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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
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Bebe Daniels is best remembered today for 1933's Forty-Second Street.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006
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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.
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The analogous question goes something like this: would you respond to Al Capone's mob with Elliot Ness or the Forty-Second Airborne?
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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.
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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
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Finally ended up in one of those all-night movie houses on Forty-Second Street.
The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001
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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
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Finally ended up in one of those all-night movie houses on Forty-Second Street.
The Pursuit of Happiness Douglas Kennedy 2001
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From the direction of Forty-Second Street, sirens began to scream.
Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000
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