The Picture Show

By Wanda Willard Smith


        For those who grew up in small town America during the bleak days of the Great 
Depression, the importance and influence of the picture show cannot be overstated. And 
yes, in those days, it was always referred to as “the picture show”--never “the movies” or 
“the theater.” In the 1930s, except for the radio and school and church activities, the 
picture show was our major source of entertainment.
        I kept a Five Year Diary from 1936-1940 and, along with a lot of other trivia, I 
recorded every movie I saw in those years. In Wortham, my hometown, the show was 
located on the south side of main street. It seated perhaps 125 on the main floor and 25 in 
the balcony. The bill changed on Tuesdays and Fridays with westerns featured on  
Saturdays (we called them “Shoot ’em Ups”) that were accompanied by cartoons and 
cliff-hanging serials such as “Flash Gordon” and “Tailspin Tommy.” We often spent 
entire Saturdays in the show, watching the films two or three times, all for the price of 
one admission ticket, which in the early years was ten cents, later increased to fifteen.
        The feature was always preceded by several minutes of recorded music. I 
remember the most frequently played songs were “La Golondrina” and “La Paloma” 
(perhaps they were flip sides of the same record). Even today when I chance to hear one 
of them, I am immediately transported back to that darkened theater waiting with 
anticipatory excitement for the picture to begin.
        Popcorn and soft drinks were not a part of our movie going experience in those 
years. Instead, we often took a candy bar with us. My favorite was a “Black Cow” 
(chocolate coated carmel on a stick) because it would last for the entire length of the 
picture.
        Although many folks had no automobiles in those years, people who did were 
generous in sharing a ride to neighboring towns where we frequently took in a show: 
Mexia, Fairfield, Teague, Groesbeck, Corsicana, even Dallas. Thus it was that when the 
Wortham theater burned in November of 1937 and was closed for several months, we 
continued to see the pictures. 
        As a youngster just emerging into my teens, I was acutely aware of the stark 
contrast between my bleak, near poverty-level existence and the lavish lifestyles 
portrayed on the screen: actors in gorgeous gowns, elegantly tailored suits and tuxedos, 
classy limousines, beautifully furnished and landscaped homes, exciting plots. I spent a 
lot of time daydreaming about what it would be like to live among such worldly and 
sophisticated people.
        Some of the films were memorable and remain classics. In 1936 I saw “The Trail 
of the Lonesome Pine,” the first full-length outdoor film in Technicolor. It was 
considered a milestone, and I still recall the vivid greens flashing across the screen. In 
1938 Walt Disney brought out the first full-length animated film,“Snow White and the 
Seven Dwarfs” (also in color). King Vidor’s 1935 film based on Stark Young’s Civil War 
novel, “So Red the Rose,” made such a deep impression on my mother that she cried for 
days afterward. “Gone With the Wind” was a long-awaited production that I first saw on 
March 2, 1940, at the Palace Theater in Corsicana. The price of admission was a 
whopping seventy-five cents.
        A surprising fact is that (with rare exceptions) most of the pictures shown in my 
hometown theater in these years were new releases. All had been made under the 
watchful eye of the Hays Office which enforced the censorship guidelines that spelled out 
what was and was not morally acceptable for public audiences in the U. S. The 
Hollywood studios were grinding out these films in huge numbers: dramas, melodramas, 
romances, adventure stories, westerns, comedies, spectacular musicals with beautiful 
girls dressed in stunning costumes, magnificently decorated sets, spellbinding dance 
numbers. All flashed before our eyes, opening up an exotic new world. We copied the 
fashions and hairstyles, sang the songs, tried out the dances, and imitated the comedy 
routines. The language of Hollywood became part of our vernacular.
        In my diary I sometimes listed the stars; occasionally, I recorded a comment about 
the film. The actors’ names not recorded have been supplied from Internet sources and 
are placed in brackets. Without the Worldwide Web, much of this detail would not have 
been recovered. Only a few of the pictures are not listed on the Internet. 
        
        
Movies seen from1936-1940

1936

  1. Friday, January 3. Saw “The Great Impersonation” [Edmund Lowe and Valerie 
Hobson].
  2. Saturday, January 4. Saw Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Foster in “Annie Oakley.”
  3. Tuesday, January 7. Went to the show: “Millions in the Air” [comedy with John 
Howard and Wendy Barrie]
  4. Friday, January 10. Saw “Remember Last Night?” [Edward Arnold, Constance 
Cummings, Robert Young, and Sally Eilers].
  5. Tuesday, January 14. Saw “Man of Iron” [Barton MacLane and Mary Astor].
  6. Friday, January 17. Saw “Ship Cafe” [Carl Brisson, Arline Judge, William Frawley].
  7. Saturday, January 18. Saw “Special Agent” with George Brent and Bette Davis.
  8. Tuesday, January 21. Went to the show. “A Perfect Gentleman” [Frank Morgan, 
Cicely Courtneidge, Heather Angel, Una O’Connor]. 
  9. Friday, January 24. Went to the show and saw “Hands across the Table,” Carole 
Lombard and Fred MacMurray [see below, May 3, 1937].
 10. Saturday, January 25. Saw “Laramie Kid,” Tom Tyler [and Alberta Vaughn].
 11. Tuesday, January 28. Saw “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” Gene Raymond [and Margaret 
Callahan].
 12. Thursday, January 30. Saw “Whipsaw” [Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracey].
 13. Friday, January 31. Saw “King Sol of Broadway” [no information on stars].
 14. Saturday, February 1. Saw “Wagon Wheels” [Randolph Scott and Gail Patrick].
 15. Tuesday, February 4. Saw “Freshman Love,” Patricia Ellis and Warren Hull.
 16. Friday, February 7. Saw “Kind Lady,” Aline MacMahon and Basil Rathbone.
 17. Tuesday, February 11. Saw “The Murder of Dr. Harrington,” Kay Linaker and 
Richard Cortes.
 18. Friday, February 21. Saw “Rose of the Rancho” [John Boles and Gladys Swarthout].
 19. Tuesday, February 25. Saw “Fang and Claw,” Frank Buck.
 20. Tuesday, March 3. Saw “3 Live Ghosts” [Richard Arlen and Beryl Mercer].
 21. Friday, March 6. Saw “Her Master’s Voice” [Edward Everett Horton and Peggy 
Conklin].
 22. Tuesday, March 10. Saw “Dr Socrates” with Paul Muni and Ann Dvorak.
 23. Friday, March 13. Saw “Tough Guy,” Jackie Cooper[, Joseph Calleia, Rin Tin Tin, 
Jr.].
 24. Saturday, March 14. Saw “Home on the Range,” Randolph Scott and Jackie Coogan.
 25. Tuesday, March 17. Saw “Anything Goes,” Ethel Merman and Bing Crosby.
 26 Friday, March 20. Saw “Desire,” Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper.
 27 Tuesday, March 24. Saw “So Red the Rose,” Randolph Scott [and Margaret 
Sullavan]. Sure was good.
 28 Tuesday, March 27. Saw “Hell-Ship Morgan” [George Bancroft and Ann Sothern].

