Yankee Doodle Dandy shines in Princess Theatre premiere with Cagney
James Cagney stars as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy opening Wednesday at the Princess Theatre. The lavish biography traces Cohan’s rise from child performer to showman with classic numbers like Give My Regards to Broadway Over There and You're a Grand Old Flag. The film features a strong supporting cast including Walter Huston Rosemary De Camp Jeanne Cagney and Joan Leslie.
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Hassling & Story
George M. Cohan
Princess Theatre
James Cagney
Cohan
Jerry Cohan
Walter Huston
Nellie
Rosemary de Camp
George Washington
Washington
Michael
George
Josie
Jeanne Cagney
America
Four Cohans
Cohans
Buffalo
Mary
Joan Leslie
Sam H. Harris
Richard Whorf
Broadway
Rosemary DeCamp
Karloff Returns to Screen in The Boogie Man Will Get You
Boris Karloff returns to the Roxy Theatre in The Boogie Man Will Get You with Peter Lorre. After two years away from Hollywood he mixes horror and humor as a poisonous professor whose experiments conjure a roomful of corpses. Hollywood hails it as hilarity with more to come.
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Boris Karloff
Peter Lorre
Karloff
Hollywood
Broadway
Roxy Theatre
Maxie Rosenbloom
Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd Star in The Glass Key at Roxy
Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd reunite in Dashiell Hammett drama The Glass Key to be shown Tuesday at the Roxy Theatre. Brian Donlevy completes the romantic triangle, following his Wake Island acclaim.
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Alan Ladd
Veronica Lake
Dashiell Hammett
Roxy Theatre
Brian Donlevy
Ladd
Miss Lake
la Lake
Paramount
Wake Island
Veronica’s Father Election Plot Revealed in Reform Campaign
Veronica pretends concern for Donlevy to gain aid for her father’s mayoral bid on the reform ticket. Ladd, Donlevy’s trusted adviser, knows her true feelings and uses them to influence the campaign strategy.
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Reform
Ladd
Donlevy
Veronica
Varsity Show Returns to Roxy Theatre
Roxy Theatre opens a return engagement of Varsity Show with Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians as stars. Dick Powell Priscilla Lane Walter Catlett Buck and Bubbles support. William Keighley directs and Busby Berkeley choreographs lavish dance sequences.
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Lee Dixon
Priscilla Lane
Johnny “Scat” Davis
Fred Waring
Dick Powell
Rosemary Lane
Roxy Theatre
Pennsylvanians
Glee Club
Waring
Roxy
Priscilla
Rose- Mary Lane
Walter Catlett
Buck and
Bubbles
Jerry Wald
Richard Macalay
Sig Herzig
Warren Duff
Dick Whit
Johnny Mercer
Busby Berkeley
William Keighley
Chuck Daly
Winfield College
Pennsylvania
Daly
Winfield
Sylvester Biddie
Ernie Mason
Fred Was
Varsity Show Surmounts Obstacles to Stage Triumph
Daly and Mason lead undergraduates who take charge as Biddle’s hurdles threaten the production. The school orchestra and cast persevere, and the Varsity Show goes on to a big success.
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Biddle
Daly
Mason
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