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a local theater herald advertising the complete program for the week of May 11th to the 17th at the Bronx Theatre in Missouri, comprising of the following movies: Invitation to Happiness, the 1939 Wesley Ruggles boxing sports romantic family relationship melodrama (from the story by Mark Jerome; about a professional boxer who neglects his wife and child, and they leave him, and ten years later, when he is about to fight for the championship, his wife and child return, and he both promises to pay more attention to them, and he wins the championship) starring Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, Charlie Ruggles, William Collier Sr., Billy Cook, and Marion Martin AND Pilot X, the 1936 Elmer Clifton airplane aviation mystery thriller ("Death strikes from the air!") starring Lona Andre, John Carroll, Leon Ames, Henry Hall, and Hans Joby AND Girls' Dormitory, the 1936 Irving Cummings romantic melodrama (based on the play by Ladislas Fodor; about a director of an all-girl school in Switzerland, who has a relationship with a female professor there, but he becomes involved with a beautiful young student, and it is unclear throughout the movie who he will end up with) starring Herbert Marshall, Ruth Chatterton, Simone Simon (billed on U.S. posters as "Introducing A New Personality Simone Simon"), Constance Collier, J. Edward Bromberg, Dixie Dunbar, John Qualen, and Shirley Deane. Note that Simone Simon started acting in Europe in 1931, but was signed by Darryl F. Zanuck in 1936 to a Hollywood contract, and he billed her in the above way in this movie. In 1938, she became disenchanted with the roles she was given in Hollywood and she returned to France, where she had a starring role in "La Bete Humaine". In 1941, she returned to the U.S. and had a second U.S. career in movies like "All That Money Can Buy" and "Cat People" AND The Great Victor Herbert, the 1939 Andrew L. Stone romantic musical melodrama ("He wrote the melodies to fit the words that sweethearts whisper to each other!"; "Based on a story by Robert Lively and Andrew L. Stone"; despite its title, it is not a biography of the operetta composer, but rather a romantic melodrama about actors in one of his plays) starring Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Walter Connolly (in his final role; in the title role as Victor Herbert), Lee Bowman, Judith Barret, and Susanna Foster AND City for Conquest, the classic 1940 Anatole Litvak New York City boxing sports family relationship brothers gambling romantic melodrama ("a story with all the fire and fury of its two great stars!": "From the novel by Aben Kandel"; in a twist on the usual plot of a musician-turned-boxer to raise money, in this movie, Cagney is boxing to help his musician brother, with tragic results; one of Cagney's best roles ever; look for director Elia Kazan and a very young Anthony Quinn in very strong supporting performances!) starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias, Jerome Cowan, Elia Kazan (the famous director in an early acting role!), Anthony Quinn, and Blanche Yurka AND The Mad Miss Manton, the 1938 Leigh Jason romantic murder mystery crime thriller (about a zany society woman who sees a dead body and reports a murder, but nobody believes her, so she gets her society friends together to try to solve the murder themselves) starring Barbara Stanwyck (in the title role as Melsa Manton), Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Frances Mercer, Stanley Ridges, Whitney Bourne, Vickie Lester, and Penny Singleton AND The Phantom Creeps, the 1939 Ford Beebe & Saul A. Goodkind Universal science fiction (sci-fi) horror mystery crime serial ("12 spine-shivering action chapters"; "Original Story by Willis Cooper"; "Screenplay by George Plympton, Basil Dickey, Mildred Barish"; about a female reporter and military intelligence officer hunting a scientist whose inventions, which includes a really creepy robot, can destroy the world) starring Bela Lugosi (as Dr. Zorka), Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold, Edwin Stanley, Regis Toomey, Roy Barcroft, Lee J. Cobb (in a very early role in a bit part), Edward Van Sloan, and Eddy Acuff. Note that this is the first time that Bela Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan worked together since Dracula, and this is one of the few 1930s movies that has a robot in it AND The Wizard of Oz, the classic 1939 Victor Fleming family magical fantasy adventure musical ("MGM's miracle musical show of shows!"; "It's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Technicolor triumph!"; "Magnificent in its brilliant Technicolor splendor!"; "AT LAST IT'S HERE Biggest Sensation Since "SNOW WHITE"!"; "The mighty miracle show that is the talk of America!"; "Amazing sights to see! The Tornado, Munchkinland, Horse of a Different Color, Startling Balloon Ascent, The Flying Monkeys, The Tree That Throws Apples"; "Gaiety! Glory! Glamour!"; based on the classic novel of the same name by L. Frank Baum; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Judy Garland (as Dorothy), Jack Haley (as The Tin Man), Bert Lahr (as The Cowardly Lion), Ray Bolger (as The Scarecrow), Frank Morgan (in the title role as The Wizard of Oz!), Margaret Hamilton (as the Wicked Witch), Billie Burke (as Glinda, the Good Witch), Charley Grapewin, "the Munchkins", and Toto too! AND S.O.S. Tidal Wave
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Important Added Info: Note that this was an especially good week for movies at this theater, because not only were they about to show "City for Conquest" and "The Phantom Creeps", but after that, they were showing "The Wizard of Oz"! The back cover has a full-page ad for The Wizard of Oz, and Bela Lugosi is pictured on the inside. This is likely one of the most affordable ways to purchase original 1939 movie advertising for The Wizard of Oz!

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