This Day in History: 1940-01-19

Movie fans could chose from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart at the Ramsey Theater or Jack Holt and Patricia Ellis in Fugative at Large at the Strand in Suffern.  If they waited a few days they could catch Dorothy Lamour in “hHer Jungle Love or Gary Cooper in Marco Polo at the Stand or Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in Babes in Arms at the Ramsey the following week or Boris Karloff in “The Man They Could Not Hang”  At the Warner Brothers Garden Theater in Paterson held over for a third full week was Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh in Gone with the Wind.

(Bristow)