Bright Lights (Warner Bros.) (1930)

vi ANOTHER GREAT ROLE FOR NOAH BEERY, __ WHOSE NAME IS A BIG ATTRACTION! $40,000 RESEARCH EXPENSE FILMING Brief Biographies of the Principal Characters in “Bright Lights” and Half-Column Program Cuts and Mats for Your Use | Dorothy Mackaill Frank Noah in Fay Beery “Bright 3 in Lights” ae “Bright Lights” Lights” Cut No. 9 Cut 15c Mat Sc Cut No. 10 Cut No. 11 Cut 5c ates ee Mat Sc at Sc Biography of DOROTHY MACKAILL Dorothy Mackaill s born in ; Hull, Yorkshire, En snd, on a FRANK pot stormy March 4th. Tk ,year? In| When Frank Fay was signed for Miss Mackaill’s own “language,| tne movies, it brought him back to “Why bring that up?” his native California, for he was At the age of ten Dorothy decided| born in San Francisco. He was to be a bare-legged dancer and make| Orn to the theatre. His mother old men in the front row nervous.|.22d father were both on the stage After attending the Thorne Acad-| 20d he grew up behind the footemy in London her first ambition| lights. He made his first profeswas realized. when she joined the| Sional appearance when seven years chorus at the London Hippodrome old as one of the “babies” in “Babes and danced bare-legged and made| i2 Toyland.” old men nervous. Between times| A Subtle sense of humor and pleas3 ; ; ing personality soon attracted attenshe Dieve Eneuse Pare: tion to the red-haired youngster. He She went to Paris and appeared) jest dramatic plays for the revue in the same company with Maurice | and musical comedy field. FollowChevalier. Here she played in a| ing many successful seasons in New French film. York he was persuaded to try a dif ferent medium and he became a Derouh yee need “New-York « ndexiile headiiner.. While mactée and Flo Ziegfeld. She got a job in| of ceremonies in St. Louis at the Biogra phy of Biography of NOAH BEERY Although not generally known, Noah Beery was once a leading man in operas. That, however, was 20 years ago, before the low-voiced actor entered the movies. Beery, brother of Wallace Beery, was born in Kansas City, Mo. Like his brother he early showed a taste for theatricals and began playing with Wild West shows. Vaudeville was a natural step from these tanbark troupes. As a singing cowboy he surprised™audienees by his fine bass voice. This brought him to the musical stage and he was featured in “Aida,” “Il Trovatore,” and other popular grand operas. He also played iw “ramas and musical comedies. rail of the Lonesome Pine” anf “Way Down East” MUSICAL DRAMA pert to Insure Realism of Various Locales. Biography of (Advance News Feature) EDDIE NUGENT “Bright Lights,” First National’s Eddie Nugent is the son of Ed-|all-Technicolor dramatic “special” ward Nugent, stage manager and| Which is coming to the.......... ‘ ; : F Theatre is a tight: fir as é preduces Hip fitat genes es packed, high-tension drama with gained in his father’s stock com-| 4 otion covering only a few hours of pany in Yonkers, N. Y. time. Eddie was born in New York City| Yet period and geographical re ; i he smart mas Edison and|Se@rch occasioned by t end obese ted at Sune tricks of the author, Humphrey Holy Cross schools. He came to Pearson, in giving his audience Hollywood as an actor in Sid Grau-| something new in the screen story man prologues and worked as a|line, cost the company $40,000.00 in stunt man in the movies between | Tesearch. ; 3 ; The investment is worth while, times. With other jobs scarce, he judged by the acclaim Dorothy became a laborer in a studio, but his Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery, antics and remarks were funny|Frank McHugh, Daphne Pollard, enough to attract the directors and|James Murray, Inez Courtney and other favorites in the big cast are he was made a gag man. earning, along with the picture. He was selected to play a role] peargon’s trick was this. The in “Our Dancing Daughters” and|story begins on the eve of the marmade good as an actor. “The Bel-|riage of a Broadway revue star to lamy Trial” and “Loose Ankles” the scion of a wealthy Family, She is telling reporters