San Francisco Premiere for The San Francisco Story
Warner Bros. Fidelity production The San Francisco Story starring Joel McCrea and Yvonne Ile will premiere in San Francisco in April and open in Winston-Salem and High Point in the Carolinas. Special advance showings follow in major cities across both territories before national distribution starts May 17.
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Lift Ban on Hecht Films in Britain
British movie houses end a four year ban on films written or directed by Ben Hecht. The Cinematograph Exhibitors Association had boycotted Hecht’s works after his 1947 ads praising British soldiers killed in Palestine fighting.
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Flynn Assigned The Sea Rogue Star Role
Errol Flynn has been assigned to star in Warner Bros The Sea Rogue adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Master of Ballantrae. The film will be shot in England this summer. Flynn is vacationing in Jamaica with wife Patrice Wy and recently completed Mara Mara for Warner Bros.
French star Claude Dauphin Makes Silent Screen Debut
In Warner Bros Technicolor musical April in Paris Claude Dauphin performs his first scene without speaking as he watches Doris Day and Ray Bolger kiss. He told director David Butler the silent moment was very difficult for a Frenchman. The piece also notes a local classified ad urging job seekers to place a Work Wanted notice by calling 6-9066.
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Coast to Coast Gossip and Show Biz Mirth
A collage of 1940s style scoops and quips covers celebrities like Will Rogers Jr. planning a Claremore theater, Eisenhower hosting at Louveciennes, and Joe DiMaggio’s bachelor life. Notes on Stalin, Bob Benchley, Doris Lilly, and Jackie Gleason add vivid social oddities and salon humor.
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Educator Calls for Active Learning Over TV Watching
Los Angeles report notes Dr. Jay B. Nash of New York University urges convention delegates to shift children from passive TV viewing to doing, making, and solving problems. He cites a Crosley survey showing kids spend more time before screens than in school and argues early skill learning shapes lifelong hobbies and happiness.
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Fragmentary OCR Listing of Movie and Book Lines
Readable fragments show mixed references to titles such as Angels in the Tutfield and submarine Command, with stray numbers and scattered phrases. The text appears as a damaged catalog-like excerpt listing various media and times without coherent narrative.
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Karl Malden Asked to Head Old Vic Play in London
Academy Award winner Karl Malden has been asked by Ty Tone Guthrie to head a London production of Desire Under the Elms to be staged under Old Vic sponsorship during June and July. He will join if Warner Bros. film commitments permit while he works on Danger Forward with Cornel Wilde Steve Cochran and Phyllis Thaxter under his new studio contract.
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Lon Chaney Jr Calls for Old-Time Horror on TV
In a Hollywood interview Lon Chaney Jr argues TV should feature restraint and classic fright like his father’s era rather than gut punch violence. He cites personal experiences policing fights among neighborhood children and notes he’s turned down TV offers while continuing his long horror career into The Black Castle now in production.
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