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$250,000 Movie Quiz Contest ... 1938

Sponsored by the Motion Picture Exhibitors, Distributors, and Producers of the U.S. and Canada, the first prize was $50,000.  The rule booklet featured a photo and credits of 94 movies released from July to December, 1938.  Contestants picked up a booklet in any theatre, and answered a question about any 30 of the movies listed.  This very rare booklet is from Loew's State Theatre.  It's a literal time capsule of vintage movies and actors from 1938.    ... Collection Gene Gill

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1951 ... Snow

Frederick Regenold :  "I worked as an usher at the Loew's State the year before Elvis. It was the summer of '47 when "EASY TO WED" with Esther Williams and Van Johnson and "CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA" with Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains and Stewart Granger played there. The manager was right out of a comic book… but not funny. He thought because he was the manager of the Loew's State, he was ruler of the world. My classmate, Fred Dennison, told me about the job. Poor Elvis. No wonder he got fired by that ass.... However, Elvis was reinstated… so maybe the manager got fired." 

Gene Gill:  " The Big Bands of the 40's-50's frequently appeared at Loew's State. For the regular price of the movie, you got a first run film and then a stage show featuring one of the bands - usually when they had a hit record. I remember seeing Vaughn Monroe's show in 1947 when he had a major hit of 'Dance Ballerina Dance' .  And during this same period Louis Prima and Keely Smith appeared with their stage show." 
 

Jo Lynn Yarbrough Smith:  "My Mother took me to Loew's State Theatre for my birthday to see the picture show and Sammy Kaye's Orchestra Show which was also playing. Sammy Kaye invited guests from the audience to lead his band and I was picked. What a thrill for me ... and I led the band to the tune of 'Orange Colored Sky'.  I was presented a baton from Sammy Kaye and a picture of my performance, which I still have to this day."

Eddie Cooper, Memphis:  "Anyone who ever went to the movies at the Loew's State remembers the feeling of royalty as you walked up and up from one landing to the next between walls and ceilings of mirrors. And with all the glass chandeliers. It was a pretty spectacular entrance! It wasn't until many years later that I figured out that all those mirrors were just to make a long tunnel seem wider and shorter. They were really leading us up and over the alley behind Main St. and into the theater which was actually in a building on Second. Those rascals !"

Micki Groom Creamer:  "My Dad was the manager of the Loew's State from 1949 till the mid 1960's, not too sure. As many may know, my Dad did fire Elvis Presley when he was an usher scuffling with another usher in the early 50's, but eventually hired him back. Truly amazing....a kid is an usher and about 5 years later, he is coming back to see himself up on the screen. That was quite a night. My Dad held a private screening for Elvis, his parents, and friend visiting from Hollywood, Nick Adams, and of course the Groom family was there in full force!   I was a candy girl at the Loew's State during my high school years and met my future husband who was an usher at Loew's Palace".