Donna Reed’s Big Thrill From It’s a Wonderful Life Script
Donna Reed recalls her greatest thrill as getting a copy of the script for It’s a Wonderful Life. She didn’t know Capra considered her until reading the opening pages revealing she appears at the start and end of the story. Reed plays Mary Hatch, wife of James Stewart in the Capra classic.
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Thomas Mitchell
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Ward Bond
Frank Faylen
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James Stewart
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O S S thriller stars Alan Ladd at the Roxy Theatre
Paramount’s O S S pairs Alan Ladd with Geraldine Fitzgerald in a drama about an OSS team code named Applejack. The four man unit plans to blow a bridge in France before D Day amid romance and danger. Directed by Irving Pichel with Patric Knowles and John Hoyt in supporting roles.
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Miss Fitzgerald
Richard Maibaum
Irving Pichel
John Hoyt
Negroes Helped to Raise Cancer Fund in Decatur Campaign
Mrs. W. P. Baugh recounts two fundraising successes by Black communities in Morgan county. A rural Negro school near Decatur raised 113 dollars via students and a teacher Mary Etta Mitchell. Prof. Ralph Martin led the Lincoln Negro school choir in a benefit that yielded 37.50 toward a 1650 goal.
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Decatur
Morgan County
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Mitchum Discusses Firearms Ahead of Pursued at Princess
Robert Mitchum, a veteran of a dozen westerns, talks guns and weapons development in the United States. The star speaks with authority on six shooters and carbines. His new film Pursued opens at the Princess on Wednesday.
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Robert Mitchum
United States
Mother Confesses Smothering Baby in Alameda Incinerator
Grace Maciones of Alameda, 23, admitted smothering her four week old baby and placing the body in flames of an incinerator in a naval housing project. Police said they found a charred torso and were sifting ashes for missing parts while investigating the missing child claim.
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Pursued at Princess Theatre sparks gun-toting western drama
The Princess Theatre opens Warner Bros release Pursued starring Robert Mitchum and Teresa Wright. Judith Anderson Dean Jagger Alan Hale John Rodney headline a rugged postwar western saga with violence romance and a fateful pursuit. Directed by Raoul Walsh with music by Max Steiner and photography by James Wong Howe.
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Grant Callum
Harry Carey Jr
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Jane Russell Becomes Pin-Up Queen Without Leg Photos
Jane Russell holds a unique position as a pin-up queen based on head and bust portraits from The Outlaw with Howard Hughes. The film was shelved temporarily, but the stills kept her in the public eye, making her a well known star. she is noted as a sweater girl who doesn’t like to wear sweaters.
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Scatterbrained Pair Play in Roxy Film
The Scatterbrained Couple Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire star in Claudia and David a new Roxy release arriving Thursday.
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Dorothy McGuire
Claudia
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Jane stars in Young Widow at the Roxy Theatre
The article notes Jane stars in the film Young Widow opening Tuesday at the Roxy Theatre. It also states that 81,200 school buses are registered in the United States.
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Young Widow On Roxy's Bill For Tuesday
The delicate problem of a man’s grief after his beloved dies in war is explored in H Stromberg’s Young Widow a romantic drama to be shown at the Roxy Tuesday Adapted from the novel by Clarissa Cushman the film blends romance comedy and drama under Edwin Marin’s direction Jane Russell stars in the title role her first major screen figure drawing global attention after The Outlaw which Howard Hughes briefly shelved.
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Stromberg
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Joan Kenwood
Jane
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