A Modern Hero (Warner Bros.) (1934)

Pierre Richard Barthelmess Joanna cesses @an Muir Mme. Azais Marjorie Rambeau Claire | Verree Teasdale Leah Florence Eldridge Hazel Dorothy Burgess Mueller Hobart Cavanaugh Young Pierre ....William Janney Elmer ..... Theodore Newton Ryan J. M. Kerrigan Flint == .......... Arthur Hohl St, ea ae eee Maidel Turner Peter Mickey Rentschler Eggelson Richard Tucker Mrs. Eggelson Judith Vosselli Pierre Radier and his mother to school. Although married to are traveling circus performers. Flint’s daughter, Pierre keeps an While playing in the village of apartment in the East. There he Pentland he meets and falls in becomes attracted to Lady Claire love with Joanna Ryan. , He Benson. While in the East he wants to take her with him but manages to see a great deal of his mother persuades him that it his son. would ruin her life. When war breaks out, Pierre Months later Joanna’s father goes into the munitions business comes to tell Pierre that she is and manufactures trucks, growgoing to have a child. Ryan gets ing more and more wealthy. drunk and is killed by a locomoHe is persuaded to put all his tive. Pierre takes the body back money on a stock which is supto Pentland and proposes to posed to be manipulated by a Joanna, who refuses, saying that pool controlled by a new acshe would never fit into his life. quaintance. The man disappears She tells him that she is going leaving Pierre penniless. On the to marry a man who loves her same day, his son is killed in and knows her story. the new automobile Pierre gave Pierre, ambitious and eager to him. get out of the circus life, borPierre returns home and finds rows money from a_ wealthy that Hazel has discovered widow who is infatuated with that the boy was Pierre’s son. him and finances a bicycle busiShe starts a tirade but Pierre ness partnership with Mueller, a walks out on her, saying he is fellow circus man and an inventhrough. Hopeless and a broken tive genius. man, he returns to his mother Homer Flint of Pentland joins who has become a fortune teller. Pierre and Mueller in an automoShe tells him there is no such bile plant established in Pentland. word as defeat in the cireus and In Pentland, Pierre meets his that they will start all over son and persuades Joanna to again. He looks at her with adlet him send the boy away miration and consents. Director G. W. Pabst Story by . Louis Bromfield Screen Play by Gene Markey and Kathryn Scola Dialogue Director Arthur Greville Collins Photography by William Rees Film Editor James Gibbon Art Director Robert Haas Gowns by Orry-Kelly Vitaphone Orchestra Conductor Leo F. Forbstein RICHARD BARTHELMESS 100% in ““A MODERN HERO” 100% by Louis Bromfield 5% with Jean Muir , 90% Marjorie Rambeau—Verree Teasdale 60% Florence Eldridge—Dorothy Burgess 20% Hobart Cavanaugh—William Janney 20% Directed by G. W. Pabst 20% A Warner Bros. & Vitaphone Picture 40% Length: 6,370 Ft. Running Time: 71 Mins. Page Two NLA A a 3 “Eee Richard Barthelmess Richard Barthelmess was born in New York City. His mother was Caroline Harris of the stage and was one of Nazimova’s early instructors; his father was an importer in New York. After a career at Trinity College largely given to dramatic activities, Barthelmess — = was offered his first stage role by Nazimova. — He was early associated with D. W. Griffith, who called him his “Little Walthall” and trained him in the fundamentals of screen art so thoroughly that the stamp of the great director remains in Bar thelmess’ work today. For several years now he has been under contract to Warner Bros.-First National Studios and has made for them some of his outstanding pictures. He maintains a winter home in Beverly Hills, California, a beach house at Malibu and an apartment in New York City. Much of his time, however, is spent in world travel, and hardly a summer goes by without a tour to one of the European or Asiatic coun tries. His recent pictures include “Massacre,” “Heroes For Sale,” “Central Airport,” “Cabin in the Cotton” and “Alias The Doctor.” He received a special notice from the American Academy of Motion Picture Science and Arts for his work in “The Patent Leather Kid.” Appearing In ‘A Modern Hero’ ~ REBORN GIS REEL LLENIGPAZ Verree Teasdale and Richard Barthelmess in the Warner Bros. dramatic hit at the Strand. Mat No. 16—20c RICHARD BARTHELMESS — “Massacre,” “Heroes for Sale,” “Central Airport,” “The Cabin in the Cotton,” “Alias the Doctor.” JEAN MUIR—“As the Earth Turns,” “The World