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25. All the Danville movie stars came back

Mon Jul 13, 2026, 08:51 AM

Yesterday

to fund raise to restore this landmark theater.

Remember Donald O'Connor Francis the talking Mule?

Gene Hackman

Dick Van Dyke

Jerry Van Dyke

https://www.news-gazette.com/news/whatever-happened-to-the-fischer-theatre/article_0a5ee5f6-7908-5df4-b6de-cd344e430e62.html

Almost all of them worked at this theater during high-school.

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