Murphy’s Town Hall Athenry 49 19th September 1952 – The Treasure of Sierra Madre, a 1948 Western written and directed by John Huston was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal). It stars Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt and Walter Huston (John Huston’s father). Famous movie quotes include: Dobbs (Bogart): "If you're the police, where are your badges?" Gold Hat: "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!" 22nd October 1952 – Sorrowful Jones, a 1949 Comedy film starring Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Bruce Cabot and Mary Jane Saunders was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal). This movie was a remake of the 1934 Shirley Temple film, Little Miss Marker, with Saunders in Shirley Temple’s role. 23rd November 1952 – Newcastle Macra na Feirme held their Annual Dance in the Hall with Music by JJ FLYNN'S Dance Orchestra (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 22nd November 1952, page 10). 8th December 1952 – The File on Thelma Jordon, a 1950 Film Noir starring Barbara Stanwyck and Wendell Corey was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 6th December 1952, page 11). 14th December 1952 – The Forsyte Saga (aka That Forsyte Woman), a 1949 romance story, starring Greer Garson, Errol Flynn, Janet Leigh and Walter Pidgeon, was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 13th December 1952, page 10). It was adapted for the screen from 1906 novel The Man of Property, the first book in The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy. 28th December 1952 – Christmas Dance held in the Hall with Music by Ben Callanan and His Popular Dance Band (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 27th December 1952, page 8). 16th January 1953 – The Mudlark, a 1950 film starring Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness and Andrew Ray was screened in the Hall (source: the Hall Journal). 27th January 1953 – Road to Rio, a 1947 Comedy starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour (source: the Hall Journal). 22nd February 1953 – Lady Windermere's Fan (aka The Fan), a 1949 movie starring Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, and Richard Greene (source: the Hall Journal). The screenplay was based on Oscar Wilde’s 1892 play. 3rd March 1953 – Gulliver's Travels, a 1939 animated feature film adaptation of Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel 87 was screened in the Hall (source: the Hall Journal). This animated feature, produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures, had followed hot on the heels of Disney’s 1937 Snow White. 88 19th March 1953 – Athenry Dramatic Club performed Cradle Song in the Hall (source: the Hall Journal). 89 9th April 1953 – As part of An Tóstal, Athenry Drama again staged Cradle Song in the Hall (source: Hall Journal). 22nd & 23rd April 1953 – The Athenry Choral Society again performed The Mikado in the Hall, (source: the Hall Journal, An Tóstal programme, see also Connacht Tribune 18th April 1953, page ii of An Tóstal Supplement). 90 1st May 1953 – The Asphalt Jungle, a 1950 movie starring Marilyn Monroe and directed by John Huston, was screened in the Hall, (source: the Hall Journal). 3rd May 1953 – The Man Who Came To Dinner, a 1942 Comedy starring Bette Davis Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley and Jimmy Durante, was screened in the Hall, (source: the Hall Journal). 87 Swift’s Novel is best known as Gulliver's Travels, but the original title was Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, In Four Parts, By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships 88 The song Faithful Forever was nominated for the Best Song Oscar but lost out to Somewhere Over The Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz. 89 See 2nd December 1945 entry above for more about this play 90 See also Connacht Tribune 4th April 1953, page ii of An Tostal supplement, for the An Tostal programme of events in Athenry
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