A Lost Lady (Warner Bros.) (1934)

Barbara Stanwyck Coming in Dynamic Drama, ‘Lost Lady’ A glorified Barbara Stanwyck, resplendent in the latest costume designs of studio modistes, is scheduled to appear at the............ aksis, eer Theatre next... ..2:\ciain the First National production of “A Lost Lady,’ said to be the most dynamic drama in which the popular star has yet appeared. The picture, based on _ the story by Willa Cather, famous novelist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is a most unusual romance in which a_ beautiful young girl is lost in the maze of her own complex love emotions. The picture opens with a dire tragedy in which the young girl’s lover is shot down at her feet on the very eve of their wedding by the husband of a woman with whom he had been trifling. Miss Stanwyck has four leading men in the picture. The first, slain by a bullet, is the handsome Phillip Reed, recently from the Broadway stage. The second is Frank Morgan, in the role of a great corporation lawyer, who marries her without asking for love, content with her trust and friendship. The young wife is immune to the ardent advances by the lawyer’s youthful partner, a part played by Lyle Talbot, but becomes madly infatuated with Rieardo Cortez in the role of a dashing lover who lHterally drops at her feet from the sky in a. damaged airplane. “When her husband is suddenly stricken with a heart ailment, the wife is torn between her love for one and her loyalty to the other. The story has a most unusual climax in which Miss Stanwyck’s eyes are finally opened to a real love. The picture is set in the lavish background of wealthy society folk. In addition to the four leads there is a talented cast supporting Miss Stanwyck which includes Hobart Cavanaugh, Henry Kolker, Rafaela Ottiano, Edward McWade, Walter Walker, Samuel Hinds, Willie Fung and Jameson Thomas. The picture was directed by Alfred E. Green from the screen play by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola. Frank Morgan We tip our hats to Frank Morgan—because he’s such a grand guy—and especially because of his work in “A Lost Lady,” in which he plays opposite Bar bara Stanwyck. This First National film opens at the Strand Theatre on Wednesday. Mat No. 3—10ce Page Eighteen Scene From Strand’s Dramatic Hit Frank Morgan, Lyle Talbot and Barbara Stanwyck are the three principals seen liste. Ricardo Cortez and Phillip Reed fill out the cast of “A Lost Lady,” dramatic romance adapted by First National from the novel by Willa Cather. actress—when you see her sensational work in “A Lost Lady,’’ Barbara Stanwyck Has 4 Leading Men As Screen Lovers Few stars, in recent years, have been able to boast as brilliant an array of leading men in one picture as can Barbara Stanwyck, in the title role of the First National picture, “A Lost Lady,” which comes to the Sa ork OE Wheatre Onis ccm. sts Four famous leading men of the stage and screen contribute brilliant dramatic support to Miss Stanwyck as her lovers in this production. Frank Morgan plays the part of an American corporation attorney, who marries Miss Stanwyck to save her from the wreck of her life after her fiance has been slain, on a basis of honesty rather than love. Ricardo Cortez is the arrogant, self-assured lover, who sweeps the lost lady off her feet and brings her to the verge of leaving everything behind her for his sake. Lyle Talbot, junior partner in her husband’s law firm, is madly and hopelessly in love with her, although she does not reciprocate his affections. Phillip Reed, one of the most promising of the younger First National artists, has the role of a young cavalier whose tragic death, coupled with the revelation of his faithlessness to her during their engagement, shatters the girl’s faith in men and love. Other able players in the east of “A Lost Lady” are Hobart Cavanaugh, Rafaela Ottiano, Henry Kolker, Walter Walker, Samuel Hinds, Edward MeWade and Jameson Thomas. Alfred E. Green directed the picture from the screen play by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola, based on the famous novel by Willa Cather. Wednesday to the Strand. Mat No. 6—30¢ Cortez Likes Role Of Villain Better Than Heroic Part Looking back over one of the longest careers, in both talking and silent pictures, that any actor of his age can point to, Rieardo Cortez, who plays the menace role in the First National production, “A Lost Lady,” which comes tothe. cia ts WHOAtEG: 2ON. Visa keene. ce , is glad that most of the time he’s been cast as a menace rather than as a hero. “T might have been finished years ago,’ he said on the set one day during the production, ‘““f I had played nothing but gallant heroes and the like. high-minded The public, lovers, it seems to me, grows tired of them before long, while the interesting, plausible, convincing ‘heavy’, as he is called in theatrical slang, is always interesting because he’s capable of