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The Chicago opening of the hit RKO film, The Window, occurred on Wednesday, May 11, 1949 at the RKO Palace, Randolplh nr. LaSalle. It was the top-half of a double-bill, an ad in the Chicago Tribune reads:

TODAY. . . at 8:45 a.m., The Killers Are Here . . . FOR HIM!----Helpless! Cornered! Trapped by the killers whose crime he witnessed! Doomed as the only one who knew their guilt! Abandoned by everyone who could help him . . . because nobody . . . nobody . . . NOBODY would believe him! Tremble to the icy grip of this boy's hopeless terror in the suspense-shock sensation of the season! RKO presents "The Window" Dore Schary in Charge of Production, starring Barbara Hale, Bobby Driscoll, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman . . .

(This film was later sent out to neighborhood theatres beginning Friday, May 27, 1949 . . . )

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The bottom-half of the double-bill featured:

Plus! 2nd Big Feature! The Love Secrets of Burlesque's Queens of Quiver! "Ladies of the Chorus," Adele Jergens, Marilyn Monroe, Rand Brooks, Nana Bryant, Eddie Garr, Steven Geray . . . . GIRLS! Win Hollywood Screen Test! Enter RKO Palace "Miss Windy City" Beauty Contest!

The TV premiere happened on Friday, February 17, 1961. An ad, same date, in the Chicago Tribune, reads:

Friday 10:15 PM WBKB 7, TV First! Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, The Window, The Killers Had To Shut His Mouth . . . Before Somebody Believed His Story . . . Jim Moran's Courtesy Motors, 3567 W. Grand Chicago

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The TV guide section describes the film thus: 7---Movie. "The Window." Child witnesses a murder, but no one except the murderers believe him. Barbara Hale, Bobby Driscoll, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman. Fine thriller.

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I'm assuming that in New York and LA the film probably premiered on or about that same date . . .