Stars stepped up to a microphone to talk to fans lined up along Hollywood Boulevard. Programs for the premiere, which benefitted the Naval Aid Auxiliary, were handed out by actresses Gene Tierney, Linda Darnell, Lynn Bari, and Virginia Gilmore, who played a small but important role in Pride as the blonde vixen who teased Gehrig as a shy Columbia frat boy. Dorothy Lamour, Hope’s co-star in Road to Zanzibar, was also there, as were George Burns, Ava Gardner and Rooney, Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Jack Benny, Fred Astaire, and George Raft. A press release with a quote in Hope’s name and given to Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky called Pride “the kind of a picture that makes a fellow feel good.” Skolsky did not seem to use the spoon-fed rave perhaps Hope did not even speak its words. Bob Hope was there, having already seen Pride thanks to a sneak preview from Goldwyn. A bevy of stars turned out for Pride’s premiere at the Pantages Theatre, an Art Deco movie palace built by the Greek immigrant Alexander Pantages on Hollywood Boulevard.
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