Hollywood Clean-Up Drives by 11 Churches in 1934
Hollywood faces a censorship storm as the Legion of Decency forms, challenging films and pressuring higher standards. Breen tightens enforcement, causing revisions to Mae West's Belle of the Nineties and other projects. Church groups warn of a boycott, while stars like Shirley Temple and Jean Harlow gain renewed emphasis under the morality campaign.
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Robbin Coons
Hollywood
Catholic Church
Legion of Decency
Holly
Hays
Joseph L Breen
Will Hays
Breen
Censors
New York
Mae West
Washington
Charles Dickens
Alexandre Dumas
Hfe
Wii Rogers
Janet Gaynor
Shirley Temple
Baby Jane” Quigley
David Holt
Cora Sue Collins
Virginia Weidler
Uke
Jean Parker
Anne Shirley
Anne of Green Gables
Jean Harlow
Mase West
Movie Schedule Highlights and Premieres at The Alcaaz and Nearby Theaters
Listings show New Year's Eve world premieres and daily screenings across venues. Bing Crosby in Here Is My Heart with Kitty Carlisle leads Sunday at Houston. Monday includes Romance In Manhattan with Ginger Rogers. Week features W C Fields, Elissa Landi, Gary Grant, John Wayne in Blue Steel, Betty Boop cartoons, Street of Dreams Revue, and vaudeville snapshots.
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Houston Sun
Bing Crosby
Kitty Carlisle
Pathe News
Manhattan
Ginger Rogers
Francis Lederer
W. C. Fields
Baby LeRoy
Metro News
Madame
Elissa Landi
Gary Grant
Switzerland
Warner Baxter
Conchita Montenegro
Herbert Mundin
Ralph Morgan
Charlie Chace
Barnes
Alcazar
John Wayne
Betty Boop
Clyde Beatty
Kitty Carisle
Houston
Jean, Rouverol
Julian Madison
Randolph Scott
Evelyn Brent
Jackie Cooper
Zane Grey
the Range
Alabama
Baxter
Oscar Balloting Under Way For 1934 Industry Honors
Hollywood launches balloting for the 1934 Academy Awards with contenders across top categories. Notables include Katherine Hepburn in The Little Minister and Charles Laughton in The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Other leading films and performances from Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Claudette Colbert, and more are noted as races shape up ahead of the February 27 banquet.
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Hollywood
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Katherine Hepburn
Los Angels
Charles Laughton
Barretts
Wimpole Street
Diana Wynward
May Robson
Miss Hepburn
Laughton
Leslie Howard
Paul Muni
Bette Davis
Anna Sten
Claudette Colbert
Grace Moore
Ann Harding
Helen Hayes
Loretta Young
the Barretts
Wallace Beery
George 4Rlss
Claude Rains
Will Rogers
David Harum
Judge Priest
Robert Donat
Frederic March
Landi Plays Vivacious Opera Star in Enter Madame
Elissa Landi, previously seen as a temperamental star in The Great Flirtation, is cast in a lively role opposite Cary Grant in Paramount's Enter Madame. The Houston Theatre opens Thursday. Landi's character, a glamorous opera star, battles for her husband while pursuing her singing career, ending with a comic twist where she wins back his love yet keeps her career.
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Elissa Landi
Paramount
Cary Grant
Houston
Miss Landi
Grant
United States
Catholic Church Blacklist Question Over Film Decency
The church faces a potential shift as academy members weigh indecent film classifications this year. The ads section hints at patterns in public notices and industry evaluations guiding decisions on performances and productions.
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Catholic Church
Academy
Girl From Missouri Opens at Alabama Theatre
Eadie Chapman seeks marriage to a millionaire and Jean Harlow shines in The Girl From Missouri a new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film opening Monday at the Alabama Theatre. Harlow delivers a top performance as Eadie with Lionel Barrymore Franchot Tone and Lewis Stone in supporting roles as Tom Cousins and the wealthy T R Paige.