such infinite variety. “Vd rather be a colorful, in telligent persuasive villain in a screen play than a Horatio Alger type of hero. That’s why I shall probably never be a star, and I’m glad of it. I’ve refused the honor more than once and I should refuse it as often as it was offered to me.” “A Lost Lady” is a dynamic love drama based on the popular novel by Willa Cather who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 with “One of Ours,” and adapted to the screen by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola. Barbara Stanwyck has the stellar role while others in the cast include Frank Morgan, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed and Hobart Cavanaugh. Alfred E. Green directed. You'll agree with critics that Miss Stanwyck is America’s foremost dramatic her greatest screen vehicle coming Frank Morgan Is Yanked Off Sea To Make ‘‘Lost Lady’’ Frank Morgan planned a fourday vacation on the high seas in his yacht, the Alma M., when he found that he had an unexpected interlude in the middle of his work in the First National production of “A Lost Lady,” now showing: at the ................:,Theatre. But he reckoned without taking the quiet speed with which FRANK MORGAN Mat No. 17 10e Director Alfred E. Green makes pictures, into consideration. At Catalina a telegram overtook him, notifying him to be made up and ready to work by noon next day. So Skipper Morgan did a quick revision of plans, changed his sailing destination from Santa Cruz, 350 miles north of Los Angeles, to San Clemente, less then a hundred miles south, and postponed the longer cruise until a more convenient season. In “A Lost Lady,’ Morgan is Barbara Stanwyck’s leading man. The picture is a most unusual romance in which a_ beautiful young girl is lost in the maze of her own inscrutable love emotions. It is based on Willa Cather’s popular novel and adapted to the screen by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola. In the supporting cast besides Morgan are Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip’ Reed, Hobart Cavanaugh and. others. Cortez, Bold Film Villain, Timid and Shy in Real Life Shyness and a wall-flower disposition are the last traits in the world that anyone who had seen him on the screen would attribute to Ricardo Cortez. Yet Cortez, who plays a bold dashing suitor in the Warner Bros. production, “A Lost Lady,” now showing at the ....................... Theatre, admits that he’s positively timid in real life. Cortez has been accused by many who judged him solely by his external attitude, of being haughty and snobbish. He is nothing of the kind, his selfcomposed reserve being really what the psychologists call “a defense mechanism” to hide a sensitive temperament. “Tm always self-conscious and awkward,” laughed Ricardo in discussing the matter one day, “in an ardent love scene. It may sound funny, but I used to trv to tone down such scenes, if they were especially intense in the seript, for fear the actress opposite me might think I was trying to get fresb with her. That was in the early days. “Since -then I’ve learned to look at my work impersonally, and realize that everyone else does. But it took me a long time to get over that feeling.” “A Lost Lady” is the romance of a beautiful young girl lost in the maze of her own inscrutable love emotions. It is based on Willa Cather’s popular novel and adapted to:‘the sereen by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola. Barbara Stanwyck has the stellar role while others in the cast include Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed, Hobart Cavanaugh and others. Alfred E. Green directed. Barbara Stanwyck Wins Affection of Animals Instantly Barbara Stanwyck is an enthusiast about dogs and they, in turn, instantly recognize her as their friend. A striking example of this ocecurred: during one of the early scenes in her current First National production of “A Lost Lady,” now showing. at the EI Aah He es Theatre. On that particular morning the big collie who plays the role of Prince, a dog belonging to her leading man, Frank, Morgan, arrived on the set with his trainer. Barbara’s eyes lighted up the moment she caught sight of the magnificent animal. She asked his trainer to bring him over. The dog walked up to her as Barbara smiled and put out her hand. He sniffed it gravely, then turned his liquid brown eyes to her face and studied her a full minute without moving a muscle. Then he moved forward and laid his head on her knees. For the two days that he worked in the picture, the dog, when not actually in front of the cameras, could be found sitting beside Barbara, quite happy if she stroked his head from time to time. In “A Lost Lady” Miss Stanwyck has the title role, that of a beautiful girl entangled in the meshes of a strange love net. Others in the cast inelude Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed, Hobart Cavanaugh and Henry -Kolker.