of her quiet life. were other pictures. His most reA few hours later a murder has cent film effort was as the press|been committed, lives are at stake, agent in First National’s “Bright and oe drama comes to a high-tenseehienes sion close. eee SOW AE ee “| But—listen! As she relates her atre. story to reporters, “flashes” of her past life, giving the story she is telling the lie, appear on the screen. There is humor and drama as her Vitaphone talking description of.her “quiet life on a little farm in England” fades into a scene of the dancer in the pia te ele o. © 668 ene D Siri AN! Begins lowest sort of African dive, shak ing a muscle dance, while the man fone | WO Dad . becomes sheresfarfamed 7 ep ies, Se, |“master-of-ceremonies” is “barkOF ing” for her. < o£ . Shubert’s revivaLof<“Floradora”_and| Missouri Theatre he married Bar— — fy ig ‘successes. |= ee _ << ae ee ad 0 ee wed HSH ens eae is Os ee Ass > We % . _ voice for a villain, being} pawin Carewe, the film director,|__ While master of ceremonies at the able to sing much lower in the scale : : Fiat GST Sclors. saw wee ene gave ner a Dee in = During the past year he has played | film, “Mighty Lak’ a Rose.” This mostly in First’ National pictures.| part got her others with Richard He appeared for this company in} Barthelmess in “The Fighting “The Isle of Lost Ships,” “Murder Blade” ‘ A an a E Will Out,” “Song of the Flame,” 51 qo a Wee aS _— “Sin Flood” and others. Most’ re-| P4#ye@ in other pictures in Hollycently he appeared in “Bright} Wood and New York with indifferent Lights,” all-technicolor melodrama] success. With customary impulwith Dorothy Mackaill and Frank} siveness, she tore up her contract, Fay at the Theatre. much to the relief of the producer. ‘ She bobbed her hair for a role in Biography of “Chickie,” her initial First National INEZ COURTNEY picture. Then came “Subway Sa“Mosquito” is the picturesque die,” met first with Jack Mulhall. nickname of Inez Courtney, dancing | By this time Dorothy had carved a film comedienne. She is also known | niche for herself in filmdom. She affectionately as “St. Vitus” and] was made. She thinks “The Bark “Li ing”’ a mall ” aoe : : Lightning” because of her s er” and “His Captive Woman” were size and quick movements. Inez was born in Amsterdam, New her best. She is by nature a comediYork. Her father died when she} enne, but these pictures gaye her was fifteen and she went to New| dramatic roles. “Strictly Modern” York City with the idea of becoming] ang “The Flirting Widow” are an actress... She did get a place in among her recent pi vaudeville and toured the United e x Beene 18 States with the company. At the as appearing in “Bright Lights,” age of sixteen she did a specialty her initial musical production, at the dance in “Snapshots,” a Broadway Theatre. hit. After that came “Sweet Lady,” “Polly” and “Spring is Here.” She came to Los Angeles with the “Good News” company and following its run was signed by First National to play in the Vitaphone version of “Spring is Here.” Her comedy was as welcome on the screen as On the stage and she was quickly cast in “Song of the Flame.” She es also played in “Loose Ankles.” after arriving in the movie city to “Bright Lights,” her latest pic. visit a friend, McHugh had started ture, is now at the. ..2.c..-. <; Thewore in his first picture, “Bright atre. Miss Courtney igs 5 feet, l inch Lights.” tall, weighs 100 pounds, and has| Every member of McHugh’s imblue eyes and brown hair. mediate family is at present connected with the stage. He was born in Homestead, Penn. Among. his best known New York productions were “The Fall Guy,” “Excess Baggage,” “Conflict,” and, most recently, Ziegfeld’s “Show Girl.” _ McHugh appears as a drunken reporter, the same type of role he played in “Show Girl,” in “Bright Lights,” First National picture at the Theatre. 605. 