Dragonwyck Opens at Princess With Gene Tierney in Leading Role
Princess Theatre screens Dragonwyck today starring Gene Tierney as Miranda with Walter Huston Vincent Price and Glenn Langan in a drama set during the anti rent era of the early 1800s. Joseph L. Mankiewicz directs this 20th Century Fox production blending romance and suspense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princess Theatre Presents
Gene Tierney
Anya Seton
Dragonwyck
Darryl F. Zanuck
Princess Theatre
Miranda
Laura
Adana
Miss Tierney
Gene
Walter Huston
Vincent Price
Nicholas Wah Ryn
Glenn Langan
Dr. Jefferner
Hollywood
by-Fox Hit Are Anne Revere
Agne
Byington
Hudson River Estate
Connie Marshall
Price
Bass
Henry Morgan
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Keys of the Kingdom” Fame
Seton
20Th Century-Fox
Local News Notes on Morgan County Residents and Clergy
Morgan County reports discharge of Hal Collins Puckett from the Navy after 18 months and home with his parents. Local families gain and lose positions, visitors travel from Louisville and Georgia, church revivals planned with Rev Guy Petty and Dr Jessie Rogers, and multiple family reunions and birthdays noted with extensive names and kin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Collins Puckett
Navy
Edwin Puckett
L. D. Burns
Gadsden
Goodyear Mills
Kathleen Burns
Liberty
Riley Lake
Emma Freeman
Viola Johnson
G. C. Lane
Bobby and
Jerry
Louisville
E. L. Thompson
Tommie Weede
Georgia
Grady Aldridge
Tom and
Ann
Florida
John Ellis
Guy Petty
Neel # Baptist church
Methodist Church
M. H. Harper
The
Baptist Church
Jessie Rodgers
Decatur
Peggy Thompson
Local Social Notes From Morgan County communities
Church attendance visits and family gatherings surface in Morgan County notes. Residents and guests include Rev J L Wheeler Doss Shadix B F Turrentine at Antioch, plus the Houghs Vanns Morrells and Lillians.
Old Enon Church to be replaced by brick building
A large crowd attended services at Enon Sunday in the old church. Plans began this week to remove the building and construct a new brick church house. The community mourns two losses Mrs Lee McCaghren and Mr Sig Wiley with services and burials in Enon and Red Hill cemeteries.
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Enon
Lee McCaghren
Sig Wiley
Jessie McCaghren
Floyd Lowery
Lois
Moulton Heights
Alton Rogers
Decatur
Arthur Callahan
Buck Way
Malcolm McCaghren
Courtland
Lurleen Reeves
Gladys Way
Abaca Cultivation Began in Western Hemisphere in 1925
The article notes that cultivation of abaca, the source of hemp, did not start in the western hemisphere until 1925, marking a late adoption of this fiber crop in the region.
The Postman Always Rings Twice at Princess Theater
Lana Turner and John Garfield star in The Postman Always Rings Twice a grim tale of love crime and retribution opening Wednesday at the Princess. Cecil Kellaway and Audrey Totter co star with Hume Cronyn Leon Ames in a drama directed by Tay Garnett from the Cain best seller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lana Turner
John Garfield
James M. Cain
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Miss Turner
Garfield
Cora Smith
the Waldorf
Frank Chambers
Pride of the Marines
Cecil Kellaway
Prince of Wales
Mrs. Parkington
Lana
Murdel
Leon Ames
Hume Cronyn
Ames
Fred Astaire
Lucille Bremer
Thief
Tay Garnett
Greer Garson
the Princess
Alan Reed
Department of Justice
Church revival and local visits highlight week
The Church of God revival continues near Hogan's Store. Speake school opened for the summer session. Local families and visitors from Decatur Birmingham Moulton Hartselle and Texas spent time with relatives and friends in the area, including the Speake and Hogan families.
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Church of God
Hogan's
Nancy Ann Layman
Decature
Mary Ruth “Layman
Birmingham
Charles Speake
Chester Johnson
Chesterlene
Moulton
Eaton Stephenson
Bettie Hensley
Decatur
James Hogan
Otha Martha
Alex Miller
Seldon Kelsoe
T. K. Hogan
W. E Cochrane
Tom McVay
Lois
Hartselle
Bettie
Edith Kelsoe
Maisie Goes to Reno at the Roxy Theatre
Ann Sothern as Maisie returns in Maisie Goes to Reno opening Thursday at the Roxy. John Hodiak co stars with a strong cast including Ava Gardner Tom Drake and others in a lively comedy drama about Maisie aiding a soldier against a gang of forgers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maisie
Ann Sothern
Reno
Métro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Roxy Theatre
Maisie Raiier
John Hodiak
M-G-M
Tom Drake
Ava Gardner
Martha Linden
Paul Cavanagh
Bernard Nedell
Donald Meek
Chick Chandler
All Plane
Hodiak
Harry Beaumont
George Haight
It All Came True opens with Ann Sheridan at the Roxy
The film stars Humphrey Bogart and Ann Sheridan and adapts Louis Bromfield. A New York boarding house hosts a gangster plot as Bogart plans to turn the house into a nightclub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Bromfield
Humphrey Bogart
Ann Sheridan
Roxy
Ann
Bromfield
New York
Htsekeeper
Jeffrey Lynn
Local social visits and family guests across counties
The text lists social visits: Rev. B. F. Turrentine spent Sunday night with his niece Mrs. Seldon Hearde and family in Cullman County. Mrs. K. P. Morris and children were Wednesday guests of her sister Mrs. Rayborn Douglas and family in Birmingham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Wheeler
Doss Shadix
B. F. Turrentine
Antioch
Logan
Karl Hough
Lacey
John Vann
Lillian Patterson
Providence Church
Cullman County
Harry Battles
Florida
R. M. Holmes
Holmes
Oval
Johnnie Lu Hough
Lacey's Spring
P. A. Green
Cullman
Henry Bess
Milwaukee
K. P. Morris
R. A. Ryan
Marvin Patton
Comner Livingston
Emery Crowder
C. L. Livingston
Lawrenceburg
Tennessee
Imogene Morgan
University of Alabama
Fred Morgan
Dottie Lamon
Decatur
L. H. Merrell
Bascom Bennett
Glasglw
Ira Bennett
Eunice Oden
Auburn
L. E. Oden
Aston Cobb
Birmingham
Brooks Lindler
Carless Bennett
Bessemer
Seldon Hearde
Rayborn Douglas
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Sara
Gail
Jane Clemens
Jerry Glasgow
John David Puckett
Na Johnson
Wylodine Johnson
Marthe Puckett
Edwina McAbee
E. J. Puckett
Gurnie Glasgow
Edgar Thompson
Bob Puckett
Burley Clarke
Herman Glasgow
Vera Sandlin
Clint Thompson
Virgil Wallace
Coy Puckett
Gladdie Lane
Burl Hardwick
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Ith
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Red Hill
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Jeanne Crain
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Smith Ballew
Lou Gehrig
Charles
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Texas
David Weaver
Lyons Electric Company
Tim Lyons
2Nd Ave
Mexico City
Rio de Janiero
New York City
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Gable
Garson
Adventure
Technicolor
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Arturo DE Cordova
Cartoon & News
Claudette Colbert
Orson Wells
Geo
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Comedy & News
Charles Starrett
Outlaws OF
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