A Lost Lady (Warner Bros.) (1934)

Marian Ormsby .......0.0.ccccccees Damiel Forrester ..........0.0.00000008. TROP i i Ne ae ee eee po, eee eee Tohn Ormsby ou......ccccccecceeeeceeeee Ria = Ne epee era eree Be oe, | pee ete See CRAG sh Se ea Chimese COON c_.te cis. Lord Verrington ........0.cccccccces Here is a story of love, of disillusion, of hopes buried and ideals crushed; a story, too, of sacrifice, of devotion, of unselfishness. It is a story of three men, and a woman who loved them all, each in a different way, each in his turn; but only one of whom loved her. Taken from the best seller by the world famous novelist, Willa Cather, “A Lost Lady’ presents Barbara Stanwyck in her finest dramatic opportunity and, with a magnificent cast of noted film players, provides wonderful entertainment. Less than 48 hours before her marriage, Marian Ormsby (played by Miss Stanwyck) is informed that her fiance, Ned Montgomery (Phillip Reed) has been killed by the husband of a woman with whom he has been having an affair. Shattered in body, mind and spirit by the tragedy, Marian is sent to the mountains by her uncle (Henry Kolker) but remains apathetic. Falling down a canyon she is rescued by Daniel Forrester (Frank Morgan), a leading corporation lawyer, who falls in love with her. Marian offers to marry him on conditions that honesty, rather than love, shall guide their home, as she believes she can never love again. The couple are happy enough until Ellinger (played by Ricardo Cortez) an aviator, lands his airplane in the garden of Marian’s home, and even while she is scolding him for trespassing, kisses her. Marian recognizes Seo Barbara Stanwyck cee Pe ee Frank Morgan SARS Soin 5 acco ees Rieardo Cortez Ry eS a a Sate Lyle Talbot Ss Phillip Reed iewho Dina as Hobart Cavanaugh We ewe Sey aan eres oo Henry Kolker a ee Rafaela Ottiano poe oe ee ee Edward MceWade Ri ee es Walter Walker PE, Ree ea eee Samuel Hinds Pe SA Pee ans yee Willie Fung One Sees eee Jameson Thomas the fact that she is in love again, and finally tells the story to Forrester. He is stunned by the blow, but hides his chagrin until one day he is brought home, stricken down with a heart attack. Despite [Ellinger’s insistent pleadings, Marian sends him away and nurses her husband through long months of illness. cne day she learns, through a newspaper story, that Ellinger ig about to marry a wealthy San Franciso girl, She calls him by long distance telephone and pleads with him not to marry the girl, offering to come to him at once. The man hangs up his receiver in the midst of her pleading. On the night of her husband’s death, as Marian realizes the end is near, she begins to understand the measure of his devotion to her and suddenly knows she leves him. He dies with her kiss on his lips and the assurance of her love in his heart. Marian suddenly finds herself at peace. Ellinger turns up a few months later, nonchalantly announces that he is divorcing his wife and endeavors to take up his affair with Marian, where he broke it off. Marian, at peace with herself, and inspired by the love for her husband she discovered too late, sends Ellinger away. Alfred E. Green, who directed “A Lost Lady” has made the most of the remarkable material of the novel and is considered to have made, in this drama, his finest picture play in recent years. Rieardo Cortez Ricardo Cortez was born in Vienna but moved to New York with his parents when three years of age. He received his early education there and then entered a brokerage office as a messenger boy. He was always interested in the theatre and spent all his spare pennies for seats in the peanut gallery. His first chance to play before the footlights came when he got a job as a super in a theatrical spectacle. Then he was given work as fly boy in a Forty-First Street Theatre. An advertisement for extras at a Fort Lee studio caught his eye. He applied and got a job. Cortez quickly advanced from extra to bit parts and finally to leading roles. He was Garbo’s leading man in her first feature, “The Torrent.” When the talkies came in he was even in more demand than in the silent pictures, having an exeellent speaking voice. His more recent pictures include “The Man With Two Faces,” “Mandalay,” “Wonder Bar,” “The Big Shakedown,” “The House on 56th Street” and “Big Executive.” His current production, “A Lost Lady” comes to the ......... 5 Se Theatre -on-=...::Gaaeqns Frank Morgan Frank Morgan was born in New York City and after attending boarding school went to Cornell University where he was graduated in 1912. Morgan started in business with his father, but was bitten by wanderlust, first going to Boston as a reporter on the Boston Traveler and later wandering down to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where he learned to rope and brand cattle on a ranch. His brother, Ralph, persuaded him to try the stage. He first broke into vaudeville and later appeared on Broadway in dramatie productions, his most notable plays being “Mr. Wu” and “Topaze.” His picture career started with the Vitagraph Company in the silent days. Later he returned to the stage and did not appear again in pictures until the “talkies” developed. Morgan’s more recent pictures inelude “The World Moves On,” “Sisters