Captain Blood (Warner Bros.) (1935)

MS Gaek. Beautiful young film star, Olivia de Havilland, as she appears in the — Cosmopolitan production ‘‘Captain Blood’’ which opens at the Theatre on Mat No. 206—20c By FRANCIS HEACOCK OLIVIA De HAVILLAND An Impertinent Portrait Olivia de Havilland isn’t afraid to tell her age. She’s just past eighteen. Excepting the fact that she was born in Tokyo, Japan, she lived the life of a quite normal person up until a year ago, when things suddenly started happening to her, including her assignment to the role of Hermia in ‘‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’’ and later being cast for the feminine lead in mammoth Cosmopolitan production, ‘‘ Captain Blood,’’ now showing at the Theatre as a First National re lease. Miss de Havilland, while quite grown up in many ways, is still something of a child in others, for she treasures a doll. She hasn’t a flower garden because she knows that if she had she’d want to pick the blooms. ‘¢And that’s wicked,’’ she declared. ‘‘They’re too beautiful.’’ She doesn’t save string, but she used to. She doesn’t remember ever having seen a real king, but she has seen the Emperor of Japan, which, she thinks, is just as good. She likes home-made jelly and she eats an apple, baked or otherwise, every day, but not because she thinks it will keep the doctor away. She speaks pig-latin and she likes corn on the cob, but she wan’t do card tricks. She’s never thrown anything into the Grand Canyon. *<As a matter of fact,’’ she confessed, ‘‘I’ve never been there.’’ She hates goldfish but she loves old book stores and watermelon. She reads the books critics recommend and she has _ bobbed for apples, but she doesn’t have the faintest idea of how to milk a cow. She doesn’t believe weather forecasts; she’s been fooled by them too many times. She never says ‘‘money, money, money’’ when she sees a falling star. She doesn’t smoke. She hates chicken giblets, liver and kidneys too. She loves rainy weather, but thunder storms terrify her. She heard a zither once, in a moving picture, and she can name ten present rulers. She’s never been thrown from a horse, which, she says, is surprising. She likes the smell of fresh paint, but she never follows murder trials in the newspapers. She likes fudge sundaes, but she can’t read a stock market ticker tape. She can’t talk with her hands. She doesn’t laugh at acrobats. She holds her breath. She has an alarm clock, but it doesn’t work and she has never painted chinaware. She loves onion soup, but she usually manages to restrain herself. She has never ridden in an ambulance, but she once experienced a 60-mile-an hour ride in a police car. She writes poetry. When she comes to a fence, she is always tempted to climb over, but usually she crawls under. She has her doubts about there being such a thing as a Grunion. ‘*T haven’t any of either,’’ she explained. She can’t whistle through her fingers and she doesn’t like to hear a clock tick. She has never ridden in the caboose of a freight train, but she’s game to try it some time. In ‘‘Captain Blood,’’ Miss de Havilland plays the part of un aristocratic young lady who falls in love with a gentlemanly pirate. _ oe ee oe Stalker Of Head Hunters Quails Before Camera Real dangers mean less than nothing to Errol Flynn, who. has the title role in the Cosmopolitan production, ‘‘Captain Blood,’’ now showing at the ..................... ; Theatre, but ‘‘reel’’ bugaboos are horses of another color to the youthful six-foot star. He fought for the world’s amateur heavyweight championship at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928, but the cool silence of a movie crew when he has finished a scene, gives him buck ague. While a member of the insular constabulary force in New Guinea, he daily fought wild tribesmen and outlaws, but prefers that tenfold to viewing the daily film rushes in which he appears. Once he was marooned on an island, a victim of malaria, tsetse flies and hunger, but it was a picnic to him compared to facing a barrage of autograph hounds at a film premiere or making a microphone speech for the occasion. He stalked head hunters in South Africa with a movie camera, prospected for gold in the tropical jungles of New Guinea, deep-sea dived for pearls, but the director’s, ‘‘Let’s make another take, please Mr. Flynn,’’ upsets him for the whole day. ‘(And last but not least,’’ he says, ‘‘I cannot get used to shoptalk at Hollywood parties. So give me a quiet little lion hunt or a first class revolution and maybe I’ll be able to relax.’’ ‘“Captain Blood’’ is a mammoth production of the powerful drama and thrilling romance of gentlemen pirates by Rafael Sabatini. There is an all star cast which includes Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Robert Barrat and hundreds of others. Michael Curtiz directed the picture from the screen play by Casey Robinson. Find Sugar Cane Field For Slave Film Plantation California is vindicated. But by a very narrow squeak. The boast that the pictures can find anything they need in California almost came a cropper when Director Michael Cuurtiz needed a sugar cane field. One of the important portions of ‘‘Captain Blood,’’ the Cosmopolitan picture released by First National now showing at the iuciersttasisi apa EO, IN TAM 10 Jamaica. There are many scenes in and about a slave plantation and its cane fields. After a search that covered all of Southern California, a single field was discovered near the town of Corona. The First National technical department constructed the buildings and entire background to duplicate a Jamaican plantation, and filmed this section of the picture right on the location. ‘*Captain Blood’’ is Rafael Sabatini’s smashing tale of the sea rovers of the seventeenth century, set in a massive and colorful background and produced on a tremendous scale. There is an all star east which includes Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee, Robert Barrat and hundreds of others. The sereen play is by Casey Robinson. 7 7 Careers Of ‘Captain Blood’ Stars Like A Fairy Tale Errol Flynn And Olivia De Havilland Leap To Fame Over Night You’ve read this story before—in romantic books. It’s about a little unknown girl who became a film star almost overnight. It’s about an adventurous young Irishman who, after roaming the world seeking excitement, played a bit in a picture, and then a few more bits in other pictures, and who finally was given the most coveted role in Hollywood. You’ve read the story in magazines hundreds of times. You didn’t believe it, because it was fiction. This isn’t a fiction story, although the plot is as old as the film industry. The characters are real people. The girl is Olivia de Havilland, who until a year ago was a high school student in Saratoga, California. The young Irishman is Errol Flynn, boxer for England in the 1928 Olympie games, pearl fisherman, sailor and New Guinea gold prospector. They were the most bewildered and envied couple in Hollywood when Miss de Havilland was chosen to play the part of ‘‘ Arabella’’ in Rafael Sabatini’s ‘‘ Captain Blood’’ and Flynn to play ‘‘Captain Peter Blood,’’ the swashbuckling hero, in this mammoth Cosmopolitan spectacle now showing at the .. . Theatre as a First National release. Why were these two given the roles that every young actress and actor in Hollywood wanted? Shakespeare, though he has been dead these many years, was -responsible in Miss de Havilland’s ease, although she has a world of talent, a beautiful face and figure and a burning ambition to act. Just after she graduated from high school she heard that Max Reinhardt was seeking players for his Hollywood Bowl and San Francisco productions of ‘‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’’ She sought him out and was made understudy to the understudy of Gloria Stuart. Miss Stuartstepped out of the play because of picture work. So did the understudy. Miss de Havilland became ‘‘ Hermia.’’ When Reinhardt was signed to direct the film version of the Shakespearian comedy, he insisted that Miss de Havilland play ‘*Hermia.’’ She did. She jumped from Shakespeare to Ring Lard ner, playing opposite Joe E. Brown in ‘Alibi Ike.’’ Next came ‘‘ The Irish “In -Us*” Then she was tested for ‘‘Arabella.’?’ Other young actresses, some of them already stars, were tested. Miss de Havilland won. Love of adventure won the part for Flynn. In 1928, when Flynn, son of an Irish college professor, represented England as a boxer in the Olympic games at Amsterdam, he did not dream of being an actor. He wanted to travel and he did. From Amsterdam he went to Australia seeking excitement. He moved on to New Guinea and hunted for gold and copra. Im that out of the way place he came upon a film company engaged in making a picture and was engaged as a guide. With the company he went to Tahiti and played a part in the film. That part won for him an offer from an English film studio. First National saw him and he was brought to Hollywood. Little fuss was made over him when he arrived at the film capital. Many handsome young men have come to Hollywood to play a few parts and then drop into oblivion. — There are exceptions. Sometimes the fans see in that bit player an overwhelming personality and demand that they see more of him. That’s what happened in Flynn’s ease. He was tested for ‘‘ Captain Blood’’ and was given the part. ‘‘Captain Blood’’ is a mammoth production of the powerful drama and thrilling romance of gentlemen pirates by Rafael Sabatini. Besides Flynn and Miss de Havilland, the cast includes Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Robert Barrat and hundreds of others. Michael Curtiz directed the picture from the screen play by Casey Robinson. Bucolic Buccaneers el English village patriots sold as slaves, revolt and become pirates in the persons of Guy Kibbee (center) David Torrence and Robert Barrat in Cosmopolitan’s million dollar production of adventure on the high seas, ‘‘Captain Blood,’’ which First National will release at PS Theatre on Mat No. 212—200