Murphy’s Town Hall Cinema Athenry 42 Journal). NB: Adapted for the screen by Herman J Mankiewicz from W Somerset Maugham’s 1939 novel of the same name. 4th June 1946 – Swing Fever, a 1943 MGM Musical Comedy was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). Kay Kyser, Marilyn Maxwell, Lena Horne, William Gargan, Maxie Rosenbloom and Nat Pendleton star. Quote from the Original Movie Trailer: “It’s COMEDY with a Hep Step and a Sweet Beat!” 6th June 1946 – Youth on Parade, a 1942 Republic Pictures Musical Comedy starring John Hubbard, Ruth Terry, Martha O'Driscoll, Tom Brown, Charles Smith and Lynn Merrick was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 9th June 1946 – Follow the Boys (aka Three Cheers for the Boys), a 1944 Universal Pictures Musical starring George Raft, Vera Zorina, Grace McDonald, Charley Grapewin, Ramsay Ames, Charles Butterworth, Elizabeth Patterson, Regis Toomey, Peggy Ryan and Orson Welles was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: the Hall Journal). 11th June 1946 – The Adventures of Marco Polo, a 1938 United Artists Adventure Film starring Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone and Lana Turner was screened by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: Cooper played the lead role of Marco Polo. 13th June 1946 – Abbott and Costello: In Society, a 1944 Universal Pictures Comedy starring Abbott & Costello, Marion Hutton and George Dolenz was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 16th June 1946 – Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, a 1934 United Artists Mystery movie starring Ronald Colman (as Bulldog Drummond), Loretta Young, C Aubrey Smith, Una Merkel and Warner Oland was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: The screenplay is loosely based on the HC McNeile novel Knock-Out, (written under the pen name Sapper). The Hall Journal records the title as, Bulldog Drummond Strikes at Dawn, but we could identify no film with this title. 18th June 1946 – Down Argentine Way, a 1940 Twentieth Century Fox Musical starring Don Ameche, Betty Grable (in her first leading role), Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood and J Carrol Naish was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 20th June 1946 – Paradise Island, a 1930 Tiffany Pictures Adventure Film starring Kenneth Harlan, Marceline Day and Tom Santschi was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 23rd June 1946 – Dangerous Journey, a 1944 Twentieth Century Fox Documentary covering expeditions to parts of North and South America, India and Burma (now called Myanmar) was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: Narrated by Conrad Nagel. 25th June 1946 – Michael O'Halloran, a 1937 Republic Pictures Drama starring Wynne Gibson, Warren Hull, Jackie Moran and Charlene Wyatt was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: The screenplay was adapted from Gene Stratton-Porter’s 1915 novel of the same name. 27th June 1946 – Paris Calling, a 1941 Universal Pictures War Noir starring Randolph Scott, Elisabeth Bergner, Basil Rathbone and Lee J Cobb was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 30th June 1946 – This Is the Life, a 1944 Universal Pictures Musical Romantic Comedy starring Donald O'Connor, Susanna Foster and Peggy Ryan was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 2nd July 1946 – Sis Hopkins, a 1941 Republic Pictures Comedy was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). This Joseph Santley directed film stars Judy Canova, Bob Crosby and Charles Butterworth, along with a supporting cast that includes Jerry Colonna, Susan Hayward, Katharine Alexander and Lynn Merrick. 4th July 1946 – Melody Parade, a 1943 Monogram Pictures Musical starring Mary Beth Hughes, Eddie Quillan, Tim Ryan, Irene Ryan, Mantan Moreland and Armida was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 7th July 1946 – Klondike Kate, a 1943 Columbia Pictures Western starring Ann Savage, Tom Neal, Glenda Farrell and Constance Worth was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 9th July 1946 – The Singing Musketeer (aka The Three Musketeers, a 1939 Twentieth Century Fox Musical Comedy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers, starring Don Ameche, The Ritz Brothers and John Carradine was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 11th July 1946 – Orphans of the Street, a 1938 Republic Pictures Drama was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: the Hall Journal). It stars Robert Livingston, Tommy Ryan, June Storey, Harry Davenport and James Burke.
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