Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

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Paramount gives you IS BIG ONES in &i The Greatest American Epic! Pre-sold to millionsl Sold on the Lux radio. proorom ... in $150,000 advertising campaign ... by Cecil B. DeMille All-Star train in 36-city coast-to-coast four . . . in gigantic, unsurpassed four-day world premiere celebration in Omaha, Neb. Greatest exploitation iob in picture history I Cecil B. De Mine's "UNION PACIFIC" starring Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea with Akim Tamiroff • Robert Preston Lynne Overman • Brian Donievy Produced and Directed by COCii B. DeMille Screen Play by Walter DeLeon, C. Gardner Sullivan □nd Jesse Lasky, Jr. Based an an Adaptation by Jack Cunningham of a Story by Ernest Haycex A Great New Name Combination! "Just about the best comedy ever caught by the com ' era", says M. P. Daily. "Better than 'II Happened One ■ Night'," read audience comments. And the figures I speak for themselves: Miami 134%, Boston 110%, Worcester 121%, Hartford 122%, Hew Haven 140%. Claudette Colbert I i Don Ameche in "MIDNIGHT" with JOHN BARRYMORE FRANCIS LEDERER ] MARY ASTOR 1 Elaine Barrie Screen Play by Charles Brackeltand Billy Wilder • Based | on a Story bv Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schuiz Directed by MITCHELL LEISEN Americas's Favorite Humorist! Bob Burns, as Hollywood Reporter says "Clinches star niche" with this big time hit. Beating "Arkansas Traveler" grosses everywhere. Doubled overage business in Kansas City terrific first week, smash second week at N. Y. Paramount. Bob Burns In "I'M FROM MISSOURI" with GLADYS GEORGE Gene Lockhart • Judith Barret William Henry • Paricia Morison Screen Play by John C. Moffltl and Duke Atteberry Based on Stories by Homer Croy and Julian Street Directed by THEODORE REED The Year's Best Racing Picture! Delivered iusi at the time racing interest is at fever pitch, Kentuclty Derby time, it's a box office wonder all the way. Raft has perfect part as race track gambler. Ellen Drew lakes to her first star role as you knew she would I George Raft • Ellen Drew THE LADY S FROM KENTUCKY" with HUGH HERBERT Za Su Pitts • Louise Beavers Screen Play by Malcolm Stuart Boylan Based on a Story by Rowland Brown Directed by ALEXANDER HALL i