巴巴和美婼看过的电影与戏剧
[All films at Ahmednagar were seen at Sarosh Talkies (Cinema), unless otherwise noted.]
[Baba took the women to 30 or more other films, whose titles are not recorded.]
The Absent-Minded Professor (1961), Fred MacMurray; Poona, 1964 (Liberty
Cinema, 24–29 April; Alaka, 7–14 June), one of the last films Baba saw
Accent on Youth (1935); New Imperial Talkies, Bangalore, 19 March 1936
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland;
Ahmednagar, 14 September 1948
The African Lion (1955); Limaye Talkies, Poona, 7 May 1960 (women);
8 May 1960 (Baba & the mandali)
Africa Screams (1949), Abbott & Costello; Ahmednagar, 10 October 1949
Albuquerque (1948), Randolph Scott; Ahmednagar, 26 January 1949
All About Eve (1950), Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Celeste Holm; Tivoli
Theater, Hyderabad, 14 & 16 July 1951
All This and Heaven Too (1940), Bette Davis, Charles Boyer; Ahmednagar
An Affair to Remember (1957), Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr; Empire Theater,
Bombay, 23 December 1957
Anchors Aweigh (1945), Gene Kelley, Frank Sinatra; Ahmednagar
Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Betty Hutton; Tivoli Theater, Hyderabad,
28 July 1951
Anthony Adverse (1936), Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland; Ahmednagar
Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934), Charles Laughton, Norma Shearer; Oriental
Theater, Hollywood, 2 January 1935
Bathing Beauty (1944), Esther Williams, Red Skelton; Ahmednagar , 6 June 1948
The Beast of the City (1932), Jean Harlow; Cathay Theater, Shanghai,
23 June 1932
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946), Robert Alda, Peter Lorre; Ahmednagar,
6 October 1948, without Baba
A Bedtime Story (1933), Maurice Chevalier; Capitol Theater, Madrid,
27 October 1933
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945), Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman; Mehera saw on
video in Poona
Ben Hur (1959), Charlton Heston; Mehera and women saw it alone at the
West End Cinema in Poona during a Guruprasad stay, prior to 1964
Big City (1937), Spencer Tracy; Ahmednagar, 22 January 1938
The Big Clock (1948), Ray Milland, Maureen O’Sullivan, Charles Laughton;
Ahmednagar, 27 December 1948
The Big House (1930), Wallace Beery; Marseilles, 17 December 1931
Black Angel (1946), Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford; Ahmednagar,
2 January 1948
Black Narcissus (1947), Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons; Ahmednagar,
11 September 1948
The Black Orchid (1958), Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn; Poona, 19 May 1960,
without Baba
Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon; Ahmednagar,
4 September 1948
Boomerang! (1947), Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb; Ahmednagar, 2 September 1948
Boom Town (1940), Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert;
Ahmednagar, 23 January 1949
Born to Dance (1936), Eleanor Powell; Ahmednagar, 1 May 1937
Born Yesterday (1950), Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford;
Dehra Dun, end of February 1953
Bottoms Up (1934), Spencer Tracy; Port Said, 23 November 1934
The Brasher Doubloon (1947); Ahmednagar, 19 December 1948
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944); Ahmednagar
Bring ’Em Back Alive (1932), Frank Buck documentary; Ahmednagar,
11 May 1934
British Intelligence (1940), Boris Karloff; Ahmednagar, 31 July 1941
Broadway Bill (1934); a Frank Capra film, Myrna Loy, William Baxter;
Radio City Music Hall, New York, 12 December 1934
The Broken Arrow (1950), Jimmy Stewart; Tivoli Theater, Hyderabad,
29 September 1951
Buck Rodgers (1939), Buster Crabbe; Capitol Theater, Bombay,
17-21 February 1952
Buzzin’ Around (1933), Fatty Arbuckle; Ahmednagar, 2 Febraury 1934
