 After the preview in Los Angeles on 24 May 1938, there were sporadic  opening across the United States before the national release on 16  August 1938. Some of these were 5 August in New York City, New York;  11 August in Boston, Massachusetts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and San  Francisco, California; 12 August in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,  Chicago, Illinois and Dallas, Texas; and 13 August in Cleveland,  Ohio.