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a local theater herald advertising the complete program for the week of January 5-11, 1940, comprising of the following movies: Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band, the 1938 Henry King musical (nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; written by Irving Berlin; "An American Cavalcade!"; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck) starring Tyrone Power Jr., Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley, Jean Hersholt, Helen Westley, John Carradine, Paul Hurst, Wally Vernon, Ruth Terry, Douglas Fowley, Chick Chandler, and Eddie Collins AND Charter Pilot, the 1940 Eugene Forde airplane aviation adventure melodrama starring Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bary, Arleen Whelan, George Montgomery, and Hobart Cavanaugh AND Beyond the Sacramento, the 1941 Lambert Hillyer California cowboy western starring William "Wild Bill" Elliott (as Wild Bill Hickok), Evelyn Keyes, Dub Taylor, and John Dilson AND Santa Fe Trail 1940 Michael Curtiz New Mexico pre-Civil War military Army soldier adventure melodrama ("They carved a path through the wilderness... Then paved it with bullets and lives!"; about pre-Civil War soldiers trying to keep the peace between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas, and it creates a ficticious group of West Point cadets in the same class who then take place in some of the most important events before the Civil War, including John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and the Massacre at the Little Big Horn) starring Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Raymond Massey (as John Brown, the famous abolitionist), Alan Hale Sr., Ronald Reagan (as General Custer), Van Heflin, William Lundigan, Gene Reynolds, Henry O'Neill, and Guinn "Big Boy" Williams AND Hullabaloo, the 1940 Edwin L. Marin family relationship romantic musical radio performer comedy (about a washed up actor who tries to have a new career on radio, and he accidentally causes a panic; the actor was loosely based on a combination of John Barrymore and Orson Welles) starring Frank Morgan, Virginia Grey, Dan Dailey (billed as "Dan Dailey Jr."; in his first major role!), Billie Burke, Nydia Westman, Ann Morriss, Donald Meek, Reginald Owen, Charles Holland, Leni Lynn, Virginia O'Brien, Curt Bois, and Connie Gilchrist. Note that the movie includes a scene where Frank Morgan re-creates part of the movie "Boom Town" on radio, by lip synching to the voices of the stars of that movie! AND Son of Monte Cristo, the 1940 Rowland V. Lee revenge adventure thriller ("WHO is the deadly Torch whom fighting men fear?"; "WHO defies his enemies with a council table surrounded by dead men?"; "WHO makes a perilous escape through secret doors to the city's sewers?"; "Slashing His Way to Fame Greater Than Dumas' Dashing Adventurer") starring Louis Hayward (as Edmund Dantes Jr./The Torch), Joan Bennett, George Sanders, Florence Bates, Montague Love, Clayton Moore, and Ralph Byrd. Note that this movie included a masked avenger, very similar to Zorro, and was a sequel of sorts to 1939's "Man in the Iron Mask".
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Important Added Info: This herald was folded in half at one time as was originally intended.

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