An Innocent Affair (United Artists) (1948)

James Nasser 25% Presents FRED MacMURRAY • MADELEINE CARROLL 75% in “An Innocent Affair” „ Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers • Rita Johnson Louise Allbritton • Alan Mowbray 25% DIRECTED BY LLOYD BACON • A JAMES NASSER PRODUCTION 25 % Original Screenplay by Lou Breslow and Joseph Hoffman 15 % Released thru United Artists Still l\o. IS -s. 134 Louise ALLBRITTON Charles 'Buddy' ROGERS Madeleine CARROLL Fred MacMURRAY Mat (3 A) Rita JOHNSON in United Artists' "An Innocent Affair" at the . Theatre. * THE CAST V Vincent Doane Fred MacMurray Paula Doane Madeleine Carroll Claude Kimball Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers Eve Lawrence Rita Johnson Margot Fraser Louise Allbritton Ken St. Claire Alan Mowbray Maitre D’Hotel “Prince” Mike Romanoff T. D. Hendricks Pierre Watkin Gaylord William Tannen Lester Burnley. James Seay Ted Burke Matt McHugh Hilda Marie Blake Vocalist Susan Miller Gladys Anne Magel Orchestra Leader Eddie LeBaron Doris. Jane Weeks SYNOPSIS (I\ot For Publication) Suspecting that her advertising executive husband, Vincent ( Fred MacMurray ) is over-interested in his business with a certain “Mr. Fraser”, Paula Doane ( Madeleine ,Carroll) resolves to make him jealous by flirting with a hand¬ some young actor, hired unseen from a booking agency, at a res¬ taurant. Her sister-in-law, Eve ( Rita Johnson ) conspires with her. But the booking agency tells Vincent who decides to play along because he can’t explain that his client, “Mr. Fraser” is really the beautiful widowed Mrs. Fraser (Louise Allbritton). A handsome stranger (Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers ) is seated at the adjoining table. Vincent invites him to join them. He introduces himself as Claude Kimball, one of the wealthiest men in America and head of “Kim” cigarettes. The next morning an actor storms into Paula’s apartment threatening a suit because he flirted with the wrong woman the night before and her husband beat him up. She settles with him but is stunned to learn that the man she flirted with was really Claude Kimball. That evening, dining out with Claude, Paula spies Vincent with Mrs. Fraser. She decides to di¬ vorce him. Vincent sets out to prove that his relationship with Mrs. Fraser has been strictly business. First he “hires” a husband ( Alan Mowbray ) for her. That doesn’t work. Finally he “confesses” lies that will con¬ firm Paula’s suspicions. Paula, who still loves him, makes a beeline for Mrs. Fraser who provides a satis¬ factory explanation and Paula and Vincent resolve their differences. THE CREDITS Produced by James Nasser Directed by Lloyd Bacon Original Screenplay by . Louis Breslow and Joseph Hoffman Assistant Director Clarence Eurist Production Manager Lewis J. Rachmil Director of Photography Edward Cronjager, A.S.P. Music Hans J. Salter Art Director Ernst Fegte Film Editor. Fred W. Berger Set Decorator Jacques Mapes Make-Up Mel Bents Sound William Lynch Songs: “These Things Are You” “Innocent Affair” by Walter Kent and Kim Gannon Still No. JN-n WHEN LADIES MEET. Madeleine Carroll, star, and Rita Johnson, featured player, of “An Innocent Affair,” have their troubles in this highly sophisticated comedy at the Theatre. Fred MacMur¬ ray is the male lead and Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers plays the “other man.” Louise Allbritton and Alan Mowbray are also featured. Mat (2B) 44 An Innocent Affair” Next (Advance Story) Next attraction at the . Theatre is United Artists’ “An Inno¬ cent Affair,” co-starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray. This story of a bright young ad¬ vertising executive whose business dealings, strictly on the up-and-up, with a beautiful young widow cre¬ ate suspicions on the part of his wife and prompt her to initiate a flirtation of her own to arouse his jealousy is packed with sophisti¬ cated humor and ludicrous entan¬ glements which take nine reels of chuckles to straighten out. Produced by James Nasser as his initial independent venture, the film features Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers in his first acting stint since he started producing pictures some years ago, Rita Johnson, Louise Allbritton and Alan Mowbray. Lou Breslow and Joseph Hoffman wrote the original screenplay for “An Innocent Af¬ fair” and Lloyd Bacon directed. Miss Carroll, who has been off the screen for the past seven years devoting herself to Red Cross work overseas on the various battle- fronts, has appeared with MacMur¬ ray some four or five times already in “Cafe Society,” “Honeymoon in Bali,” “Virginia” and “One Night in Lisbon.” “An Innocent Affair” is her second film since her return, the first having been “High Fury.” Carroll-MacMurray Starrer Is A Winner (Prepared Review) It was a red-letter day when Madeleine Carroll came back from the wars to start making pictures again and her merry cavorting through “An Innocent Affair” with her old sparring partner, Fred MacMurray, provides a lift to the spirits which has been sorely needed for some time. The picture, which opened to an enthusiastically appreciative audience at the . Theatre last night, is a spicy amalgam of sheer drollery, sophisticated humor and comedy situations in which a high percentage of the men and women who will witness it can see a trifle of them¬ selves. And that, of course, adds to their fun. Miss Carroll, as beautiful and ex¬ quisitely gowned as ever, is in as fine fettle as if she had never taken leave of the kleig lights and Mac¬ Murray has an infectious quality hard to equal. Among the featured players, Buddy Rogers and Louise Allbritton are back after long ab¬ sences too—and a fine thing it is— while Rita Johnson and Alan Mow¬ bray can carve additional notches in their records of achievement. Lloyd Bacon’s direction is sharp and pungent, making the most of each hilarious moment and the script writers, Lou Breslow and Joseph Hoffman who conceived the story in the first place, provided him with many of them. James Nasser, the producer, who is start¬ ing off his independent production company with “An Innocent Af¬ fair,” has a bell-ringer on his hands. “An Innocent Affair” is a United Artists release. SHU No. JN-S -152 TRIPLE-THREAT MAN. Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, erstwhile band leader, current movie producer who is making a film comeback in “An Innocent Affair” at the Theatre through United Artists release. Mat (1H) t Page Twenty-one