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Tyrone Power and' Nancy Kelly, emerging here from a photomontage of events In “Jesse James” star in the legend of the notorious Missouri j bandit, at the Grand next week. So do Henry Fonda and Randolph Scott. The picture has been booked for a seven-day run.GRAND.It’s a curious thing that all the historical characters, who once looked astonishingly like George Arliss, now are beginning to look astonishingly like Tyrone Power. Phenomenon is apparent in big, pretty with colort dramatic, diligent and enthusiastically inaccurate “Jesse James” (20th Century-Pox), which starts tomorrow at the Grand what may extend into a full week’s run.The well-publicized film story of the notorious Missouri outlaw is the only feature attraction currently being advertised at the theater. If business holds up, Mo-berly and vicinity may have seven days in wihch to see it.Meanwhile Teclmioolored “Jesse James” needs no build-up here. As a consequence of all that activity down near Pineville last year and a wealth of nation-wide publicity this year, practically everyone knows-that its color is genuinely Ozarkian, its cast: is attractively impressive and its sLory, despite two years of research by the 20th Century-Fox studio, is clisarming-ly fictitious. .“Jesse James” is a cops-’n-rob-bers drama. One might not instantly associate this colorful attempt at biography with Hollywood’s great cycle of gangster films, but.it fits.in, and like other ■contemporary pieces, when Jesse’s train lootin’ and bank robbin* are done, it is obliged, to point out that Crime Does Not Pay. Even Hollywood, hard as it tried, could not find a halo to fit Jesse Janies —or Power's version of him. “Jesse James” has TyronePower, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott in co-starring roles-, and a large supporting cast headed by Henry Hull, Slim Summerville, J- Edward Bromberg, Brian Donlevy, John Car rad in e,-Donald Meek, John Russel! and Jane Harwell. It is based upon the James’ Boys legend.JTH STREET.The 4th Street leads off tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday .with a double dose of drama: “Off theRecord” (Warner Brothers), with Joan Blond ell, Pat O'Brien and that most engaging of the Dead End Kids, Bobby Jordan; and “Four, Girls In White” (M-G-M), with Florence Rice, Alan Marshal, Ann Rutherford and Una Merkel.“In “Off the Record” O’Brien and Miss B1 on dell, newspaper folk, raary in order to care for the kid Jordan, a tool for a gambling ring. Through him they learn the workings of the ring — and nab its leader.In “Four Girls In White,” Miss Rice, a selfish student nurse, with a gold-digger complex, learns , a lesson, and finds redemption in sacrifice, after the death of an innocent girl. ■The Lone Wolff otherwise Warren William who hasn’t been seen here often lately, gets into trouble in “Lone Wolf Spy Hunt” (Columbia) at the 4th StreetG'R-A'N'D
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Moberly Monitor Index
Moberly, Missouri, US
Sat, Feb 25, 1939
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