Desperate Hours Opens at Princess Theatre in High Drama
William Wyler’s The Desperate Hours opens today at the Princess Theatre. The Paramount thriller stars Fredric March Martha Scott Dewey Martin Gig Young and Mary Martin with Robert Middleton and Richard Eyer, adapted from Joseph Hayes’s novel and Broadway play and shot in black and white VistaVision.
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Dewey Martin
Gig Young
Mary Marin
Robert Middleton
Richard Eyer
Joseph Hayes
Lee Garmes
Wuthering Heights
Mrs. Miniver
Princess
Fredric March
Princess Theatre
Humphrey Bogart
Arthur Kennedy
Mary Murphy
View From Pompey's Head Stunning CinemaScope Debut
The View from Pompeys Head opens tonight at Bowline Theatre as a romantic mystery drama. Richard Egan and Dana Wynter star with Cameron Mitchell in a film about a New York publisher’s emissary returning to Pompey’s Head to uncover a dark family secret, amid a double romance and caste tensions.
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New York
Pompey
Deep South
Old Pompey
Richard Egan
Dana Wynter
Cameron Mitchell
Hamilton
Dunne
Hollywood
Twentieth Century-Fox
Darryl Zanuck
Captain Queeg Role Elevates Bogart In The Caine Mutiny
Hollywood heated up for the film adaptation of Herman Wouk'sPulitzer prize winner The Caine Mutiny with Humphrey Bogart chosen as Captain Queeg. The Technicolor production at Sunset Theatre stars Bogart Jose Ferrer Van Johnson and Fred MacMurray in supporting roles.
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Columbia Pictures
Humphrey Bogart
Queeg
van Johnson
Maryk
Jose Ferrer
Fred MacMurray
Sunset Theatre
Herman Wouk
Stanley Kramer
Hollywood
Captain Queeg
Bogart
Ruth Etting Story Shines at Ranch Theatre Hartselle
MGM presents Love Me Or Leave Me a lavish Cinemascope color bio of Ruth Etting at the Ranch Theatre Hartselle with Doris Day James Cagney and Cameron Mitchell. The dramatic rise from night clubs to Ziegfeld Follies is staged through hits of the 20s and 30s.
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Ruth Etting
M-G-M
Miss Etting
Ranch Theatre
Hartselle
Doris Day
James Cagney
Cameron Mitchell
Stanford White’s Hotel View With His Murder
Film production at Bowline Theatre and in Brunswick Georgia parallels the real murder of Stanford White. Location shooting for The View from Pompey’s Head used the Oglethorpe Hotel while The Red Velvet Swing portrays White’s murder. Cast includes Richard Egan Dana Wynter Cameron Mitchell.
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Twentieth Century-Fox
Hamilton Basso
Richard Egan
Dana Wynter
Cameron Mitchell
Philip Dunne
White
Philip Reed
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