Leap Year Lady Finds Broadway Dream Through Dinner With Tex
Smoky O'Toole hosts Tex Stacy after a failed engagement to Karl Hetrick. Tex helps Smoky audition for a Broadway chorus while Clancy O'Toole, her father, plays gracious host. Dinner reveals Smoky's ambitions and a looming dilemma about marriage and publicity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smoky O'Toole
Clancy O'Toole
Smoky Mrs. Hetrick
the O'Tooles
Karl Hetrick
Smoky
Dayne Olsen
Tex Stacy Young Cow
Testead
Dane Olsen
Tex Stace
Tex
Clancy
Karl
Pop
Stacy
New York
Texas
Shamrock
Toria
Lising
Shamrock O'Toole
Ledcer Syndicate
Theaters Listings for Iowa and Palace Strand Rialto
Movie showings include Jean Arthur Fred MacMurray Melvyn Douglas in Too Many Husbands Men Without Souls with John Litel Barton MacLane Rochelle Hudson Paramounts Broadway Melody of 1940 Mae West W C Fields Ms Little Chickadee The Ghost Comes Home with Frank Morgan Billie Burke Ann Rutherford Disputed Passage Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence Heavan The Ghost Comes Home Rialto Witness Vanishes Tex Ritter Roll Wagons Roll Strand Romance of the Redwoods Sidney Toler Mr Chan in Reno John Howard Dorothy Lamour Jean Rogers Rajahala
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Jean Arthur
Fred MacMurray
Melvyn Douglas
John Litel
Barton MacLane
Rochelle Hudson
Palace
Dorothy Lamour
John Howard
Heaven
Jean Rogers
Rialto
Edmund Lowe
Wendy Barrie
Tex Ritter
Strand
Jean Parker
Charles Bickford
Sidney Toler
Mr Chan
Reno
Chickadee Puts Comedians on Spotlight at State Theater
Mae West and W C Fields star in My Little Chickadee at the State theater with Field's humor and West satire. The film blends flirtation and double entendre while critics note uneven comedy and suggest restraining West impersonations. The Ghost Comes Home accompanies with Frank Morgan Billie Burke Ann Rutherford and Reginald Owen in supporting roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae West
W. C Fields
Fields
Miss West
State Theater
Hollywood
Orson Welles
Frank Morgan
Billie Burke
Ann Rutherford
Reginald Owen
Sheriff Sale Notice in Linn County Iowa 1940
By virtue of a special execution in Linn County Iowa issued March 1940 the sheriff will sell at public auction the northeast 40 feet of Lot 3 Daniel's Subdivision Out Lot Seventeen Cedar Rapids to satisfy a claim of 5200.50 with costs 117.25 and accruals. Sale set for April 35 1940 in front of the Cedar Rapids courthouse at 7:00 pm. James H Smith Sheriff Linn County Iowa Roy Radebattch Deputy attorney Stewart Holmes appears in the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Linn County
C Frishy
Eben Louise Brammer
Daniel
Cedar Rapids
Linn
Iowa
James H Smith
Stewart Holmes
Roy Radebattch
Nellie Bly film in development at RKO with Jean Arthur
Hollywood items note Nellie Bly’s world journey to inspire a feature film with Jean Arthur possibly playing the daring reporter. M Musselman wrote the Nellie story. RKO considers casting Cary Grant or another actor. Other notes mention Mae West, Bill Fields, and Claudette Colbert in current and upcoming projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ollywood
INS
Nellie Bly
Nellie
M. M Musselman
Harry Edington
RKO
Jean Arthur
Cary Grant
Jean Or
Sandrich to direct new film while on Warner lot chaos rises
Studio troubles bubble on the Warner lot with accidents on set including Marilyn Merrick bitten by a monkey and Jimmy Cagney treated for powder burns. Margot Stevenson and Ann Sheridan spark a prop mishap while a fire engulfs the All This and Heaven Too set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner
Marilyn Merrick
Elsa Maxwell
Jimmy Cagney
Ann Sheridan
Margot Stevenson
My House at the Footlight Players Workshop
The piece mentions Pat’s friends gathering for a welcome. Martha Scott arranged a test for The Tree of Liberty and Joan Fontaine may be too ill to join the picture. Martha Scott is praised for Our Town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Footlight Players Workshop
Pat
Martha Scott
Joan Fontaine
Martha
Also Mentioned on This Page
Scearberry
Lex
Park Avenue
Clanes
Cowboy
Howdy
Hanjo Clancy
Dream
Ann Pennington
Brooks .Johns
Hetrick
Utterfly Cafe
Lloyd C. Douglas
Akim Tamiroff
Raymond Walburn
Paramount
Fred Astaire
Eleanor Powell
George Murphy
W C Fields
Ates
Bill Fields
Universal
Bank Dick
Bill
Claudette Colbert
Gertrude Lawrence
Paramount Pictures
Claudette
M-G-M
Love
Mitchell Leisen
Mark
Welt
Durphy Freak
Morgan
Lon Hunter
Florence Rice - Lynne Carver
ALL Color Classic
Paramount News
Louis Paycher
Redlam
Bields
Ronald Meek
Red Barry
Clark Gable
Jeanette MacDonald
San Francisco
Chas, Bickford
London
Terrytown
Sandrich
Lawrence
Palm Springs
Nellie Coffman
Desert Inn
Patricia van Cleve Lake
Arthur Lake
Marion Davies
Iit
St. Joseph
Yowll
Clarks
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!