two adults and three children. It outlines daily menus and recipes to provide balanced meals with sufficient calories protein minerals and vitamins while keeping total weekly cost around twelve dollars.
Monday Menus and Roast Chicken with Dressing
The excerpt lists breakfast and supper menus for Monday featuring baked apples souffle sausages toast and rhubarb meringue along with a roast chicken meal with dressing and sides. It includes costs per day approximately 2.40 and 11 500 calories, plus a detailed chicken and dressing recipe with instructions for preparing, stuffing and roasting a four pound hen and a bread crumb dressing.
Edible Treats and Celebrity Snips From Hollywood Musings
A collage of recipes for creamed kidneys and rhubarb strawberry meringue with bread crumb tips. Plus light humor about actors and the film industry, including Miriam Hopkins anecdotes and Hollywood gossip about Norma Shearer and Bing Crosby.
Hollywood beauty myths and the value of flaws in film stardom
Jimmie Fidler argues Hollywood’s beauty standards are arbitrary and outdated. He notes stars like Mary Pickford Greta Garbo Gloria Swanson Norma Shearer Corinne Griffith and Alice Faye do not fit fixed measurements yet remain iconic. He cites Sonja Henie Mae West and Nancy Kelly as examples where personality and cleverness win over conventional looks. The piece ends with a brusque UTTERINGS about a Hollywood insider’s claim of paternal affection for Nancy Kelly.
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Ollywood
Mary Pickford
Greta Garbo
Gloria Swanson
Norma Shearer
Sonja Henie
Mae West
Labor Conferees Recess To March 30
Washington labor leaders from the AFL and CIO recessed after a seven hour conference stating both sides showed sincere desire to end their feud and made progress toward that end.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Theaters Show 1939 Stars in Multiple Screens
At theaters Paramount Irene Dunne Charles Boyer headlined in Love Affair while Richard Dix Lucille Ball starred in Twelve Crowded Hours. State Tail Spin with Alice Faye Nancy Kelly Constance Bennett and Gambling Ship with Helen Mack Robert Wilcox. Palace Warner Baxter Jane Withers Keep Smiling Rialto The Crime Ring Allan Hale Frances Mercury and Drifting Westward Jack Randall.
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James Stewart
Joan Crawford
Lew Ayres
Iowa
Irene Dunne
Charles Boyer
Richard Dix
Lucille Ball
State
Alice Faye
Nancy Kelly
Constance Bennett
Helen Mack
Robert Wilcox
Palace
Warner Baxter
Jane Withers
Rialto
Allan Hale
Frances Mercer
Jack Randall
Always Another Spring by Adelaide Humphries
Anne and David plan a separate vacation before their possible spring wedding. He stalls for a future bonus while her confidence in love grows, even as family tensions and a midnight lake resort encounter test the couple’s commitment.
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Bud
Marty
Darling
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Ice Follies of 1939 shines as color spectacle revue
A vivid Technicolor review on the Paramount screen blends trick and figure skating with chorus numbers. It follows James Stewart Lew Ayres and Joan Crawford as skaters turned stars whose careers intertwine with romance and the Ice Follies finale featuring Cinderella and Mother Goose characters.
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International Ice Follies
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Lew Ayres
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Jim
Lew
New York
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Avalanche Kills Fifteen French Workers Near Pyrenees Lake
In Toulouse France officials report fifteen workers aged around fifteen to fifty were killed when an avalanche swept the banks of Lake Tsour in the Pyrenees foothills. Rescue efforts were ongoing and authorities cautioned about continuing danger in the area.
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France
Lake Tsour
Pyrenees
Roosevelt tax appeasement tangled in White House drift
The piece details a White House retreat on a tax appeasement plan, with officials from Morgenthau to Hopkins cited as shifting positions. It notes internal disputes, press spin, and a shift of ownership to Senator Pat Harrison, signaling policy ambiguity and factional pressure within the administration.
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Senate Tax Bills And Roosevelts War Profits Debate
The piece outlines possible shifts in tax policy during wartime financing. It notes Hanes program support from Harrison and business groups, questions whether a new tax plan will pass this session, and cites the controversial bill taxing large incomes at high rates while critics seek profits taken from war. It mentions Chavez Truman Garner and political maneuvering influencing votes.
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Poet Grandpa Seeks Moments With Baby Amid World Reach
Edgar A. Guest writes of a grandfather’s playful intrusions as he asks to hold rock and watch the baby. The verse contrasts intimate family scenes with a claim that the United States owns half the world’s communications facilities and over a third of global railways, underscoring vast reach.
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