This Week at the Theaters Opens My Friend Flicka at Paramount
Paramount hosts the technicolor adaptation of My Friend Flicka opening Friday with Roddy McDowall Preston Foster and Rita Johnson. Co feature Follow the Band showcases trombone driven city band craze. Three Hearts for Julia and Cabin in the Sky also play with notable casts.
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My Friend Flicka
Mary O'Hara
Roddy McDowall
Paramount Theater
Reader’s Digest
Story Magazine
Red Book
Scholastic Magazine
Twentieth Century-Fox
Roddy
Eddie Quillan
Mary Beth Hughes
Leon Errol
Frances Langford
Leo Carrillo
Alvino Rey
Hilo Hattie
Ray Eberle
The
King Sisters
Bombardiers
King’s Men
For Me and My Gal Headlines Marion Theater Week
Judy Garland stars with Gene Kelly in a World War I era musical romance set in vaudeville. The bill also features The Undying Monster as a thrill co feature with Moonlighting supporting acts in the Marion program running today through Tuesday.
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Gal
Judy Garland
Gene Kelly
Judy
Kelly
George Murphy
Beautiful Sea
Johnny
The Desperadoes and More on Local Screens This Week
The Town shows The Desperadoes starring Guinn Williams Glenn Ford and Randolph Scott with Claire Trevor Evelyn Keyes. Yankee Doodle Dandy at the Palace features The Four Cohans and James Cagney. Three Hearts for Julia at Paramount stars Ann Sothern and Melvyn Douglas. Night Plane from Chungking opens at the State with Robert Preston Ellen Drew. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing at the State. Cabin In the Sky at Paramount with Ethel Waters. My Friend Flicka at Screen led by Rita Johnson Noddy McDowell and Preston Foster. The More the Merrier at the Town with Jean Arthur Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn.
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Ann Sothern
Melvyn Douglas
Julia
Paramount
Robert Preston
Ellen Drew
Chungking
China
Lower Keft
Ethel Waters
Eddie
Rochester
Anderson
Warnere
Flicka
Mary O'Wara
Rita Johnson
Noddy McDowell
Preston Foster
Paramount Friay
Seven Sweethearts Is Times Attraction Attracts Crowds
Van Heflin and Kathryn Grayson lead the story of young romance in Seven Sweethearts at the Times theater opening today. Heflin stars as a cocky reporter who falls for Grayson, the youngest of seven daughters who run a hotel for their eccentric father. Co feature is The Omaha Trail about hauling a locomotive across the West with James Craig as wagon boss, facing Indians and rivals.
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van Heflin
Kathryn Grayson
Times Theater Today
James Craig
Dean Jagger
Pamela Blake
Paramount Books Blue Barron Band Opening June 4
Blue Barron and his orchestra will bring Music of Yesterday and Today to Paramount theater in Cedar Rapids for a three day run starting Friday June 4. The Barron band, booked at top venues nationwide and featured on radio networks, presents a sweet style program with noted entertainers.
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Blue Barron
Cedar Rapids
Paramount Theater
Barron
Desperadoes stars Scott Ford Keyes at Iowa theater
Randolph Scott Glenn Ford Claire Trevor Evelyn Keyes and Edgar Buchanan lead the cast of The Desperadoes a technicolor western at the Iowa theater Friday The story follows a range outlaw who aims to reform a frontier town while romance and intrigue entangle him The co feature She Has What It Takes a musical comedy centers on a girl chasing Broadway stardom The Iowa run also features songs from Yankee Doodle Dandy 45 Minutes from Broadway Mary and Over There with a supporting cast including Walter Huston Richard Whorf and James Cagney Jr
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Lawless Plains
Cheyenne
Red Valley
Jinx Falkenburg
Broadway
Mary
Cagney
Cohan
Walter Huston
Richard Whorf
Joutines Cagney
Irene Manning
Frances Langford
Eddie Foy, Jr
Walter Catlett
Yankee Doodle Dandy to Open at Palace in Cedar Rapids
The musical film about George M. Cohan stars James Cagney who won an Oscar for the role. A war time inspired Academy Award nominee, the story follows Cohan as he returns from a performance and is summoned to the White House before a flashback to his career and romance with his future wife played by Joan Leslie.
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George M. Cohan
Cedar Rapids
Palace Theater
James Cagney
Cohan
White House
Joan Leslie
Movie schedule brief lists theaters and showtimes
Paramount presents Cabin in the Sky with four daily showings. STATE screens One of Our Aircraft Is Missing and Lost Canyon at multiple times. Palace runs Yankee Doodle Dandy with shorts. Rialto features Ride Em Cowboy and You Were Never Lovelier. Strand shows The Fleet's In and Secret of the RT DBS. Marion presents For Me and My Gal and The Undying Monster with multiple performances.
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Lost Canyon
Rialto
Night Plane from Chungking Arrives at State Theater
The film Night Plane from Chungking opens Thursday at the State Theater. Robert Preston and Ellen Drew star as an American flyer and Red Cross nurse on the Assam road to India amid munitions trucks and spy danger. Otto Kruger, Steve Geray, Tamara Geva, Soo Yong and Sen Yung lead the supporting cast. co feature Truck Busters.
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Chungking
Robert Preston
Ellen Drew
State Theater
Assam
India
Preston
Miss Drew
Red Cross
Otto Kruger
Steve Geray
Tamara
Abbott Costello film and Astaire Hayworth musical double feature
The Rialto presents a two feature bill running today through Tuesday. You Were Never Lovelier stars Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire in a musical romance while Abbott and Costello headline Ride Em Cowboy. The program blends rhythm and dancing with comedy on the theater’s stage.
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Rialto Theater
Rita Hayworth
Fred Astaire
Abbott and Costello
Ride Em Cowboy and Coast Guard serial open at Rialto
Adolphe Menjou and Xavier Cugat blend Jerome Kern music with a pan American romance in Ride Em Cowboy. Abbott and Costello appear in West snapshots, a cartoon, news and Daredevils of the West chapter six. Don Terry and Walter Sunde battle spies in Don Winslow of the Coast Guard, a 13 chapter war serial opening Friday at Rialto.
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Adolphe Menjou
Xavier Cugat
Jerome
The Fleet’s In Tops Strand Program At The Strand
The Strand offers The Fleet’s In an all star picture with Jimmy Dorsey Dorothy Lamour William Holden and others today through Tuesday The sailor story follows a celebrity kiss publicity stunt and bets on his supposed romantic prowess A second feature Secret of the Wastelands and a Disney cartoon complete the bill Hopalong Cassidy also appears with cast members William Boyd and Barbara Britton in the second film.
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Jimmy Dorsey
Dorothy Lamour
William Holden
Eddie Spracken
Betty Hutton
Betty Jane Rhodes
Leif Erickson
Strand Theater
Holden
Miss Lamour
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Randolph Scott
Claire Trevor
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Sen Yung
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