On this day in 1939, PARAMOUNT PICTURES released one of the granddaddies of frontier soap operas with UNION PACIFIC. Set against the backdrop of the construction of Californis’s Union Pacific Railroad, this CECIL B. DeMILLE directed epic starred BARBARA STANWYCK, JOEL McCREA, ROBERT PRESTON, BRIAN DONLEVY and ANTHONY QUINN. If you can surrender to the genre, this is still a great way to spend the evening.