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Eadie Chapman
Jean Harlow
Eadie
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Missouri
Alabama Theatre
Miss Harlow
Lionel Barrymore
T. R. Paige
Tom
Franchot Tone
Lewis Stone
Street of Dreams Revue to Show at Alabama Sunday
The Street of Dreams Revue brings a large cast to the Alabama Theatre Sunday for a week. From a Wilmington Star review, the show features Betty Marshall, May Rogers, Jack Mosser, Billy Mor ing, Johnny Burke, Morris Nelson, and the Martini Brothers in an evening of song, dance, and comedy with a strong chorus and dramatic numbers.
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Alabama
Wilmington
N. C
Jack E. Mosser
Thallan Hall
Betty Marshall
Woman In Bronze
May Rogers
Mr. Mosser
Leg Tracy
Billy Moring
Ben Turpin
Johnny Burke
Robert Woolsey
Morris Nelson
Lassies White Minstrels
Miss Rogers
Miss Marshall
The
Martini Brothers
Leroy Rejoins Fields in New Laugh Picture
W C Fields stars in Its A Gift a Paramount comedy opening at Houston Theatre. Norman McLean directs with Baby LeRoy and a supporting cast including Kathleen Howard Jean Rouverol Jules Madison Tammany Young Morgan Wallace and Charles Sellon. Fields plays a loafing boss whose orange grove scheme backfires in a cross country family caper.
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W. C. Fields
Houston
Norman McLean
Hollywood
Baby LeRoy
Fields
New Jersey
Flelis
California
Kathleen Howard
Jean Rouverol
Jullien Madison
Tammany Young
Moargan Wallace
Charles Sellon
Home On The Range Brings Jackie Coogan Back On Screen
Jackie Coogan returns as a hard riding Western star in Paramounts Home On The Range opening Wednesday at And with Evelyn Brent and Ana Sheridan as female leads. The film follows a feud between crooks and ranch brothers, a theft of racing horses, a romance that reverses loyalties, forest fire escapes, and a dramatic horse race with Coogan riding Midnight to victory. Joe Morison provides background singing.
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Jackie Coogan
Paramount
Alabama Theatre
Randolph Scott
Addison Richards
Fuzzy Knight
Evelyn Brent
Ana Sheridan
Coogan
Crooks
Scott
Midnight
Joe Morrison
Baxter Stars in Thrilling Air Picture
Warner Baxter leads the Fox drama Hell in the Heavens, an absorbing war romance set in the skies. Director John Bigstone, his 63rd Fox picture, brings Conchita Montenegro back as the female lead with a strong supporting cast including Russell Hardie, Herbert Mundin, Andy Devine, William Stelling and Ralph Morgen.
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Warner Baxter
Houston
Hollywood
John Bigstone
Fox
Conchita Montenegro
Cisco Kid
Russell Hardie
Herbert Mundin
Andy Devine
William Stelling
Ralph Morgen
Jacksonian Promoted by Insurance Company
S Frank Gammon of Jacksonville has been named manager of the Mississippi agency for the Prudential Life Insurance Company. Gammon, a native of Jackson County, is the son of Mrs. J S Gammon and brother to Lamar Gammon, both of Marianna.
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Insrance
Marianna, Fra
S. Frank Gammon
Jacksonville
Mariannan
Mississippi
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Gammon
Jackson County
J. 5. Gammon
Lamar Gammon
Crosby Stars In Here Is My Heart At Houston Theatre
Crosby delivers song and comedy in Paramount film Here Is My Heart opening at the Houston Theatre Sunday. Kitty Carlisle Alison Skipworth Roland Young and Reginald Owen support a plot about a millionaire crooner who wins a frostily poised Russian princess through a mix of humor and music with songs like With Every Breath I Take and June In January.
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Ing Crosby
Paramount
Houston Theatre
Kitty Carlisle
Alison Skipworth
Roland Young
Reginald Owen
Crosby
Hollywood
Alfred Savier
Ralph Rainger
Leo Robin
Severas
Krupp to Supply Machinery for Turkish Iron and Steel Plan
Turkey and the Krupp firm signed an agreement to furnish all machinery for Turkey’s new iron and steel industry under Mustapha Kemal’s five year plan. Payments will be made over three years.
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Ankara
Hkrupp
Mustapha Kemal
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