Thanks a Million at the Strand
The Strand screens Thanks a Million a frivolous story about misadventures with wild-eyed politicians and a tangled troupe. Powell and Dvorak face romance threats from Margaret Irving but end happily with Powell as a radio star. Songs by Gus Kahn and Arthur Johnston include Thanks a Million and Sugar Plum.
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Powell
Dvorak
Margaret Irving
Allen
Gus Kahn
Arthur Johnston
Nunnally Johnson
Darryl F. Zanuck
Rey del Ruth
Raymond Walburn
Benny Baker
Alan Dinehart
Diamond Jim Real Life Drama at the Princess Theatre
Edward Arnold stars in a period drama about the life of Diamond Jim with themes of desire and ambition. The production plays at the Princess Theatre and promises a lively, stagey look at a famed Gilded Age figure.
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Diamond Jim
Edward Arnold
Princess Theatre
Miss Pacific Fleet at the Princess features Blondell Farrel
Blondell Farrel and Glenda as gay gold diggers headline the Warner Bros comedy Miss Pacific Fleet at the Princess Theatre. Hugh Herbert Allen Jenkins Warren Hull lead a zany naval base plot with a beauty contest fight kidnaping and a sailor versus marine melee.
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Glenda Farrell
Joan Blondell
Allen Jenkins
Navy
Warner Bros
Princess Theatre
Joan Blondel
Hugh Herbert
Warren Hull
Pacific Coast
Joan
Glenda
Jenkins
Herbert
Broadway Melody of 1936 Set for Princess Theatre Premiere
The Princess Theatre to open Broadway Melody of 1936 featuring Jack Benny and Una Merkel in a lavish MGM musical. Six months of prep and a modern Manhattan pent house sequence built at the studio mark the production with five new songs by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed.
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Adrian
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Princess Theatre
Manhattan
Broadway
Hollywood
Jack Benny
Una Merkel
Sid Silvers
June Knight
Robert Taylor
Eleanor Powell
Frances Langford
Nick Long, Jr
Wilma
Buddy Eben
Harry Stockwell
Shirley Ross
Robert Wildhack
Nacio Herb Brown
Arthur Freed
Chaos Behind the Scenes in Early Film Production
The production department of a motion picture studio endures constant requests and complaints from dawn to midnight. Filmmaking chaos includes demands for permits to blow up props, water disputes, time pressures, and a bloody cameraman on set. Gene warns that writers must turn imagination into reality.
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Pasadena
Production Department
Motion Picture Studio
Disraeli
Napoleon
Alexander the Great
Richelieu
The Public Menace Opens at Columbia Studio
Anderson of Columbia Hollywood Studios notes the challenge of staging 2000 Chinese soldiers for the new Columbia production The Public Menace starring Jean Arthur and George Murphy. The film, described as exciting, is due to open Wednesday on the gaging roadster set.
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Champ
Margaret Lindsay
Capitol Theatre
Theatre
Hartselle
HEAR
America
Paul Whiteman
Minga Gamsbell
Eddie Acuff
Marie Wilson
Guvin Williams
Anita Kerry
Rubinoff
Dick Powell
Strand Theatre
John W. Considine, Jr
Dave Gould
Buddy Rosevelt
NRL
Waren
Radio Night
Zenith Radio
Gies
Il Oomae
G i LE Rhert
George M
Jeanne
Losles
Thrill With the Devil Dogs
Highway
the Radio Patrol
Fred Macmurray
Sir Guy Standing
Ann Sheridan
Wwe
Carl Laemmle P
Alta
Perker Morell
Jean Arthur
Binnie Barnes
Cesar Romero
Eric Blore
Hugh O'Connell George Sidney
Livewire Merchants
Senda
Frida
BI Claudette Colbert
Joan Fee
Charles Bott
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