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Dateline 1973 — The golden age of the silver screen
With four new movie houses springing up along the Coast this year, many wish for a revival of the “really great” movies of the ’30s when America’s 50 million moviegoers discovered “Andy Hardy,” Deanna Durbin, “Babes on Broadway,” Gene Autry, “Young Tom Edison,” Shirley Temple, Laurel and Hardy and “Cosmo Topper.” No one was denied admittance because of age or the coarseness of the movie’s dialogue or lack of clothing onscreen. A parent could leave a child at a showing of “Frankenstein” or “King Kong” with no fear whatsoever of any actor emitting a dirty word. Long before the arrival of today’s multi-screen theaters, several of the ’70s-era theaters evaporated.
Retired staff writer Jimmie Bell, whose reporting career at The Daily Herald and The Sun Herald spanned 30 years, researches and compiles the Sun Herald Memory Bank archives. Bell is editor of Bell’s Letters poetry magazine, published in Gulfport. E-mail, jimbelpoet@aol.com.
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