AI: The Portuguese film you are likely thinking of is Aldeia da Roupa Branca (translated as The Village of White Clothes), released in 1938/1939.
Directed by Chianca de Garcia, this comedy-musical is a cornerstone of the “Golden Age” of Portuguese cinema. It is famous for its depiction of traditional rural life and the “washerwomen of Portugal”.
November 24, 1957 Providence Journal.
Caesar is misspelled Ceaser.
Better resolution on this replacement image.
May 20, 1983 opening.
Played in August.
“Les nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg” (1938)
“La fortuna di essere donna,” 1956, Alessandro Blasetti.
Italian neo-realist film with the great Aldo Fabrizi, who was the priest in “Open City.”
Would be shown here a year later dubbed in English. This was in the original German. “Girls in Uniform”
It also had played here in German with subtitles in June, 1933, a year earlier.
An exciting clip (really!) can be found on YouTube.
AI: The Portuguese film you are likely thinking of is Aldeia da Roupa Branca (translated as The Village of White Clothes), released in 1938/1939.
Directed by Chianca de Garcia, this comedy-musical is a cornerstone of the “Golden Age” of Portuguese cinema. It is famous for its depiction of traditional rural life and the “washerwomen of Portugal”.
Got a good review in The Providence Journal.
Got a good review in The Providence Journal.
Providence Journal.
Powell Theatre.
Date?
“Regain,” 1937, Marcel Pagnol, from Jean Giono.
The trolley tracks mean that it is earlier than 1948 or not long after.
It would re-open, but in 1934 it could close, pretty much for good. There would be few and far-between re-attempts to make this a viable theatre.
D.W. Griffith film.
That’s William S. Hart.
I wonder what movie they saw.
Start of trash phase.
I saw “Loves of a Blonde” here. It was the Czech version with English subtitles.