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger,
directed by Gabriel Pascal; Ahmednagar
Camille (1937), Greta Garbo; Mehera saw in Poona, prior to 1964
Captain Blood (1935), Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland; Ahmednagar
6 April 1934
Captain From Köpenick (1931), produced by Gabriel Pascal; London, prior to
July 1934
Captured! (1933), Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Ahmednagar,
Carolina (1934), Janet Gaynor, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Young; Port Said,
23 November 1934
Casablanca (1942), Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman; Wai, March 1947
Cavalcade (1933), Noel Coward; Ahmednagar, 24 August 1934
Central Park (1932); Ahmednagar, 18 March 1934
Charley’s Aunt (1941), Jack Benny
Cheyenne (1947); Ahmednagar, 12 January 1949
Chocolate Soldier (1941), Nelson Eddy; Ahmednagar, 24 December 1942
A Chump at Oxford (1940), Laurel & Hardy; Ahmednagar, 25 May 1940
A Church Mouse (a play), Gladys George; Liberty Theater, Honolulu,
10 June 1932
Cinderella (1950), Walt Disney cartoon
The Circus (1928), Charlie Chaplin; Mehera saw video in Poona
Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles; Dehra Dun, 24 May 1942
City Lights (1931), Charlie Chaplin; Aubert Palace, Paris, 12 December 1931
The Cohens and the Kellys in … ; Baba saw one of the films at the Capitol Theater
in Madrid, 1933
Come September (1961), Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida; Alaka, Poona,
4–10 June 1965
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939), Edgar G. Robinson; Ahmednagar, 28 July 1941,
(Baba didn’t like it)
Corner Creek (1948), Randolph Scott; Ahmednagar, 11 December 1948
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934); Ahmednagar, 19 September 1948 and
6 November 1948
Courage of Lassie (1946), Elizabeth Taylor; Ahmednagar, 16 January 1949
The Crusades (1935), Loretta Young; Ahmednagar, 3 August 1936
Cry Wolf (1947), Errol Flynn, Barbara Stanwyck; Ahmednagar, 2 January 1948
Daddy Long Legs (1931), Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter; Marble Arch Pavilion,
London, 28 September 1931
Darkest Africa (Batmen of Africa, 1936); Belgaum, 1947
The Dark Mirror (1946), Olivia de Havilland; Ahmednagar, December 1947
David Copperfield (1935), W.C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore
The Dead Don’t Dream (1948), William Boyd; Ahmednagar, 8 June 1949
Dear Ruth (1947), Joan Caulfield, William Holden; Ahmednagar,
24 November 1948 and 2 January 1949
Deception (1946), Bette Davis, Claude Rains; Ahmednagar, 1 December 1947
Deep Waters (a play); Bombay, 19 March 1923
Derby Day (a play); Lyric Hammersmith Theater, London, 11 April 1932
Desert Fury (1947), Burt Lancaster; Ahmednagar, 24 October 1948, without
Baba
Devil and the Deep (1932), Charles Laughton, Gary Cooper, Tallulah Bankhead,
Cary Grant; Baba visited the set during filming, Hollywood, 1932
Dial M For Murder (a play); Westminster Theatre, London, August 1952
Dial M For Murder (1954), an Alfred Hitchcock film with Ray Milland, Grace
Kelly; perhaps West End, Poona, 1–7 May 1964
Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1940), Edward G. Robinson; Ahmednagar,
31 July 1940
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932), Fredric March; Capitol Theater, Singapore,
6 July 1932
Doctor X (1932), Fay Wray; Ahmednagar, 5 August 1934
Doctor Zhivago (1965), Julie Christie, Omar Sharif; Mehera saw at the
Annexe Club, Ahmednagar, 1967
Donald Duck cartoons
Doris Day films; Mehera and the women saw several Doris Day comedies
in Poona, in the ’60s, without Baba
Down to Earth (1947), Rita Hayworth; Ahmednagar, 11 June 1949
Dracula’s Daughter (1936); Ahmednagar, 28 July 1941, (Baba didn’t like it)
The Duke Steps Out (1929), Joan Crawford; Quetta, 30 May 1931
The Early Bird (1965), Norman Wisdom; West End, Poona, 6–12 May 1966