	[March 29-April 5, I was in bed with measles.]

 29. Friday, April 10. Saw “Wife vs. Secretary” [Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy].
 30. Tuesday, April 14. Saw “The Walking Dead” [Boris Karloff and Edmund Gwenn].
 31. Friday, April 17. Saw “Colleen” [Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Jack Oakie, Joan 
Blondell].
 32. Wednesday, April 22. Saw “The Voice of Bugle Ann” [Lionel Barrymore and 
Maureen O’Sullivan]. The show was real good.
 33. Friday, April 24. Saw “Follow the Fleet” [Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph 
Scott, Harriett Hilliard Nelson].
 34. Saturday, April 25. Saw “Pride of the Marines” [Charles Bickford and Florence 
Rice].
 35. Wednesday, April 29. Saw “Man Hunt” [Junior Durkin and Charlotte Henry]. Sure 
was good.
 36. Friday, May 1. Saw “The Singing Kid” [Al Jolson and Sybil Jason]. Sure was good.
 37. Saturday, May 2. Saw “Nevada” [Buster Crabbe and Kathleen Burke].
 38. Tuesday, May 5. Went to show, saw “Timothy’s Quest” [Dickie Moore and Virginia 
Weidler].
 39. Saturday, May 9. Saw “Road Gang”[Donald Woods, Carlyle Moore, Jr., Kay 
Linaker]. Was pretty good.
 40. Tuesday, May 12. Saw “Roaming Lady” [Fay Wray and Ralph Bellamy]. Sure was 
good.
 41. Friday, May 15. Saw “Small Town Girl” [Janet Gaynor and Robert Taylor].
 42. Wednesday, May 20. Saw “Big Brown Eyes” [Joan Bennett and Cary Grant].
 43. Saturday, May 23. Saw “Singing Vagabond,” Gene Autry[, Ann Rutherford and 
Smiley Burnette].
 44. Tuesday, May 26. Saw “Too Many Parents” [Frances Farmer and Lester Matthews].
 45. Saturday, May 30. Saw “Treachery Rides the Range” [Dick Foran and Paula Stone].
 46. Wednesday, June 3. Saw “The Moon’s Our Home” [Henry Fonda and Margaret 
Sullavan].
 47. Friday, June 5. Saw “Trail of the Lonesome Pine” [Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda; 
first full outdoor film in Technicolor]. It was so sad. 
 48. Saturday, June 6. Saw “Boulder Dam” [Ross Alexander and Patricia Ellis].
 49. Wednesday, June 10. Saw “Woman Trap” [Gertrude Michael and George Murphy]. 
 50. Friday, June 12. Saw “Speed” [James Stewart and Wendy Barrie].
 51. Saturday, June 13. Saw “Powder Smoke Range” [Hoot Gibson and Harry Carey].
 52. Wednesday, June 17. Saw “Brides Are Like That,” Anita Louise and Ross 
Alexander.
 53. Saturday, June 20. Saw “Sagebrush Troubadour,” Gene Autry [and Frog Millhouse].
 54. Monday, June 22. Saw “Show Boat” [Irene Dunne, Allan Jones and Helen Morgan].
 55. Thursday, June 25. Saw “Preview Murder Mystery” [Reginald Denny, Frances 
Drake, Gail Patrick].
 56. Friday, June 26. Saw “Times Square Playboy” [Warren William and June Travis].
 57. Saturday, June 27. Saw “Three Godfathers” [Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter 
Brennan, Irene Hervey].
 58. Tuesday, June 30. Saw “The Robin Hood of El Dorado” [Warner Baxter, Ann 
Loring, Bruce Cabot].
 59. Friday, July 3. Saw “Fatal Lady” [Mary Ellis, Walter Pidgeon, Ruth Donnelly].
 60. Saturday, July 4. Saw “Absolute Quiet” [Lionel Atwill, Irene Hervey], “West on 
Parade” [a Western short with Dennis Moore, Ben Corbett, and Jane Regan], 
“Flash Gordon” [a serial with Buster Crabbe], and the Three Stooges [comedy]. 
Was in the show until 6:15 p.m.
 61. Saturday, July 11. Saw “Three on the Trail” [William “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd, 
Jimmy Ellison, Gabby Hayes, Muriel Evans].
 62. Tuesday, July 14. Saw “The Princess Comes Across” [Carole Lombard and Fred 
MacMurray].
 63. Saturday, August 1. Saw Charles Starrett in western show.
 64. Thursday, August 6. Saw “Hearts Divided,” Dick Powell and Marion Davies.
 65. Saturday, August 8. Saw “In the Service” [no information].
 66. Saturday, August 15. Saw “Heroes of the Range” [Ken Maynard and June Gale].
 67. Tuesday, August 18. Saw “There’s Always Tomorrow,” Robert Taylor.
 68. Saturday, August 22. Saw “Secret Patrol” [Charles Starrett, Henry Mollison, Finis 
Barton].
 69. Friday, August 28. Saw “Trouble for Two” [Robert Montgomery and Rosalind 
Russell].
 70. Saturday, August 29. Saw “Desert Gold” [Buster Crabbe, Robert Cummings, Marsha 
Hunt].
 71. Saturday, September 5. Saw “Drift Fence” [Tom Reeve, Larry “Buster” Crabbe, 
Katherine DeMille]. It was a free show.
 72. Thursday, September 10. Saw “His Brother’s Wife” [Barbara Stanwyck and Robert 
Taylor].
 73. Friday, September 11. Saw “The Bride Walks Out” [Barbara Stanwyck, Gene 
Raymond, and Robert Young].
 74. Saturday, September 12. Saw “Special Investigator” [Richard Dix and Margaret 
Callahan].
 75. Saturday, September 19. Saw “Strawberry Roan” [western with Ken Maynard and 
Ruth Hall].
 76. Friday, September 25. Saw “I’d Give My Life” [Guy Standing, Frances Drake, Tom 
Brown, Janet Beecher].
 77. Saturday, September 26. Saw “Strawberry Roan” [again; with Ken Maynard and 
Ruth Hall].
 78. Saturday, October 3. Saw “Border Flight” [Frances Farmer, John Howard, Roscoe 
Karns, Robert Cummings].
 79. Sunday, October 11. Saw “Texas Rangers” [Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean 
Parker, Lloyd Nolan] at the Palace in Corsicana.
 80. Saturday, October 17. Went to mid-night show. Saw “Craig’s Wife” [Rosalind 
Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke].
 81. Wednesday, October 21. Saw “Yours for the Asking” [George Raft and Ida Lupino].
 82. Saturday, October 24. Saw “The End of the Trail” [Tim McCoy and Luana Walters].
 83. Monday, October 26. Saw “My Man Godfrey” [William Powell and Carole 
Lombard].
 84. Tuesday, November 10. Saw “Back to Nature” [Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Dixie 
Dunbar, Tony Martin].
 85. Saturday, November 14. Saw “Arizona Riders” [no information about cast].
 86. Monday, November 16. Saw “Dodsworth” [Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul 
Lukas, Mary Astor, David Niven].
 87. Tuesday, November 17. Saw “The Girl on the Front Page” [Edmund Lowe, Gloria 
Stuart, Reginald Owen, Spring Byington].
 88. Friday, November 20. Saw “Wedding Present” [Cary Grant, Joan Bennett].
 89. Saturday, November 21. Saw “Call of the Wild” [Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack 
Oakie, Reginald Owen].
 90. Sunday, November 22. Saw “Dimples”  [Shirley Temple and Frank Morgan].
 91. Tuesday, November 24. Saw “The Man I Marry” [Doris Nolan, Michael Whalen, 
Nigel Bruce].
 92. Thursday, November 26. Saw “Gorgeous Hussey” [Lionel Barrymore, Joan 
Crawford, Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone].
 93. Friday, November 27. Saw “Two in a Crowd” [Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea].
 94. Saturday, November 28. Saw “Avenging Waters” [Ken Maynard, Beth Marion, 
Ward Bond].
 95. Tuesday, December 1. Saw “Pepper” [Jane Withers and Irvin S. Cobb].
 96. Friday, December 4. Saw “Adventure in Manhattan” [Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, 
Reginald Owen].
 97. Saturday, December 5. Saw “California Mail” [Dick Foran and Linda Perry]. Saw 
“Cain and Mable” [Clark Gable and Marion Davies] at midnight show.
 98. Tuesday, December 8. Saw “Flying Hostess” [Judith Allen and William Gargan].
 99. Thursday, December 10. Saw “Nobody’s Fool” [Edward Everett Horton and Glenda 
Farrell].
100. Saturday, December 12. Saw “The Big House” [Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, and 
Robert Montgomery] and “King of the Royal Mounted” [serial] in Mexia. Saw 
Gene Autry in person; got his autograph.
101. Tuesday, December 15. Saw “Old Hutch” [Wallace Beery, Eric Linden, Cecilia 
Parker].
102. Friday, December 18. Saw “Love Letters of a Star” [Henry Hunter and Polly 
Rowles].
103. Tuesday, December 22. Saw “15 Maiden Lane” [Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero].
104. Thursday, December 24. Saw “And So They Were Married” [Melvyn Douglas and 
Mary Astor].
105. Saturday, December 26. Saw “Last of the Mohicans” [Randolph Scott, Binnie 
Barnes, Heather Angel].
106. Tuesday, December 29. Saw “Come Closer Folks” [James Dunn and Marian 
Marsh].
107. Thursday, December 31. Saw “39 Steps” [Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll] at 
midnight show.

