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A WARNER BROS. HIT, with
DENNIS JANE WAYNE ARTHUR

MORGAN - WYMAN - MORRIS - KENNEDY
Directed by RAY ENRIGHT

Screen Play by Charles Grayson * From a Story by Robert E. Kent * A Warner Digetee Mists pictitoliei: wragiig-:

Use This Campaign to Make Em Go!

EXPLOITATION ......... Pages 3- 5
FOTO-ACTION FEATURES .. Pages 6- 7
PUBLICITY.............Pages 8-10
ADVERTISING .......... Pages 11-18
POSTERS .............. Pages 19-20

Newspaper, theatre and coop-
erating stores announce simultaneously that the “BAD
MEN OF MISSOURI” are loose in (city). Announce that
they were last seen at some spot in heart of shopping
district and are known to be heading for your theatre.
Award prizes to those who track down the “Bad Men of
Missouri” in shortest order.

WHOLE TOWN HUNTS “BAD MEN”

VIA CITYWIDE MERCHANTS’ TIE-UP!

Here’s How to Track ‘Em Down...

Newspaper publishes (or stores give away) entry blank
with the key sentence: BAD MEN OF MISSOURI ARE HEAD-
ING FOR THE STRAND THEATRE. There are 10 words in
this sentence. Spot a still or window card in windows of 10
cooperating stores, each sniped with one of the words in the
key sentence. Contestants who find the 10 words and list the
10 stores in which they were displayed are eligible for pro-

moted prizes.

{ FIRST DAY ]

war: ACTION!

If more stores wish to cooperate, sentence can be length-
ened to include more words. |

Start contest in advance, with prizes awarded opening
day, either on your stage or at one of the larger cooperating

stores. Play this for extra news breaks.

ALTERNATIVE: This same idea can be adapted to
a purely newspaper promotion, with key words
spotted in various newspaper ads throughout
paper. Plant ad mat for theatre credits.

[ SECOND DAY ] [LAST DAY ]

Get it with this
3-DAY
CONTEST

Newspaper readers are re-

quired to identify each of the
three “Bad Men of Missouri”
from clues given. Contestants
save daily contests until all
three are collected, then send
them in with 25-word letter com-
pleting this sentence: “I like mo-
tion pictures of the Old West
because ...” Order "BM Mat
301B" —45c—from Cam-
paign Plan Editor.

WANTED!

Can you identify
this well-known star,
portraying one of the
“BAD MEN OF MIS-
SOURI’’—Robin Hoods
of the West?

Height: 6’, 2”;
Weight: 195 lIbs.; Blue
Eyes, Brown Hair.
Recently seen as
"Kitty Foyle’s” boy
friend. His name _ is

Save this solution
until the close of the
contest on (day), then
send in all three con-
test answers to the
Daily News Contest
Editor.

(DENNIS MorGAN)

WANTED!

Can you _ identify
this well-known star,
portraying one of the
“BAD MEN OF MIS-
SOURI"—Robin Hoods
of the West?

Height: 5’, 11";
Weight: 160 Ibs.; Blue
Eyes, Blonde Hair.
Appeared as James
Cagney’s kid brother
in “City for Conquest.”
His name is

Save this. solution
until the close of the
contest tomorrow, then
send in all these con-
test answers to the
Daily News Contest
Editor.

(ARTHUR KENNEDY)

WANTED!

Can you identify
this well-known star,
portraying one of the
“BAD MEN OF MIS-
SOURI’’—Robin Hoods
of the West?

Ne,

Height: 6’, 2";
Weight: 190 lIbs.; Blue
Eyes, Blonde Hair. His
"Kid Galahad” acting
made him a star. His

Complete the follow-
ing sentence in less
than 25 words: "I Like
Motion Pictures of the

Old West Because .. .”:

Send all your contest
answers to the Daily
News Contest Editor.

(WAYNE Morais)

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—The kids compete in a

model log cabin or stage coach build-

ing contest. Enlist cooperation of hobby

editor of local paper or school crafts

department on this. Finished products

make for interesting lobby display.
$A Coe

—Appoint all youngsters
attending day performances as Dep-
uty Sheriffs. Local novelty house will
supply inexpensive badges. Also give
each youngster a card, printed locally,
like this one:

Know all men by these presents that

(write name here)

has been duly appointed as a

DEPUTY SHERIFF

"Bad Men of Missouri" — Beware!

—Print one or more of the
special drawings (see Utility Mat on
page 17)... for program or newspaper
. » » to be colored in by the kids—best
ones winning prizes.

—Hold western songfests
at matinee shows with a few solos by
talented youngsters. This can be de-
veloped into an amateur show for your
Saturday matinee.

—Hand each youngster
| entering theatre a small bag contain-
ing several “marbles.” In a few of
these bags place a gold-painted mar-
ble—and award tickets or prizes to the
lucky finders of this “stolen gold.”

mowed Ke

—Rig up a “target range”
in outer lobby with suction-cap bullets
in guns. Invite kids to aim for bull’s-
eye, with free admission to sharp-
shooters. Place still of the 3 “bad men”
in bull’s-eye with title and catchline
lettered in target circles.

On eee

—Quiz the kids with a
series of questions on Missouri. Quiz
can be adapted for program, back of
herald, newspaper or radio.

BAD MEN OF MISSOURI"

LOBBY STANDEE

—This arresting lobby
standee is easy to make. Cut out blow-
up of Still BM 52. (Available at your
Vitagraph exchange.) Mount other
action stills on cutout of map of Mis-
souri. Include cast, billing and play-
date credits.

CE LOBBY DISPLAY

Always exciting — a “See” display
on 40”x60” or set piece can easily be
set up with following stills and copy:

SEE the landgrabbers burn and siliage
the homes of peaceful Missouri
farmers. (BM 38)

SEE the meeting of Cole Younger, Bad
Man of Missouri . . . and Jesse
James! (BM 96)

SEE a lone girl fight for her bandit lover!
(BM 31)

SEE the Robin Hoods of the West swoop
down on a frontier town! (BM 100)

SEE maddened cattle charge through
the streets! (BM 103)

SEE "BAD MEN OF MISSOURI"!