The Egyptian (1954), Edmond Purdom (son of Charles), Victor Mature, Jean
Simmons; Poona,18 May 1960, without Baba
Escapade in Japan (1957) and Rock n’Roll (a short?); Poona, 28 December 1958
Eskimo (1933); Capitol Theater, Bombay, 15 April 1934
The Falcon’s Adventure (1946); Tom Conway; Ahmednagar, December 1947
Fantasia (1940)
Father of the Bride (1950) Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor; Hyderabad, 1951
Flaming Feather (1952); Myrtle Beach drive-in, 30 April 1952
Folly to be Wise (a play); Piccadilly Theater, London, 31 September 1931
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman; Ahmednagar
Frenchman’s Creek (1944), Joan Fontaine, Basil Rathbone; Hyderabad, 1945
Friendly Persuasion (1956), Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins;
Mehera and women saw in Poona, prior to 1964
Funny Girl (1968), Barbara Streisand, Omar Sharif, Walter Pidgeon; Mehera
saw on video in Poona
Gallant Bess (1946); Ahmednagar, 26 June 1948
Gaslight (1944), Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotton, Ingrid Bergman; Dehra Dun,
April 1946 and again at Ahmednagar, 6 August 1948
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1947), Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison; Ahmednagar, 5
February 1949
Gigi (1958), Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier; Mehera saw on video in Poona
Going Hollywood (1933), Marion Davies, Bing Crosby; Cannes, 30 August 1937
(left at intermission)
Golden Earrings (1947), Marlene Dietrich, Ray Milland; Ahmednagar,
26 June 1948
The Gold Rush (1925), Charlie Chaplin; Venice, 19 August 1932; Mehera and
the women also saw, perhaps at Alaka, Poona, 23–29 April 1965
Gone with the Wind (1939), Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de
Havilland; Mehera and women alone saw at Metro Cinema, Bombay,
26 January 1955
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), Peter O’Toole, Petula Clark; Mehera and women
saw on video in Poona
The Good Fairy (a play), Helen Hayes, Walter Connolly; Henry Miller’s
Theatre, New York, 26 November 1931
Grand Hotel (1932), Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Wallace
Beery, Joan Crawford; Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood,
2 June 1932
The Great Dictator (1940), Charlie Chaplin; Delhi, 18 February 1941; again
with the women 27 February 1941
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel
Wilde, Dorothy Lamour
Great Expectations (1946), John Mills, Alec Guinness; Mehera saw on video in
Poona after Baba dropped his body
The Great Waltz (1938); Ahmednagar
The Great Ziegfeld (1936), Myrna Loy, William Powell; Paris, 9 November 1936
The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947), Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas; Ahmednagar,
15 December 1948
The Guilty Generation (1931); Empire Theater, Honolulu, 9 June 1932
Gulliver’s Travels (1939) cartoon; Ahmednagar, 2 July 1940
The Guns of Navarone (1961), Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn,
James Darren; Mehera and the women saw either at Alaka, Poona,
8–14 May 1964 or later on video in Poona
Hans Christian Andersen (1952), Danny Kaye; Empire Theater, Poona,
20 March 1954
Harry Black and the Tiger (1958); West End Cinema, Poona, 1959
Harvey (1950), James Stewart; Hyderabad, 1951
Heidi (1937), Shirley Temple; Ahmednagar
Heliotrope (1920); Empire Cinema, Quetta, 23 June 1923
Hell Divers (1931), Clark Gable, Wallace Beery; Ahmednagar, 19 January 1934
Her Husband’s Affairs (1947), Lucille Ball; Ahmednagar, 23 June 1948
Hold Back the Dawn (1941), Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland; Lahore, 1943
How Green Was My Valley (1941), Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O’Hara;
Ahmednagar
Hue & Cry (1947); Ahmednagar, 3 June 1948
