Happy Land Opens At Princess Theatre In Heartland Drama
The wartime family saga Happy Land stars Don Ameche Frances Dee Harry Carey and Ann Rutherford in a Hartfield California production directed by Irving Pichel. The film follows Lew Marsh Agnes Gramp Rusty and Lenore Prentiss in a realism driven adaptation praised for its authentic portrayal of everyday American life. Also opening Lady in the Dark at Strand Theatre features Ginger Rogers in a wedding gown in a Technicolor sequence with Jon Hall.
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MacKinlay Kantor
Ann Rutherford
America
Marsh
Lew Marsh
Agnes
Happy Land
Hollywood
Santa Rosa
California
Irving Pichel
Kenneth Macgowan
Hartfield
Kantor
Don Ameche
Frances Dee
Harry Curry
Gramp
Lenore Prentiss
Ginger Rogers
Jon Hall
Strand Theatre
Jon
Ginger
Doh Ameche
Harry Carey
Princess Theatre
Three Russian Girls shines at Roxy with Anna Sten pairing
Anna Sten and Kent Smith star in a wartime romance at the Roxy Theatre, portraying a nurse Natasha and an American aviator amid bombed fronts. The film features real battle footage from the Leningrad siege and centers on heroism of women, romance, and resilience.
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Anna Sten
Kent Smith
Gregor Rabinovitch
Roxy Theatre
Cathy Frye
Chijik
Mimi Forsaythe
Tamara
Miss Sten
Natasha
Leningrad
In Our Time at the Roxy stars Lupino and Henreid
Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid headline In Our Time at the Roxy in a wartime romance. Lupino plays a young woman who marries a Polish Count and endures family opposition as war interrupts their hopes, with Nazimova, Mary Boland and Victor Francen in supporting roles.
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Paul Henreid
Ida Lupino
Roxy Theatre
Roxy Theater
Warner Bros
Warsaw
Nancy Coleman
Nazimova
Mary Boland
Victor Francen
Actress Anna Sten shines in wartime nurse role
The snippet praises Anna Sten as an exceptionally lovely lead in a film about a gallant Russian volunteer nurse. Kent Smith is described as a likeable hero, with strong support from Alexander Granach Mimi Forsaythe and Cathy Frye in the cast.
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Anna Sten
Kent Smith
Alexander Granach
Mimi Forsaythe
Cathy Frye
Dr Gillespie Comes Again in Three Men in White at Princess
Lionel Barrymore stars as Dr Gillespie judging two young medicos Dr Adams and Dr Lee in a light dramatic comedy at the Princess Theatre opening Wednesday. Marilyn Maxwell provides lively vamps while Van Johnson appears in Irene gowns. Two medical cases add dramatic moments.
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Lionel Barrymore
Gillespie
Adams
Lee
Dr. Gillespie
Princess Theatre
Marilyn Maxwell
van Johnson
Desert Story Told At Roxy
Opening at the Roxy Theatre on Thursday is the Technicolor film version of The Desert Song. It follows Paul Hudson as El Khobar aiding the Riffs against Nazi oppression with a romance involving Margot and a journalist friend and features Dennis Morgan Irene Manning Bruce Cabot Gene Lockhart and Faye Emerson.
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Roxy Theatre
Paul Hudson
el Khobar
Paul
Margot
Johnny Walsh
Byrne Overman
Colonel Fontaine
Caid Yousseff
Victor Francen
Johnson’s medical cases drive tense moments in a romance
Johnson treats bone calcination with curable results and restores a crippled woman to activity. A subplot follows his romance with Miss Maxwell, who overhears his marriage ambivalence and lures him back. Comedic bits feature Barrymore and Alma Kruger as hospital staff amid Blair Hospital banter.
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Johnson
Miss Maxwell
Barrymore
Alma Kruger
Molly Byrd
Blair Hospital
Local Social Notes From Cullman Area
Mrs. J D Law and Mrs. Arthur Allen visited Cullman on Monday. Visitors included Mr Wilson and daughter from Mississippi and Mr and Mrs J M McManus plus their guests Archie Roswell and family and Chester McManus. Sgt Hermon Galin returns from Italy on furlough for 90 days to Cullman area. The Feeney hospital treated the daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Steel and Casinars McManus nears completion on a new block house.
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J. D. Law
Arthur Allen
Cullman
Mr. Wilson
Mississippi
J. M. McManus
Winfred McManus
Winfield
Odie Daniel
Walt White
Sgt
Hermon Galin
Italy
Frank Steel
Feeney Hospital
Casinars McManus
Clement
Archie Roswell
Battleground
Johnnie Lee
Wilson
Bill Henry
West Point
Chester McManus
Judge Watkins Mabry Vaughan Dies in Selma
Former Dallas county Probate Judge Watkins Mabry Vaughan 72 dies at a Selma hospital. He served as probate judge from 1918 to 1941 and helped shape Alabama law as a member of the 1901 constitutional convention and author of Vaughan's Legal Forms. He is survived by his widow two sons a brother and two sisters.
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Selma
Ala
Dallas County
Watkins Mabry Vaughan
Vaughan
Lost billfold at Princess Theatre seeks aid
A brown billfold lost at Princess Theatre contains A and E gas books and other papers. Notify Walter Sparks in Hillsboro for reward.
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Brown
Princess ‘Theatre
Walter Sparks
Hillsboro
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Bob Wills
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Edmund Lowe
Janis Carter
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Lionel Atwill
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Cullman County
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