It Has All the Thrills That Made
“Dodge City’’ Great!

Stills indicated are available in set
from Campaign Plan Editor—50c.

Ks
TARGET MATCH

—Contact local Army Re-

cruiting Office for this one. Two teams ©

of Army men compete in target con-
test on empty lot near theatre. Banners
and posters sell film. Copy: “BAD
MEN OF MISSOURI . . . Robin Hoods
of the West... they out-shot the James
Boys and out-rode the Daltons!”

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TRY THESE FOR FAST
ACTION INSIDE...

—Display as many items
of frontier America as you can obtain
locally. These Americana might in-
clude real early American six-shoot-
ers, chaps and ten-gallon hats, fancy
saddles, branding irons, sheriff's
badges, etc. Local museum, American
Legion, or costume house are good
sources for this material.

oes. ok

—Sell the rip-roarin’ old
west atmosphere by garbing your
doorman and ushers in chaps and
sombreros with arm bands selling title
...1n advance of run.

koe Ks ok

—Such popular lobby
stunts as cigarette-rolling and beard-
growing contests can be revived effec-
tively to sell the frontier atmosphere
of the film.

Se. OO 9

—If among all the model
train builders in your community there
is one who builds the old-fashioned
wood-burning train models, borrow
this for lobby display. Keep it in
action with stills and posters spotted
around for bally purposes.

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—Use your P. A. system
in lobby and out front during busy
hours playing rousing old time western
tunes. Between records tell ‘em about
your show—using catchlines from ads.

REMEMBER

. those sensational
campaigns on “DODGE
CITY’, ‘‘VIRGINIA
CITY” and “SANTA

FE TRAIL”? Why not
dig into your files and
check those stunts and
bally ideas that did
their best job for you.
They might be worth
repeating!

WANTED!

Thrills! Excitement! Adventure!

Arthur Kennedy, Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris
See ‘em in Action in

“BAD MEN OF MISSOURI”

A Warner Bros. Picture

STRAND THEATRE — NOW

WINDOW POSTERS

Print a quantity of posters as il-
lustrated, and post throughout
town on windows, poles, fences
and sides of buildings. Use still
BM52 (available at your Vita-
graph exchange).

ACTION IN LOBBY

Blow up still BM52 of Dennis
Morgan, Arthur Kennedy and
Wayne Morris to life size for any
or all of these lobby ballys:

—free tickets to
any patron who can lasso one
of the “bad men” at 40 paces.

—free ticket to
any patron who can throw a
ring around one of the “bad

men .

— remove the
“head” of Dennis Morgan so
that patron can stand behind
display and be photographed
as one of the “Bad Men of
Missouri’.

SNIPE STENCIL BALLY

Snipe walls, fences and posts
and stencil sidewalks with the fol-
lowing messages .... all pointed
in direction of your theatre:

“BAD MEN OF MISSOURI" ARE
HEADIN’ THIS WAY!

“WATCH OUT FOR THE 'BAD MEN OF
MISSOURI!"

Missouri Maps for Lobby Flash!

Large scale maps of Missouri displayed in
lobby may be utilized with unusual effect:

| Place stills selected from
= your Vitagraph Exchange
set over such cities as Harrison-
ville, Independence, Mason City
and other towns in that vicinity.
Copy: “Out of the roaring history
of America’s untamed Frontier
comes the bullet - splashed saga
of the bad men who made Mis-
souri great!’ Missouri State Flag
displayed beside map will add
interest. Also arrange for radio
quiz from lobby on questions per-
tinent to Missouri.

Drive several metal star-
2. nails through map and at-
tach battery and bell to one of the
nails on back of map. Hook up
circuit to a pointer so that if
pointer touches the hooked-up
star, a bell will ring. Then invite
patrons to locate the place where
the BAD MEN OF MISSOURI
have buried their loot by touching
one of the stars with the pointer.
Those who find “buried loot” by
ringing bell win free admission.
Spot can be changed after award.

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3 MEN ON A HORSE

Title is right for literal transla-
tion into ACTION — on your city
streets. Send three men dressed in
western garb riding ‘round town
on horseback. Copy on backs or
saddles: “BAD MEN OF MIS-
SOURI.... ROARING EPIC OF
THE BANDIT-HEROES WHO
OUT-SHOT THE JAMES BOYS
AND OUT-RODE THE DALTONS!
COMING STRAND FRIDAY!" If
you can possibly get or build a
stage coach, use two riders plus
coach, with banners on sides sell-
ing your show.

ORPHANAGE SHOW

Three men on horseback ride to
local school or orphanage where
they put on a lassoing or riding
demonstration for the kids. Copy
attached to saddles sells the “Bad
Men of Missouri—Robin Hoods of
the West” angle. Each “Bad Man”
“kidnaps” one youngster and
takes him to theatre on horseback.
If a larger contingent can be
brought so much the better. Stunt
should be played for news breaks
and pictures.

BANK PROMOTIONS

Contact your local banks for
window displays and newspaper
ads that feature comparisons be-
tween the old-time lawless West
and modern burglar-proof safe
deposit vaults. Windows sell line,
“Bad Men of Missouri—Stay Out!
Modern protection keeps ‘Bad
Men’ away from your valuables.”
Also, don’t overlook the possibili-
ties of tie-in copy in the many
pamphlets put out by banks.

TIE-UP STILLS

Set of 12 tie-up stills, ready
for planting with your mer-
chants for counter and win-
dow displays. Order “BM Tie- |
up Stills”—12 for $1, 10c indi-
vidually — from Campaign
Plan Editor.

DENNIS MORGAN
Kirsten Pipe
Byer-Rolnick Hat
R.C.A. Personal Radio

WAYNE MORRIS
Sun glasses
Sport Shop WM Pub A 287
Sport Shop WM Pub A 335

JANE WYMAN
Gruen Watch
Parfums Charbert
Harlequin Sun Glasses...
Lucien Lelong JW Pub A 608
De Vilbiss Atomizers JW Pub A 618

R.C.A. Personal Radio RCA 58

TWO FOTO-ACTION FEATURES ..

