Old fans who've always been at the movies

[Monte Davis]

(Haven't we?)

 

Antwerp, 1944:

 

"Nearly twelve hundred seats were filled in the Rex Cinema on bustling
Avenue De Keyser for the Friday afternoon matinee on December 15. [for] a
classic Western: The Plainsman, a Cecil B. De Mille melodrama starring Gary
Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane.

 

"At 3:20 p.m., just after Gary Cooper learned of Custer's death at the
Little Bighorn, a searing white light flashed across the auditorium as a V-2
- unheard and unseen, launched from a new site in Holland - blew through the
roof. Recovery teams ultimately retrieved 567 bodies, more than half of them
Allied soldiers, Navy gun crews,  and merchant mariners..." 

 

Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe,  1944-1945

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