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Looking Back
January 1933
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in January 1933. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters, see Cinema Treasures or Water Winter Wonderland.
"HAPPY
NEW YEAR!" read the Publix Theatres ad in the Jan. 1, 1933 Detroit
News. The Michigan was showing No
Man of Her Own (Clark Gable, Carole Lombard), while Edmund Lowe
starred in The
Devil is Driving at the Fisher, and Ronald Colman and Kay Francis
headlined Cynara
at the United Artists. "These special holiday shows are the brightest
message of cheer we can bring you. Treat the whole family today!"
At
the Michigan in Ann Arbor, the year got off to a quick start with Fast
Life (William Haines) and the short Their
First Mistake (Laurel and Hardy). Other attractions at the Michigan
included a live appearance by the hypnotist Chicula and Saturday night
vaudeville. Short movies at the Michigan included the Walt Disney Silly
Symphony Babes
in the Woods, the Little Rascals in Hook
and Ladder, and Flip
the Frog in Phoney
Express.
Star
pairings at the Michigan included Helen Hayes and Ramon Novarro (The
Son-Daughter), Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett (Me
and My Gal), Clark Gable and Carole Lombard (No
Man of Her Own), William Powell and Joan Blondell (Lawyer
Man), Ann Harding and Leslie Howard (The
Animal Kingdom), and Fredric March and Claudette Colbert (Tonight
is Ours).
The
Redford screen was dark for all of Jan. 1933, but big new movies still
provided lots of entertainment. On Jan. 6, The
Mummy (with "Karloff (The Uncanny)") opened at the Fox,
while Madame
Butterfly (Sylvia Sidney, Cary Grant) came to the Fisher. The
next day, A
Farewell to Arms (Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adophe Menjou) opened
at the United Artists. Other big openings this month were Frank Capra's
The Bitter
Tea of General Yen (Barbara Stanwyck) at the RKO Downtown, and
Silver
Dollar (Edward G. Robinson) at the Fisher (which stopped presenting
live shows before movies).
The
Lafayette (at Lafayette and Shelby) advertised itself as "Detroit's
New Home of Foreign and Unusual Pictures" and debuted its new programming
with the German Maedchen
in Uniform (1931). The Little Cinema in Detroit continued to show
foreign language movies, including the German operetta The
Puppet (1930). In Ann Arbor, the Art Cinema League presented The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater.
