Princess Theatre 163 Spring Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 - 1944

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Princess Theatre 163 Spring Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 - 1944

During World War II there was a shortage of live stage productions and the Princess Theatre went back to screening films, mainly Paramount Pictures and a few from Warner Bros. and MGM. The last film to play at the Princess Theatre was Burt Lancaster & Ava Gardner in “The Killers” on 18th April 1947.

Phantom Lady 1944 *

Phantom Lady is a 1944 American film noir from Universal Pictures - directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Franchot Tone, Ella Raines and Alan Curtis. The film was Siodmak’s first Hollywood noir and the first film produced by Joan Harrison, Universal Pictures' earliest female executive, who was associated with Alfred Hitchcock. The film was based on the novel of the same name written by Cornell Woolrich but published under the pseudonym William Irish.

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