Murphy’s Town Hall Cinema Athenry 30 28th April 1942 – Men Without Souls, a 1940 Columbia Pictures Crime Drama was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). This film stars Barton MacLane, John Litel, Rochelle Hudson and Glenn Ford. 5th May 1942 – Pride of the Blue Grass, a 1939 Warner Bros Drama was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). Edith Fellows, James McCallion, Granville Bates, Aldrich Bowker, Arthur Loft and William Hopper star in this film. 10th May 1942 – Granny Get Your Gun, a 1940 Warner Bros Comedy Western was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: the Hall Journal). It stars May Robson, Harry Davenport, Margot Stevenson, Hardie Albright, Clem Bevans and Clay Clement. 17th May 1942 – Babies for Sale, a 1940 Columbia Pictures Film Noir starring Rochelle Hudson, Glenn Ford and Miles Mander was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). 26th May 1942 – Island of Doomed Men, a 1940 Columbia Pictures Film Noir starring Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox and Don Beddoe was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). 31st May 1942 – The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady, a 1940 Columbia Pictures Drama was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: the Hall Journal). This film stars Warren William (as the Lone Wolf), Eric Blore & Jean Muir. Talking Pictures TV: “A beautiful woman requests the help of the Lone Wolf after being falsely accused of robbery and murder.” 9th June 1942 – An Angel from Texas was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). This 1940 Warner Bros Comedy stars Eddie Albert, Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan. NB: Wyman and Reagan were married when making this picture. Reagan famously went on to become the 40th President of the United States of America. 16th June 1942 – A film titled End of Crime is documented as having been screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). Unfortunately we have been unable to identify a film with this title. 23rd June 1942 – On Your Toes, a 1939 Warner Bros Musical was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). It stars Zorina (aka Eva Birgitta Hartwig), Eddie Albert, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh and Donald O'Connor. 28th June 1942 – So You Won't Talk, a 1940 Columbia Pictures Comedy was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). It stars Joe E Brown, Frances Robinson and Vivienne Osborne. 7th July 1942 – My Two Husbands (aka Too Many Husbands), a 1940 Columbia Pictures Romantic Comedy starring Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport and Edgar Buchanan was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). NB: The storyline is about a woman who remarries after her first husband (MacMurray) is missing presumed drowned in a boating accident, only for him to resurface. This basic premise has been used in the movies several times, including My Favourite Wife (1940) starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, and Move Over, Darling (1963), starring Doris Day and James Garner. 12th July 1942 – The Hall Journal documents that a film titled Meet the Navy was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal).NB: We have been unable to trace this exact title but the movie shown was quite likely a 1940 Warner Bros film titled Meet the Fleet which tells the story of 3 US Navy recruits undergoing boot camp training in San Diego. Robert Armstrong, William T Orr, George Reeves, Mary Cheffey and Herbert Anderson star. 19th July 1942 – The Doctor Takes a Wife, a 1940 Columbia Pictures ‘Screwball’ Comedy starring Loretta Young and Ray Milland was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). 28th July 1942 – Before I Hang, a 1940 Columbia Pictures Horror Film starring Boris Karloff, Evelyn Keyes and Bruce Bennett was screened in the Hall by Leo Caslin (source: Hall Journal). 29th July to 3rd September 1942 – The Hall Journal contains no record of Cinema screenings during this period. 4th September 1942 – The Phantom Express, a 1932 Majestic Pictures Mystery movie was screened in the Hall by Shandon Talkies, a Travelling Cineshow Company run by Joseph McCormick (source: Hall Journal). William Collier Jr, Sally Blane and Hobart Bosworth star. NB: See the Limerick Leader 2nd December 1940, page 2, under heading TULLYLEASE NOTES, Talkies: “During the past week the Shandon Talkies visited Tullylease and were very well patronised.” Also note from the Acknowledgements on the Irish Independent Front page, 20th October 1945:
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