1937

108. Friday, January 1. Saw “Rose Bowl” [Eleanor Whitney, Tom Brown, Larry “Buster” 
Crabbe, William Frawley].
109. Monday, January 4. Saw “One Way Passage” [Kay Francis and William Powell].
110. Tuesday, January 5. Saw “Valiant is the Word for Carrie” [Gladys George, Arline 
Judge, John Howard].
111. Saturday, January 9. Saw “Heart of the West” [William “Hopalong Cassidy” Boyd, 
James Ellison, George “Gabby” Hayes].
112. Tuesday, January 12. Saw “Wild Brian Kent” [Ralph Bellamy and Mae Clarke].
113. Friday, January 15. Saw “Down the Stretch” [Patricia Ellis and Mickey Rooney].
114. Saturday, January 16. Saw “Boss Rider of Gun Creek” [Buck Jones and Muriel 
Evans]. Saw at midnight show “Midsummer Night’s Dream” [James Cagney, 
Dick Powell, Joe E. Brown, Jean Muir].
115. Tuesday, January 19. Saw “Bengal Tiger” [Barton MacLane, June Travis, Warren 
Hull].
116. Saturday, January 23. Saw “Unknown Ranger” Bob Allen [and Martha Tibbetts].
117. Tuesday, January 26. Saw “Banjo on My Knee” [Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, 
Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, Tony Martin].
118. Saturday, January 30. Saw “North of Nome,” Evelyn Venable and Jack Holt..
119. Thursday, February 4. Saw “Polo Joe,” Joe E. Brown. Surely was good.
120. Saturday, February 6. Saw “Ride ’em Cowboy,” Buck Jones.
121. Sunday, February 7. Saw “Pennies from Heaven,” Bing Crosby, Edith Fellows, 
Madge Evans. 
122. Saturday, February 13. Saw Charles Starrett play.
123. Sunday, February 14. Saw “East of Java,” Charles Bickford and Elizabeth Young.
124. Wednesday, February 17. Saw “Love on the Run” [Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, 
Franchot Tone, Reginald Owen.
125. Saturday, February 20. Saw “Hopalong Cassidy Returns” [William Boyd, George 
“Gabby” Hayes, Gail Sheridan].
126. Monday, February 22. Saw “Two-Fisted Gentleman” [James Dunn and June 
Clayworth].
127. Saturday, February 27. Saw “Empty Saddles,” Buck Jones [and Louise Brooks]. It 
was good.
128. Sunday, February 28. Saw “Lone Wolf Returns” [Melvyn Douglas and Gail 
Patrick].
129. Saturday, March 6. Saw “Westbound Mail” [Charles Starrett and Rosalind Keith].
120. Friday, March 12. Saw “Crackup” [Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood, Ralph 
Morgan].
121. Saturday, March 13. Saw “The Last Outlaw” [Harry Carey and Hoot Gibson], and 
“Ace Drummond” [13 part serial with John King, Arthur Loft, and Jean Rogers].
122. Thursday, March 18. Saw “One in a Million,” Sonja Henie [, Adolphe Menjou, Don 
Ameche].
123. Saturday, March 20. Saw “She’s Dangerous,” Cesar Romero and Tala Birell.
124. Friday, March 26. Saw “Black Legion” [Humphrey Bogart, Erin O’Brien-Moore, 
Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan].
125. Saturday, March 27. Saw “Oh Susanna,” Gene Autry [and Smiley Burnette].
126. Saturday, April 3. Saw “Sandflow” [Buck Jones and Lita Chevret] and “Women of 
Glamour” [Virginia Bruce, Leona Maricle, and Melvyn Douglas] at midnight 
show.
127. Friday, April 9. Saw “Stolen Holiday” [Kay Francis, Claude Rains, Ian Hunter].
128. Saturday, April 10. Saw the “Big Show,” Gene Autry [and Smiley Burnette]. At the 
midnight show saw “Penrod and Sam” [Billy Mauch, Frank Craven, Spring 
Byington].
129. Saturday, April 17. Saw “Big House” [Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Robert 
Montgomery].
130. Saturday, April 24. Saw “Secret Valley” [Richard Arlen and Virginia Grey].
131. Saturday, May 1. Saw “Wings of Morning” [Arabella and Henry Fonda] at midnight 
show.
132. Monday, May 3. Saw “Hands Across the Table” [Carole Lombard and Fred 
MacMurray]. See Jan. 24, 1936.
133. Wednesday, May 5. Saw “Lloyds of London” [Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine 
Carroll, and Tyrone Power].
134. Saturday, May 8. Saw “Ride Ranger Ride” [Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette].
135. Tuesday, May 11. Saw “Midnight Court” [Ann Dvorak and John Litel].
136. Thursday, May 13. Saw “Waikiki Wedding” [Bing Crosby, Martha Ray, Shirley 
Ross].
137. Saturday, May 15. Saw “ ?? ” with Dick Foran.
138. Friday, May 21. Saw “Seventh Heaven” [Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean 