5b gee eae ele Biography of FRANK MCHUGH The success of Frank McHugh was one of the fastest of any of the players who came from New York to enter talkies. One week A eR E EWSIGHTS WIT Dorothy Mackaill Cut No. 19. Cut 20c. Mat Se Colt a iar a ex Sat eae aS Page Four _ partly exotic locale. Warner Brothers theater in Hollywood he was selected for the same kind of part in “The Show of Shows.” Following this picture he was featured in “Under a Texas Moon.” Then First National cast him in his third all-color film, “Bright Lights,” now at the Theatre. Fay has made his home in Hollywood and expects to devote most of his time to motion pictures in the future. He is six feet tall, weighs 180 pounds, and has red hair and blue eyes. Biography of DAPHNE POLLARD Daphne Pollard’s birthplace is not unusual, being right in New York from where most of the stage and screen players have come, However, her entrance into pictures was unusual. She played her first film role as a result of her ability to turn up her nose disdainfully in a way that brought laughs. Miss Pollard had a long career behind the footlights, before entering the flicker medium. She danced and sang in English music halls, vaudeville, and musical comedies. In New York she was featured several years in the Greenwich Village Follies. The actress started in pictures about ten years ago and played in many Mack Sennett comedies. “The Girl from Nowhere” and “Hit of the Show” are two of her recent efforts. She played in First National’s “Loose Ankles” and then for the same studio in “Bright Lights,” now at the Theatre. In this all-color film Miss Pollard has her first screen musical role. ee Best Heavy Role Noah Beery has one of his best “villain” roles in “Bright Lights,” a big special all-Technicolor film offering from First National at the Theater. Dorothy Mackaill is the heroine of the film, which is an all-star drama with a Se STIRRING with DorotHy MACKAILL Frank Fay Noah Beery Cut No. 21 Cut 20c Mat Se : ALL TECHNICOLOR A FIRST .NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE ——o—EESESE— FOUR SONG HITS IN “BRIGHT LIGHTS” There are four song hits and many popular tunes in First National’s all Technicolor musical drama, “Bright Lights,” now at the Theatre. Dorothy Mackaill and Frank Fay sing and dance the leading roles in this unusual Vitaphone story of a hula dancer. ey And so on through other colorful locales it traces the evolution of the future Broadway star and favorite master of ceremonies, at the same time laying the foundation for the startling climax of the plot on the eve of the star’s marriage. There is abounding romance as well as dramatic punch in “Bright Lights,” and from the African diamond-camp dive to the famous New York revue showgirls, chorus girls and girl entertainers of all kinds are shown variously, numerously and in detail. Good music and some fine dramatic episodes, beautiful in the Technicolor photography, are shown. Michael Curtiz, the famous Hungarian director, directed ‘Bright Lights,” and Henry McCarty collaborated with Pearson, the author, on dialogue and continuity of the story. Original music throughout was written by four noted songwriting teams, and many original dances as well as those accurately reproducing famous dances of the various story locales were devised by Larry Ceballos. Twelve technical experts, specialists in various phases of the subject matter and locales of “Bright Lights” were engaged for the picture. Biography of JAMES MURRAY James Murray held many jobs before getting a regular berth in the movies. He was insurance salesman, clerk, doorman, and manager of the Piccadilly Theatre in New York, his birthplace, before Hollywood lured him to the studios. He was an extra for several yéars and then Kins. Vidor, the director, plucked liim from the $7.50 per day players to portray the leading role in “The Crowd.” This picture made Murray. Afterwards ‘he appeared in “The Shakedown,” “Rose Marie,” “In Old Kentucky,” and “Thunder.” He appeared in one stage production, “The World We Live In.” Murray is married to Lucille McNames, a film actress. His most recent picture was “Bright Lights,” First National’s all-color melodrama at the Theatre. Ce ee ee er rd | | | “Bright Lights” Required Ex— ers