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Looking Back
April 1931
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in April 1931. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters, see Cinema Treasures or Water Winter Wonderland.
Area
movie fans saw the first two films of Clark Gable's 23-year-long association
with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Michigan in Ann Arbor showed The
Easiest Way, which starred Constance Bennett, Adolphe Menjou and
Robert Montgomery. Later that month, the Redford screened Dance,
Fools, Dance, one of many MGM films to feature Gable and Joan
Crawford. Gable appeared in 12 movies in 1931.
Also
showing at the Michigan was Charlie Chaplin's City
Lights, which ran for a full week (instead of the usual three
or four days). On April 2 at the Michigan, a drawing was held between
movies for a Philco
96 Highboy radio. Spring Festival Week (which started Sunday, April
12) included a Michigan stage appearance of "The Third Annual Tour
of the Michigan Blossom Queen and the Bud Princesses of Her Flower Court".
The
popular Cimarron,
which had opened in downtown Detroit in February, worked its way into
neighborhood theaters, including the Redford. Two years before the end
of Prohibition, the Redford showed See
America Thirst. This comedy about bootlegging starred Harry Langdon,
whose career peaked in silent films. Also at the Redford was The
Devil to Pay!, with Ronald Colman, Loretta Young and Myrna Loy.