Hersholt]. It certainly was good.
139. Saturday, May 22. Saw “The Old Corral,” Gene Autry [, Smiley Burnette, Hope 
Manning, Sons of the Pioneers].
140. Tuesday, June 1. Saw “Nancy Steele is Missing” [Victor McLaglen, Walter 
Connelly, Peter Lorre, June Lang].
141. Saturday, June 5. Saw “Bold Caberlero,” Robert Livingston and Heather Angel. It 
was good.
142. Tuesday, June 8. Saw “Here’s that Man Again” [no information].
143. Friday, June 11. Saw “She Has to Eat” [no information]
144. Saturday, June 12. Saw “Santa Fe Bound,” Tom Tyler [and Jeanne Martel].
145. Tuesday, June 15. Saw “Join the Marines” [Paul Kelly, June Travis, Reginald 
Denny].
146. Friday, June 18. Saw “Mountain Justice,” George Brent and Josephine Hutchinson. 
Show was grand.
147. Saturday, June 19. Saw “Dodge City Trail” [Charles Starrett, Donald Grayson and 
Marion Weldon] in Mexia.
148. Friday, June 25. Saw “Two Old Maids” [no information]
149. Saturday, June 26. Saw “Conflict” [John Wayne, Jean Rogers and Ward Bond] and 
“The Prince and the Pauper” [Errol Flynn and Billy and Bobby Mauch].
150. Saturday, July 3. Saw “Get Along Little Doggies,” Gene Autry [and Smiley 
Burnette].
151. Tuesday, July 6. Saw “King of Gamblers” [Claire Trevor and Lloyd Nolan].
152. Friday, July 9. Saw “John Meade’s Woman” [Edward Arnold, Francine Larimore, 
Gail Patrick].
153. Saturday, July 10. Saw “Smoke Tree Range” [Buck Jones and Muriel Evans].
154. Wednesday, July 14. Saw “Kid Galahad” [Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, 
Humphrey Bogart].
155. Saturday, July 17. Saw “Trouble in Texas” [Tex Ritter and Rita Hayworth].
156. Tuesday, July 20. Saw “Fly Away Baby” [Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane].
157. Tuesday, August 3. Saw “A Day at the Races” [Groucho, Harpo, and Chico Marx, 
Allan Jones and Maureen O’Sullivan].
158. Friday, August 6. Saw “I Met Him in Paris” [Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, 
and Robert Young].
159. Wednesday, August 11. Saw “Slim” [Pat O’Brien and Henry Fonda].
160. Saturday, August 14. Saw “Left-handed Law” [Buck Jones and Noel Francis].
161. Tuesday, August 24. Saw “Ever Since Eve” [Marion Davies and Robert 
Montgomery] in Mexia.
162. Saturday, August 28. Saw “Tarzan Escapes” [Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen 
O’Sullivan].
163. Friday, September 3. Saw “Captains Courageous” [Freddie Bartholomew and 
Spencer Tracey] in Mexia.
164. Saturday, September 4. Saw “Boots of Destiny,” Ken Maynard [and Claudia Dell].
165. Tuesday, September 7. Saw “Viva Villa” [Wallace Beery, Leo Carrillo, and Fay 
Wray].
166. Thursday, September 9. Saw “Saratoga,” Jean Harlow [and Clark Gable]. It surely 
was a good picture.
167. Saturday, September 11. Saw “Two Fisted Sheriff” [Charles Starrett and Barbara 
Weeks].
168. Sunday, September 12. In Corsicana saw “Souls at Sea,” Gary Cooper, Frances 
Dee[, andGeorge Raft].
169. Monday, September 13. Saw “Stella Dallas” [Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, and 
Anne Shirley] in Mexia.
170. Sunday, September 19. Saw “A Family Affair” [Lionel Barrymore, Mickey Rooney, 
and Spring Byington].
171. Saturday, September 25. Saw “Mystery of the Hooded Riders” [no information] and 
at midnight show, “Turn Off the Moon” [Charles Ruggles, Eleanore Whitney, 
Phil Harris and his orchestra].
172. Wednesday, September 29. Saw “Trader Horn,” Harry Carey [and Edwina Booth]. 
173. Saturday, October 2. Saw “Hell Divers” [Wallace Beery, Clark Gable and Conrad 
Nagel]. At midnight show saw, “Silent Barriers” [Richard Arlen and Lilli 
Palmer].
174. Saturday, October 9. Saw Charles Starrett in western picture.
175. Tuesday, October 19. Saw “Back Stage” [Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and Jack 
Coogan, Sr.].
176. Saturday, October 30. Saw “Perfect Specimen” [Errol Flynn and Joan Blondell} at 
midnight show in Mexia.
177. Saturday, November 6. Saw “Thunder Trail” [Gilbert Roland and Marsha Hunt].
178. Wednesday, November 10. Saw “Big City” [Spencer Tracy and Luise Rainer].
179. Thursday, November 18. Saw “Double or Nothing” [Bing Crosby and Martha 
Raye].
180. Saturday, November 20. Saw “Outlaws of the Orient” [Jack Holt, Harold Huber, 
Mae Clarke].