2 5-COL. SUNDAY FEATURE

(OPPOSITE PAGE) Compact, exciting—just right
for newspaper's Sunday section, mail editions
and picture pages. Also makes a swell tabloid
throwaway or window strip. Art and type avail-

(BELOW) The fast action, rousing excitement of
“Bad Men of Missouri” is thrillingly told in this
story strip. Newspaper plugs it in advance as

“Movie of the Week.” Available on one mat.

able on mat. It's a topnotch campaign aid.

[ FIRST DAY ]

MOVIE-OF-THE-WEEK ~

The three Younger brothers,
Cole (Dennis Morgan), Bob
(Wayne Morris) and Jim (Ar-
thur Kennedy) come home to
Missouri as the Confederate
army disbands at the close of
the Civil War. They are glad
to be finished with war, anx-
ious to get back to the farm.
Cole and Jim are also anx-
ious to get back to their girls
Martha (Faye Emerson) and
Mary (Jane Wyman). But on
their way they meet a covered
wagon train of their former
neighbors, driven from their
farms by carpet-baggers. Cole
sees Martha, but only long
enough to say farewell to her
before she dies. Now go on

with the story. es od

[ SECOND DAY ]

The three Younger brothers,
Cole (Dennis Morgan), Bob
(Wayne Morris) and Jim (Ar-
thur Kennedy) come home to
Missouri at the end of the
Civil War. There they find that
Banker Merrick (Victor Jory),
a carpet-bagger, has bought
up the tax warrants for most
of the farms in the neighbor-
hood, and as the farmers have
nothing but Confederate
money to pay them with, they
are being driven from their
homes. Hank Younger, their
father, is killed when he tries
to hold out against Merrick
and the Younger farm is
burned. Wanted for the mur-
der of one of Merrick’s men,
the three boys become fugi-
tives, turn to a life of banditry.
Now go on with the story. a

[ THIRD DAY ]

Cole (Dennis Morgan), Bob
(Wayne Morris) and Jim (Ar-
thur Kennedy) come home to
Missouri at the close of the
Civil War to learn that a car-
pet-bagging banker has turned
most of their neighbors out of
their homes by buying up the
tax warrants on their farms.
Their own father is killed in
defending his home and they
are accused of murdering one
of the sheriff's men. The three
brothers turn outlaws, robbing
and plundering the carpet-
baggers and turning the
money over to the farmers so
that they can pay their taxes.
With the James brothers, they
become hunted criminals, but
to the farmers of Missouri they
are true Robin Hoods. Now go

on with the story. sencnrcncele

“BAD MEN OF MISSOURI”

A Warner Bros. Picture

Starring Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris,
Qo Arthur Kennedy and Jane Wyman...
Opening Friday at the Strand.

At their farm they find their father, still holding out against Banker
Merrick (Victor Jory), who has gained control of all the farms in the
neighborhood by buying up the tax warrants. Just after their arrival,
Merrick’s hirelings, headed by the sheriff, come to take over the farm.

The Younger’s put up a stiff fight, but the father is shot, and Merrick’s
men finish the job by rolling a flaming hayrick into the house. Learning
that they are wanted for the murder of one of the sheriff's men, the
three boys flee, begin a life of banditry.

[ Pick Up Heading From First Day ]

Not criminals at heart, the three brothers stage daring hold-ups, but
give all the money to the farmers of the neighborhood so that they can
hold on to their farms and foil Merrick’s plan to get control of all the
land. Then Jim gives himself up to Merrick in order to save Mary (Jane

Wyman), who has been arrested for “aiding a criminal.” By a clever
ruse, however, his brothers get him out of jail. They join up with Jesse
James (Alan Baxter) and their combined forces terrorize the country-
side as they plunder and rob with complete lawlessness.

[ Pick Up Heading From First Day ]

So daring do their escapades become that no bank, stage coach or
train is safe from their plundering. Mary (Jane Wyman) begs Jim to get
out, but she knows as well as he that it is far too late, and in her heart
she cannot condemn him because she knows that he and the others

have done more good than harm with their banditry. Inevitably, as
they ride forth one day, they are trapped by a posse, and taken to
prison. But the people of Missouri do not forget their outlaw heroes and
there is hope of eventual pardon for the three.

—

REE 4 -I¥*Q ars

NE of Missouri’s lesser-
O known claims to fame at

last receives widespread
circulation in the new picture,
“Bad Men of Missouri,” star-
ring Wayne Morris, Dennis
Morgan, Arthur Kennedy and
Jane Wyman.

Before this, the state’s fame,
as far as the outside world is
concerned, was limited to the
facts that it is inhabited by a
slightly incredulous folk who
believe nothing unless they are
“shown” and the place where
the world’s best mules are bred.

But when the projection ma-
chines unreel the story of Cass
County’s Younger brothers in
the movie houses of the nation,
the word goes out that it was
Missouri which gave birth to
America’s counterpart of Eng-
land’s famed Robin Hood, who
stole from the rich to give to
the poor.

The only difference is that
Missouri wasn’t content with one
Robin Hood but gave the coun-
try his two brothers as well.

The story of Cole Younger
and his two brothers lay pretty
dormant in the years since the
Eighties of the last century,
when the Youngers defied law
and authority to aid the harried
and oppressed farmers of Mis-
souri who were being bled white
by unscrupulous bankers and
carpetbagging politicians.

Jesse James and his brother
Frank, as a matter of fact, got
their start with the Younger
brothers and in many ways
their fame has surpassed that
of their mentors’. History has
been less than just, because
whatever their crimes and de-

predations, the Younger broth-
ers never stole for reasons of
personal gain. The James boys
branched out. a bit, but the
Younger lads all went to prison
because, for all the millions
they took from the Mid-West’s
banks, they never kept a penny
for themselves.

These and many other facts
have been unearthed by an alert
Research Department at War-
ner Bros. You have to go back
to “Gone With the Wind” to
find such meticulous attention
to. historical detail as has been
lavished on “Bad Men of Mis-
souri” by the Burbank studio.

Mrs. Pearl May Kerns, last
surviving relative of Cole
Younger, was the only person
to respond to a nation-wide call
for descendants to act as tech-
nical advisers. By the time the
picture was finished shooting,
Mrs. Kerns declared that she
had learned more about her
notorious ancestors than she
had known herself.

