Rationing and Russian Girls At State Theaters
This week at the State theater features a topical comedy Rationing with Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main. They duel as neighbors then wed amid black market intrigue involving a ration board and a general store. Co feature Three Russian Girls stars Anna Sten with nurse training scenes. Also showing The Woman of the Town with Claire Trevor and Albert Dekker plus Sherlock Holmes Faces Death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Beery
Marjorie Main
Wally
Marjorie
Miss Main
Dorothy Morris
Beery
Tommy Batten
Donald Meek
Howard Freeman
Gloria Dickson
Henry O'Neill
Connie Gilchrist
Richard Hall
Morris Ankrum
Leningrad
Anna Sten
Kent Smith
Mimi Forsythe
Alexander Granach
Cathay Frye
Jack Gardner
Marcia Lenack
Claire Trevor
Albert Dekker
Barry Sullivan
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Basil Rathbone
Nigel Bruce
Springtime in Rockies Tops Rialto Program
The Rialto presents Springtime in the Rockies in technicolor leading a double bill today through Tuesday headlined by Betty Grable John Payne Carmen Miranda Harry James and their Music Makers Cesar Romero Charlotte Greenwood and Edward Everett Horton. The co feature is Texas Kid with Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton. Short subjects include Freddie Fish orchestra a cartoon news and The Phantom chapter 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockies
Rialto Theater
Betty Grable
John Payne
Carmen Miranda
Harry James
Cesar Romero
Charlotte Greenwood
Edward Everett Horton
Johnny Mack Brown
Raymond Hotton
Texas Kid
Freddie Fish
Marion Opens Sinatra Musical in Higher and Higher
Frank Sinatra makes his first starring film appearance in Higher and Higher at the Marion theater for a three day run. The musical comedy blends song and humor as it opens today with a full house expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Frank Sinatra
Marion Theater
Arsenic and Old Lace at Beaux Arts with Darrell Horsfall
Darrell Horsfall stars as Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace at the Beaux Arts theater Los Angeles, a comedy mystery also featuring Michele Morgan and Jack Haley. The cast includes Leon Errol Marcy McGuire Barbara Hale Dooley Wilson and Grace Hartman. A co feature Wings over the Pacific stars Inez Cooper and Edward Norris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michele Morgan
Jack Haley
Leon Errol
Marcy McGuire
Paul and Grace Hartman
Barbara Hale
Dooley Wilson
Miss Morgan
Haley
Sinatra
Inez Cooper
Edward Norris
Darrell Horsfall
Cedar Rapids
Beaux Arts Theater
Los Angeles
Steve Darrell
Horsfall
Jonathan Brewster
Boris Karloff
M. D. Horsfall
Fourth Street
Studios Measure Street Crowds To Balance Film Extras
Hollywood reports studios sought extra crowds to balance male to female ratios for scenes. Observers clocked about five women for every man in uniform across cities, guiding casting from Central Casting. The study notes service personnel in larger ports or camps affect local ratios and realism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
San Francisco
Los Angeles
New York
Sunday theater times for Paramount IOWA STATE Palace Rialto Times and films
The Gazette lists Sunday schedules for Paramount Up in Arms The Uninvited and short subjects at 1 3 14 28 42 9 21 IOWA The Falcon Out West The Woman of the Town Sherlock Holmes Faces Death Palace Hers to Hold Swing Shift Maisie Rialto Springtime in the Rockies Texas Kid Sahara Dancing Masters Marion Higher and Higher Wings over the Pacific. Also notes Harriet Beecher Stowe was sister of Henry Ward Beecher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
West
State
Sherlock Holmes
Maisie
Rialto