	On Tuesday, November 23, 1937, a large fire burned A & H Bounds dry goods 
store, Oliver Burleson’s furniture store and undertaking establishment, and the 
picture show. The Mexia Fire Department was called in to help the Wortham 
firemen. Rebuilding the theater began on November 29, and it was not re-opened 
until April 13, 1938. In the meantime, we continued to go to the picture show in 
neighboring towns.

181. Thursday, November 25, 1937. In Mexia saw “Varsity Show” [Dick Powell, 
Priscilla Lane, and Fred Waring].
182. Saturday, December 11, 1937. In Mexia saw “This Way Please” [Charles “Buddy” 
Rogers and Betty Grable].
183. Saturday, December 18, 1937. Saw “Danger Love At Work” [Ann Sothern and Jack 
Haley] in Teague.
184. Thursday, December 30. Saw “It Happened in Hollywood” [Richard Dix and Fay 
Wray] in Mexia.

1938

185. Saturday, January 1. Saw “Ebb Tide” [Frances Farmer and Ray Milland] in Mexia.
186. Wednesday, January 5. Saw “Marked Woman” [Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart] 
in Mexia.
187. Saturday, January 15. Went to show in Mexia [but no title given].
188. Saturday, January 22. Saw “Public Hero No. 1” [Lionel Barrymore and Jean Arthur] 
in Mexia
189. Saturday, February 5. Went to Mexia. Saw “Tarzan’s Revenge” [Glenn Morris and 
Eleanor Holm].
190. Saturday, February 12. Saw “Swing Your Lady” [Humphrey Bogart, Frank 
McHugh, Louise Fazenda] in Mexia.
191. Saturday, February 10. Saw “Hollywood Hotel” [Dick Powell and Rosemary Lane] 
in Mexia.
192. Saturday, February 26. Saw “Navy Blue and Gold” [Robert Young, James Stewart, 
and Florence Rice] in Mexia.
193. Sunday, February 27. Saw “Radio City Revels” [Bob Burns, Jack Oakie, Kenny 
Baker, Ann Miller] in Mexia.
194. Sunday, March 13. Saw “Happy Landing” [Sonja Henie, Don Ameche, Cesar 
Romero, Ethel Merman] in Corsicana.
195. Friday, March 25. Saw “Happy Landing” [Sonja Henie, Don Ameche, Cesar 
Romero, Ethel Merman] in Bryan.
196. Sunday, April 3. Saw “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in Corsicana.

[The show opened again on April 13, 1938.]

