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  • Though a star with considerable box-office appeal, Powell was known primarily as a pretty-boy singer and dancer in 1930s Warner Bros. musicals — Forty-Second Street, Footlight Parade, Dames, and many others.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • Bebe Daniels is best remembered today for 1933's Forty-Second Street.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

  • When he was a senior at St. Agnes High School back in 1998 he had the leading role in our schools' production of Forty-Second Street.

    St Agnes Has Two (More) Ordinations 2006

  • The analogous question goes something like this: would you respond to Al Capone's mob with Elliot Ness or the Forty-Second Airborne?

    Terrorism and Islam and Our Response 2006

  • Mystery Classic: * The B.cteriological Detective* by Arthur B. Reeve Kennedy was deeply immersed in writing a lecture on the chemical compositions of various bacterial toxins and antitoxins, a thing which was as unfamiliar to me as Kamchatka, but as familiar to Kennedy as B.oadway and Forty-Second Street.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Mainly a bunch of seedy bars on Broadway, then an all-night movie theater on Forty-Second Street.

    The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001

  • Finally ended up in one of those all-night movie houses on Forty-Second Street.

    The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001

  • Mainly a bunch of seedy bars on Broadway, then an all-night movie theater on Forty-Second Street.

    The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001

  • Finally ended up in one of those all-night movie houses on Forty-Second Street.

    The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001

  • From the direction of Forty-Second Street, sirens began to scream.

    Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

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