She learned for the first time,
for example, that Missouri’s
prisons fifty years ago were
model establishments as far as
the prisoners were concerned
and it was a pretty ungrateful
wretch who tried to bust the
clink. True, there were no base-
ball teams or glee clubs, but the
jailers in those days were the
prisoners’ friends, running all
errands for incarcerated pals—
from fetching tobacco to rush-
ing the growler. The beds in
Missouri’s jails at the time were
also provided with feather tick-
ing for the felons’ sleeping
pleasure, which is a lot more
than the lads get today.

When the Warners started
casting for “Bad Men of Mis-
souri” they had to find stars for
the Younger brothers’ parts
who were hard-ridin’ and
straight-shootin’. They had no

de Missouri Great!

Younger Brothers, Bandit-Heroes of Post Civil War West
Live Again in Roaring Action Picture Coming to Strand

trouble filling the first half of
the bill but it took a little
schooling to round out the stars’
education. Dennis Morgan and
Wayne Morris are both known
around Holywood as two of the
more able and daring poloists
and newcomer Arthur Kennedy
can jump a saddle mount with
the best of them. So there was
no trouble as far as the horse-
manship went. But the old-
fashioned firearms were an-
other matter.

When the boys were first pre-
sented with the midget cannon
which another generation knew
as the Colt six-shooter or the
45, Morris, Morgan and Ken-
nedy handled the iron with the
ease of a five-year-old trying to
lift the parlor piano. Warners

(Above) They out-rode the Daltons ... they out-shot the James
boys! Dennis Morgan, Arthur Kennedy and Wayne Morris as the
Younger brothers, outlaw-heroes of Missouri, in the bullet-splashed

had to hire an expert to show
the boys what to do with the
ancient firearms. By the time
the picture was over, however,
the stars were able to twirl,
toss and draw their gats like
experts.

But for all their gun-toting
proclivities, it was the conten-
tion of Cole Younger that he
and his brothers never caused
the violent death of anyone,

Crack shots though the three Younger brothers were, their
six-shooters were used only in self-defense, and they are
said never to have wilfully caused the death of anyone.

(Left) Morgan and Faye
Emerson in one of the
tenderer moments of the
film, “Bad Men of Mis-
souri’.

friend or foe. The only possible
plot on the family escutcheon
was the time they captured two
gentlemen who tried to lure
them into a trap in which two
hired killers waited to get the
Youngers. The brothers dressed
the gentlemen in their clothes
and permitted the killers to
assassinate their own employ-
ers.

The law finally caught up
with the Younger brothers
when they were double-crossed
in holding up a Northfield, Min-
nesota, bank and were badly
shot up. Bob Younger was so
seriously wounded that the
brothers had to make a choice
between remaining by him or
escaping with the James boys.
They chose to remain by Bob
and finally, starved and _ sur-
rounded, they surrendered to
the Minnesota authorities.

“Bad Men of Missouri’ fol-
lows the story of the Youngers
with scrupulous care but it ends
with their capture. Bob Young-
er never recovered from his
wounds and the long days of

picture, “Bad Men of Missouri”.

exposure when the _ brothers
were hiding out. He lived on in
prison, a semi-invalid, for six-
teen years before he died. Jim
Younger was. paroled after
twenty years and he found
Mary Hathaway, played by
Jane Wyman in the film, still
waiting for him. Declared
legally dead, however, because
of his life-term, he was not per-
mitted to marry her. This, after
two decades of waiting, drove
him mad and he took his own
life.

Only Cole Younger, eldest of
the brothers, was able to lead

a normal life after he had
served twenty-five years in
prison. Paroled in 1902 and

granted a full pardon a year
later, Cole Younger returned
to Lee’s Summit, Missouri, a
quiet, studious, old man who
spent his days reading the
Bible and writing little pieces
which urged the youth of his
day to cleave to the straight and
narrow and abjure the careers
of Jesse James and _ Cole
Younger.

When he died in 1916, Jack-
son County gave him the big-
gest funeral in its history, a
congressman read the eulogy
and the Governor of Missouri
commended his life out of jail
as useful and a model to young
people. His death twenty-five
years ago marked the end of
the American Robin Hood.

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Directed by RAY ENRIGHT

Screen Play by Charles Grayson; From a story by
Robert E. Kent; Director of Photography, Arthur
Todd, A.S.C.; Dialogue Director, Robert Foulk;
Film Editor, Clarence Kolster; Art Director, Ted
Smith; Sound by Stanley Jones; Technical Ad-
visor, Pearl May Kearns; Makeup Artist, Perc
Westmore; Gowns by Milo Anderson.

(Not For Publication): The Younger brothers,
Cole (Dennis Morgan), Bob (Wayne Morris) and
Jim (Arthur Kennedy), return to Missouri after the
Civil War and set out to avenge the misdeeds of
William Merrick (Victor Jory), a skinflint banker.
Merrick has been buying up tax warrants and
dispossessing farmers. The Younger boys’ father
has been killed by one of the Merrick hoodlums
and then a murder rap planted on Cole. The boys
flee and launch a campaign of bank and train
robbery, chiefly stealing from Merrick, and turn
the money over to the farmers, who thereby save
their farms. Jim, in love with Mary Hathaway
(Jane Wyman), is lured into Harrisonville and
jailed, but Cole and Bob rescue him. Eventually,
they are captured by a posse. The people of Mis-
souri work for their pardon.

(Running Time—74 min.)

@ LEAD STORIES ®

‘Bad Men of Missouri’ Thrilling
Saga of West's Bandit-Heroes

The colorful story of the
Younger brothers in their daring
escapades throughout the Old
West is vividly told in the War-
ner Bros.’ exciting film succes-
sor to that studio’s ‘Dodge
City” and “Santa Fe Trail,”
“Bad Men of Missouri,” which
opens at the Strand Friday.

The Younger brothers were
one of the toughest trio of ban-
dits in America’s turbulent his-
tory. They robbed banks, trains
and stagecoaches with a daring
that was unbelievable, taking
the law into their own hands to
avenge the wrongs done their
neighbors by an_ avaricious
power-grasping banker.

