Theaters in Cedar Rapids Demand MusicalComedy And Drama
This week features Tulsa at the Paramount with Hayward Preston Armendariz and Enchantment at the Iowa with Niven Wright and Granger. Also showing are The Scar at the State with Henreid Bennett and Kissing Bandit at the State. Second run listings include A Song Is Born at Times and The Voice of the Turtle at the Strand with Land of the Lawless as co feature.
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Cedar Rapids
Susan Hayward
Doris Day
Jack Carson
Lee Bowman
Iowa
Carson
Miss Day
Adolphe Menjou
Eve Arden
S. Z. Sakall
Frankie Carle
Ada Leonard
Martin
Virginia Mayo
Zachary Scott
Dorothy Malone
Enchantment
David Niven
Teresa Wright
Evelyn Keyes
Farley Granger
Bill Williams
Barbara Are
Paul Henreid
Joan Bennett
Murray Forbes
Peggy Knudsen
Lynne Roberts
Charles Russell
van Heflin
Robert Ryan
Janet Leigh
Mary Astor
Phyllis Thaxter
Frank Sinatra
Kathryn Grayson
J. Carrol Naish
Billy Gilbert
Rod Cameron
Bonita Granville
Tombstone
Barry Sullivan
Marjorie Reynolds
Danny Kaye
Ronald Reagan
Eleanor Parker
Marion
Julia Misbehaves
Greer Garson
Walter Pidgeon
Peter Lawford
Elizabeth Taylor
Cesar Romero
Richard Denning
Trudy Marshall
Robert Preston
Pedro Armendariz
Tulsa
Paramount
of the Turtle
Johnny Mack Brown
Pioneers Pushing TV Movie Boom In Hollywood
AP report on early television film pioneers who shoot half hour movies in two days for about 10000 dollars. They project rapid growth with films supplementing theater fare, embracing sponsors, and using new techniques like kinescopes while major studios hesitate.
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Ollywood
D. W. Griffiths
Cecil B. DeMilles
Hollywood
American Tobacco Company
Apex Pictures
Jerry Fairbanks
John Howard
Hal Roach
Roach
NBC
Yes Indeed Hollywood Has Come a Very Long Way
Nadine Subotnik reviews It Happened One Night and argues taste and technique changed since 1934. She notes Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable’s performances, discusses production value and pacing, and contrasts old-time humor with modern Oscar focus, predicting Today’s comedies face higher standards.
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Hollywood
Claudette Colbert
Clark Gable
Frank Capra
Claudette
Clark
Jericho
Academy
Midnight Show at Paramount on Friday May 13
A Friday the 13th program at the Paramount theater screens Dracula and Frankenstein starting at midnight. The event promises a shiver show with free tickets to a coming feature for those who endure the entire midnight program.
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Paramount Theater
Dracula
Frankenstein
Leslie Fenton Directed Ladd in Whispering Smith
Director Leslie Fenton who once acted opposite stars like Alan Ladd directed him in Whispering Smith. The note highlights Fenton’s transition from actor to director and his collaboration with Ladd on the film.
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Leslie Fenton
Alan Ladd
Fenton
Ladd
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court at Paramount
Local theater listings show Paramount presenting A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court with showings at 1 3 10, 5 20, 7 30, 9 40 and shorts at 2 45 4 55 7 05 9 15. Also listed are Iowa Enchantment The Clay Pigeon Last of the Wild Horses Chump at Oxford and other films with multiple daily times across Strand Town Marion venues.
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Paramansan F
Paramount
Connecticut
Tombstone
Oxford
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Miss Hayward
Plains
Preston
Armendariz
Chill Wills
Lloyd Gough
Edward Begley
Mark Twain
Bing Crosby
Mary Beth Hughes
James Ellison
Chump
Gene Handsaker
Hal Roach, Jr
Television Film Producers’ Association
United States
General Mills
Arthur Shields
Jeanne Cagney
Reginald Denny
Hed Hatfield
Beulah Bondi
Screen Actors’ Guild
Gables
Colberts
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Grant Realm
de Maupassant
James C. Petrillo
Musicians’ Union
Fairbanks
Independent
Motion Picture Producers Leasing Organization
Eddie Drake
CBS
Patricia Morison
Snow
Kate
Don Haggerty
Imppro
Rudy Vallee
Vallee Video
David Street
Rudy
Joseph Parker
Petrillo
Five-star Productions
Nadine Subotnik
Charles Boyer
Irene Dunne
Mr. Deeds
Norma Shearer
Fredric March
Gable
Roscoe
Miss Colbert
Ronald Colman
San Ysidro
Santa Barbara
Jutia
Richard Dennings
Virginia Mayo Cohit
Robert Montgomery
Robert Taylor van Heilin
Sun
Eve
Crosby
Technicolor
Lai Asd
Blackie
Martin Block
Freddy Martin
Keenan Wynn
IRKO
Jrd ST
1St Ave
Imeem Aidt
Samuel Goldwyn
Farley
RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
Barbara Hale
Ube
Uae
Michael Curtiz
Selena Royle
Allied Artists Productions
Bso
Paul Lae
Nelma, Landee
Charles Lea
20Th Century
Julia
Extraleon Errol
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