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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1944
Page
14
Dramatic screening of Lifeboat today and tomorrow at the Martin Theatre features stars including Tallulah Bankhead Jane Wyman and William Bendix. The boatbound plot follows a diverse cast under wartime tension as they survive a torpedo attack and confront moral choices amid claustrophobic confines.
The eventral side of a dramatic Jere triangle is aaid to beearfully in Fired Wits coming Thursday to the Alabama Theam. The film features Risert Palga and Louies Allbrittee with Dianna Barry Greager Kevin Otes Donald Beery Trady Marshal and Sam Levene in the cast.
Universal presents Phantom Lady a largely silent mystery film directed by Robert Siodmak at the Ritz Theatre. The director explains the choice to tell much of the story through visual imagery rather than dialogue or sound effects.
The film uses mood over action with night scenes and a psychopathic intellectual killer. Franchot Tone and Ella Raines star with Alan Curtis as Bernard Schoenfield adapts William Uriah's Detective Book of the Month novel. Songs and musicians fill much of the runtime, highlighted by Frank Sinatra and twelve other names across forty minutes of musical numbers.
Frank Sinatra brings a performance at the Alabama Tuesday in Higher and Higher co starring Michele Morgan and Jack Haley with musical support. The production spotlights Sinatra amid a lively stage program at the venue.
German reconnaissance planes were reported over London at an altitude of about ten miles, indicating intensified aerial activity during the ongoing air war. The observation underscores the high altitude operations by German air forces near the British capital.
A new film at the Ritz Theatre features Harriet Hilliard as a bright Kansas girl who travels to Hollywood with a telegram and a dream. Ed ether Quillan plays a page boy in a backdrop of radio broadcasting satire while Kirby Grant portrays a crooner who helps launch her as a top singer alongside Roscoe Karns Milburn Stone and Fuzzy Knight in a period comedy tone reflecting Hilliard’s real-life marriage to Orie Nelson.
Bollywood’s first serious attempt to bring to the American screen the inside drama of Russia’s heroic stand against the Nazi invaders unfolds in The North Star at Martin Theatre for a three day run. The screenplay by Lilian Hellman spotlights the courage of peasants near the Soviet border, opening 46 hours before the June 22, 1941 invasion with a village life then shifting to tragedy and resistance. Anne Baxter Walter Brennan Walter Huston Dana Andrews Barbara Stanwyck Ann Harding Annetta and Paul Mann headline a cast of stars and the film's vast ensemble. The picture's cast numbers exceed four thousand with many speaking parts and the project emphasizes factual research.
Judy and Mickey co star in Girl Crazy a Gershwin musical comedy with Tommy Dorsey music. The scale features Gershwin favorites performed by Garland and Rooney at theArts Theatre Monday and Tuesday. The pair bring song dance and humor to a story set at Cody College in Arizona with a finale number filmed in the desert.
Darryl F. Isnuck presents a Saturday night stage preview of The Purple Heart at the Martin Theatre. The 20th Century Fox drama follows the bombing era of Tokyo and its brutal occupation, starring Dani Andrews, Richard Conte, and Farley in a wartime emotional tale.
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