Dennis Morgan, Wayne Morris
and Arthur Kennedy play the
parts of the Robin Hood type
desperadoes and from advance
reports we hear that they are
perfectly cast as the three em-
bittered boys who return from
the Civil War only to find their
father murdered and their home
and the homes of most of their
neighbors in the hands of the
local banker. Jane Wyman plays
the role of a girl who loves Jim
Younger, Arthur Kennedy’s
part, and tries to dissuade him
from becoming a criminal. But
he and his brothers are de-
termined to avenge their father’s
death.

Train, bank, stagecoach fall
prey to the calculating minds
of the Younger brothers. Their
names become synonymous with
danger. Town after town ex-
periences their grim visits. No
sheriff — no posse can trap
them .. . their escapes become
more clever... more daring. But
suddenly the end of their law-

Still BM 365; Mat 205—30c

MISSOURI'S OUTLAW HEROES—Dennis Morgan, Arthur Kennedy
and Wayne Morris as the Younger brothers, daring outlaws who wrote
history with their blazing guns. Their bullet-splashed story is told in

“Bad Men of Missouri” opening at the Strand on Friday.

less career comes in a com-
pletely surprising manner. The
Younger brothers used their loot
only to help the neighboring
farmers keep their farms. For
this they become famous as the
Robin Hood bandits. Theirs is
the strangest story in the action-

packed history of the West.

Besides a brilliant leading cast
and authenticity in story, “Bad
Men of Missouri” has a support-
ing cast which features such
fine performers as Victor Jory,
Alan Baxter, Walter Catlett,
and Sam McDaniel.

‘Bad Men of Missouri
Opens at Strand Friday

The Strand Theatre’s new pic-
ture opening Friday will be
“Bad Men of Missouri,” a rip-
roaring saga of pioneer times,
with Dennis Morgan playing the
lead as Cole Younger, chieftain
of the notorious. gang of bank
and train robbers: that terrior-
ized Missouri, lowa.and Kansas
immediately after the Civil War.

Playing with Morgan are
Wayne Morris as Bob Younger,

Arthur Kennedy as Jim Young-:

er, Jane Wyman as Mary Hatha-
way, Victor Jory as Banker
William Merrick and Sam Mc-
Daniel as the servant, Wash.

The story picks up the Young-
er brothers as they leave the
defeated Confederate army in

1865, shows them receiving word
of Abraham Lincoln’s assassina-
tion and takes them back to their
home in time to discover that
their father is being dispossessed
by Banker Merrick who has
claimed the homestead through
purchase of tax warrants. He
is attempting in this manner to
get control of nearly all of Mis-
souri, dispossessing the rightful
owners of the farm lands.

In an altercation over the dis-
possession, the elder Younger
is killed and Cole Younger is
charged with having slain the
sheriff who had come to serve
the dispossess warrant. From
this beginning grows _ their
career of outlawry.

Dennis Morgan Heads
Cast of Strand Film

“Bad Men of Missouri,” War-
ner Bros. rip-roaring successor
to “Santa Fe Trail” and “Dodge
City,” will be this week’s new-
comer at the Strand Theatre,
where it opens on Friday. The
large cast is headed by Dennis
Morgan, Wayne Morris, Arthur
Kennedy and Jane Wyman, and
includes such well-known play-
ers as Alan Baxter, Victor
Jory, Walter Catlett and Sam
McDaniel.

Ray Enright directed the
film which deals with the excit-
ing real-life story of the three
Younger brothers, Missouri’s
bandit-heroes of post-Civil War
days. Morgan, Morris and Ken-
nedy play the three brothers,
famous in Missouri’s history as
Robin Hoods of the West.

"BAD MEN OF MISSOURI"—PUBLICITY

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Action and Adventure Thrill-Riddled Film
In ‘Bad Men of Missouri

Three train robberies, two

bank robberies, one stage coach ©

robbery, an escape from a sher-
iff’s trap and a jail break com-
prise some of the action in War-
ner Bros. 1941 successer to
“Dodge City’, “Bad Men of
Missouri,” starring Dennis Mor-
gan and Jane Wyman, yet the
“bad men” commit no _ single
homicide in the picture which
opens Friday at the Strand.

Well, hardly any homicide.

There comes a time when a
man, or several men, playing
around with firearms with var-
ious agitated citizens located at
the business end of them, are
likely to wind up discontinuing
someone. The law of averages
is certain to take care of that
and this is the case with the
notorious Younger brothers and
their Robin Hood activities.

In one sequence, Jim Younger
(Arthur Kennedy) has witlessly
managed to get himself jailed
because of his overweening love
for Mary Hathaway (Jane Wy-
man). Cole Younger (Morgan)
and Bob Younger (Wayne Mor-
ris) go to the rescue of their
brother. They are tricked by
one Pettibone, the sycophant of
Banker Merrick (Victor Jory)
into pretending to surrender to
obtain Jim’s liberty.

They wear long dusters, but-
toned up over their arms, ob-
viously to make it impossible
for them to exercise any of their
skill with firearms. They are per-
mitted to enter the jail, accord-
ing to the nefarious plan of the
dastardly sheriff and the schem-
ing Merrick, while hired assas-
sins wait in concealment across
the street. When they leave the
jail, in their long dusters, their
arms buttoned down under the
jackets, they are to be slaugh-
tered.

They duly enter the jail, but
ahead of schedule. They bring
their dusters with them. They
liberate Jim and wait for the
sheriff and Merrick. When these
gracious murderers arrive, they
attire them in the dusters and
shove them out the door of the
jail into the gathering gloam-
ing. The assassins, a little un-
able to distinguish features
through the gloom, riddle the
pair with bullets. In the ensu-

ing excitement all three of the
Youngers escape, but not their
would-be assassins, the banker

tand the sheriff. For them, it is

a quick death, as they walk into
their own..trap.

‘According to the claims of
Cole Younger, leader of the
three bank robber-Robin Hoods,
this is the only instance in their
eleven year career as law break-
ers that they caused the death
of anyone, friend or enemy.

“Bad Men of Missouri” was
directed by Ray Enright, from
the action-packed script by
Charles Grayson. adapted from
the story by Robert E. Kent.

