Murphy’s Town Hall Cinema Athenry 22 17th October 1939 – Wine, Women and Horses, a 1937 Warner Bros Drama was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). Barton MacLane, Ann Sheridan, Dick Purcell, Peggy Bates, Walter Cassel, Lottie Williams, Kenneth Harlan and Charley Foy star in this film. 27th October 1939 – Ever Since Eve, a 1937 Warner Bros Romantic Comedy was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Patsy Kelly, Allen Jenkins, Frank McHugh, Louise Fazenda and Mary Treen star. 3rd November 1939 – Empty Holsters, a 1937 Warner Bros Western was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). It stars Dick Foran, Patricia Walthall, Emmett Vogan, Glenn Strange, Anderson Lawler and Wilfred Lucas. 10th November 1939 – Here Comes the Bride), a 1934 Paramount Pictures Comedy was screened by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). Also known as Here Comes the Groom, it stars Jack Haley, Mary Boland, Neil Hamilton, Patricia Ellis, Isabel Jewell, Lawrence Gray and Sidney Toler. Halifax Daily Courier & Guardian, 11th December 1934, page 6: “The plot of Here Comes the Bride is built on the hilarious situation of a bewildered young man, in love with one girl, who spends a honeymoon with another. There are many amusing situations.” 17th November 1939 – The Perfect Specimen, a 1937 Warner Bros Romantic Comedy was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). This film stars Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell, Edward Everett Horton and Dennie Moore. 24th November 1939 – The Four Just Men (aka The Secret Four), a 1939 Ealing Studios Thriller was screened in the Hall by Galligan, Swinford (source: Hall Journal). Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Edward Chapman, Frank Lawton, Anna Lee and Alan Napier star. NB: The screenplay is based on Edgar Wallace’s 1905 novel of the same name. Alan Napier is perhaps best remembered for portraying Alfred Pennyworth, Butler to Bruce Wayne (aka Batman) in the popular 1960s Batman TV series starring Adam West (as Batman). 1st December 1939 – Breaking the Ice, a 1938 RKO Radio Pictures Drama starring Bobby Breen, Charlie Ruggles, Dolores Costello and Billy Gilbert was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). 5th December 1939 – Strange Boarders, a 1938 General Film Distributors Comedy Thriller was screened in the Hall by Frain & Garaheen, Swinford (source: Hall Journal). Tom Walls, Renée Saint-Cyr, Googie Withers and Ronald Adam star. NB: Directed by Herbert Mason, the screenplay was adapted from E Phillips Oppenheim’s 1934 espionage novel, The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent. LA Times 9th July 1938, page 13: “...a long series of laugh, as well as thrills.” The film title in Denmark was Detektivens Bryllupsnat, which translates into English as, The Detective’s Wedding Night, as Secret Agent, Tommy Blythe, must interrupt is honeymoon to investigate! 8th December 1939 – Tea for Two (aka No, No, Nanette) a 1930 First National Pictures Musical Comedy starring Bernice Claire, Alexander Gray, Lucien Littlefield, Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman, Lucille Early and ZaSu Pitts was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). NB: The screenplay was adapted from No, No, Nanette, a Broadway show featuring the 1924 song Tea for Two, by Vincent Youmans and Irving Caesar which went on to become the biggest success of Youmans' career. Breakfast for Two, a 1937 ‘Screwball’ Comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall and Glenda Farrell is a possibility for the film screened on this date but the Journal definitely documents Tea for Two as the title of the film shown. See also 13th April 1952 entry. 35 12th December 1939 – Let's Be Famous, a 1939 Associated British Pictures Comedy starring Jimmy O'Dea, Betty Driver and Sonnie Hale was screened in the Hall by Frain & Garaheen, Swinford (source: Hall Journal). NB: Betty Driver is probably best remembered for playing Betty Williams in ITV soap Coronation Street. 35 Wikipedia defines a Screwball Comedy as follows “... a film subgenre of the romantic comedy genre that became popular during the Great Depression, beginning in the early 1930s and thriving until the early 1940s, that satirizes the traditional love story.”
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