Cheyenne (Warner Bros.) (1947)

TRIM! Still No. 663-23 UNAWARE . . . is JANE WYMAN in this somewhat candid scene from Warner Bros.’ romantic outdoor drama of old Wyoming, "Cheyenne," which opens at the Strand Theatre on Friday. Miss Wyman plays the role of a bandit's wife placed in the uncomfortable position of falling in love with her hus band's pursuer. MAT NO. 1G ‘CHEYENNE' TO STRAND ON FRIDAY (Advance Reader) Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Janis Paige and Bruce Bennett portray the leading roles in Warner Bros.’ romantic outdoor drama of old Wyoming, “Cheyenne,” which opens at the Strand Theatre on Friday. Other prominent players in the new adventure film include Alan Hale, Arthur Kennedy, John Ridgely, Baro n: M a cLane, Tom Tyler and Bob Steele. The screenplay was written by Alan LeMay and Thames Williamson from a story by=P-afusls tf. Wellman. Raoul Walsh directed “Cheyenne” and Robert Buckner produced for the company. MAT NO. IC Janis Paige EX-G.I. SEEKS SUITS Arthur Kennedy, recently dis: charged from the Army and currently heading a large cast of featured players in his first post-war film, Warner Bros.’ “Cheyenne,” the Dennis Morgan-Jane Wyman-Janis’ PaigeBruce Bennett starrer, coming to the Strand on Friday, had clothes problems similar to most servicemen. His shoulders and chest have increased in size to the point that he can’t wear any of his old jackets or coats. On several occasions he was forced to borrow clothes from the wardrobe department at Warners. DIRECTOR PREFERS FILM BULLETS TO ACTOR'S BANTER In keeping with the Hollywood habit of cataloguing people and things, motion picture directors are often classed categorically as, say, ‘‘“a woman’s director” or “a man’s director.” This indicates, of course, that one director has his greatest success with actresses and with movies that appeal strongly to women; while another director specializes in male stars and in cinematic virility in general. Such typing of directors (just as typing of performers) balances up preity equally when it comes to advantages and disadvantages. As a specialist in a certain type of film, a director not only wins fame but also wins the confidence of picture audiences who feel sure that he knows his particular business better than the next guy. The disadvantage, obviously, arises when a director is criticized for narrowing his field and obscuring his versatility. Certainly Raoul Walsh must head anybody’s list of “men’s directors.” He belongs in the group which includes such men as Lewis Milestone, Howard Hawks, and even Cecil B. DeMille. These men are paralleled in the other camp (the women’s field) by directors like Edmund Goulding, Irving Rapper, and George Stevens. Raoul Walsh’s actionful, lusty movies have long set the pace for screen masculinity. His success in this field is practically unparalleled. His 34 years in the picture business have been punctuated by vigorous, sweeping hits, which date back to “The Cock-Eyed World” and “What Price Glory?” He directed and played a small role in “In Old Arizona,” the first talking film to be made outdoors. Later came “The Roaring Twenties” and “They Died With Their Boots On.” More recently he directed Errol Flynn in-“Gentreman. Jim”. and “Opjective, Burma.” Now Walsh has just launched another action photoplay. It is Warner Bros.’ “Cheyenne,” at ‘CHEYENNE’ STAGE DANGEROUS Janis Paige lifted her shapely legs, placed them on a seat beside Dennis Morgan’s_ well creased trousers; then she took off her shoes. Jane Wyman haughtily looked on. The scene was the interior of a stagecoach for Warner Bros.’ “Cheyenne,” and the time was about 1870. Miss Paige plays the role of a dancehall girl. Miss Wyman is a western lady—of sorts. Dennis Morgan is a gentleman gambler—of sorts. The stagecoach joggled and Miss Paige’s feet kept bouncing against Morgan’s legs. The coach continued to joggle and Morgan fumbled a deck of playing cards which he was manipulating with a gambler’s dexterity, and they scattered on the floor. Miss Wyman, unruffled, was still haughty. Miss Paige reached for a vial of perfume (lily of the valley) in her purse. The stagecoach bounced. The contents of the purse were dumped on the floor. Morgan leaned over to help in the recovery. His hat fell off. Miss Paige stepped on it. Their heads clashed. “Cut!” said Director Raoul Walsh. “That’ll give you a gentle idea of the rigorous life suffered by our forefathers.” “Now let’s do it again,’ he said to the three players who are co-starred with Bruce Bennett in Warners’ latest western arriving at the Strand Theatre on Friday. the Strand Theatre, an outdoor drama of the 