197. Wednesday, April 13. Saw “Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry” [Judy Garland and Mickey 
Rooney].
198. Saturday, April 16. Saw “The Boss of Lonely Valley” [Buck Jones, Richard 
Holland, and Muriel Evans].
199. Sunday, April 17. Saw “Love, Honor, and Behave” [Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, 
John Litel, Thomas Mitchell].
200. Saturday, April 23. Saw Robert Livingston play [title not given].
201. Saturday, April 30. Saw Dick Foran play [title not given].
202. Sunday, May 1. Saw “Girl of the Golden West” [Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson 
Eddy] in Corsicana. Was good.
203. Friday, May 6. Saw “Mannequin,” Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracey.
204. Saturday, May 7. Saw “Old Barn Dance,” Gene Autry and Smiley Burnette.
205. Saturday, May 14. Saw “Border Wolves” [Bob Baker and Constance Moore]. Saw 
“Night Spot” [Parkyakarkus, Allan Lane] at midnight show.
206. Saturday, May 21. Saw “Forbidden Valley” [Noah Beery, Jr., and Frances  
Robinson].
207. Thursday, May 26. Saw “The Joy of Living,” Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks, 
Jr.
208. Saturday, May 28. Saw “Springtime in the Rockies,” Gene Autry [, Smiley Burnette, 
and Polly Rowles].
209. Sunday, May 29. Saw “Test Pilot” [Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracey] in 
Corsicana. It was grand.
210. Saturday, June 4. Saw “Robin Hood” [Errol Flynn and Olivia DeHavilland].
211. Wednesday, June 8. Saw “Jezebel” [Bette Davis and Henry Fonda].
212. Saturday, June 11. Saw Buck Jones play [no title given].
213. Monday, June 13. Saw “Penrod and His Twin Brother” [Billy Mauch, Bobby 
Mauch, Frank Craven, Spring Byington].
214. Tuesday, June 14. Saw “The Divorce of Lady X” [Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, 
Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson] in Mexia.
215. Saturday, June 18. Saw “Her Jungle Love” [Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland] in 
Mexia.
216. Thursday, June 23. Saw “Merrily We Live” [Constance Bennett and Brian Aherne].
217. Saturday, June 25. Went to show [no title given].
218. Saturday, July 2. Went to show in p.m. [no title given]. Saw “Wives Under 
Suspicion” [Warren William, Gail Patrick and William Lundigan] at midnight 
show.
219. Thursday, July 7. Saw “She Has Everything,” Ann Sothern and Gene Raymond.
220. Saturday, July 9. Saw Lew Ayres play [no title given but could have been “Young 
Dr. Kildare”].
221. Monday, July 11. Saw “Women Are Like That” [Kay Francis and Pat O’Brien].
222. Tuesday, July 12. Saw “Yellow Jack” [Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce, Lewis 
Stone] in Fairfield.
223. Thursday, July 14. Saw “Kentucky Moonshine” [Ritz Brothers and Tony Martin] in 
Fairfield.
224. Saturday, July 16. Saw “Hawaiian Buckaroo” [Smith Ballew and Evalyn Knapp] in 
Fairfield.
225. Sunday, July 17. Saw “Kidnapped” [Warner Baxter, Freddie Bartholomew, and 
Arlene Whelan] in Fairfield.
226. Thursday, July 21. Saw “Gold Diggers in Paris,” Rudy Vallee and Rosemary Lane.
227. Saturday, July 23. Saw “The Last Stand” [Bob Baker, Constance Moore, and Fuzzy 
Knight] in afternoon, and “Sinners in Paradise” [John Boles, Madge Evans, Bruce 
Cabot] at midnight show.
228. Wednesday, July 27. Saw “Little Miss Thoroughbred” [John Litel, Ann Sheridan, 
Frank McHugh].
229. Saturday, July 30. Saw Roy Rogers play [no title given].
230. Sunday, July 31. Saw “Tropic Holiday,” Ray Milland, Dorothy Lamour, Bob Burns, 
Martha Raye, in Corsicana.
231. Monday, August 1. Saw “The Kid Comes Back,” Wayne Morris, Barton MacLane, 
and June Travis.
232. Wednesday, August 3. Saw “Having a Wonderful Time,” Ginger Rogers, Douglas 
Fairbanks, Jr. [, and Lucille Ball].
233. Saturday, August 6. Went to show [no title given].
234. Sunday, August 7. Saw “Judge Hardy’s Children” [Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, 
Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford].
235. Saturday, August 13. Saw Bob Baker play [no title given].
236. Wednesday, August 17. Saw “In Old Chicago” [Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don 
Ameche].
237. Saturday, August 20. Saw “Gun Law” [George O’Brien, Rita Oehmen, Ray 
Whitley].
238. Sunday, August 21. Saw “The Texans” [Randolph Scott and Joan Bennett] in 
Mexia.
239. Saturday, August 27. Saw “Gangs of New York” [Charles Bickford, Ann Dvorak, 
Alan Baxter] and, at midnight show, “Army Girl” [Madge Evans, Preston Foster].
240. Wednesday, August 31. Saw “Three Comrades,” Robert Taylor, Franchot Tone, and 
Robert Young.
241. Saturday, September 3. Saw “I’m From the City” [Joe Penner and Richard Lane] 
and “Prison Nurse” [Marian Marsh and Henry Wilcoxon] at midnight show.
242. Sunday, September 4. Saw “The Crowd Roars” [Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, 
Frank Morgan, and Maureen O’Sullivan].
243. Wednesday, September 7. Saw “King Kong” [Fay Wray and Robert Armstrong].
244. Friday, September 9. Saw “Penrod’s Double Trouble” [Billy Mauch, Bobby Mauch, 
Dick Purcell and Gene Lockhart].
245. Saturday, September 10. Saw “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” [Tyrone Power, Alice 
Faye, and Don Ameche] at National in Mexia. It was grand.
246. Saturday, September 17. Saw “Give Me a Sailor,” Martha Raye and Bob Hope, in 
Groesbeck.
247. Thursday, September 22. Saw “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” with Shirley 
Temple. Sure was cute.
248. Sunday, September 25. Saw “Carefree” [Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers].
249. Friday, September 30. Saw Dead End Kids in “Little Tough Guy.”
250. Sunday, October 2. Saw “Boys Town”[Spencer Tracey and Mickey Rooney].
251. Wednesday, October 5. Saw “Cowboy From Brooklyn” [Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan, 
Ronald Reagan].
252. Saturday, October 8. Saw “Come On, Leathernecks” [Richard Cromwell and 
Marsha Hunt].
253. Sunday, October 9. Saw Sonja Henie and Richard Greene in “My Lucky Star” in 
Mexia.
254. Wednesday, October 12. Saw “Three Blind Mice,” Loretta Young [and Joel 
McCrea].
255. Sunday, October 16. Saw “Sing You Sinners” [Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, and  
Donald O’Connor; see below, July 26, 1939] and “Touchdown Army” [John 
Howard, Mary Carlisle, and Robert Cummings].
256. Sunday, October 23. Saw “Too Hot to Handle,” Clark Gable and Myrna Loy, in 
Mexia.
257. Wednesday, November 2. Saw “Gateway,” Don Ameche and Arlene Whelan.
258. Tuesday, November 8. Saw “Marie Antoinette,” [Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power and 
Lionel Barrymore] in Mexia.
259. Thursday, November 9. Saw “Little Miss Broadway” [Shirley Temple].
260. Monday, November 14. Saw “Suez” [Tyronne Power, Loretta Young, Annabella] in 
Mexia.
261. Monday, November 21. Saw “My Bill,” Dickie Moore and Kay Francis.
262. Thursday, November 24. Saw “Four Daughters” [Claude Rains, Rosemary, Lola and 
Priscilla Lane, Gale Page].
263. Saturday, November 26. Saw “Three Loves Has Nancy” [Janet Gaynor, Robert 
Montgomery, and Franchot Tone] at midnight show in Mexia.
264. Saturday, December 10. Saw “I’m the Law,” Edward G. Robinson, at the National 
in Mexia.
265. Monday, December 12. Saw “White Banners” [Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie 
Cooper]. Was grand.
266. Friday, December 16. Saw “One Man’s Land,” Jack Randall.
267. Saturday, December 17. Went to Corsicana. Saw “Thanks for the Memory” [Bob 
Hope and Shirley Ross] and “The Sisters” [Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Anita 
Louise].
268. Saturday, December 24. Went to midnight show in Mexia, “Here’s That Woman 
Again” [no information].
269. Sunday, December 25. Saw “Cowboy and the Lady” [Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, 
Patsy Kelly] in Mexia.
270. Monday, December 26. Saw “Hold That Co-ed” [John Barrymore, George Murphy, 
Majorie Weaver, Joan Davis].
271. Saturday, December 31. Saw “Angels With Dirty Faces” [James Cagney, Pat 
O’Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan] at midnight show in Mexia.

