Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

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lonths — 3 a month — when you need them most! Jack Benny's Best! Topping even his famous "Big Broadcast of 1937". Four "Hit Parade" songs, a million laughs, a fast-moving, tight-knit story that moves along to an uproarious climax, and a marquee-great cast. The best picture of the spring season. Jack Benny Dorothy Lamour Edward Arnold MAN ABOUT TOWN ' _ Binnie Barnes • Phil Harris • Betty Grable Eddie "Rochester" Anderson • E. E. Clive and Matty Maineck and His Orchestra Original Screen Ploy by Morrie Ryskind Directed by MARK SANDRiCH Year's Funniest "Who Dun It?" Its very title mokes the customers titter in anticipation. This is the "different" picture they are all looking for— Gracie and Philo Vance sleuthing side-by-side in a dark purple mystery. The book is one of the season's best sellers — the picture is going to get a big break on the Chesterfield program. S. S. VAN DINE'S The GRACIE ALLEN MURDER CASE" with , GRACIE ALLEN • WARREN WILLIAM . ELLEN DREW • KENT TAYLOR • DONALD MacBRIDE Screen Ploy by Nat Perrin Directed by ALFRED C. GREEN A Great Women's Picture! The screen's most poignant and exciting actress in the picture which is the sensation of London — ten capacity weeks and still going strong. Critics hove heaped such praise on it as no other has received in months. Every woman will wont to see whot few hove dared to do — steal another's life and love I ORION PRODUCTIONS LIMITED present Elisabeth Bergner and " Michael Redgrave "STOLEN LIFE" Produced and Directed by PAUL CZINNER A Paramount Release A Great Emotional Drama! Hard-punching, true-to-life. Director William K. Howard's greatest triumph. Soys Hollywood Reporter: "Hits OS box office melodrama. Memoroble performances. Enthralling dramatic continuity liberally interspersed with good comedy and a number of songs destined to rank high in hit parade". BERNARD STEELE presents BACK DOOR TO HEAVEN Wallace Ford • Patricia Ellis Stuart Erwin • Aline Mac Mahon Based on a Story by William K. Howard • Screen Play by John Bright and Robert Rasker • A Paramount Release Produced and Directed by WILLIAM K. HOWARD Wesley Ruggles' Best Picture! These two great stars both achieved their top performances under Ruggles' direction. They even surpass those performances in this one. Sneak previews show audiences swept from uproarious laughter to terrific excitement. A Wesley Ruggles picture is always a hit, OS is witnessed by his "Sing, You Sinners" and "I Met Him in Parisl" Irene Dunne Fred MacMurray in INVITATION TO HAPPINESS" with CHARLIE RUGGLES William Collier, Sr. • Billy Cook Marion Martin Screen Play by Claude Binyon Produced and Directed by Wesley Ruggles Tamirpf f , The Magnificent! Here is the first chance he has hod to go to town as he does in this great impersonation of a dictator. This picture hqs a locale that hasn't been done in pictures in o long lime— Central Americo. A fast-moving, Richard Harding Davis type of picture. ^ . Paramount presents The MAGNIFICENT FRAUD' with AKIMTAM IROFF LLOYD NOLAN MARY BOLAND PATRICIA MORISON GEORGE ZUCCO Screen Play by Gilbert Gabriel and Walter Ferris Adapted from a Story by Charles G. Booth Directed by ROBERT FLOREY