King of the Roaring '20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (Allied Artists) (1961)

-The Story of Arnold Rothstein No. 24 Diane Foster, as the wife of Arnold Rothstein (David Janssen), king of the gamblers during the roaring 20’s, does not seem overjoyed by her husband’s lucky streak in this scene from Allied Artists’ “King of the Roaring 20’s—The Story of Se dends Theatre. Eight other top Rooney, have starring roles. Arnold Rothstein” now at the .... Hollywood stars, including Mickey NEW DAVID JANSSEN FILM DEPICTS LIFE OF ROTHSTEIN (Advance) The name of Arnold Rothstein, king gambler of the 20’s, whose story is told in “King of the Roaring 20’s—The Story of Arnold Rothstein,” screening Theatre, conjures many things for many people. at the Portrayed by David Janssen in the Allied Artists picture, which has Mickey Rooney@— as the little tinhorn who was his pal from boyhood, Rothstein is “remembered,” for instance, as The Man Who Fixed The World’s Series. Yet no evidence ever connected him with that great 1919 scandal. He achieved a kind of horseplayer’s immortality with an $850,000 “killing” at Aqueduct Race Track on July 4, 1921. He took a $600,000 poker pot from Nick the Greek. And it is a curious anecdote of the art world that with a cut of the cards he acquired a masterpiece painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The well-manicured and charming Rothstein owned both an art gallery and the poshest casino in America. He chartered ocean liners to run in booze from Europe. He bossed the garment industry through the “protection” racket. Above all, he was a _ political power, “banker” to the underworld, and architect of the crime empire we know today as “the Syndicate.” But according to Leo Katcher, on whose best-selling book, “The Big Bankroll,” the Samuel BischoffDavid Diamond film is_ based, Rothstein lived two separate and distinct lives — the private one devoted to the beautiful small-time actress, Carolyn Greene, who became his wife. Dianne Foster plays her in the motion picture. 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TERI JANSSEN MICKEY ROONEY as Johnny Burke THE STORY {Not For Publication) New York king gambler Arnold Rothstein (David Janssen) still finances a floating crap game for his small-time boyhood partner, Johnny Burke (Mickey Rooney). Politician “Big Tim” O’Brien (Jack Carson) offers Rothstein protection from their lifelong enemy, Detective Phil Butler (Dan O’Herlihy), if he'll open a gambling house with Jim Kelly (Mickey Shaughnessy). Rothstein does. Butler beats Johnny up. tells Kelly Rothstein is cheating him. Kelly takes $40,000 from the safe. Rothstein lets him keep it for his interest in the business, tells him he’s a sucker. Meanwhile, Rothstein courts actress Carolyn Green (Dianne Foster), is bitter when his respectable father (Joseph Schildkraut) withholds approval of their marriage for religious reasons. At the race track on their wedding day, he leaves Carolyn to engineer a betting coup, and that night she retires alone. Rothstein is at his gambling house, just raided by Butler. O’Brien persuades Rothstein and Butler to open another casino as partners. But Rothstein traps Johnny into revealing Butler's grafting history to a newspaper. Gunmen kill Johnny for this, are arrested on suspicion. Through attorney Tom Fowler (Keenan Wynn), Rothstein gets them to tell who hired them, uses this to send Butler to the chair. But Carolyn, learning what Rothstein did to Johnny, leaves him. O’Brien too hears Rothstein's part in the graft revelations that are threatening to bring a reform party into power, marks him for death. He is shot, mysteriously, during a poker game. Carolyn is with him in the hospital when he dies. And at the poker table a cop turns over the last card Rothstein drew, revealing the hand he dreamt of all his life, a royal flush. When Rothstein Won 850 Grand One of the biggest betting coups in race track history is dramatized in a sequence of Allied Artists’ “King of the Roaring 20’s—The Story of Arnold Rothstein,” opening at the Theatre By placing hidden bets with scores of bookmakers’ through agents, gambler Arnold Rothstein collected $850,000 on the victory of his horse Sidereal at odds beginning at 30 to 1 on July 4, 1921, at New York’s Aqueduct track. “King of the Roaring 20’s—The Story of Arnold Rothstein,’ produced by Samuel Bischoff and David Diamond, stars David Janssen as Rothstein; Mickey Rooney as Johnny Burke; Diane Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors, Dan O’Herlihy, Mickey Shaughnessy, Keenan Wynn, and William Demarest. Joseph Schildkraut appears as guest. star. Carson Co-stars [In New Picture Jack Carson plays Tammany boss “Big Tim” O’Brien, first protector then foe of gambler-underworld banker Arnold Rothstein, in Allied Artists’ “King of the Roaring 20’s— The Story of Arnold Rothstein,” now at the Theatre. Rothstein, is portrayed by David Janssen, with Mickey Rooney playing Johnny Burke, lifelong Pythias to Rothstein’s Damon. KING OF THE ROARING 20's No. 7 -The Story of Arnold Rothstein Jack Carson portrays a New York political boss, “Big Tim” O’Brien, in “King of the Roaring 20’s—The Story of Arnold Rothstein,” story of fabulous gambler and underworld