Murphy’s Town Hall Cinema Athenry 33 22nd October 1945 – The Lido Mystery (aka Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen), a 1942 Ellery Queen Mystery movie starring William Gargan (as Ellery Queen), Margaret Lindsay and Gale Sondergaard was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 24th October 1945 – Top Man, a 1943 Universal Pictures Musical Comedy starring Donald O'Connor, Susanna Foster, Lillian Gish, Richard Dix and Peggy Ryan was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 26th October 1945 – City Without Men, a 1943 Columbia Pictures Film Noir starring Linda Darnell, Edgar Buchanan and Michael Duane was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 29th October 1945 – Murder in Times Square, a 1943 Columbia Pictures Murder Mystery movie starring Edmund Lowe, Marguerite Chapman and John Litel was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 31st October 1945 – Jitterbugs, a 1943 Twentieth Century Fox Comedy Feature starring Laurel & Hardy, along with Viviane Blaine and Bob Bailey was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: This popular film would be screened in the Hall on a number of occasions, including 31st January 1951, 25th December 1956 and 26th December 1965. 2nd November 1945 – What's Buzzin' Cousin?, a 1943 Columbia Pictures Musical was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). Ann Miller, Leslie Brooks, Eddie Rochester Anderson, John Hubbard, Freddy Martin and Jeff Donnell star in this movie. 5th November 1945 – The Human Comedy, a 1943 MGM Comedy Drama was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). This film stars Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Fay Bainter, Ray Collins, Van Johnson, Donna Reed, Jackie Butch Jenkins, Barry Nelson, Robert Mitchum and Don DeFore. 7th November 1945 – Winter Carnival, a 1939 United Artists Comedy Drama was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). Directed by Charles Reisner, it stars Ann Sheridan, Richard Carlson and Helen Parrish. NB: It would be screened in the Hall again on 15th May 1949. 9th November 1945 – The Black Raven, a 1943 Producers Releasing Corporation Mystery Movie starring George Zucco, Wanda McKay, Robert Livingston and Noel Madison was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: Directed by Sam Newfield, Zucco plays Amos Bradford, aka The Raven. 12th November 1945 – The Girl in the Overalls (aka Swing Shift Maisie and Swing It Maisie), a 1943 MGM Romantic Comedy starring Ann Sothern, James Craig, Jean Rogers and Connie Gilchrist was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: The Maisie Ravier character (aka Mary Anastasia O'Connor) features in 10 Maisie films, made by MGM between 1939 & 1947, played by Ann Sothern in all of them. This was the 7th film in the Maisie series. The Burton Observer, 6th April 1944: “The Girl in Overalls, a new Maisie adventure starring Ann Sothern and James Craig... Amid its laughs, this Metro Goldwyn Mayer pictures shows vividly the part women are playing in war industries. James Craig plays the romantic test pilot and Jean Rogers a jealous love rival who accuses Miss Sothern of sabotage and precipitates the plot.” 14th November 1945 – Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, a 1943 Universal Pictures Horror Film was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). Lon Chaney Jr, Bela Lugosi, Ilona Massey and Maria Ouspenskaya star in this film, the first in what would become a series of such crossover movies, combining popular characters from different film series. 16th November 1945 – Destroyer, a 1943 Columbia Pictures WW2 movie starring Edward G Robinson, Glenn Ford, Marguerite Chapman, Leo Gorcey and Regis Toomey was screened by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 19th November 1945 – Presenting Lily Mars, a 1943 MGM Musical Comedy starring Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter and Martha Eggerth was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 20th November 1945 – The Man Who Returned to Life, a 1942 Columbia Pictures Drama starring John Howard, Lucile Fairbanks, Ruth Ford, Marcella Martin, Roger Clark, Elisabeth Risdon, Paul Guilfoyle and Clancy Cooper was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 21st November 1945 – Target for Tonight, a 1941 Warner Bros WW2 Documentary, featuring the Royal Air Force, was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: This RAF documentary demonstrates the wartime planning and execution of a Vickers Wellington bomber crew’s low level night-time bombing raid on an oil storage facility beside the Rhine, Germany.
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