Changes,” “Female,” “Son of a Sailor,” “Bedside,” “Bureau of Missing Persons.” MARJORIE RAMBEAU — “Joe Palooka,” “Warrior's Husband,” “Strictly Personal,” “Leftover Ladies,” “Her Man,” “Min and Bill.” VERREE TEASDALE — “Fashions of 1934,” “Roman Scandals,” “Goodbye Love,” “Payment Deferred,” “Luxury Liner,” “Skyscraper Souls.” FLORENCE ELDRIDGE — “The Great Jasper,” “Thirteen Women,” “The Matrimonial Bed,” “The Greene Murder Case,” “Charming Sinners.” DOROTHY BURGESS — “Fasnions of 1934,” “From Headquarters,” “Ladies They Talk About,” “Play Girl,” “Lasea of the Rio.” HOBART CAVANAUGH—“Jim-. my The Gent,” “I’ve Got Your Number,” “Mandalay,” “Convention City,” “Hi, Nellie!” “Dark Hazard.” G. W. PABST (director)—“Kameradschaft,” “The White Hell of Pitz Palu,” “Westfront 1918,” “Joyless Street,” “Don Quixote.” Marjorie Rambeau Marjorie Rambeau was born in San Francisco, where after studying dancing and dramatic art, she made her debut on the stage in stock. Later she teamed with Willard Mack and _ toured through California and the Middle West in his plays. Going to New York she made her first big hit in “Kick In,” following with “So Much for So Much,” “Cheating Cheaters,” “Eyes of Youth,” “Antonia” and “The Goldfish.” She did not undertake work in pictures until the talkies had been established, making her debut in “Her Man.” This was followed by “Min and Bill,” “Leftover Ladies,” “Strictly Personal,” “Warrior’s Husband” and “Joe Palooka.” Florence Eldridge — Florence Eldridge was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. and educated in the Girls’ School of that city. She started her stage career in stock and in a short time was playing on Broadway, her most important productions being “Ambush,” “The Cat and the Canary,” “Love Habit,” “Cheaper To Marry,” and “The Great Gatsby.” Miss Eldridge was headed for stardom when she married Fredric March a few years ago and went to Hollywood to make her home. She decided to make but one picture a year, which rule she has adhered to the past four years. Her more important pictures include “The Great Jasper,” and “Thirteen Women.” Jean Muir Jean Muir was born in Nes York City, received her eduey tion in private schools in East, and upon graduation died in Paris. She was called gy JEAN MUIR at the Strand in “4 MODERN HERO” & Mat No, 2. —10c denly to America and met Jq Drinkwater on the returning bo; He became very much inte ested in her possible stage ents, and she shortly afterwar toured the country with | troupe gaining valuable with the great actor. Return’ to Broadway, she soon becan well-known through fine perfor ances in “The Truth Game “Peter Ibbetson,” “Melo,” “ign Begins” and “St. Wench.” She entered motion pict work recently and has appearal in “The World Changes,” male,” “Son of a Sailor,” "2 reau of Missing Persons,” “Be side” and “As The Earth Turn os Dorothy Burges : Dorothy Burgess was b= Los Angeles, Calif., but New York when a child wi parents. She was educa Miss Dow’s School at B Manor after attending p school in New York City. © niece of Fay Bainter, she given a small part in Mies Ba ter’s play, “East Is West,” ning on Broadway at the tim This was her first stage exper ence to be followed by a part “Crooked Square.” i Later she became a speci dancer in the Music Box Reva Her first big part was the i genue role in “Dancing Mother Following this sho played in “T Adorable Liar,” “Synthetic Si and “Good News.” 4 She went to Los Angeles | play in “The Squall” and it while playing in this produst that she was given a test for # role of Tonia in “In Old zona,” and won the part. Verree Teasdale Verree Teasdale was born Spokane, Wash., but moved New York City when two old with her parents. She educated in the Perkins Sous for Girls and the Erasmus * High School. Afterwards she tended the American Academy Dramatic Art and the New ¥ School of Expression, at the sal time taking voice training ™™ Eleanor McLellan. She compl her education by a year’s t@ through Europe and South At ica. Her first appearance 0m stage was in Sage Z ad ry,” following wit ; Wite” and The Greeks Had Word For It.” While playing x the stage in “Experience preete attracted the stm tion of Hollywood producers “a engaged her to play i : scraper Souls.” More age y' appeared in “Fashions . “Roman Scandals,” Goo Love,” “Payment Deferred “Luxury Liner.” Miss’ Teasdale is an — lished singer and has done siderable such work for the : She is a cousin of the late Teasdale and of Edith one of America’s novelists. 1 foreme