April in Paris (Warner Bros.) (1952)

Star Readers and —“Aprilin Paris’ CUNT IU ITAA INTC UU LUNA TT UNLOVE TT SUN DORIS DAY TAKES FIRST BATH! —IN MOVIE, THAT IS Doris Day feels that her career, which has been fabulous up to now, has passed a milestone, reached a pinnacle or entered some other significant phase. After five years in Hollywood, during which she has risen from relative obscurity to the heights of screen, radio and recording stardom, she gets to take her first bath on celluloid. This ablutionary innovation took place in “April in Paris,” Warner Bros. Technicolor musical in which she stars with Ray Bolger, an ambitious production which presents the blonde singing, dancing and dramatic actress as an earthy, uninhibited New York chorus girl. “April in PArise sOpeCH See tae taeee. at the HERDER re. Theatre. True enough, the bath that is the first Doris has ever taken on the screen is just a shower, hardly in a class with those DeMille tubbing spectacles, with bubbles, such as have befallen other movie queens. It’s done strictly for laughs and she goes into the spray with nearly all her clothes on. Other slapstick new to the Day career pops up in this picture, which David Butler directed and William Jacobs produced for the studio. Doris and Eve Miller, her rival for Bolger’s affections in the script, slug each other toe to toe in a riotous scene in which Bolger, as the innocent bystander, gets roughed up as badly as the girls. FRENCHMAN WO0S DORIS DAY IN "APRIL IN PARIS’ Every American girl who has seen them on the screen or stage probably wonders what it’s like to be wooed by some of those gay, dashing continentals whose dulcet tones are spiced with a beguiling accent. Doris Day recently found out in “April in Paris,” Warner Bros.’ Technicolor musical in which she stars with Ray Bolger. The film opens ...:.:..::...... at ENC, hse Theatre. In this picture, which David Butler directed and William Jacobs produced for the studio, she was avidly pursued by Claude Dauphin, star of the French screen and stage making his American comedy debut in the new screen offering. As a romantic continental, Dauphin fills the bill in every particular. A thoroughly masculine personality, his hair is interestingly gray, his eyes sparkling blue, his face is almost set in a quizzical smile and he has a low-key voice that is a blend of Charles Boyer and Maurice Chevalier. In his love-making with Doris, which will be envied and vicariously enjoyed by millions of impressionable females, Dauphin can really pour it on because the purpose of his torrid demonstration is to arouse the jealousy of Ray Bolger, “whose awkward American wooing is preferred by Doris. “You’ve got to admit it,” says Doris as the recipient of Claude’s most potent technique, ‘‘These Frenchmen are different.” Star Claude Dauphin In Film Men on the far side of forty who shudder at the thought of embarking on a new career should know about French screen and stage star Claude Dauphin, who is doing just that and taking it in stride. In his native France, Dauphin has been known for twenty-two years as a serious dramatic actor, the one who succeeded Charles Boyer. Now he’s making his bid for American film prestige as a featured song and dance comedian in; 3**April’ yin Paris,2...Warner Bros.’ Technicolor musical starring Doris Day and Ray Bolger, (2) eit OY cae id nea ad Theatre. Another amazing thing about Dauphin is that until five years ago he spoke no English. Until Warner Bros. tapped him for a role in this picture, Dauphin had never danced for public entertainment. Dance Director LeRoy Prinz, an enthusiast of terpsichore who believes that nearly anyone with two feet can be taught to dance, took over the matter of imbuing the French import with pedal rhythm and found an apt pupil with the enthusiasm of a juvenile. Dauphin does several lightfooted numbers in the film with Miss Day, although most of the important dancing is left to Bolger, who has been hoofing for public entertainment almost as long as Dauphin has not. HAA SHOCKING PINK PANTIES FOR TECHNICOLOR FILM By solemn decree of Warner Bros.’ top men, Doris Day’s Shocking Pink elastic pants are going to be at least partly shaded when she high-kicks for the movie customers in “April in Paris.” Ray Bolger also stars in the Warner Bros. film. Miss Day’s pants were conceived and designed by Leah Rhodes, a stately studio costume creator, who had been searching her thoughts for something special in the frothy Parisian style for a dance number performed by Doris in the Technicolor muSICK: OME ae ake ee at the ete ALS. an RRaae Theatre. “T remembered reading an article,” Miss Rhodes declared, “in which it was mentioned that Paris women were wearing below-the-knee panties to combat the cold and at the same time to maintain their chic. The pants were trimmed in fur and just enough of it showed below the dress to be interesting.” With no special thought for Miss Day’s warmth, but with an idea for an unusual Frenchy costume, Miss Rhodes set to work with her sketch pad and Shocking Pink pencil and came up with Doris’ new pants. “They’re made from the same kind of elastic lace that women wear in their pantie girdles,” Miss Rhodes explained. ‘They are tight-fitting, zippered, ruffled with chiffon around the bottoms, and sprinkled with sequins.” However, on second thought, studio executives decided that there was a limit to how far a star could go in tight-fitting pink pants, and this was it. So Miss Rhodes got out her sewing basket and tacked on four filmy panels of lavender organdie which were guaranteed to reduce the censorable, but not affect the startling qualities of the pink drawers. Claude Dauphin, popular French actor, makes his comedy debut in “April in Paris,” directed by David Butler. WARNER FILM HAS RAY BOLGER SAY IT IN GREEK Ray Bolger learned to speak Turkish, Greek, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese and other languages for his role in “April in Paris,” Warner Bros.’ Technicolor musical in which he stars with Doris Day. The comedy ‘is curently at the .............7. Theatre. Bolger is not taking the full tuition in these exotic tongues, just enough to exchange salutations with representatives of the various countries. In the picture, Bolger plays a dancing diplomat of the State Department and _ the official greeter for the United States at an international festival of the arts im Paris, Bolger acquired his various little... speeches _ phonetically, which means all he had to do was memorize Engish sounds and they left his mouth as foreign words. “Just 20 different ways of saying ‘Howdy!’,” he explained it. Country of origin U.S.A. Copyright 1952 Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corporation. All rights reserved. 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