Humoresque (1946), Joan Crawford ; Ahmednagar, 2 October 1948
If I were King (1947), Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone; Ahmednagar,
25 September 1948
If You Knew Susie (1948), Eddie Cantor; Empire Theater, Bombay, 29 May 1949
Imitation of Life (1934), Claudette Colbert; Pantages Theater, Hollywood,
18 December 1934
Imperfect Lady (1947), Ray Miland; Ahmednagar, 26 January 1948
In The Circus Arena (1952), Soviet Documentary; Kum-Kum Theater, Bombay,
17-21 February 1952
Intolerance (1916); saw only some, Opera House, Quetta, 18 June 1923
In Which We Serve (1942), Noel Coward; Ahmednagar
The Iron Duke (1934), George Arliss, Gladys Cooper; Tivoli Theater, London,
3 December 1934
Is Paris Burning? (1966), John-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron;
West End Cinema, Poona, April-July 1967, without Baba
It Happened in Brooklyn (1947), Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Jimmy
Durante; Ahmednagar, 19 June 1948
It Happened One Night (1934), Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable; Mehera saw
in Poona on video
It’s a Great Life (1929), Duncan Sisters; Circle Cinema, Nasik, February 1933
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Spencer Tracy, Micky Rooney, Milton
Berle; women saw at Alaka, Poona, 16–30 June 1967
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Jimmy Stewart; Mehera saw video in Poona
Ivanhoe (1952), Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George
Sanders; Mehera and women saw perhaps at West End, Poona,
matinee 26 April 1964
Jane Eyre (1944), Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine
Jewels of Brandenburg (1947); Ahmednagar, 2 February 1949
Johnny Belinda (1948), Lew Ayres, Jane Wyman; women alone saw in Bombay
The Jolson Story (1946), Larry Parks; Ahmednagar
Jumping Jacks (1952), Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis; Rialto Theater, Mussoorie,
April-May 1953
The Keys of the Kingdom (1945), Gregory Peck
The Kid (1921), Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Coogan; Poona, circa 1922
The Kid from Brooklyn (1946), Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo; Ahmednagar,
January 1948
The King and I (a play), Yul Brynner, Celeste Holm; women saw at St. James
Theater, New York, 1952
King Kong (1933), Fay Wray; Avenida Theater, Madrid, 25 October 1933 and
Ahmednagar, 9 March 1934
King Solomon’s Mines (1937), Paul Robeson; 1937
King Solomon’s Mines (1950), Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr; Tivoli Theater
Hyderabad, 6 October 1951
Lady for a Day (1933), a Frank Capra film; Ahmednagar
Lady for a Night (1941), John Wayne; Ahmednagar
A Lady’s Morals (1930); Circle Cinema, Nasik, 8 Sepember 1932
The Last Gentleman (1934), George Arliss; Grauman’s Chinese Theater,
Hollywood, 19 December 1934
The Late George Apley (1947), Ronald Colman; Ahmednagar, 17 October 1948
Laurel & Hardy film; Baba saw one in Paris, 14-16 December 1931
Laurel & Hardy’s Laughing ’20s; women saw at Empire, Poona, 9–15 April 1966
Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Peter O’Toole, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness,
Omar Sharif, Claude Rains, José Ferrer; women saw at Annexe Club,
Ahmednagar, 1967
Leave Her to Heaven (1945), Gene Tierney; Ahmednagar
Les Misérables (1935), Fredric March, Charles Laughton
Let’s Face It (1943), Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Zasu Pitts; Ahmednagar,
23 September 1948
Libel (1959), Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland; Poona, 12 April 1960,
without Baba
The Life of Émile Zola (1937), Paul Muni; Pathe Theater, Bombay, 25 December
1937
Lili (1953), Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor; Mehera saw video in Poona
Limelight (1952), Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton; West End Cinema, Poona,
