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Looking Back
January 1932
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in January 1932. 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 TO ALL DETROIT!" read the Publix Theatres ad in the Jan.
1, 1932 Detroit News. "These special holiday shows are the
brightest message of cheer we could give to you." Entertainment at
the Fisher included "Fascinating French Musical Comedy Queen"
Irene Bordoni in person, along with the movie This
Reckless Age, with Peggy Shannon and Buddy Rogers.
At
the Redford, Metropolitan Opera star Lawrence Tibbett appeared in The
Cuban Love Song, with Lupe Velez and Jimmy Durante. Also on screen
were early lead parts for Ginger Rogers (The
Tip Off, with Eddie Quillan and Robert Armstrong) and Carole Lombard
(It Pays to
Advertise, with Norman Foster). Most popular this month at the
Redford were The
Sin of Madelon Claudet (Helen Hayes), Ambassador
Bill (Will Rogers), Possessed
(Joan Crawford and Clark Gable), and Over
the Hill (James Dunn).
Movies
at the Michigan included Under
Eighteen, which was part of a Dec. 4, 2006 "Forbidden Hollywood"
lineup on Turner Classic Movies about the edgy movies of the early 1930s.
"The story of a girl who was NOT old enough to know better,"
read an ad for this movie in the Jan. 6, 1932 edition of The Ann Arbor
Daily News.
Also
drawing crowds at the Michigan were the comedy Flying
High (Bert Lahr), Delicious
(Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell), and Peach-O-Reno
(Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey). A 50-minute movie of Southern California's
21-12 win over Tulane in the 1932 Rose Bowl was filmed with seven cameras
and telephoto lens.
In
Ann Arbor, the "long dark" Whitney
Theatre was scheduled to show German language films, which had drawn
praise "because of their exceptional quality and the unusualness
of their photographic effects," wrote Allison Ind in the Jan. 26,
1932 Ann Arbor Daily News.
