Action in the North Atlantic (Warner Bros.) (1943)

(Advance Humphrey Bogart Feature) It's A New Trend in Movies: Bogart Wins Girl—and Keeps Her! Humphrey Bogart, whitecoated and _ soft-hearted in “Casablanea,” and heroic and resourceful in “Action in the North Atlantic,” the Strand Theatre’s new film, can now look back complacently on a career of crime on the screen that is probably unequalled in the annals of Hollywood. Bogart started his current picture career as a hunted criminal and the taint of that “Petrified Forest” role stuck with him more or less through all the time he has worked in pictures. For years he had few respectable roles and then, seven or eight pictures ago, his assignments changed; softened, in a way, and began to feature a new Bogart—a Bogart who had his human weaknesses but who operated within the law. From the security of his position as the great lover and good fellow of ‘Casablanca,’ Bogart can look back on a career that ineluded at least twelve prison terms, shown or intimated, at least nine well deserved and violent deaths, including one by poison and one in a lion’s cage, eight losing gun battles and numerous indignities such as beatings by Edward G. Robinson and several clashes with other screen toughies including James Cagney and George Raft in which he almost always played the losing role. Loves Fourteen.Times To give Baddie Bogey some slight recompense for his screen misfortunes, a check of his many pictures shows that he has been a lover, of sorts, at least fourteen times and that in ten of these romances writers and directors have permitted him to win the girl of his choice and live happily ever after. He has loved and lost Bette Davis twice, once in “Marked Woman’”’ and once in “Dark Victory,” but after giving Mary Astor to the police in “Maltese Falcon,” he managed to save her for himself in “Across the Pacific.” In “Casablanca,” Bogart was again the loser in love. He sent the tempting Ingrid Bergman out of the maelstrom of European war and politics to America with her husband, played by Paul Henreid, in spite of the fact that Bogart loved her and that she had indicated that she would stay with him if he would help her husband escape for the good of the world. This, according to unofficial records, is the only time actor Bogart has objected to losing the leading lady, even in fun. Bogie Objects “It just doesn’t ring true,” he said. “Miss Bergman is the kind of a lady that no man would give up willingly, even to the tune of a lot of high sounding philosophy. But that was the story and I had to let her slide right out of my arms.” However Mr. Bogart, in his dilemma, may get some comfort out of the fact that more and more often he is being allowed to win the lady in the final reel of his pictures. He keeps the woman of his choice in “Action in the North Atlantic,” although he has considerable trouble saving his own life to come back to her from the American Merchant Marine. The lady of his choice, incidentally, is the beauteous Julie Bishop, who is playing her first starring role. But he is saved. In fact he has swallowed his opponents lead in but one of his last six pictures. 18 Still AA 645; Mat 206—30c Humphrey Bogart is co-starred with Raymond Massey and Alan Hale in Warner Bros.’ saga of the men of our Merchant Marine, “Action in the North Atlantic.” Bogart is cast as the first mate on a Liberty Ship which braves the hazardous route to Murmansk with a cargo of vital war supplies in his latest picture, Strand Theatre. opening Friday at the (Advance Lloyd Bacon Feature) A-c-t-i-o-n Keynotes Lloyd Bacon's Pictures When Director Lloyd Bacon yells “faction” he sees that he gets it. An excellent case in point is “Action in the North Atlantic,” the Strand Theatre’s next attraction, which opens Friday, about the heroic men of the United States Merchant Marine. For action is the keynote of every moment of this story of the men who go down to the sea in ships and risk their lives to battle submarines, planes and the elements to deliver war supplies to our fighting fronts. Direct, forthright action has been Lloyd Bacon’s guiding principle since he started to learn his business in the old school of silent comedies with Broncho Billy Anderson in 1915. When war broke out shortly afterwards, he enlisted in the United States Navy, and quickly advanced from enlisted man to the rank of Lieutenant. His stint in the Navy only whetted his fondness for action. Worked for Chaplin Leaving the Navy after the Armistice, Bacon worked for Charlie Chaplin, later directed the Lloyd Hamilton comedies, and from there went with Mack Sennett and Universal. This was Mat 106—15c Raymond Massey a lively and exacting school, and it was there he learned that the pictures most popular with audiences were those in which something happened on the screen every minute. Lloyd Bacon joined the Warner Bros. Studio in 1925, bringing two great assets with him. One was his knack of getting action onto celluloid. The other was his fondness for the Navy. Since then Bacon has started several trends