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Looking Back
March 1932
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in March 1932. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters, see Cinema Treasures or Water Winter Wonderland.
A
veteran star of Westerns (Jack Holt) was joined by newcomer John Wayne
in Maker of
Men, on a Redford double bill with Reckless
Living (Ricardo Cortez and Mae Clarke). Buster Keaton played Elmer
E. Tuttle in The
Passionate Plumber, also starring Jimmy Durante and Polly Moran.
Dance Team
re-united James Dunn and Sally Eilers, stars of the acclaimed Bad
Girl (Redford, Oct. 1931).
Other
big name movies at the Redford included The
Guardsman (Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne), This
Reckless Age (Buddy Rogers), Mata
Hari (Greta Garbo, Ramon Novarro and Lionel Barrymore), Dr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Fredric March), Lovers
Courageous (Robert Montgomery) and Emma
(Marie Dressler). Adding to the film fun were newsreels, novelties, and
comedies from Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy.
At
the Michigan, Harry
Blackstone, "The Greatest Magician The World Has Ever Known,"
presented "Wonderful Entertainment Of Magic, Mystery, Illusion and
Comedy". A Saturday morning series of movies that included Trader
Horn and Ambassador
Bill was started because "For many years parents have called
for more pictures suitable to the juvenile and adolescent mind."
(Allison Ind, The Ann Arbor Daily News, March 4, 1932)
Also
playing at the Michigan was Arsène
Lupin, the first pairing of the brothers Barrymore (John and Lionel).
Guest Night on March 21 featured a Clark Gable double bill—his latest
movie, Polly of the Circus
(with Marion Davies), and Night
Nurse (starring Barbara Stanwyck).
The
Talkie Time-Table of the March 31, 1932 Detroit News listed Alias
the Doctor (at the Michigan), Are
You Listening? (Fisher), Sky
Devils (United Artists), One
Hour with You (Paramount), The
Gay Caballero (Fox), The
Lost Squadron (RKO Downtown), and Der
Wahre Jakob (Little Theater).