1870’s in Wyoming, starring Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Janis Paige and Bruce Bennett. Walsh was very happy about it. “This,” he said, “is my meat. Action—plenty of it. The script had everything that a _ good healthy motion picture should have, and that means gunplay and fistfights.” What’s more, the director was enthusiastic over the selection of Dennis Morgan for the protagonist. Walsh believes that Morgan is one of the few actors who appeals almost equally to both men and women. Arthur Kennedy and Alan Hale, also in “Cheyenne,” are two other performers who represent the kind of men whom Walsh likes to direct, and, by the same token, the kind of men whom he directs with the most success. Walsh pooh-poohs the suggestion that his specialization has rendered him a typed director. “What difference does it make?” he asks. ‘Michelangelo specialized, didn’t he? And so did Raphael, and so, too, did Proust. Conan Doyle specialized in murder. In other words, specialists are certainly as much men of talent as are men of varied accomplishments.” Some day, though, Raoul Walsh says he is going to direct a tender, tearful love story, with more conversation than action ang not sven one bivw struck or one gun fired. That'll be the day! oo WELLSFARGO AGENT Still No. 663-577 BRUCE BENNETT, the Wells Fargo express inspector in "Cheyenne, Warner Bros.’ new super-Western drama done on a superdramatic scale which opens at the Strand Theatre beginning Friday. Other important roles in this film story of old Wyoming, are Janis Paige, Alan Hale, and Arthur Kennedy. Jane Wyman and Dennis Morgan are the co-stars. MAT NO. 1K Still No. 663-585 ARMED . .. DENNIS MORGAN flashes a disarming grin in ''Cheyenne," the gun-smoking, action-packed Warner Bros.’ film drama of the 1870's in Wyoming, which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre. Jane Wyman co-stars with Morgan, with Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale, and Arthur Kennedy in important supporting roles. MAT NO. 2C IDOL OF BOBBY-SOXERS RATES ZERO AT HOME Dennis Morgan, the motion picture star, is their favorite mellow-man to a half-million bobby-soxers, but as an actor he’s strictly ceiling zero to his own kids. He admits it. His youngsters, Jim, Kristin and Stanley, aged three, eight and eleven respectively, stand united in relegating him to the dog-house as an actor. Their favorite star, to a kid, is Bill Boyd. “Stanley, my oldest belittler,” Morgan says, “hasn’t really liked me in a picture since ‘Bad Men of Missouri,’ in which I shot a gun every minute on the minute. That was four or five years ago. He was able to tolerate me in ‘God Is My CoPilot,’ because I not only shot guns all the time but flew a plane as I was shooting. “But most of my other pictures he classifies under ‘mush’ because of the love scenes. Love scenes are anathema to Stanley. He had no desire to see me in ‘One More Tomorrow’ in which I pitched heavy woo to Ann Sheridan and didn’t shoot even one person. He’ll like the one I just finished though, with Jane Wyman—‘Cheyenne.’ In this one I’m shooting it out with the bad men most the time.” Eight-year-old Kristin is a little more analytical in her criticism of Denny’s acting. “I notice,” she told him, “that when you get into trouble in motion pictures you just smile and suddenly the trouble vanishes. It’s wonderful how you do it but it isn’t very believable. And another thing, you do an awful lot of kissing in pictures. I’d rather see cowboys.” Jim, Dennis’ youngest, dismisses his dad simply. ‘‘You’re a ham,” Jim said recently. Morgan who is co-starred with Jane Wyman, Janis Paige and Bruce Bennett in the Warner film now at the Strand, doesn’t think Jim knows what he meant when he said this ... Morgan hopes! rently at the Strand. COWBOYS BALK AT SCREEN HORSEMANSHIP Shoot Up Screen The way Dennis Morgan mounted a horse for a scene in Warner Bros.’ ‘“‘Cheyenne” failed to please Director Raoul Walsh, who recounted a story to emphasize the importance of good cinema horsemanship. Some years ago, Walsh said, when William S. Hart had passed the peak of his career as a western screen hero and was no longer a young man, the director attended a theatre in a small town in Nevada where a Hart film was playing. During the screening, Hart made a clumsy mount of his | horse and immediately two westerners arose from their seats | in the theatre and fired their guns at the cowboy on the screen, causing something little short of a riot. “Let that be a lesson to you, Dennis,” Walsh warned, as he winked at Jane Wyman, Janis Paige and Bruce Bennett who are co-starred with Morgan in “Cheyenne,” cur