in picture popularity, probably the most important of which is his series of pictures with Navy themes. Among them are “Here Comes The Navy,” “Devil Dogs of the Air,” “Submarine D-1” and “Wings of the Navy.” Among his other hit productions are Al Jolson’s “Singing Fool,” which dates back to 1929, “Moby Dick,” “Footlight Parade,” “Forty-Second Street,” “The Irish in Us,” “Boy Meets Girl,” “Knute Rockne,” “Navy Blues” and “Wings for the Eagle.” Director Bacon, now a Lieutenant-Commander in the United States Naval Reserve, was a veritable one-man recruiting office during the filming of “Action in the North Atlantic.” He was so good that, during production, Lieutenant Blanchard, in charge of the Navy’s Los Angeles recruiting office presented him with a card honoring him as the leading naval recruiter in Southern California. The director has sent nearly 100 men to the Navy since Pearl Harbor. (Note to Showmen) : Sall Service Stills available on most of the scene cuts on the publicity pages in this campaign plan. Price: 10c each. Order by still number indicated under each cut, from Campaign Plan Editor, 321 West 44 St., New York 18, N. Y. If still number is not given, photo is not available because the cut was made from a special retouch or a composite. (*Asterisk denotes still is available at the local Vitagraph Exchanges. ) (Current Reader) In Re: SOS8 An old reliable has just exploded. “S O S” does not stand for “Save Our Ship” or “Save Our Souls.” Actually it is just a series of dots and dashes which are easy to make and send in an emergency. Lieutenant Felix Reisenberg, Jr., technical adviser during the production of Warner Bros.’ saga of the Merchant Marine, “Action in the North Atlantic,” now at the Strand Theatre, is the authority for this. (Advance Julie Bishop Feature) Change in Name Started Julie Bishop on New Career When Julie Bishop wanted to start a new career she had no chance of following Horace Greeley’s advice. She couldn’t “po “west; young woman, because she already was in Hollywood which is almost as far to the west as it is possible to get and stay in America. So Julie started over again without benefit of a move. Instead she changed her name—to Julie Bishop—and also changed her “type.” She dropped the “sweetyoung-thing” attitude on the screen and signed a new long term contract with Warner Bros., a studio where she had never worked before. As Jacqueline Wells, Miss Bishop had had a fairly successful career in motion pictures. But the roles given her had not been of the sort into which she could “sink her pretty teeth,” as a friend described it. But she has had plenty of dentine exercise lately. Mat 107—15c Julie Bishop Cast Opposite Bogart She plays the sweetheart and wife of Humphrey Bogart in “Action in the North Atlantic,” opening at the Strand Friday, and got well tinged with smoke and soot for her trouble. But that fitted into the pretty actress’ plans and she readily agreed to play a role more energetic and down to earth than any she had previously attempted. An assignment opposite Bogart is good evidence in Holly wood that an actress is destined for early stardom. Joan Leslie started her early climb to the top spot in pictures in Bogart productions. Ann Sheridan was teamed with Bogart in the early days of her career at Warner Bros. and the two of them arrived at top billing about the same time. Julie Bishop’s particular type of beauty—which is very considerable — serves equally well for “sweet-young-thing” and the more worldly roles. She, herself, believes there is more room near the top in motion pictures for the girls who can emote successfully on the screen and who do not rely entirely upon youth. ful beauty to get ahead. Perhaps in this she is thinking mostly of Bette Davis and Ida Lupino, fellow actresses on the Warner Bros. lot who got where they are through roles that were “meaty,” to say the least. 110 Pounds of Energy She represents 110 pounds of red-haired energy, determined and apparently destined to go places in pictures. Because she has been in Hollywood for most of her adult years, Julie knows the steps customarily taken by actresses in reaching the goal for which she aims. She is well equipped for special art, that of the “leg” variety and, with her lovely high coloring, that taken by Technicolor cameras as well. She has posed for hundreds of portraits and still pictures and is a favorite “pin-up” girl with the men of the various services. But as the wife of the merchant mariner, Bogart, in “Action in the North Atlantic,” she does more for her future than in any or perhaps all of her previous roles. Still AA 14*; Mat 205—30c Rescued after eleven days afloat in the North Atlantic, surviving crew members of the torpedoed tanker, ‘“Northern Star,” are interviewed for the news reels. The men are, left to right, Alan Hale, Dane Clark, Peter Whitney, Raymond Massey, captain; Dick Hogan, Bill Crago, news reel reporter; and Humphrey Bogart, first mate. Scene from Warner Bros.’ “Action in the North Atlantie.”” now the feature attraction at the Strand Theatre.