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a local theater window card advertising the complete program for November 15th to November 27th, 1948 at the Midland theater in Valley View, comprising the following movies: Marshal of Cripple Creek, the 1947 R.G. Springsteen cowboy western starring Allan 'Rocky' Lane (as Red Ryder), Robert 'Bobby' Blake (billed as "Bobby Blake"; as the Native American Indian child, Little Beaver), Martha Wentworth, Trevor Bardette and Tom London AND The Grapes of Wrath, the classic 1940 John Ford (Best Director Academy Award winner) melodrama (nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; based on the classic John Steinbeck novel; produced by Darryl F. Zanuck) starring Henry Fonda (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; as Tom Joad), Jane Darwell (in her Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winning role; as Ma Joad), Charley Grapewin (as Grandpa Joad), Russell Simpson (as Pa Joad), John Carradine (as Jim Casy), Dorris Bowdon (as Rose-of-Sharon Rivers, spelled as "Rosasharn" in the movie credits), Zeffie Tilbury (as Grandma Joad), Frank Darien (as Uncle John Joad), Eddie Quillan (as Connie Rivers), John Qualen (as Muley Graves), Kitty McHugh (as the diner waitress, in one of the movie's most poignant scenes), Darryl Hickman (as Winfield Joad) and Shirley Mills (as Ruthie Joad) AND Nightmare Alley, the 1947 Edmund Goulding crime film noir ("Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham"; about a carnival barker at a circus who makes significant mistakes in his life, and is ultimately reduced to being the "sideshow geek" in a truly nightmarish movie) starring Tyrone Power Jr., Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, Mike Mazurki and Ian Keith AND Swiss Miss, the 1938 John G. Blystone Laurel and Hardy romantic Switzerland screwball comedy (produced by Hal Roach) starring Stan Laurel, Olivier Hardy (Laurel and Hardy), Grete Natzler, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore and Adia Kuznetzoff AND The Voice of the Turtle, the 1948 Irving Rapper military-soldier-on-leave romantic comedy ("Listen Lovers, Listen!!!"; "Woo-Woo!!!! It's the voice of love!!!!"; "Warner Bros. bring you everything that made its love-making the snappiest, and its 5-year stage-run the happiest that ever came roaring off Broadway!"; "From the Stage Play by John van Druten") starring Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris, Kent Smith and John Emery AND Timber Trail, the 1948 Philip Ford cowboy western melodrama starring Monte Hale, Lynne Roberts, Foy Willing & The Riders of the Purple Sage, James Burke, Roy Barcroft and Francis Ford AND Sport of Kings, the 1947 Robert Gordon horse racing melodrama ("Romance goes to the races!") starring Paul Campbell, Gloria Henry and Harry Davenport AND The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (sometimes called "The Treasure of Sierra Madre"), the classic 1948 John Huston gold mining striking-it-rich melodrama (nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; about three men who prospect for gold and the mixed blessings they find when they discover much gold; "They sold their souls for ....The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"; "Warner Bros. hit a new high in high adventure... Bringing another great best-seller to the screen!") starring Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett (early in his career he was billed as "Herman Brix", which was his actual name, and he was one of the first sound Tarzans, but he is probably best remembered for his excellent supporting role in this movie; an early screen Tarzan, billed as "Herman Brix") and Alfonso Bedoya AND Silver River, the 1948 Raoul Walsh cowboy western ("He gambles his life for a city of silver... And the lips of its golden-haired queen!") starring Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Bruce Bennett, Thomas Mitchell, Tom D'Andrea, Barton MacLane, Monte Blue, Jonathan Hale and Al Bridge
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Important Added Info: This window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded.

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