Era of Gloom Over Hollywood in 1939
Jimmie Fidler surveys Warner Brothers studio era with eight films in production seven of which are dramatic or morbid. He notes Bette Davis roles and ominous European tensions shaping the season while poking at industry quirks from Cagney lunches to glancing mentions of Gloria Holden and Errol Flynn.
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Ollywood
Warner Brothers
Hollywood
George Raft
Gloria Holden
Bette Davis
John
Hitler
Mussolini
Europe
The First Long Paved Road in America
The first long paved road in America stretched 69 miles linking Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, built at a cost exceeding $500,000.
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America
Philadelphia
Lancaster
There Goes My Heart and Pardon Our Nerve at Theaters
Theaters list new films including Paramount showings starring Fredric March Virginia Bruce and Patsy Kelly in There Goes My Heart and Lynn Ball June Gale in Pardon Our Nerve at Paramount. Iowa State and Rialto venues feature Love Affair with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer Twelve Crowded Hours with Richard Dix and Lucille Ball Homicide Bureau with Bruce Cabot Rita Hayworth and Swing It Sailor with Wallace Ford Isabel Jewell.
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Fredric March Virginia Bruce Patsy Kelly
Alan Mowbray
Paramount
Fredric March
Virginia Bruce
Patsy Kelly
Lynn Ball
June Gale
Iowa
Irene Dunne
Charles Boyer
Richard Dix
Lucille Ball
St. Louis
Dorothy Lamour
Maxine Sullivan
Lloyd Nolan
Palace
Don Ameche
Aileen Whelan
Gateway
Warren William
Mady Correll
Rialto
Homicide Bureau
Bruce Cabot
Rita Hayworth
Wallace Ford
Isabel Jewell
Gateway at Palace theater stars Ameche in dramatic thriller
Don Ameche and Aileen Whelan headline Gateway at the Palace through Saturday. The film follows Ellis Island era tensions with a globe spanning cast including Gregory Ratoff Binnie Barnes Gilbert Roland and John Carradine. The second feature Midnight Madonna portrays a mother's fight for her child with Warren William Mady Correll and Kitty Clancy in pivotal roles. Count von Zeppelin noted as Civil War era aerial observer is mentioned in connect.
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Loretta Young
Warner Baxter
20Th Century-Fox
Paramount Theater
Loretta
Warner
James M. Cain
Baxter
Cesar Romero
Palace Theater
Gateway
Ellis Island
Don Ameche
Aileen
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Rosemary Lane
John Garfield
Blackwell's Island
New York City
Welfare Island
James Ellison
Helen Wood
Ace
the Wonder Dog
Mississippi
Otto Kruger - Gail Patrick
Piene
Jase
Blackwells Isl
Alcatra
Stanley Fields
Gentleman
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Wonder Dog
Jimmie Fidler
Rancho de Nowhere
George Brent
Lya Lys
France
Dan Cupid
Eddie Norris
Margaret Lindsay
Ann Sheridan
Lola Lane
Patricia
Bobby Jordan
May Robson
Olivia de Havilland
Joan Fontaine
Gladys George
Errol Flynn
Boris Karloff
Leo Gorcey
Maxie Rosenbloom
Sam Goldwyn
Holmes Herbert
Margaret
Jimmy Cagney
Cagney
Loyd Bacon
Bacon
Gloria
Paramount News World
toRerna Young
Binnie Bar Ge Oke
Tommy Tucker
Arleen Whelan
Madonna
Otto Kruger
Gail Patrick
Count von Zeppelin
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