Morris and Kennedy
Brothers in Film,
Astrological Twins

It’s a small world, after all.
Wayne Morris and Arthur Ken-
nedy playing brothers in War-
ner Bros.’ “Bad Men of Mis-
souri” discovered that they had
been born on the same date.

They celebrate February 17th.

Then they checked further,
and found that both had been
born on February 17, 1914.

“Hey, what time of day were
you born?” Morris asked Ken-
nedy.

“They used to kid me about
that,” was the reply. “It was
twelve, noon.”

“Then we wern’t being born
at the same time, anyway,” Mor-
ris observed. “I wasn’t born

until 3 P.M.”
That ended that until Dennis
Morgan, who plays another

brother in the film, happened to
think of time differences. He
called that to the attention of
Messrs. Morris and Kennedy.
Kennedy, born in Worcester,
Mass., at 12 noon, probably let
out his first howl of protest just
about the same instant that
Morris, born at 3 P.M. in Los
Angeles, was voicing his!

Still BM-80 ; Mat 203—30c
HOLD-UP! By might they take what is theirs by right! Arthur Kennedy
and Dennis Morgan hold up Victor Jory and his crew of scoundrels to
get back money wrested from Missouri's farmers, in “Bad Men of
’ Missouri” currently showing at the Strand.

e OPENING DAY e

Saga of the West
At Strand Today

The rugged and rip-roaring
West of the post Civil War era
with all its gun-play and horse-
play is the dramatic setting of
Warner Bros.’ new film, “Bad
Men of Missouri,’ which opens
today at the Strand Theatre.
Those were the days when the
returning soldiers found their
homes and farms taken over by
skinflint, fraudulent bankers who
had taken advantage of the
average person’s ignorance of
finance. It was they who were
responsible for breeding the law-
lessness which spawned the
James brothers, the Daltons and
those bad men of Missouri, the
Younger brothers.

It is the story of the Younger
brothers and their exciting esca-
pades that is depicted in this
latest of Warner action films,

Still BM Pub.-A15; Mat 106—15c
ROBIN HOOD OF THE WEST—
Dennis Morgan as Cole Younger
in “Bad Men of Missouri”.

a worthy successor to “Dodge
City” and Santa Fe Trail.” Den-
nis Morgan, Wayne Morris and
Arthur Kennedy are cast in the
roles of the Younger brothers,
the most carefree, gun-toting
trio to have blazed its name in
the adventurous history of the
Old West. Pert Jane Wyman
supplies the romance as the girl
friend of Jim Younger (Arthur
Kennedy).

The Younger brothers return
from the Civil War to find that
their father had been killed
during an attempt to dispossess
him by a banker, played by Vic-
tor Jory. They also find that
this same action of taking over
homes had been going on among
all the neighboring farmers. Em-
bittered, they set out upon a
career of bank and train rob-
bing with the intention of reim-
bursing the farmers. Because
of this they became known as
the Robin Hood bandits.

So clever and so daring were
their deeds that no sheriff or
posse could bring them to bay.
The sudden and climactic end of
their reign is the strangest story
in all of the bullet-splashed
saga of the West.

“Bad Men of Missouri” has a
supporting cast that is made up
of Alan Baxter, Sam McDaniel
and many more noted players.

Still BM-44; Mat 201—30c
TIME OUT FOR ROMANCE—Even hard-riding, straight-shooting ban-
dits of the old West took time out for the girls, as Wayne Morris and
Dennis Morgan prove to pretty Jane Wyman in “Bad Men of Missouri”.

e PREPARED REVIEW e

‘Bad Men of Missouri’
Lusty, Colorful Film

The studio that produced
“Dodge City,” “Virginia City”
and “Santa Fe Trail,” has now
added a new and exciting film to
that impressive roster. More in-
tense than any of those three
pictures, Warner Bros.’ “Bad
Men of Missouri,” which had its
first local showing at the Strand
Theatre last night, kept the
audience thrilled throughout the
entire showing.

Dramatic excitement is the
keynote of this. film which tells
the story of the terrible, yet
benevolent, Younger brothers,
who burned the trails of the west
during the 1870’s. It is a bullet-
splashed saga of America’s un-
tamed frontier, and of the bad
men who made Missouri great.

The bandit brothers are realis-
tically portrayed by Dennis Mor-
gan, Wayne Morris and Arthur
Kennedy. Authentic in dress,
speech and manerisms, these
men actually make the Younger
brothers live again. They are
a tough trio, staging holdup
after holdup, robbing train, bank
and stagecoach with a careless
abandon that made even the
James brothers seem mild by
comparison with the Youngers.

They were loved as well as
feared, for all their loot went
to the neighboring farmers to
help them to keep their farms
from the banker. For this, they
soon earned the name of “The
Robin Hoods of the West.”

Pretty, vivacious Jane Wyman
gives a grand performance as
a girl who falls in love with
Jim Younger, played by Arthur
Kennedy, and pleads with him
to give up living as a hunted
desperado. The sudden and dra-
matic end of the escapades of the
Younger brothers is one of the
strangest tales in the history
of western banditry, and the ele-
ment of its surprise is made
highly effective at the climax.

The supporting cast, made up
of Victor Jory, Alan Baxter,
Walter Catlett, Sam McDaniel
and other screen favorites, all
give fine portrayals and lend
to the genuine western atmos-
phere of the lusty, colorful filn.

Director Ray Enright did a
masterful job in playing up the
thrills, suspense and tender. ro-
mance that highlight the story.
The rapid-paced scenario was
written by Charles Grayson from
a story by Robert E. Kent.

@ STAR FEATURE ®

Glamor Boy Morgan Goes Western!

Dennis Morgan, newest film
glamour boy, who sent feminine
hearts spinning with his ‘Kitty
Foyle” performances, has the
lead in “Bad Men of Missouri,”
in which he plays the part of a
true heavy, a harder-than-nails,
quick-on-the-trigger bank rob-
ber and general desperado. Only
briefly does romance enter this
earthy Robin Hood’s life and
then he passes it off with the
iron inflexibility that is appro-
priate to the character.

Morgan has scored already as
a romantic lead. His face, phy-
sique, his easy, genuine smile,
his musical, persuasive voice
had fitted him perfectly for the
role of a heart-wrecker.