17 June 1959 [Mehera and the women saw Limelight on 28 May 1959.]
The Little Minister (1934), Katherine Hepburn; Warner Brothers RKO Theater,
Hollywood, 5 January 1935
Little Women (1949), June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor; women
saw at Empire, Poona, 3–9 June 1966
Lost Horizon (1937), a Frank Capra film, Sam Jaffe, Jane Wyatt, Ronald
Colman; Ahmednagar, 29 December 1948
The Lost Weekend (1945), Ray Milland, Jane Wyman; Ahmednagar
The Love Parade (1929), Maurice Chevalier, Lillian Roth; Mehera saw at
Circle Cinema, Nasik, 6-8 August 1932
Lucky Dog (1933); Ahmednagar, 23 August 1934
Mad About Music (1938); Ahmednagar, 7 August 1938
Madame Butterfly (1932), Cary Grant; Ahmednagar, 24 February 1934
Madame Curie (1943), Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon; Ahmednagar
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), an Alfred Hitchcock film, Jimmy Stewart,
Doris Day; Poona, prior to 1964
The Man Who Never Was (1956), Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame; Hoyts
Mayfair Theater, Sydney, 14 August 1956
Marie Antoinette (1922), a silent German film about the French Revolution;
Bombay, December 1924 or January 1925
Marie Antoinette (1938), Norma Shearer, John Barrymore, Tyrone Power;
Bombay
Mark of the Renegade (1951), Ricardo Montalban, Cyd Charisse; Eros Theater,
Bombay, 17-21 February 1952
Mata Hari (1931), Greta Garbo; Ahmed
Meet John Doe (1941), Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Brennan;
Ahmednagar
Meet Me at Dawn (1947); Ahmednagar, 10 February 1949
Men in White (1935), Clark Gable, Myrna Loy; one of the films they may have
seen in Cannes, September 1937
Mickey Mouse cartoons
Mildred Pierce (1945), Joan Crawford
Modern Times (1936), Charlie Chaplin; Nasik, 10 July 1936
Monkey Business (1931), Marx Brothers; Lowe’s State Theatre, New York,
25 November 1931
Morgenrot (1933), a German submarine film; Cine Astoria, Madrid,
29 October 1933
The Most Happy Fella (a play), Frank Loesser; Imperial Theater, New York,
21 July 1956
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur; London,
4 or 5 November 1936
Mrs. Miniver (1942), Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon; Ahmednagar
Mrs. Parkington (1944), Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon; Ahmednagar,
2 October 1948
Mrs. Skeffington (1944), Bette Davis; Ahmednagar
The Mummy’s Curse (1944), Lon Cheny, Jr.; Ahmednagar
The Music Man (1962), Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett,
Herminone Gingold, Ron Howard; Ahmednagr
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Charles Laughton, Clark Gable; Ahmednagar
My Dear Secretary (1948), Kirk Douglas; Ahmednagar, 11 June 1949
My Fair Lady (1964), Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn; women saw at Annexe
Club, Ahmednagar, 1967
My Favorite Wife (1940), Cary Grant, Irene Dunne; women saw alone
My Sister Eileen (1942), Rosalind Russell; Ahmednagar
My Son, My Son (1940); Elite Cinema, Calcutta, 21 July 1940
The Naked Prey (1965); mandali saw in Poona, 31 May 1967; women also saw
National Velvet (1944), Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney; Ahmednagar,
28 December 1945
A Night Like This (1931), Ralph Lynn; New Gallery Theater, London,
16 April 1932
The Nun’s Story (1959), Audrey Hepburn; playing in Poona, in 1965, but the
women did not go as it was a matinee. They saw it later on video.
Of Human Bondage (1946), Eleanor Parker; Ahmednagar, December 1947
Oklahoma! (1955), Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame; Mehera and women
alone saw in Poona, prior to 1964
One Way Passage (1932), William Powell; Ahmednagar, 2 March 1934
Over the Hill (1931); Roxy Theatre, New York, 25 November 1931
Pageant of Parliament (a ballet); Royal Albert Hall, London, 29 June-4 July 1934
Palmy Days (1931), Eddie Cantor; Bombay, 25 November 1933
The Paradise Case (1947), an Alfred Hitchcock film with Gregory Peck;
Dreamland Theater, Hyderabad, 31 July 1951
Paradise Lost (perhaps False Paradise, 1948); Tivoli Theater, Hyderabad, 1951
Paris Holiday (1958), Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Preston Sturges; women saw at
Eros Theater, Bombay, 8-14 March 1959; Baba saw in Poona, April-July1959
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931), Buster Keaton; Venice, 5 April 1932
The Perils of Pauline (1947), Betty Hutton, John Lund; Ahmednagar,
30 October 1948
Pinocchio (1940), Walt Disney cartoon; Ahmednagar
Popeye cartoons
The President’s Mystery (1936); New Theatre (Circle Cinema), Nasik, 4 May 1937
The President Vanishes (1934); Paramount Theater, San Francisco,
8 January 1935
Pride & Prejudice (1940) Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier; Ahmednagar,
30 January 1949
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936); Ahmednagar, 26 June 1937
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Mary Astor; Ahmednagar,
26 February 1938
Proscenium (a play), Ivor Novello; Globe Theater, London, 21 October 1933
Public Hero #1 (1935), Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur; Edward Theater,
Bombay, 21 February 1936
Pursued (1947), Robert Mitchum; Ahmednagar, 6 November 1948
Pygmalion (1938), Leslie Howard, produced by Gabriel Pascal; Ahmednagar,
21 May 1940
Queen Christina (1933), Greta Garbo; Lahore, 1943
Quo Vadis (1951), Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr; Mehera & women in Poona,
prior to 1964
Ramona (1928), Dolores Del Rio; Mehera saw this silent film in Nasik in
early ’30s at Circle Cinema.
