Broad Minded (Warner Bros.) (1931)

Dumb-bell—What A Laff! NOT ALL COLLEGE ATHLETES PLAY FOOTBALL, SAYS JOE BROWN, GRAD OF “UNIVERSITY OF HARD KNOCKS” Joe E. Brown, Now At Theatre in “‘Broad Minded,” First National Comedy, Dilates On His Bush League Baseball Days (Short Feature) Joe E. Brown, now at the Theatre in ‘‘Broad Minded,’’ the First National comedy, refutes the common opinion that all college athletes punt the pigskin and that the only universities are those on the educational roster. “‘My alma mater was the good old University of Hard Knocks and my major was the grand and glorious game of Christy Mathewson and Babe Ruth. Of course, I wasn’t in their class exactly but I played around a lot as an amateur, a semi-professional and even a professional—doing the slideKelly-slide on every diamond around my old home town of Toledo, Ohio. “T eventually landed with the St. Yaul team of the Americans—clowning more than clouting—and then the Yankees took me on—and I did a sort of Altrock and Schank act for the amusement of the fans—baseball is my game which doesn’t mean that I don’t go goofy with the rest over the game that was glorified by Knute Rockne. “One of the most interesting young athletes I know is Douglas Gilmore whom I met here on the First National lot. He is a Notre Dame man who played football there but, oddly enough, never got beyond his dormitory team. ‘Whenever I wear my sweater and people notice the ND they assume that I was a football player, Gilmore told me. ‘They forget that Notre Dame has good basketball and baseball teams that beat the best in Western conferences. They have good fencing and golf, too, pretty fair tennis and swell box ing. Pretty,x0d =————"™ dt the butire—nreyer—ts— watery) ame ee rested in those teams. We can’t = all_play football, not all of us want ~ to, and it’s better to participate in a sport you like and are proficient in, than to break your neck trying to make a football player of yourself merely to get some fame—’ ” Joe E. Brown has other reasons for fame beside his baseball prowess. He was first of all a trapeze man, a member of the Five Ashtons that toured the country for years. He made ’em howl with his antics on the vaudeville and musical comedy stage—and last of all he won the talkie fans in such films as “Sally,” “Hold Everything,” “Top Speed,” “Maybe It’s Love,” “Going Wild” and last and most uproarious of all, “Broad Minded.” Joe E. is supported in “Broad Minded” by Ona Munson, William Collier, Jr., Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Thelma Todd, Grayce Hampton, Bela Lugosi and George Grandee. The comedy is from an original story by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. Mervyn Le Roy directed. HE cries for them —sighs for them — willing to die for them until one girl gives him the chance! Here’s your chance to forget your troubles laughing at his! He’s wilder — crazier — funnier than ever! A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE HIT Says Self Assurance Is Best Asset For Young Player “Broad Minded’ Crew Go Into Huddle-Hunt For The Elusive Gag (Current Story) Joe E. Brown now at the ______ Theatre in “Broad An unique contest was staged at Minded,” his most hysterical First National studios in search for fs Ge Sbdetenuee is ss the funniest things that could hapconsidered the. most valuable pen at a grownups’ baby party for use in Joe E. Brown’s starring vehicle “Broad Minded,” which Mervyn Le Roy directed and which is now at the Theatre. With many perfectly good ideas to start with, Le Roy asked for suggestions from the east and the writers at the studio and from them chose the most original and amusing. And this is the reason the baby party sequence has proved to be one of the funniest sequences in Joe E. Brown’s funniest picture. asset for a young player, answered without hesitation, “Self Assurance !” Joe, who began his theatrical career as an acrobat, went on to say “I remember once at the very top of a pyramid of the ‘Five Marvellous Ashtons’ I lost assurance, fell and broke my leg. If I had kept the certainty in myself, it wouldn’t have happened. “I am sure that is the reason for what success I have had in pictures. I went into them heart and soul. When I had completely sold myself on myself, things began to come my way!’ “Broat. Minded” features Ona Munson ait William Collier, Jr. Mervyn Le Roy directed. The cast supporting the star includes William Collier Jr., Ona Munson, Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Thelma Todd, Margaret Livingston, Grayce Hampton, Bela Lugosi and George Grandee. $< Joe E. Brown Startles Film Colony By Speaking Jap (Current Reader) Hollywood screen players, in these days of talking pictures, brag a lot about the gift of tongues, but Joe E. Brown speaks Japanese—at least Joe calls it that—in a side-splitting sequence of his latest First National starring vehicle, “Broad Minded” which is now at the Theatre. “Broad Minded” was directed by Mervyn Le Roy with a supporting cast including Ona Munson, William Collier, Jr., Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Thelma Todd, Grayce Hampton and Bela Lugosi. ; WOMEN WOMEN EVERY WHERE J a ‘a BUT NOT "A ONE A TO yKiss ! MINDED with ONA MUNSON WILLIAM COLLIER MARJORIE WHITE Cut No. x Cut goc Mat roc SALT LAKE BEAUTY SUPPORTS J. BROWN IN “BROAD MINDED” (Biography, May 15, 1931) Margaret Livingston, who is cast as a modern jazz girl in “Broad Minded,” the Warner Bros. comedy starring Joe E. Brown, now at the Theatre, was born and educated in her home town and went to Hollywood without stage training, took a chance, and soon found herself playing with Thomas H. Ince in such pictures as “Lying Lips,” “Wandering Husbands,” and “House of a Thousand Candles.” She was for two years under contract with another company and since that time has been successful at free lancing. Among her later pictures are “One Hour,” “Wheel of Chance,” “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” “The Canary Murder Case,” “The Office Scandal,” “The Last Warning” and “Broad Minded.” Miss Livingston is five feet three inches tall, weighs one hundred and sixteen pounds and has blue eyes and red-brown hair. She is of the athletie type, her favorite activities being tennis and swimming. a : pan ae liam Corti ——st | directed. SIGNS DOTTED LINE AS COMEDY GAG Joe E. Brown, now at the See Theatre as the star of the First National comedy, “Broad Minded,” replied, when asked whether he was satisfied with his new contract “Well, I got just about what I wanted eventually. “After I had signed on the dotted line the big boss said ‘Satisfied, Joe?’ I said I was. ‘Got everything in it you wanted in it?’ he asked again. I said I had. ‘Well then boys, said the big boss, ‘Meet the greatest comedian on earth!’ ” Featured in support of Joe E. Brown are Ona Munson, William Collier, Jr., Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Liv ingston, Thelma Todd, Grayce Hampton, Bela Lugosi and George Grandee. Mervyn Le Roy directed. “Broad Minded” Star Has Ten Close Clips in Film (Current Reader) : Joe E. Brown, star of First Na tional’s “Broad Minded” which is now at the Theatre, was forced to get ten haireuts during the production of the film to keep his hair the same length in all scenes, which were not shot in the exact sequence in which they appear on the sereen. Mervyn Le Roy directed “Broad Minded” while the supporting cast includes Ona Munson, Wil REE ee Margaret Living OG RE) Holmes He vnert, and Bela T Director Shoots Two Sequences In One Shot In Gay ‘Broad Minded’ (Current Story) Shooting two sets at once with the same players was one of the new ideas used by Mervyn Le Roy in filming Joe E. Brown’s new First National starring vehicle, “Broad Minded” now at the Theatre. In this way the scene builds up to a natural climax which heightens the comic effect. It starts in a hotel room, Several cameras are trained on the players in the ordinary way. Then the players leave the room. In the hallway are other cameras which pick up the players the moment they leave the inner room. Meanwhile the cameras inside are shut off. Additional action takes place in the hall, then there is a quick exit down the hall. All but one camera are shut off and that camera mounted on a perambulator follows the players down the hall. ston, Thelm), Todd, Grayce Hampton agosi. Mervyn Le Hoy Two-Time Discovery Marks Rise To Fame Of Fair Ona Munson Miss Munson Supports Joe E. Brown In “Broad Minded,”’ First National Comedy, Now at Theatre. (Advance Story) Ona Munson, who is playing the feminine lead opposite Joe E. Brown in his First National starring vehicle “Broad Minded,” coming to the See eee Theatre has been twice discovered. next, She was only eight when she wrote to a stage producer in New York and offered to take the Helen Hayes role in “Daddy Long Legs.” She got no answer. Ona was in her teens when her mother brought her from Portland, Oregon, to New York and she started dancing under the famous Tarasoff. Six months later Gus Edwards, in search of a ehild for one of his revues, discovered her and while with him she received an offer from George White to understudy Ann Pennington. Her stage career was clear sailing from that time on and she played in many musical shows on Broadway, as a specialty dancer and singer among them. She being in “Manhattan Mary,” “No, No, Nanette,” “Tip-Toes,” “Twinkle, Twinkle”’—with Joe E. Brown—and “Hold Everything.” Talking pictures had been in for two years and Miss Munson had never considered the possibility of playing in them until one day First National officials approached her and asked her to make a Vitaphone short subject. This washer second discovery and she was rushed to Hollywood for the feminine lead in “Going Wild” with Joe E. Brown. Along Aerm contract, with the i wep a en promise that she was Deimg gtvumea-—~ for stardom, followed. “Broad Minded” is a mad comedy in which Joe E. Brown serves as the guardian of William Collier, Jr., a girl-crazy young man. The others in the supporting cast are Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Bela Lugosi, Thelma. Todd, Grace Hampton, George Grandee and Margaret. Livingston. Mervyn Le Roy directed. Ona Munson was never more de lightful than as Constance in “Broad Minded.” FEAST oF FUN. AND ROMANCE! The effect has been to eliminate the] | slightest suggestion of jerkiness and gives a complete scene built up to a climax which is a great necessity, |! especially in comedy. The cast supporting Joe E. Brown includes Ona Munson, William Collier Jr., Marjorie White, Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Thelma Todd, Grayce Hampton, Bela Lugosi and George Grandee. JOE TRIES OUT HIS WIT ON HIS TERRIER (Advance Reader) Joe E. Brown used to try out his lines for stage plays “on the dog,” which in stage parlance means a tryout in a small town, but on the screen it is different, once a line is recorded it can’t be changed without great difficulty. Joe says that he still tries ’em out on the dog, literally—on his own dog—who is a sensitive creature, reacting to his moods easily. Joe’s latest starring vehicle for First National is “Broad Minded” which comes to the Theatres. . c: Mervyn Le Roy directed. JOE E. BROWN MINDED Wilder than “Going Wild.” Crazier than “Sit Tight.” A laff-combination hard to beat! with ONA MUNSON WM. COLLIER, JR. MARJORIE WHITE Cut No.8 Cut 20c Mat 5c Page Seven