Two Film Pairings at Paramount and Loew’s Midland
Bing Crosby and Buttons clash with Emperor Francis Josef in The Emperor Waltz at Paramount while Gene Kelly and Judy Garland spark romance in The Pirate at Loew’s Midland. Crosby’s character hails from America as a talking machine salesman and meets a countess, with Buttons courting the countess’s poodle Scheherezade. The Pirate features Kelly as a daring mountebank opposing a Caribbean island official’s plan to wed Garland. Porter provides six songs for The Emperor Waltz era, with strong supporting cast including Gladys Cooper Reginald Owen and George Zucco.
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Bing Crosby
Buttons
Francis Josef
Austria
der Bingle
Dog
Paramount Theater
Bing
Joan Fontaine
Scheherezade
Crosby
Tyrolian
Gene Kelly
Judy Garland
Cole Porter
Loew's
Midland Theater
Kelly
Mountebank
Miss Garland
Walter Slezak
Porter
Gladys Cooper
Reginald Owen
George Zucco
Hughes purchase stirs Hollywood on RKO future
Rumors spread through Hollywood as Howard Hughes gains control of World Airline and eyes RKO. Officials await moves on executive shifts, potential Columbia deal ideas, and Hughes plan for production versus leadership roles. Actors like Cary Grant may stay with Hughes projects.
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Howard Hughes
Hollywood
Radio-Keith-Orpheum
Hughes
New York
K.O
Coast Coast
Peter Rathvon
Dore Jary
Ned Pinet
Dge
R.K.O
Motion ‘Ture
Columbia Pices
Columbia
K.-O
Ual
Millionaire Ways
Nubt &S
Cary Grant
Berlin names seven songs as his own hit parade
Irving Berlin, leaving Hollywood after completing Easter Parade, lists seven songs as his own favorites from his 41 year writing career. The picks are Alexander's Ragtime Band Always Say It With Music A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody Easter Parade White Christmas and God Bless America. He calls God Bless America a hymn of gratitude rather than a patriotic song.
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Hollywood
Irving Berlin
Berlin
Alexander
Hazard and Homecoming At The Midland Theaters
Paulette Goddard stars in Hazard as a traveling gambler pursued by a private detective played by Macdonald Carey. The cross country pursuit feels flat for amusement. Lana Turner and Clark Gable headline Homecoming, with Anne Baxter, but the war romance ends tragically and the film earns mixed notices despite strong performances.
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Paulette Goddard
Miss Goddard
Macdonald Carey
Carey
Paulette
Lana Turner
Clark Gable
Loew
Midland Theater
Gable
Miss Turner
Lana
Clark
Anne Baxter
Miss Baxter
All My Sons and Berlin Express in New Area Film Review
The piece reviews All My Sons a sharp drama about wartime misconduct causing fates of twenty one airmen and Berlin Express a thriller about Nazi intrigue. Star performances boost the production with strong directing by Irving Reis and a vivid portrayal by Paul Lukas Merle Oberon and Robert Ryan.
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Edward G. Robinson
Burt Lancaster
Louisa Horton
Mady Christians
Howard Duff
Irving Reis
Berlin
Paul Lukas
Merle Oberon
Robert Ryan
Germany
Film Pursuits of Roy Rogers And Wife Split
Hollywood dispatch reports the film fortunes of Roy Rogers and wife Dale Evans are diverging. Evans may close a deal to star in a western series of her own while Rogers resists a separate Evans project. A new plan aims to align their schedules with Evans portraying an Annie Oakley type as rodeo appearances continue and a fall radio show begins. Rogers also seeks Alfonso Bedoya as a Latin market sidekick with singing talents Rogers cannot handle.
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Roy Rogers
Dale Evans
Ollywood
Rogers
Miss Evans
Annie Oak
Lip and Laraine Day Time Trip Behind Studio Plans
The piece outlines Lip’s spring training tour and a vacation with Durocher, while Laraine Day may be available for future film work. Producers resist arranging extensive one picture per year deals and consider filming Take Three Tenses with Teresa Wright and David Niven under Samuel Goldwyn, after four weeks of rehearsals.
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Laraine Day
Leo Durocher
Brooklyn Dodgers
Ufarmed
Durocher
Miss Day
Laraine
Samuel Goldwyn Studio
Irving Reis
Homer Godden
Teresa Wright
David Niven
Evelyn Keyes
Parley Granger
Leo G. Carrol
Philip Friend
Jayne Meadows
Colin Keith-Johnston
Boy Actor Plans Farm Study After Films
Claude Jarmar known as Jody in The Yearling says a film career isn’t for him. He aims to study agriculture and play football at the University of Tennessee, eyeing a future after his remaining school years and current Lassie appearances.
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Hattie McDaniel
Universal-International
Claudette Colbert
Fred MacMurray
Miss McDaniel
Mammy
Hollywood
Claude Jarmar
Jody
Claude
University of Tennessee
Lassie
England
Margaret O’brien
Dean Stockwell
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Joel McCrea Keeps Cowboy Image Behind Screen
Hollywood star Joel McCrea and wife Frances Dee own a Santa Rosa ranch where they live as cowboys between films. He keeps a rugged routine on location, sleeping on blankets and hay, while Frances rides and cooks, and their two sons attend a nearby school. Joel began as an extra before breaking through, later securing a ranch‑owning, independent contractor status in film.
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Santa Rosa
Joel
McCrea
Miss Dee
Hollywood
Gallup
Frances
California
Chicago
Cecil B. de Mille
Sam Wood
Greta Garbo
Carole Lombard
Jane Peters
William Sistern
Radio-Keith-Orpheum
Alaska
Joel, Jr
David
Tarzan and the Mermaids At Orpheum in Africa Setting
Linda Christian stars as a water nymph fleeing a suitor in Tarzan and the Mermaids. The Orpheum presents Brenda Joyce as Jane with Johnny Sheffield replaced by new canine antics from Cheta the chimp. The double bill also features So Well Remembered with John Mills Martha Scott and Patricia Roe.
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Linda Christian
Tarzan
Miss Christian
Tyrone Power
Orpheum Theater
Africa
Cheta
Brenda Joyce
Jane
Johnny Sheffield
The
Orpheum
James Hilton
John Mills
Martha Scott
Patricia Roe
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Bob Thomas
Associated Press
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Nelson Eddy
Jeanette MacDonald
Charles Laughton
Laura Olivier
Barrymore
Joan Crawford
Wallace Beery
Walter Huston
Luise Rainer
Mr. Chips
Robert Donat
Filmland
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Royal Mounted Police
United States
Washington
H. J.matchett
Rogues
Frontier
Tower
Fairway
Walry
Coleen Gray
Victor Mature
Glenn Langan
Pury
Furnace Creek
Ft. © Creek
Bad
Utah
Reginald Gardiner
Albert Dekker
Robert Warwick
Paramount
Midland
Joel McCrea
Suleman Graham
North American Newspaper Alliance
Miriam Hopkins
Enterprise Studio
Princes Dee
Frances Dee McCrea
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