Morgan welcomed the oppor-
tunity to play the Western role.

He didn’t want to be cast as a
perpetual juvenile. He wanted,
first, to be a singer. When he
was proved too fine an actor to
leave in music, Warners put
him in romantic roles and saw
him play them to the hilt. When
he was told he was to have a
chance to run the gamut, he
kicked his professional heels to-
gether and sounded off:

“Give me the beaver and the
sombrero, hand me down my
six-shooters. If I’m going to be
an actor, I’m going to be an
actor, not a photograph.”

“Bad Men of Missouri” proves
conclusively that Morgan is an
actor. Strand Theatre audiences
have acclaimed his performance
as Cole Younger, bandit-hero of

the post-Civil War West.

"BAD MEN OF MISSOURI"—PUBLICITY

Still BM-91; Mat 202—30c
OUTSIDE THE LAW—Dennis Morgan (center) calls a confab of his
bandit band, in “Bad Men of Missouri”, the lusty saga of the notorious

outlaw-heroes who made Missouri great.

Prentice, Wisconsin

DENNIS MORGAN ..
fell a tree with equal ability . .

. can sing, act or

. was born in

. . . became interested in
acting and singing during his highschool days
. after college got job as singer and an-
nouncer on local radio station .
sixty consecutive one-night-stand performances
of “Faust” ... played “stock” and vaudeville
. . became acquainted with Mary Garden,
who arranged a screen test which brought
him a Warner contract . .
scored hits in “Three Cheers for the Irish,”

. once played

. since then has

“River’s End,” ‘Kitty Foyle” and “Affection-

Mat 103—15c

ately Yours”.

WAYNE MORRIS ... is a native son of
California . . . full name was Bert De Wayne
Morris . . . shortened .it for brevity .
gan theatrical career at the Pasadena Com-
munity Playhouse where he acted in many
famous plays ... was signed by Warner Bros.
and shortly won praise for his performance
in “Kid Galahad” .. . has travelled consider-
ably . ..is an ardent sports fan and athlete

. . is six feet two inches tall... weighs 190
lbs. . . . is featured in the role of one of the
“Younger Brothers” in Warner’s saga of the
Old West, “Bad Men of Missouri,” currently
showing at the Strand.

JANE WYMAN ..
Folks . .
name again
Reagan .
Maureen...

manicurist,

movies ..

five inches tall ...

Mat 104—15c

“Bad Men of Missouri.”

ARTHUR KENNEDY started his
career as a Shakespearean actor .. . has
worked with Maurice Evans, Ethel Barrymore
and Guthrie McClintic . . . attended Carnegie
Tech Drama School . . . was associated with
the Group Theatre in New York ... came
to Hollywood where he became an immediate
success with his portrayal of Cagney’s brother
in Warner Bros.’ “City for Conquest” .
followed that by a brilliant performance as a
prize fighter in “Knockout” for the same studio
. .. now appearing as one of the Younger
brothers in “Bad Men of Missouri,’ Warner’s
latest adventure film, now at the Strand.

OPO ca

switchboard operator,
model, and blues singer before hitting the
. likes to write . .
ability when two of her stories appeared in
a nationally famous magazine .
weighs 118 lbs. .
brown eyes and blonde hair. .
romantic interest in Warner Bros.’ current film,

.. currently starring in Warner
Bros.’ “Bad Men of Missouri.”

Mat 105—15c

. was born Sarah Jane
. not so long ago she changed her

. this time to Mrs. Ronald
they have a baby girl named
.. got her first film break in War-
ner’s ‘Mr. Dodd Takes the Air” .

. . had been
secretary,

. proved her
. . Is five feet

aes
. supplies the

Mat 102—15c

Hold Your Hats, Boys!

Movie-goers stand a_ good
chance of being shocked at the
bad manners of Cole, Bob and
Jim Younger, the gentlemen

bandits played by Dennis Mor-
gan, Wayne Morris and Arthur
Kennedy

in the new picture,
“Bad Men of Missouri.” In-
doors and out, in the presence
of ladies and out, they keep
their hats on.

It’s authentic, however. In
those days in the restless, post-
Civil War Middle West you
had no time, when the enemy
showed up, to put your hat on
before you drew. The only time
it came off in waking hours was
when someone shot you out
from under it.

Retort Courteous

Arthur Kennedy was discuss-
ing a friend who’d been drafted,
as the cast of “Bad Men of
Missouri” exchanged small talks
between takes. ‘‘He went to
Texas in the flying branch,”
Arthur said, “but they’re send-
ing him back in the mechanized
cavalry services.”

“He’ll probably arrive,” said
Wayne Morris, “marked ‘Re-
turned with Tanks.’ ”

No Hard Feelings

One of the banks robbed by
the Younger brothers, Robin
Hood bandits of the Middle
West, seventy-odd years ago,
has asked Warner Bros. for
certain Cole Younger souvenirs
used in a picture the studio has
just filmed, “Bad Men of Mis-
souri.” The institution that once
contributed to a “dead or alive”
fund for Cole Younger’s cap-
ture wants to display in its win-
dows old photographs, part of a
Confederate army uniform and
an old Colt revolver, all one-
time property of the bandit.

Still BM-31; Mat 101—15c

JANE WYMAN and ARTHUR KEN-
NEDY carry the romantic interest
in “Bad Men of Missouri.”

She’s From Missouri!

Jane Wyman, feminine lead
in Warners’ “Bad Men of Mis-
souri,” in which she plays Mary
Hathaway, feels right at home
in her part, since she comes
from a few miles from Harrison-
ville, seat of the Younger Broth-
ers’ activities.

In her girlhood Jane, she
readily admits, was a tomboy.
She played “cops and robbers”
rather than fool with dolls and
dishes and she always managed
to be Jesse James or Cole
Younger, in every game.

GUNS THAT WROTE HISTORY—Wayne Morris, Dennis Morgan, and
Arthur Kennedy as the famous Younger brothers, bandit-heroes of

Still BM 376; Mat 204—30c

pioneer days, in the Strand’s current action hit. “Bad Men of Missouri”.