Random Harvest (1942), Ronald Colman, Greer Garson; Ahmednagar
The Razor’s Edge (1946), Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, Anne Baxter, Clifton
Webb; Ahmednagar, 14 February 1948
Rebecca (1940), Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine; Ahmednagar, 27 July 1940
The Red Shoes (1948); Mussoorie, 1953
The Reluctant Dragon (1941), Disney animated film; Wai, 30 March 1943
The Return of Monte Cristo (1946); Ahmednagar, 19 June 1948
Road to Rio (1947), Bob Hope, Bing Crosby; Ahmednagar, 4 June 1949
Road to Utopia (1945), Bing Crosby, Bob Hope; Rivoli Theater, Simla,
14 September 1946; Baba also saw several other titles in the Crosby &
Hope Road to … series
Roman Holiday (1953), Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert;
Mehera saw video in Poona
Romeo and Juliet (1936), Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore,
Basil Rathbone; Ahmednagar, 21 March 1937 and Lahore, 1943
San Francisco (1936), Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald;
Mehera saw in Poona on video
Sanders of the River (1935), Paul Robeson
Saps at Sea (1940), Laurel & Hardy; West End Cinema, Poona, circa
18 June 1961 (for the second time)
Saratoga Trunk (1945), Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman; Dehra Dun, 1946
Sayonara (1957), Marlon Brando, Ricardo Montalban; Eros Theater, Bombay,
6 June 1958 (night show without Baba)
A Scandal in Paris (1946); Wai, March 1947
Secret Heart (1946), Claudette Colbert, Walter Pidgeon, June Allyson;
Ahmednagar, 5 June 1948
Semiramis: Queen of Babylon (1954), Ricardo Montalban, Rhoda Fleming;
Poona, 11 April 1959
September Affair (1950), Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotton; Dreamland Theater,
Hyderabad, 25 July 1951
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), Jane Powell, Julie Newmar; Mehera and
women saw at Metro Cinema, Bombay, 24 October 1957
Shanghai (1935), Charles Boyer, Loretta Young; Plaza Cinema, Bombay,
13 July 1936
Shanghai Express (1932), Marlene Dietrich, directed by Josef von Sternberg;
Carlton Theater, London, 15 April 1932
She (1935); Mehera saw in Nasik
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947), Betty Grable; Ahmednagar, 11 September
1948
Shoulder Arms (1918), Charlie Chaplin; Circle Cinema, Nasik, 28 February 1931
Silent Conflict (1948), William Boyd; Ahmednagar, 8 June 1949
Singin’ in the Rain (1952), Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds,
Cyd Charisse
Sitting Pretty (1948), Clifton Webb
Skin Deep (1929); Queen’s Theater, Hong Kong, 1 July 1932
Slightly Dangerous (1943), Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan;
Agra, 1944
The Snake Pit (1948), Olivia de Havilland; Dehra Dun, end of February 1953
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937); Ahmednagar, 24 July 1938
Spellbound (1945), an Alfred Hitchcock film with Ingrid Bergman, Gregory
Peck; Ahmednagar, April 1948, without Baba
The Song of Bernadette (1943), Jennifer Jones; Ahmednagar
Son of Paleface (1952), Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers; Rialto Theater,
Mussoorie, April-May 1953
Sons of the Desert (1933), Laurel & Hardy; Circle Cinema, Nasik, 2 August 1934
Souls at Sea (1937), Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee; Ahmednagar,
26 December 1948
The Sound of Music (1965), Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer; Mehera and
the women saw at Annexe Club, Ahmednagar, 1967
South Pacific (a play), Mary Martin; Drury Lane Theater, London,
2 August 1952
The Square Peg (1958), Norman Wisdom; in Poona when at Guruprasad,
prior to 1964
The Story of Esther Costello (1957), Joan Crawford; Excelsior Theater, Bombay,
23 January 1958, without Baba
Strange Journey (1946); Ahmednagar, 22 December 1948
Strike Me Pink (1936) Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman; Ahmednagar, 18 July 1936
Sweet Madness (a play), Richard Attenborough; Vaudeville Theater,
London, 31 July 1952
Sword of the Avenger (1948); Ahmednagar, 4 June 1949
A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Ronald Coleman, Basil Rathbone; Palace Theater,
