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Arizona to Broadway

1933 film by James Tinling

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ4791496 ↗
Source-derived summary

Arizona to Broadway is a 1933 American pre-Code crime romance film directed by James Tinling and starring James Dunn and Joan Bennett. It was made by Fox Film Corporation. The screenplay was written by William M. Conselman and Henry Johnson.

It was reworked ten years later into Jitterbugs, one of Laurel and Hardy's features made at 20th Century Fox in the 1940s.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Arizona to Broadway” as 1933 film by James Tinling. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Arizona, Broadway and film.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1933-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Arizona, Broadway and film providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Arizona to Broadway”, the useful work is to connect “1933 film by James Tinling” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4791496. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1933.

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Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arizona to Broadway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.