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Looking Back
June 1931
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in June 1931. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters, see Cinema Treasures or Water Winter Wonderland.
"The
feature play of a motion picture theater is no more the place for advertising
than are the pages of a novel," wrote Ann Arbor Daily News
movie columnist Allison Ind on June 3, 1931. Ind was applauding the decisions
by the Paramount and Warner Brothers movie studios to stop "sponsored
screen advertising" (product placement), because of its possible
negative effect on attendance.
In
June 1931, Ann Arbor movie fans flocked to the Michigan Theater to see
The Front
Page, along with early films of Barbara Stanwyck (Ten
Cents a Dance) and Spencer Tracy (Six
Cylinder Love). Michigan audiences also enjoyed guest organist
Don Miller, whose performances included original and classical compositions.
Both
the Michigan and Redford showed City
Streets, a crime drama starring Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney
that was one of the most popular films of the year. The Redford lineup
for Sunday, June 28 included two movies whose titles and stars haved faded
into the ancient, obscure past: Young
Sinners (with silent film star Thomas Meighan and Hardie Albright)
and Sky
Raiders (Lloyd Hughes and Marceline Day).
Also
playing at the Redford was Norma Shearer in Strangers
May Kiss, which appeared the same week that Shearer's widely publicized
new film, A
Free Soul, opened at the Paramount in downtown
Detroit (Broadway and Grand Circus Park).