Bombay, 5 June 1936, and Hyderabad, 1951
Tarzan (1932), Johnny Weissmuller; Circle Cinema, Nasik, 6-13 May or
26 Aug-2 Sept 1933
Tarzan’s Secret Treasure (1941), Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan;
Ahmednagar, 27 November 1948
The Ten Commandments (1956), Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner; Regal Cinema,
Bombay, 24 January 1958; women saw on 28 January 1958
They Died With Their Boots On (1941), Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland;
Ahmednagar, December 1947
The Thin Man (1934), Myrna Loy, William Powell; Ahmednagar
This Land Is Mine (1943), Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Hara; Lahore, 1943
This Thing Called Love (1940), Rosalind Russell; Ahmednagar, 31 July 1941
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), Stuart Whitman, Red
Skelton, Sarah Miles, Terry Thomas; women alone saw in Poona
The Three Musketeers (1948), Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson; Metro
Tiger Bay (1934); Roxy Theater, Bombay, 16 April 1934
Tiger Shark (1932), Edward G. Robinson; Ahmednagar, 16 February 1934
To Each His Own (1946), Olivia de Havilland; Ahmednagar
To Mary - with Love (1936), Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy; Ahmednagar,
29 May 1937
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946), Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles; Ahmednagar,
1 December 1947
Topaze (1933) John Barrymore, Myrna Loy; 16 March 1934
Topper (1937), Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Hedda Hopper; Palace
Theater, Bombay, 21 December 1937
Trader Horn (1931); Madeleine Cinema, Paris, 13 December 1931
The Trapp Family (1956); women alone saw in Poona
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), Dorothy McGuire; Dehra Dun
20 Mule Team (1940), Wallace Beery; Ajmer, 2 July 1941
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932), Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis; Ahmednagar,
2 February 1934
Typhoon (1940), Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston; Regal Cinema, Calcutta,
22 July 1940
Undercurrent (1946), Katherine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum;
Ahmednagar, 16 June 1948
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), Debbie Reynolds; Mehera and women
alone saw at West End, Poona, 3–9 June 196
Von Ryan’s Express (1965), Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard; Poona, 23 May 1967,
mandali sent to see it; women also probably saw it in 19 6 7
Wake Up and Dream (1946); Ahmednagar, 19 December 1948
Wanted for Murder (1946); Ahmednagar, 13 October 1948
The Way of All Flesh (1940); Ahmednagar, 5 June 1948,
Way Out West (1937), Laurel & Hardy; Ahmednagar, 29 January 1938
We Are Not Alone (1939), Paul Muni; Ajmer, 7 June 1941
Where’s Charley? (1952), Ray Bolger; Radio City Music Hall, New York,
22 July 1952
Where There’s Life (1947), Bob Hope, William Bendix; Ahmednagar,
11 December 1948
Whispering Smith (1948), Alan Ladd; Ahmednagar, 10 October 1949
White Horse Inn (a play); London Coliseum, 26 September 1931 & 13 April 1932
The White Sister (1933), Helen Hayes, Clark Gable; Apollo Theater, Bombay,
4 September 1933
The White Shadows (1924); Rome, 7 July 1933
The White Tower (1950), Glenn Ford, Lloyd Bridges; The Plaza, Hyderabad,
7 July 1951
The Wizard of Oz (1939), Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr;
Ahmednagar, 3 May 1940
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962), Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom,
Barbara Eden; women alone saw in Poona, 1966
The Wrong Man (1956), an Alfred Hitchcock film, Henry Fonda; women alone
saw in Poona, prior to 1964, but Mehera narrated the true story to Baba
about an innocent man being sent to jail and his wife’s subsequent
breakdown as a result. [Baba told Mehera: “The man is very fortunate. You have no idea how great a spiritual push he has received, first because he was wrongly convicted, but a still greater push because you have told me his story and I have focused on him.”]