Under the Skin,” “There’s Always Tomorrow,” “The Affairs of Cellini,’ “Half Naked Truth” and “When Ladies Meet.” His latest porduction is “A Lost Lady,” the First National picture starring Barbara Stanwyck, which comes to the epee PROGEIG SON. sn, This looks as if it were going to be a very dramatic scene. The characters seen above are Barbara Stanwyck and Ricardo Cortez and the film is “A Lost Lady,” First National drama coming to the Strand. Lyle Talbot, Frank Morgan and Phillip Reed are included in Miss Stanwyck’s great supporting cast. Mat No. 5—20¢ Author Screen play by Photography by Film Editor Art Director Gowns by EF ih gent Alfred E. Green SE LTRS ATE SR Willa Cather ees. oe ee Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola Ss Deion SH Sid Hickox hi, ae ae. Owen Marks EOP ne Re ee Jack Okey Se chip Hit ee ee a Orry-Kelly OFFICIAL BILLING AS Leo F. Forbstein BARBARA STANWYCK 100% “A LOST LADY’”’ 100% a By Willa Cather 10% sara with Frank Morgan — Ricardo Cortez 715% Lyle Talbot — Phillip Reed — Hobart Cavanaugh 40% Directed by Alfred E. Green 20% First National Productions Corp’n. Picture 40% Page Twenty-two Phillip Reed Phillip Reed, the handsome six footer plus, who was recently imported to Hollywood from the New York stage, was born in New York City and educated at the Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, from which were graduated Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Cowl, Katherine Cornell, Verree Teasdale, Ricardo Cortez and other screen and stage notables. He went to Cornell to study engineering but quit at the end of his Freshman year to join a Hoboken, N. J. stock company. After a year in stock and vaudeville, James Cagney, then a hoofer, got him a job with the company in which he was playing, “The Grand Street Follies.” Later he made a hit on Broadway in “Grand Hotel,” “Ziegfeld Follies of 1931,” “Serena Blandish” and last season in “Melody,” the George White musical show. His pictures include “British Agent,” “Dr. Monica,” “Jimmy The Gent,” “Registered Nurse,” “Gambling Lady” and his current production, “A Lost Lady,” now showing at the 0.0.00... Theatre. BARBARA STANWYCK — “Gambling Lady,” “Ever In My Heart,” “Baby Face,” “Ladies They Talk About,” “The Purchase Price,” “So Big.” FRANK MORGAN—“The World Moves On,’ “Sisters Under the Skin,’ “There’s Always Tomorrow,” “The Affairs of Cellini.” RICARDO CORTEZ—“The Man with Two Faces,” “Mandalay,” “Wonder Bar,” “The House on 56th Street,” “The Big Shakedown.” LYLE TALBOT—‘The Dragon Murder Case,” “Return of the Terror,” “Fog Over Frisco,” “Registered Nurse,’ “Heat Lightning.” PHILLIP REED~— British Agent,” “Dr. Monica,” “Jimmy, the Gent,” “Registered Nurse,” “Gambling Lady,” “Journal of a Crime.” HOBART CAVANAUGH—“Kansas City Princess,” “Madame Du Barry,’’ “Housewife,” Lyle Talbot Lyle Talbot was born in Pittsburgh of a theatrical family and began his stage career at the age of sixteen in his father’s stock company. After appearing in stock and in the Little Theatre field for several years, he was signed by Warner Bros. for a role with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in “Love Is A Racket.” Since then he has enacted prominent parts in such pictures as “The Dragon Murder Case,” “Return of the Terror,” “Fog Over Frisco,” “Registered Nurse,” “Heat Lightning,” “Mandalay,” “College Coach,” “Havana Widows,” “Mary Stevens, M. D.” and “adies They Talk About.” His present picture is “A Lost Lady,” which comes to the ..... es re ae Theatres ON =. swag... Hobart Cavanaugh Hobart Cavanaugh was born in Virginia City, Nevada, but went to California with his parents at an early age. He attended school in San Francisco and the University of California, after which he went on the stage. He road-showed all up and down the West Coast in “Checkers” which Jimmy Gleason had bequeathed him from the season before. Then he went to New York and was soon on Broadway in such plays as “Irene,” “Tangerine,’ “The Nervous Wreck,” “Danger,” “Kibitzer,” “Remote Control” and “Tomorrow and Tomorrow.” Then he returned to California where he played in “Broadway” and “The Show Off.” At this time he was given a contract by Warner Bros. His pictures incluude “Kansas City Princess,’ “Housewife,” “Wonder Bar,’ “The Key,” “A Modern Hero,’ “Harold Teen,” “A Very Honorable Guy,” “Jimmy, The Gent,’ “I’ve Got Your Number,” “Mandalay,” “Merry Wives of Reno,’ “Convention City,” “Hi, Nellie!” “Easy To Love” and “The Kennel Murder Case.” He is now appearing in “A Lost Lady” at the=:..........:5;: Theatre. SCREEN ALCORDS “Wonder Bar,” “The Key,” “A Modern Hero.” HENRY KOLKER — “Wonder Bar,” “I’ve Got Your Number,” “Journal of a Crime,” “Bureau of Missing Persons,’ “The Narrow Corner.” RAFAELA OTTIANO — “Mandalay,” “As You Desire Me,” “Female,” “She Done Him Wrong,” “Of Human Bondage,” “Ann Vickers.” EDWARD McWADE—‘Journal of a Crime,” “Employees’ Entrance,” “Big City Blues,” “High Spot,” “Two Seconds,” “The Crowd Roars.” WALTER WALKER — “The House on 56th Street,” “Bedside,’ “Female,” “Mary Stevens, M. D.,” “I Loved a Woman,” “Hard To Handle.” SAMUEL HINDS—“He Was Her Man,” “Son of a Sailor.” ALFRED E. GREEN (director) —‘Housewife,” “The Merry Frinks,” “Side Street,” “As the Earth Turns,” “I Loved a Woman.”