1939

272. Sunday, January 8. Saw “The Young in Heart” [Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, 
Jr., and Paulette Goddard] in Mexia.
273. Saturday, January 14. Saw “Devil’s Island” [Boris Karloff and Nedda Harrigan] in 
Mexia. [Although we saw this show in January 1939, all records show that it was 
not released until 1940.]
274. Sunday, January 22. Saw “Topper Take a Trip” [Constance Bennett and Roland 
Young].
275. Friday, February 3. Saw “Submarine Patrol” [Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, and 
Preston Foster]. Richard Greene is better than Tyrone Power.
276. Saturday, February 4. Saw “Paris Honeymoon” [Bing Crosby and Shirley Ross] at 
the Palace Theater in Dallas.
277. Monday, February 13. Saw “The Son of Frankenstein” [Basil Rathbone, Boris 
Karloff, and Bela Lugosi].
278. Friday, February 24. Saw “Duke of West Point” [Louis Hayward and Joan 
Fontaine].
279. Tuesday, February 28. Saw “Lone Wolf Returns” [Melvin Douglas and Gail 
Patrick].
280. Thursday, March 9. Saw “Judge Hardy and His Family Out West” [i.e. “Out West 
with the Hardys” with Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Ann 
Rutherford].
281. Saturday, March 11. Saw “Submarine Patrol” [Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, and 
Preston Foster] at midnight show in Mexia [see above February 3, 1939].
282. Sunday, March 12. Saw “Made for Each Other” [Jimmy Stewart and Carole 
Lombard] in Mexia.
283. Wednesday, March 15. Saw “Five of a Kind” [Dionne Quintuplets: Yvonne, Cecile, 
Annette, Marie, and Emilie].
284. Saturday, March 18. Saw “Drums” [Sabu and Raymond Massey] at Groesbeck.
285. Wednesday, March 22. Saw “Girl of the Limberlost” [Louise Dresser, Ralph 
Morgan, and Marian Marsh].
286. Wednesday, March 29. Saw “Devil’s Island” again [Boris Karloff and Nedda 
Harrigan]; see above, January 24.
287. Sunday, April 2. Went to Corsicana; saw “Ice Follies of 1939” [Joan Crawford, 
James Stewart, and Lew Ayres].
288. Wednesday, April 5. Saw “Boy Slaves” [Ann Shirley, Roger Daniel, James 
McCallion].
289. Thursday, April 13. Saw “Yes, My Darling Daughter” [Priscilla Lane, Fay Bainter, 
and Roland Young].
290. Wednesday, April 19. Saw “Arizona Wildcat” [Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo and 
Pauline Moore] at 5¢ show.
291. Wednesday, April 26. Saw “Jones Family on the Farm” [no information].
292. Thursday, April 27. Saw “Jesse James” [Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, 
and Randolph Scott]. It was grand.
293. Wednesday, May 10. Saw “Off the Record” [Pat O’Brien, Joan Blondell, and Bobby 
Jordan]. “It was o.k. but I had seen it before in Groesbeck” [?but when?].
294. Thursday, May 18. Saw “Huckleberry Finn” [Mickey Rooney, Walter Connelly, and 
William Frawley]. It was grand.
295. Wednesday, May 24. Saw “There Goes My Heart” [Frederic March, Virginia Bruce, 
Patsy Kelly].
296. Sunday, May 28. Went to Corsicana and saw “It’s a Wonderful World” [Claudette 
Colbert, James Stewart, and Guy Kibbee]; see also below, August 30, 1939. 
297. Wednesday, May 31. Saw “Everybody’s Baby” [George Ernest, Billy Mahan, June 
Carlson, Marvin Stephens].
298. Thursday, June 1. Saw “Dodge City” [Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland] in 
Corsicana.
299. Wednesday, June 7. Saw “Thanks for Everything” [Adolphe Menjou, Jack Oakie, 
Jack Haley, Arleen Whalen].
300. Thursday, June 8. Saw “Women With the Wind” [no information] in Mexia.
301. Saturday, June 10. Saw “East Side of Heaven”[Bing Crosby and Joan Blondell] and 
“Union Pacific” [Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea] at midnight show in Mexia.
302. Sunday, June 11. Saw “Lucky Night,” Robert Taylor and Myrna Loy, in Corsicana.
303. Wednesday, June 14. Saw “Arkansas Traveler” [Bob Burns, Fay Bainter, Jean 
Parker].
304. Wednesday, June 21. Saw “Heart of the North” [Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson, Gale 
Page]. Good.
305. Saturday, June 24. Saw “Streets of New York” [Jackie Cooper, Martin Spellman, 
Marjorie Reynolds].
306. Wednesday, June 28. Saw “Trade Winds” [Frederic March and Joan Bennett].
307. Friday, June 30. Saw “Within the Law” [Ruth Hussey, Tom Neal, Paul Kelly] in 
Groesbeck. It was good.
308. Saturday, July 1. Saw “Man of Conquest” [Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Edward Ellis, 
Joan Fontaine] and “Naughty But Nice” [Dick Powell, Ann Sheridan, Gale Page, 
Ronald Reagan] at Mexia.
309. Tuesday, July 4. Saw “Dawn Patrol” [Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, David Niven].
310. Thursday, July 6. Went to see “Dodge City” [Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland] 
again [see above, June 1, 1939].
311. Wednesday, July 12. Saw “Honolulu” [Eleanor Powell, Robert Young, George 
Burns and Gracie Allen].
312. Friday, July 14. Saw “Down the Wyoming Trail,” Tex Ritter.
313. Wednesday, July 19. Saw “Hoosier Schoolboy” [Mickey Rooney, Anne Nagel].
314. Wednesday, July 26. Saw “Sing You Sinners” [Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, and 
Donald O’Connor]; see above, October 16, 1938.
315. Saturday, July 29. Saw “Gracie Allen Murder Case” [Gracie Allen, Warren William, 
and Ellen Drew] in Teague.
316. Saturday, August 5. Went to midnight show in Mexia [no title given].
317. Saturday, August 12. Saw “The Saint in London” [George Sanders and Sally Gray] 
in Mexia.
318. Wednesday, August 16. Saw “The Lash of the Penitents” [documentary].
319. Sunday, August 20. Saw “Stanley and Livingstone” [Spencer Tracey, Nancy Kelly, 
and Richard Greene] in Corsicana.
320. Friday, August 25. Saw “Frontier Marshal” [Randolph Scott], Nancy Kelly, and 
Cesar Romero] in Corsicana.
321. Wednesday, August 30. Saw “It’s a Wonderful World” [Claudette Colbert, James 
Stewart, and Guy Kibbee]; see above May 28, 1939.
322. Friday, September 1. Saw “Angels Wash Their Faces” [Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, 
Ronald Reagan] in Mexia.
323. Wednesday, September 6. Saw “Story of Alexander Graham Bell” [Don Ameche, 
Loretta Young, Henry Fonda].
324. Saturday, September 9. Saw “Bachelor Mother” [Ginger Rogers, David Niven] at 
midnight show in Mexia.
325. Sunday, September 10. After church saw “His Brother’s Wife” [Barbara Stanwyck, 
Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt].
326. Friday, September 15. Saw “The Man in the Iron Mask” [Louis Hayward, Joan 
Bennett, Warren William, Alan Hale] in Corsicana.
327. Sunday, September 17. Saw “The Star Maker” [Bing Crosby, Louise Campbell, 
Laura Hope Crews] in Mexia.
328. Tuesday, October 3. Saw “Tarzan Finds a Son” [Johnny Weismuller and Maureen 
O’Sullivan].
329. Saturday, November 4. Saw “The Rains Came” [Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George 
Brent] in Mexia.
330. Saturday, November 11. Saw “The Real Glory,” Gary Cooper[, David Niven, and 
Andrea Leeds] at midnight show in Mexia.
331. Tuesday, November 14. Saw “Dancing Co-ed” [Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, Artie 
Shaw, Ann Rutherford] in Mexia. It was grand.
332. Friday, December 1. Saw “Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” [Bette David, Errol 
Flynn, and Olivia de Havilland] in Dallas.
333. Saturday, December 2. Saw “Honeymoon in Bali” [Fred MacMurray and Madeleine 
Carroll] and “First Love” [Deanna Durbin and Robert Stack] at midnight show in 
Mexia.
334. Thursday, December 7. Saw “The Women” [Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, 
Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine]. It was grand.
335. Saturday, December 9. Saw “Hotel for Women” [Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, Jean 
Rogers, and Lynn Bari].
336. Wednesday, December 20. Saw “Kid Nightingale” [John Payne and Jane Wyman] at 
Mexia.
337. Monday, December 25. Saw “That’s Right--You’re Wrong,” Kay Kyser[, Adolphe 
Menjou, Lucille Ball, Ginny Simms, Harry Babbitt] in Mexia.
338. Tuesday, December 26. Saw “The Return of Dr. X” [Wayne Morris, Rosemary 
Lane, Humphrey Bogart] in Mexia.
339. Friday, December 29. Saw “Babes in Arms” [Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland].
340. Sunday, December 31. Saw “Four Wives” [Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola 
Lane, and Gale Page] in Mexia.

