Murphy’s Town Hall Athenry 66 20th September 1964 – Broken Lance, a 1954 Western starring Spencer Tracy, Richard Widmark and Robert Wagner, was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 19th September 1964, page 15). 11th October 1964 – Captain Clegg, a 1962 Hammer Horror movie starring Peter Cushing, Yvonne Romain and Patrick Allen was screened in the Hall @ 9pm (source: (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 10th October 1964, page 15. This is also confirmed by a surviving Town Hall poster from that time). 13th October 1964 – The Graduates Showband 123 played the Hall (source: Hall Journal, a surviving Town Hall poster from that time see also Connacht Tribune 10th October 1964, page 15). 16th October 1964 – These Thousand Hills, a 1959 movie starring Stuart Whitman was shown in the Hall @ 9pm (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 10th October 1964, page 15. This is also confirmed by a Town Hall poster from that time). 8th November 1964 – Calamity Jane, a 1953 Musical Western starring Doris Day and Howard Keel, was screened in the Hall @ 8:45pm, with a matinee @ 3pm (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 7th November 1964, page 15. This is also confirmed by a surviving Town Hall poster from that time). 124 23rd to 29th November 1964 – The Shannon Players performed unspecified Variety & Plays in the Hall for 7 nights (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 21st November 1964, page 15. This is also confirmed by a Town Hall poster from that time). 3rd December 1964 – The Girl Can’t Help It, a 1956 Musical Comedy starring Jayne Mansfield and Tom Ewell was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 28th November 1964, page 15). 13th December 1964 – Stopover Tokyo, a 1957 Film Noir movie starring Robert Wagner, Joan Collins and Edmund O’Brien was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 12th December 1964, page 15). 15th & 16th December 1964 – Athenry Players performed Anyone Could Rob A Bank, a comedy play in Three Acts by Tomas Coffey, in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 12th December 1964, page 15). 26th December 1964 – Love Me Tender, a 1956 Western starring Elvis Presley and Debra Paget, was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 26th December 1964, page 13). 1st January 1965 – The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, a 1958 comedy movie starring Jayne Mansfield and Kenneth More was shown in the Hall (source: Hall Journal). 26th February 1965 – April Love, a 1957 Musical in CinemaScope & Eastman Color starring Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Arthur O'Connell, Dolores Michaels, Matt Crowley, Jeanette Nolan and Bradford Jackson was screened in the Hall @ 8.45pm (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 20th February 1965, page 15). The title song had reached Number One on the US Billboard Chart in December 1957. 5 March 1965 – The Seven Year Itch, a 1955 movie starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell was shown in the Hall was screened in the Hall (source: Hall Journal, see also Connacht Tribune 27th February 1965, page 15). 123 The Graduates were from Skerries, Co Dublin 124 Originally screened in the Hall in August 1958, see above
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