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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1948
Page
5
The Plainsman is revived on Friday at the Capitol Theatre. Gary Cooper stars as Wild Bill Hickok in a tale of gun-running in the West with Calamity Jane as a bold companion shaping the frontier era.
The Roxy screens Till the Clouds Roll By a Technicolor MGM musical about Jerome Kern featuring June Allyson Lucille Bremer Judy Garland Kathryn Grayson Van Heflin Lena Horne Van Johnson Angela Lansbury Tony Martin Virginia O'Brien Dinah Shore Frank Sinatra and others. It stars Robert Walker as Kern with Sally and James Hessler drama and includes many of Kern’s hits and a Show Boat sequence.
Daisy Kenyon a Twentieth Century Fox drama opens at the Princess Theatre featuring Joan Crawford Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda in a tale of a career woman torn between love and two suitors The cast includes Ruth Warrick Martha Stewart Peggy Ann Garner Connie Marshall and others with New York as the backdrop and a Stork Club replica scene built for the film.
The Warner Bros drama That Hagen Girl stars Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple and opens Tuesday at the Princess. The film follows a girl shrouded in village gossip as she grows from youth to junior college, with a climactic confrontation and an actor’s standout scenes. Rory Calhoun stars opposite Temple with Lois Maxwell, Penny Edwards, Harry Davenport and Dorothy Peterson in supporting roles. Charles Hoffman wrote the screenplay from Edith Roberts’s novel, with Karl Freund as photographer and Stanley Fleischer directing the production.
Robert Taylor stars in High Wall as an amnesia plagued ex bomber pilot returning home. The drama follows a possible murder accusation as audiences question whether he strangled his wife in jealousy or merely imagines the crime after brain injury. Artis Bernhardt directs the M G M production opening Thursday.
The Paramount picture Dear Ruth arrives Wednesday, adapting Norman Krasna stage hit to screen with William Holden and Joan Caulfield in lead roles. Billy De Wolfe Edward Arnold Mona Freeman and others support a romantic, light hearted comedy about a sister's secret wartime romance with a returning soldier.
A man suspects his wife of an affair with her publisher. After driving a car with her body into a river, he is blamed for her death. A memory loss leads to hospital confinement where a woman doctor performs brain surgery and a narcotic synthesis treatment that piecing together erased memories.
A stage piece featuring Ed Gentleman played by Billy DeWolfe portrays a hapless figure with no sense of humor. The plot centers on a woman’s sympathy for a handsome overseas-bound soldier, leading to awkward but not unpleasant situations.
A quirky review notes the performers deliver riotous humor under the capable direction of William D Sell. It mentions a comical scene about a coladian fish so fat and oily it could be dried like a candle by piercing it.
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