Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Thelma and Lowell's Diary: August 22, 1943

Thelma and Lowell's Diary: August 22, 1943

She sees the anti-Nazi film "Edge of Darkness"

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Thelma and Lowell's Diary: August 22, 1943
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It was a Sunday and Thelma slept late, while Lowell went to work half an hour early. Once she got up, she wrote letters and read until it was time to go to a movie at the National. The film was another anti-Nazi piece, this one set in Norway and starring Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan and Walter Huston. Norway had fallen to Germany in January 1940, prior to …

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