Rockies
Marion
Pacific
Deanna Durbin Skews Romance In Palace Feature Hers To Hold
Deanna Durbin stars with Joseph Cotten in Hers To Hold at the Palace theater a serious drama with light moments and a persistent love theme. Charles Winninger Evelyn Ankers and Gus Schilling also appear. Companion feature Swing Shift Maisie features Ann Sothern in her Maisie persona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deanna Durbin
Joseph Cotten
Palace Theater
Deanna
Charles Winninger
Evelyn Ankers
Gus Schilling
Maisie
Ann Sotheris
Bogart Stars in Passage to Marseille at Iowa Theater Saturday
Humphrey Bogart headlines Passage to Marseille as Matrac an anti-Nazi banished to Devil's Island who escapes with four convicts and returns toward France. The voyage amid mid ocean rescue turns into a broader crisis as France capitulates and Paris reels. The film features Claude Rains Sydney Greenstreet Helmet Dantine and others with a co feature Girl in the Case starring Edmund Lowe Janis Carter Robert Williams and Stanley Clements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humphrey Bogart
Michele Morgan
Marseille
Bogie
Devil’s Island
Iowa Theater
Matrac
Devil's Island
France
Paris
Claude Rains
Sydney Greenstreet
Helmet Dantine
Michele Mor
Michael Curtiz
Edmund Lowe
Janis Carter
Robert Wiliams
Stanley Clements
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Broadway comedy and mystery drama head Cedar program
The Iowa theater listing features Iain Broadway comedy sensation Dane ny Kaye in a technicolor production about a nervous draftee disrupting Army discipline with Dinah Shore and Dana Andrews in supporting roles. The Falcon Out West with Tom Conway and Barbara Hale follows. The show airs after Tomorrow the World ends, skipping Monday and resuming Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dane Ny Kaye
Iowa
Dinah Shore
Dana Andrews
Tom Conway
Barbara Hale
Broadway Rhythm at Paramount Theater
Paramount presents Broadway Rhythm with George Murphy and Ginny Simms in a musical comedy blend of romance, songs, dances, and color. Also featured are Tommy Dorsey, Lena Horne, Eddie Rochester Anderson, Gloria DeHaven, Kenney Bowers, and Ben Blue under Roy Del Ruth direction. Nearby, The Uninvited screens as a melodramatic horror with Ray Milland Ruth Hussey and Donald Crisp in a haunted house tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Murphy
Ginny Simms
Tommy Dorsey
Paramount
Dorothy Morris
Wally Beery
Marjorie Main
The
State
Dana Andrews
Alan Napier
Ray Milland
Gail Russell
Ruth Hussey
Albert Dekker
Marshall Bat
Masterson
Claire Travor
Paramount Theater
Ben Blue
Nancy Steines
Roy del Ruth
Ray Mileland
Donald Crisp
Milland
Miss Hussey
Crisp
Miss Russell
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Constance Dowling
Kaye
Claire Treyer
Henry Hull
Porter Hall
Percay Kilbride
Clam Bavans
Ne Ua Bruce
Ateha
Pau Me Grath
Epica Atwater
Wonder Kids
Dickie Tyler
Joan Shepay
the Gazette
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Ward Beecher
George Abbotts
Katherine Alexander Jack
Davis
Sune Dayton
All Star
Eterno
Bill
Palace
Samuel Goldwyn
Motion Picture
PTT
Wwe
Pak
Ray Ruth Donald
MILLAND+HUSSEY-CRISP
Cornelia Otis Skinner
N.c
Harry Jam Cesar Romero
the Renge
Raymond Hatton
Phantom
Freddie Fish Orchestra
Deanna Durbin Josep Cotte -Plus
Ann Sothern
Jean Rogers
John Quaten
Kay Medford
Te USA
Cartoon
Sures
Frank Sinato
Towa A Morth
Stase
Sal
F Goldwyn B. Girls
Yma
Samuel Goldwyn Sen
Sint
Edw
Norris
Para Out West
Dee Douglas
Carole Gallagher
Joan Barclay
Cliff Clark
Ed Gargan
Minor Watson
Kavik
Sunny
Iain
Paramount Books
Murphy
Simms
Danceland Tows
Bob Welty
Tnersday
Bob Eet and His
Tom Owen
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