@ CURRENT FEATURES e

Old West Lives Again
In ‘Bad Men of Missouri

One of the biggest collections
of props ever gatherec on an
indoor set in Warner Bros.’ his-
tory was used in “Bad Men of
Missouri,” starring Dennis Mor-
gan, Wayne Morris, Arthur
Kennedy and Jane Wyman, and
currently showing at the Strand.

On the gigantic Stage 22 have
been accumulated nine covered
wagons, of the full-sized, prairie
schooner type, fifteen horses,
more than a thousand pieces of
saddlery and _ harness _ equip-
ment and five thousanc pieces of
atmosphere equipment.

The covered wagons are au-
thentic and can be and are used
on outdoor shots. The saddle and
harness equipment conform to
the period depicted, 1865 to
1867, and the barrels, kegs,
spades, farm implements, tents,
coil lanterns, storm candlesticks,
tallow lamps, wooden pails, fir-
kins and tubs likewise conform.

There are more than fifty
canvas covered canteens of the
period, guns actually used in
the Civil War, similar swords
and small firearms, axes, picks,
campfire utensils, light tripods
and bootjacks. There are au-
thentic old crazy quilts and Civil
War type bedding.

The kegs and barrels used are
all wooden-hooped and so are
the many buckets. Washtubs

of the era are similarly hooped
and even the type of soap used
in the shots has been made up
to resemble that peculiarly gray-
ish yellow material that ruined
the hands of good farmwives
of the day.

Even the staff, technicians and
all, got into the spirit of the
thing, an enthusiasm climaxed
when script girl Virginia Moore
appeared on the set wearing high
heeled fatigue boots of the time,
a pair of Civil War dungarees,
a genuine Missouri hickory shirt
and a Confederate hat.

Children in the shots, of whom
there have been nine, wore the
colorful calico of the period.
Bright reds, blues and purples
were popular for the_ kids’
dresses and shirts, while the
women kept in the mood of the
thing with similarly gay calicos,
voiles and even muslins.

The set and its equipment are
a tribute to the ingenuity of
the movie prop business and
form an olio that might well
be preserved by oil and canvas
as a true representation of the
customs, attire and equipment
of the farm people of the day.
Some of the stills taken by still
man Johnny Ellis prompted one
visitor to compare the general
panorama to a Benton painting
of the post-rebellion era.

A Rootin’, Tootin’ Broadway Cowboy!

Films have shattered Arthur
Kennedy’s_ stage-born concep-
tions of the acting profession,
the youthful former Shakespear-
jan actor disclosed in a recent
interview.

“It’s just as important in this
business for an actor to ride a
horse satisfactorily, if the script
calls for that, as to be able to
act,” he remarks. “I can see the
logic of it, and the necessity.

“But it jars a fellow’s pre-
conceived, high-and-mighty no-
tions of acting Art with a capi-
tal A.”

While talking, he was demons-
trating — and practicing — an
art he has had to master for
use in Warner Bros.’ film “Bad
Men of Missouri,” a lusty, color-
ful saga of west, which is cur-
rently showing at the Strand.

That art (with a small a)
was twirling a big Colt six gun,
and skillfully slapping it back
into his holster without using
both hands, or fumbling, or
groping. Among the other little
“tricks of the trade” he had to
pick up for his role were real
Western riding, rolling ciga-
rettes from the “makings,” and
riding a steer.

“You might say, it broadens
one’s life. If I had been on the
stage all the time, I might never
have learned what it was to take’
a real punch on the jaw or to
throw one. I suppose that sooner
or later, I’d have shot a blank
off, though!” _

In “Bad Men of Missouri,’
Kennedy is starred with’ Dennis
Morgan, Wayne Morris and
Jane Wyman.

Heres AD-ACTION’

ADVENTURE CHARGES ACROSS
THE SCREEN TO BRING YOU
THE LUSTY SAGA OF THE
DARING OUTLAWS WHO WROTE
HISTORY WITH THEIR

BLAZING GUNS! 4

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out-shoot the
James Boys,
out-ride the
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Directed by RAY ENRIGHT

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THE ROARING EPIC
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WHO MADE
MISSOURI GREAT! |

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All the thrills
of ‘DODGE CITY’
and
1 ‘SANTA FE TRAIL
— and more!

A WARNER BROS. HIT, with
Dennis MORGAN - Jane WYMAN
Wayne MORRIS - Arthur KENNEDY

Directed by RAY ENRIGHT

Screen Play by Charles Grayson * From a Story by
Robert E. Kent * A Warner Bros.-First Nat'l Picture

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MORGAN « WYMAN + MORRIS - KENNEDY
Directed by RAY ENRIGHT ¢ Screen Play by Charles Grayson

From a Story by Robert E. Kent * A Warner Bros.-First National Picture

A WARNER BROS. HIT, with
DENNIS MORGAN
JANE WYMAN
WAYNE MORRIS
ARTHUR KENNEDY

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6 in. (85 lines)—15c

WARNER BROS,
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OFFICIAL BILLING

WARNER BROS. 40%,

Pictures, Inc., Presents 5%

VITAPHONE SHORTS

TECHNICOLOR PRODUCTIONS presents “Here
Comes The Cavalry,” the powerful story of
our cavalry. 6005 — Technicolor Production —

“BAD MEN OF MISSOURI’ ee

SPORTS PARADE shows how “It Happens On
Rollers,” featuring world champion roller
DENNIS JANE skaters. 6409 — Sports Parade — 10 mins.

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MORGAN WYMAN SPORTS PARADE hoists anchor with “Sail Ho”

with

WAYNE

ARTHUR

MORRIS — KENNEDY cats

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SCREEN PLAY BY CHARLES GRAYSON 3%
From a Story by Robert E. Kent 2%

A Warner Bros.-First National Picture 5%

for an exciting and beautiful sailing adventure.
6408 — Sports Parade — 10 mins.

MERRIE MELODIES chases “The Heckling
Hare” through a riot of hilarious “Bugs” Bunny
experiences. 6722 — Merrie Melodies — 7 mins.

LOONEY TUNES says “Meet John Doughboy”
and goes into a satire on the uproarious adven-
tures of conscriptees. 6614 — Looney Tunes
— 7 mins.

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Scanned from the United Artists collection at the
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research,
with support from Richard Koszarski.

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