50 Years of Movies Remembered through Theatre Calendars
The Road to Yesterday is a late silent film (1925) from Cecil B. deMille featuring a karma theme.
Loco Luck is a 50-minute silent western made in 1927 and starring Art Acord.
Shirley Temple is adopted by bookies in Little Miss Marker (1934).
The Singing Kid (1936) is the second of three Al Jolson talkies.
Banjo on My Knee (1937) is pure corn with Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea and Walter Brennan.
Captains Courageous sees rich kid at sea with Spencer Tracy and Lionel Barrymore in 1937 hit.
You live longer at Shangri-La. See Lost Horizon (1938) directed by Frank Capra.
Who needs money? Frank Capra says You Can’t Take it with You (1938).
Young Mr. Lincoln is a revered John Ford film made during the master’s hot streak of 1939.
Dick Tracy Returns for a second serial outing in 1939.
Richard Dix and Lucille Ball star in Twelve Crowded Hours (1939).
Chad Hana (1941) features a lovesick, confused Henry Fonda.
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are on their 2nd Road picture in Road to Zanzibar (1941).
World War II looms and The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart is released (1941).
Film Noir with Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd equals This Gun for Hire (1942).
Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake return in Film Noir classic The Glass Key (1942).
Fibber McGee and Molly jump from radio to Big Screen in Here We Go Again (1942).
Tombstone (1942) retells famous gun fight starring Richard Dix as Wyatt Earp.
World War II silliness with Judy Canova and Jerry Colonna: True to the Army (1942).
Wartime audiences didn’t get Walt Disney’s Bambi (1942).
The Pride of the Yankees (1943) tells the true story of Lou Gehrig, with Gary Cooper.
Frank Sinatra has first onscreen credit in Reveillie with Beverly (1943).
Blondie does not buy a horse in It’s a Great Life (1943)
The Phantom of the Opera has second telling in 1943 with Claude Rains.
Martha Raye, Carole Landis are two of the Four Jills in a Jeep (1944).
The sibling gets his chance in Son of Dracula (1944) with Lon Chaney Jr.
Radio star meets Gildersleeve’s Ghost in 1944 flick.
Mickey Rooney stars in Andy Hardy’s Blonde Trouble (1944).
Jack Benny made fun of film The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945).
Gary Cooper returns with Teresa Wright in Casanova Brown (1945).
Call of the Wild was released in 1935 and re-released in 1945.
James Thurber disliked this version of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947).
Bob Hope is ‘painless’ dentist with Jane Russell in The Paleface (1948).
John Huston directed classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).