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Garden Theatre, the 1940 local theater herald advertising the films to be shown at the theater in New York City from August 4th to August 17th. The films include: Buck Benny Rides Again, the 1940 Mark Sandrich cowboy western musical comedy ("Based on an Adaptation by Zion Myers of a Story by Arthur Stringer") starring Jack Benny (as the title character), Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, Phil Harris, Virginia Dale, Lillian Cornell, Dennis Day, and Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson ( billed as "Rochester"). Note that Dennis Day and Rochester were both associated with Jack Benny throughout their careers, on both his radio show and TV show. AND The Biscuit Eater, the 1940 Stuart Heisler boy-and-his-beloved-dog juvenile melodrama ("A picture as human and heart-filling as the love of a boy for a dog! - from James Street's beloved Saturday Evening Post story!"; "Based on a Story by James Street") starring Billy Lee, Cordell Hickman, Helene Millard, Richard Lane, Lester Matthews, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, and Viola Davis AND Earthbound, the 1940 Irving Pichel science fiction (sci-fi) fantasy crime murder mystery thriller ("The gay, fantastic adventures of a ghost who was haunted by the living!"; about a man who is on a second honeymoon, but he is summoned by his ex-mistress, and she kills him when he refuses to leave his wife for her, and her husband is accused of the murder, and the murdered man returns as a ghost to help set things right!) starring Warner Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Lynn Bari, Charley Grapewin, Henry Wilcoxon, and Elizabeth Patterson AND My Son My Son, the 1940 Charles Vidor family relationship romantic love triangle melodrama ("A love triangle the screen has never seen before!"; about a father that gives his son everything he never had, only to spoil him rotten and nearly ruin his life; "The amazing drama of a father and his son, caught in the surge of a love even greater than their love for each other... Their love for this glamorous woman, whose beauty stood between them like a sword."; "From Howard Spring's best-selling novel. The book more than a million readers praised brought to a thrilling reality upon the screen by a perfect cast!"; about a rich father with a spoiled son, and both are in love with the same woman; the son redeems himself by dying a hero's death in World War I) starring Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, Louis Hayward, Laraine Day, Henry Hull, Josephine Hutchinson, Sophie Stewart, and Bruce Lester AND Brother Orchid, the 1940 Lloyd Bacon crime comedy ("We'd like youse to meet Brother Orchid"; "Based on the Collier's magazine story by Richard Connell"; about a gangster who hides out in a monastery, with great comic results!) starring Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy, and Allen Jenkins AND Other movies included were: Alias the Deacon, Men Without Souls, The Great Waltz, and Mutiny on the Bounty
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