Murphy’s Town Hall Cinema Athenry 43 14th July 1946 – South American George, a 1941 Columbia Pictures Comedy was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). This Marcel Varnel directed film stars George Formby, along with Linden Travers, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Felix Aylmer, Ronald Shiner, Mavis Villiers and Herbert Lomas. NB: Formby plays 2 contrasting roles, George Butters and Gilli Vanetti. 16th July 1946 – The Lambeth Walk (aka Me and My Girl), a 1939 MGM Musical Comedy starring Lupino Lane, Sally Gray and Seymour Hicks was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). NB: The screenplay was adapted from the 1937 Stage Musical, Me and My Girl. The film title is taken from the play's best known song, The Lambeth Walk. NB: Lupino Lane was a cousin of screen star, Ida Lupino. 18th July 1946 – What a Night!, a 1931 Warner Pathé Comedy Crime Drama was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). It stars Leslie Fuller, Molly Lamont and Charles Paton. 21st July 1946 – Four Men and a Prayer, a 1938 Twentieth Century Fox Adventure Film was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). It stars David Niven, George Sanders, Richard Greene, William Henry, C Aubrey Smith and Loretta Young. 23rd July 1946 – Laugh Your Blues Away, a 1942 Columbia Pictures Comedy starring Jinx Falkenburg, Bert Gordon, Johnny Mitchell, Isobel Elsom and George Lessey was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 25th July 1946 – Guest in the House (aka Satan in Skirts), a 1944 United Artists Film Noir was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy and Ruth Warrick star in this film. 28th July 1946 – Rainbow on the River (aka It Happened in New Orleans), a 1936 RKO Radio Pictures Musical starring Bobby Breen, May Robson, Charles Butterworth and Benita Hume was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 31st July 1946 – 49th Parallel (aka The Invaders), a 1941 Columbia Pictures WW2 was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook, Eric Portman, Glynis Johns, Niall MacGinnis and Finlay Currie star in this film. 4th August 1946 – Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, a 1944 Universal Pictures Adventure Film was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). It stars Maria Montez (as Amara), Jon Hall (as Ali Baba), Andy Devine, Turhan Bey, Yvette Duguay, Frank Puglia and Scotty Beckett. 6th August 1946 – No Place for a Lady, a 1943 Columbia Pictures Mystery movie starring William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Phyllis Brooks and Dick Purcell was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). 8th August 1946 – Always Goodbye, a 1938 Twentieth Century Fox Romantic Drama was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). It stars Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall and Ian Hunter. 11th August 1946 – Dark Waters, a 1944 United Artists Gothic Noir Thriller was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). This Andre de Toth film stars Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell and Fay Bainter. NB: The screenplay was based on Francis & Marian Cockrell’s 1944 novel of the same name. 13th August 1946 – Blithe Spirit, a 1945 United Artists Drama was screened in the Hall by Daniel Ryan (source: Hall Journal). This David Lean directed film stars Rex Harrison, Margaret Rutherford, Kay Hammond and Constance Cummings. NB: The screenplay is based on Noël Coward's 1941 play of the same name, the title of which is derived from the line Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1820 poem, To a Skylark. Percy Shelley was married to novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of the famous 1818 Gothic novel, Frankenstein.
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