Ziegfeld Follies (1946), Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Fred Astaire, Lena Horne,
Red Skelton; Ahmednagar.
In addition, Baba also saw other films of:
Abbott & Costello
Fatty Arbuckle
Virginia Bruce
Eddie Cantor
Bob Hope
Laurel & Hardy
Buster Keaton (Venice, 5 April 1932)
The Marx Brothers
Paul Muni
Claude Rains
Edward G. Robinson
Shirley Temple
(both as a child and as a teenager)
hindi films
Alibaba and the Forty Thieves (1954); Poona, 1966, without Baba
Amrapali (1966); Poona, 1966, without Baba
Anarkali (1966); Poona, 1966, without Baba
Bharat Milap (1942); Dehra Dun, 7 March 1942
Bhasmasur Mohini (1913), directed by Dadashaeb Phalke; Meherabad,
9 May 1925
Dhoop Chhaon (1935); Ahmednagar, 4 July 1936
Do Bigha Zameen (1953)
An Evening in Paris (1967), Shammi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore; women saw
in Poona
Gopal Krishna (1938); Goa, 12 April 1940 Gopal Krishna (1938); Goa, 12 April
1940
Gorakhnath (1940); Ahmednagar, circa 1948
The Guide (1965), Dev Anand; Alpana (or Vasant), Poona, 1966, without Baba
Hangama (1952); Poona, 1966, without Baba
Harishchandra (1932); Circle Cinema, Nasik, February 1932
Hatimtai (1956); Poona, 1966, without Baba
Indra Sabha (Court of Heaven, 1932); Circle Cinema, Nasik, 18-21 July 1932
Jai Meher (Bhau’s Play); Ahmednagar, 8 March 1962
Janmabhoomi (Birthplace; 1936); Circle Cinema, Nasik, 31 January 1937
Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955); Mehera and the women saw in Satara on 30 April
1956 and again with Baba at Asha Talkies, Ahmednagar, 21 June 1956
Jhansi Ki Rani (1953)
Johar Mehmood In Goa (1965); women saw in Poona
Laila Majnu (1931); Circle Cinema, Nasik, 21-22 December 1932, or
6-10 March 1933
Laila Majnu (1953); Poona, 1966, without Baba
Main Chup Rahungi (1962); Poona, ‘60s
Meera (1947); Satara, 1954
Milan (1967); women saw in Poona, 2 June 1967
[Baba also sent the men separately to see Meera and Milan.]
Miss Mary (1957), Kishore Kumar, Meena Kumari; Poona, 1957
Mother India (1957), Sunil Dutt, Nargis
Mughal-E-Azam (1960), Prithviraj Kapoor; Baba and the women saw
separately at different times in Poona
Nigah-e-Kamil, film directed by & starring Rustom K. Irani; Minerva Talkies,
Bombay, 21 May - 2 June 1938. Baba probably saw this film in Nasik
with the women. [For the film credits, Rustom used the pseudonym of Rukesh (a combination of his full name: Rustom Kaikhushru Sarosh [Irani]).]
Puran Bhagat (1933; also known as Pooran Bhagat and Puran Bhakt);
Wellington Cinema, Bombay, 18 May 1933; women saw at Circle
Cinema, Nasik, 17-23 July 1933
Pyaasa (1957), Guru Dutt; Poona
Ram Rajya (1943); Lahore, 1943
Ram Vanwas (1918); Ahmednagar
Sahib, Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962); women saw in Poona
Sant Sakhu; Meherabad, 10 May 1925
Sant Tukaram (1921); Meherabad, 3 April 1925
Sant Tukaram (1936)
Shirin Farhad (1931); Circle Cinema, Nasik, 6-9 March 1933
Sita Haran (1936); Nasik, ’30s
Tansen (1943), K. L. Saigal
Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963), Nutan, Dev Anand; women saw in Poona 1966,
without Baba
Tyagayya (1946), a Telugu film; Sun Theatre, Madras, 4 April 1947; Baba saw
the first portion of the film and then left
Waishali; Poona, 1966, without Baba