moneyman Arnold Rothstein. The Allied Artists film, opening Theatre, pictures David Janssen as Rothstein, and Mickey Rooney as his tinhorn pal, Johnny Burke. FATHER “Canonized” for his work in ”’The “The Diary of Anne Frank,” Joseph ws Schildkraut stayed off the screen two years because he could not find another suitable part. He returns in Allied Artists’ “King of the Roaring 20’s — The Story of Arnold Rothstein,’ now at Theatre—as the father of gambler Arnold Rothstein (David Janssen). CREDITS Produced by Samuel Bischoff and David Diamond; Directed by Joseph M. Newman; Production Manager, Edward Morey. ]r.; Screenplay by Jo Swerling, based on the book “The Big Bankroll” by Leo Katcher; Music Composed and Conducted by Franz Waxman; Director of Photography, Carl Guthrie, A.S.C.; Art Director, David Milton; Film Editor, George White; Assistant Director, Lindsley Parsons, Jr.; Music Editor, Jill Campbell; Sound Editor, Charles Schelling, Marty Greco; Set Decorator, Joseph Kish; Set continuity, Billy Vernon; Sound Mixer, Ralph Butler; Special Effects, Milt Olsen; Wardrobe, Roger J. Weinberg. Norah Sharpe; Make-up Artist, Allan Snyder; Hairdresser, Agnes Flanagan; Property, Ted Mossman; Construction Supervisor, James West. JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT No. 11 ‘DIAMOND’ IN NEW DEAL, DRAWS ROTHSTEIN'S HAND Justice and David Janssen have pfft, as they say in the gossip columns, and don’t make any bets on an early reconciliation. The attractively sardonic movie stardom by way on the other side of the law in “King of the Roaring 20’s—The Story of Arnold Rothstein,” arriving at the “RA GAULE ie ie sees ; and says he’s mightily relieved to be there. It was the Marine war story, “Hell to Eternity,’ that got bigscreen producers all excited about Janssen, who is now being variously described around Hollywood as “a new Clark Gable” and “an American Cary Grant.” “Then,” he says gratefully, “this script came my way, with the kind of part I’d have given my eye teeth to play, and I leaped for it.” He plays the fabulous Arnold Rothstein, gambler extraordinary and underworld “capitalist” of the 20’s, whom Damon Runyon dubbea “the Brain.” Cultivated gentleman, art connoisseur, and mathematical genius who combined a flair for the spectacular with a passion for anonymity, Rothstein built the crime empire that was to fall piecemeal into the hands of such sinister heirs=.asCharles)" bueky” Luciano, Louis “Lepke’” Buchalter, Albert Anastasia, and Joe Adonis. Mickey Rooney plays Rothstein’s little-fish protege, Johnny Burke. Also starred in the Allied Artists’ film is Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Dan O’Herlihy, Mickey Shaughnessy, Keenan Wynn and William Guess: Who Shot Cock Rothstein? Because nobody, including the victim, would talk, the mystery of who shot Arnold Rothstein, socalled “banker to the underworld,” during a card game in room 349 of New York’s old Park Central Hotel on the night of Nov. 4, 1928, has never been officially solved. Yet film director Joseph M. Newman managed to re-create the shooting in Allied Artists’ “King of the Roaring 20’s—The Story of Arnold Rothstein,” now at the .... seca Theatre. The camera shows a gun discharged at Davd Janssen, who portrays Rothstein. under the card table, so that the bullet would hit him exactly where the king gambler was hit. But it doesn’t show who’s holding the gun. That’s for the audience to figure out. ACQUAINTANCE William Demarest, who shook hands with Arnold Rothstein in New York’s Lindy’s a few hours before the Broadway gambler was shot one night in 1928, portrays Rothstein’s press agent in Allied Artists’ “King of the Roaring 20’s— The Story of Arnold Rothstein,” now ai the Theatre. David Janssen plays Rothstein. -The Story of Arnold Rothstein young man who climbed to of four years as television’s “Richard Diamond, Detective,’ is® Demarest, with Joseph Schildkraut guest-starring as Rothstein’s father. Jo Swerling wrote the script from the best-seller, “The Big Bankroll,”’ by Leo Katcher, and Joseph M. Newman directed. KING OF THE ROARING 20's No. 5 -The Story of Arnold Rothstein David Janssen, as Arnold Rothstein, king of the gamblers during the roaring 20’s, has just been shot during the fabulous poker game in a New York hotel in this scene from “King of the Roaring 20’s— The Story of Arnold Rothstein.” The film, an Allied Artists picture, is the current attraction at the Theatre. O’HERLIHY Academy Award nominee Dan O’Herlihy (“Robinson Crusoe’’) portrays Police Lt. Phil Butler, in Allied Artists’ “King of the Roaring 20’s —The Story of j Arnold Rothstein,’ currently at the DAN O’HERLIHY Theatre. No.9 WAXMAN Frank Waxman, who composed and conducted the vintage jazz score for “King of the Roaring 20’s —The Story of Arnold Rothstein,” now at the Theatre, has won two Academy Awards and nine additional Oscar nomination. “No. 22 Diane Foster and David Janssen are teamed as Broadway actress Carolyn Greene and king gambler Arnold Rothstein in “King of the Roaring 20’s—The Story of Arnold Rothstein” opening .... the sce Theatre. It is an Allied Artists picture based on Leo Katcher’s “The Big Bankroll,” best selling book on the life and times of Arnold Rothstein, and boasts a cast of 10 top stars,