1940

341. Friday, January 5. Saw “Hollywood Cavalcade” [Alice Faye and Don Ameche].
342. Saturday, January 6. Saw “Here I am a Stranger,” Richard  Greene[, Richard Dix 
and Brenda Joyce].
343. Saturday, January 13. Saw “Swanee River” [Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, and Al 
Jolson] at midnight show in Mexia.
344. Tuesday, January 16. Saw “Dust Be My Destiny” [John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, and 
Alan Hale]. It was so good.
345. Thursday, February 1. Saw “Drums Along the Mohawk” [Claudette Colbert and 
Henry Fonda].
346. Saturday, February 3. Saw “Tower of London” [Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, 
Barbara O’Neil] in Groesbeck.
347. Tuesday, February 6. Saw “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” [Basil Rathbone, Nigel 
Bruce, and Ida Lupino].
348. Saturday, February 10. Saw “His Girl Friday” [Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, and 
Ralph Bellamy] in Corsicana.
349. Tuesday, February 27. Saw “I Take This Woman” [Spencer Tracey and Hedy 
Lamarr] in Mexia.
350. Saturday, March 2. Saw “Gone With the Wind” [Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable] in 
Corsicana.
351. Saturday, March 16. Saw “Nurse Edith Cavill” [Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, 
George Sanders] at College Station.
352. Friday, March 22. Saw “Daytime Wife” [Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell].
353. Saturday, March 23. Saw “Northwest Passage” [Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, 
Walter Brennan] in Corsicana.
354. Tuesday, April 9. Saw “She Shall Have Music” [Jack Hylton and June Clyde]. It 
was real old [this British film was made in 1935].
355. Friday, April 12. Saw “Beau Geste” [Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston].
356. Sunday, April 14. Saw “Strange Cargo,” Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, in Mexia.
357. Tuesday, April 30. Saw “Seventeen” [Jackie Cooper and Betty Field]. It was cute.
358. Thursday, May 2. Saw “Green Hell” [Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and Joan Bennett].
359. Friday, May 31. Saw “Typhoon” [Dorothy Lamour and Robert Preston].
360. Friday, June 7. Saw “Twenty Mule Team” [Wallace Beery, Leo Carillo, Majorie 
Rambeau, Ann Baxter].
361. Sunday, June 9. Saw “My Son, My Son” [Brian Aherne, Laraine Day, Louis 
Hayward, Madeleine Carroll] in Mexia.
362. Sunday, June 15. Saw “Marines Fly High” [Richard Dix, Chester Morris, Lucille 
Ball] in Groesbeck.
362. Sunday, June 30. Saw “Waterloo Bridge” [Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor] in 
Dallas.
363. Monday, July 1. Saw “Of Mice and Men” [Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney, Jr., 
Betty Field, Charles Bickford].
364. Wednesday, July 3. Saw “Lillian Russell” [Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, 
Edward Arnold].
365. Thursday, July 4. Saw “Torrid Zone” [James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien, 
Andy Devine] in Corsicana.
366. Monday, July 22. Saw “Our Town” [William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter] in 
Mexia.
367. Saturday, August 3. Saw “They Drive By Night” [George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida 
Lupino, Humphrey Bogart] in Corsicana in the morning.
368. Saturday, August 3. Saw “Pride and Prejudice” [Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, 
Edna May Oliver, Maureen O’Sullivan] in Corsicana at night.
369. Wednesday, August 14. Saw “All This and Heaven Too” [Bette Davis and Charles 
Boyer] in Mexia. It was grand.
370. Friday, August 15. Saw “Lady of the Tropics” [Robert Taylor and Hedy Lamarr].
371. Thursday, August 22. Saw “The Scarlet Letter” [Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright, 
Henry B. Walthall, Alan Hale].
372. Saturday, August 31. Saw “The Man I Married” [Joan Bennett, Francis Lederer, 
Lloyd Nolan, Ann Sten].
373. Sunday, September 8. Saw “Return of Frank James” [Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, 
Jackie Cooper] in Mexia.
374. Sunday, September 15. Saw “My Favorite Wife” [Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, 
Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick] in Dallas.
375. Saturday, September 21. Saw “Howards of Virginia” [Cary Grant and Martha Scott] 
in Dallas.
376. Friday, September 27. Saw “New Moon” [Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy] in 
Dallas.
377. Saturday, October 19. Saw “Andy Rooney Meets a Debutante” [Mickey Rooney and 
Judy Garland] in Dallas.
378. Sunday, October 20. Saw “Knute Rockne” [Pat O’Brien, Gale Page, Ronald 
Reagan] in Dallas.
379. Thursday, November 21. Saw “Spring Parade,” Deanna Durbin [and Robert 
Cummings].
380. Saturday, November 23. Saw “Tugboat Annie Sails Again” [Marjorie Rambeau, 
Alan Hale, June Wyman, Ronald Reagan].
381. Saturday, November 30. Saw “Devil’s Pipeline” [Richard Arlen and Andy Devine].
382. Saturday, December 21. Saw “Dr. Kildare’s Crisis” [Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, 
Laraine Day, Robert Young] at Oak Lawn in Dallas.
383. Sunday, December 22. Saw “Strike Up the Band” [Mickey Rooney and Judy 
Garland].
384. Wednesday, December 25. Saw “Friendly Neighbors” [Leon Weaver, Frank 
Weaver, June Weaver, Lois Ranson] in Waco.
385.  Monday, December 30. Saw “Arizona” [Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren 
William] in Corsicana.
386. Tuesday, December 31. Saw [“San Francisco Docks”] with Irene Hervey and 
Burgess Meredith.