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The Film Programs of the Detroit Film Theatre, Michigan Theater, and Redford Theatre
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Looking Back
June 1956
Step back in time to see what area movie theaters were presenting in June 1956. Film titles are linked to the Internet Movie Database.
For more information about these theaters, see Cinema Treasures or Water Winter Wonderland.
Melodies
and mutants mixed it up at the Redford in a double bill of the Bing Crosby
musical Anything Goes
and the science fiction classic Invasion
of the Body Snatchers. Humphrey Bogart made his last screen appearance
in The
Harder the Fall (on a twin bill with Mario Lanza's Serenade).
Box
office powerhouses Carousel
and Picnic
also hit the Redford screen, long after they had opened in downtown Detroit.
In a preview of the Redford's current programming, the clock was turned
back a few years for a double feature of River
of No Return (1954) and Titanic
(1953).
Trapeze,
starring Burt Lancaster and Italian sex symbol Gina Lollobrigida, opened
on June 28 at the Michigan in Ann Arbor and the Madison in Detroit (Woodward
and Grand Circus Park). Harold Heffernan of the Detroit News noted
the trend towards Italian actors and actresses in Hollywood movies (which
included Sophia Loren and recent Oscar winner Anna Magnani).
Also
showing at the Michigan was D-Day
the Sixth of June, a war film with Robert Taylor, Richard Todd
and Dana Wynter. With summer heat rising, the Michigan touted its "perfection
in modern cooling."
