College Coach (Warner Bros.) (1933)

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Wellman A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Production 15% 20% 20% 40% Calvert College ruptey. The trustees, standing football team. They hire Gore, the biggest Coach in the country, and give him earte blanche in his work of making a team. Gore proceeds to engage some of the greatest players in the country. He is not only a driver of men, but also a great promoter. He gets more publicity about his team than any other coach. He builds up a fine team with a back line which he calls the four aces. Nothing can stop the four aces and they defeat every team they play and get a national reputation. Sargent, the only one of the four aces who is a legitimate student, is ambitious to become a_ great chemist, but flunks in his class because he has not been able to find time to study. Much to his surprise and disgust he is given a passing mark solely because he plays on the team while others not on the team are flunked. He -quits foot ball. The team wins without him, however, Weaver, being a_ star player. Gore and one of the college trustees are in a scheme to buy a piece of real estate, which is the only ground available for a new football stadium, and then sell it to the college. They know their scheme is facing bankwho have been dipping into their own pockets to supply. deficits, decide that the only way they can get their money back is to create an out depends on keeping a winning team. Gore has been neglecting his wife, Claire, so much that she has become resentful. He is in love with her, but the team and publicity stunts take up all of his time. Weaver has been trying to attract her and finally in a huff at Gore, although she is not in love with Weaver, she goes out with him. Gore sees the two together in a speakeasy and punches Weaver. The latter quits the team. With both Sargent and Gore out, the team is greatly weakened. When the big game of the season opens, Calvert is outclassed. The opposing team quickly rolls up a big score. Sargent who can’t bare to see his own team defeated, because of his love for his school, dons his football togs and asks to be put in the back. line again. Claire, foreseeing defeat, has gone to Weaver and ecajoled him into going on the field. Sargent and Weaver go in near the end of the last quarter. They perform miracles and finally win the game. Gore finds what Claire has done and takes her in his arms. He is offered a tremendous salary to act as coach for the rival team, but hesitates as he wants his wife. But Claire bows to the inevitable and tells him to take the _ position. Weaver, who had expected Claire to elope with him, sees her in Gore’s arms.and realizes she is not for him. DICK POWELL Dick Powell, born in Mt. View, Arkansas, won a screen contract with Warner Bros. through his musical talents, having been lifted bodily from a Master of Ceremonies position in a Pittsburgh theatre to an important part in “Blessed Event.” Starting as a soloist with an orchestra in Kentucky, he signed up in a similar capacity with a theatre orchestra there and attracted such attention that he eventually became Master of Ceremonies at this theatre, later moving to a larger house in Pittsburgh. He has had no previous stage or screen experience despite which he showed such natural talents as an actor that he was put under a long term contract by Warner Bros. He has played in the following pictures “Footlight Parade,” “Gold Diggers of 1933,” “Blessed Event,” “42nd Street,” “The King’s Vacation” and “Too Busy to Work.” ARTHUR BYRON Arthur Byron, one of the best known actors on the American stage, has been associated with it all his life. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1872 of theatrical parents, he launched upon his stage career in 1889 working with his father. Since then he has played in innumerable stage successes and won fame, in the past, as leading man to. such notables as, Ethel Barrymore, Maxine Elliott and Maude Adams. He originated the role of Editor in the New York production of “The Front Page” and the role of Warden in “The Criminal Code” on Broadway. His first work for the screen was in “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing.” He has also. played in “Private Detective 62,” “You Said a Mouthful,” “Fast Life,” “Tonight is Ours,” and “The Silk Express.” DICK POWELL—‘“‘Footlight Par ade”, “Gold Diggers of 1933”, “49nd Street”, “Too Busy To Work”, “Blessed Event”, “The King’s Vacation”. ANN DVORAK—‘Three on a Match”, “Crooner”, “Love Is a Racket”, “Stranger in Town’, “The Strange Love of Molly Louvain”. PAT O’BRIEN—“Bureau of Missing Persons”, “Destination Unknown”, “The Public Be Damned”, “Flowing Gold”, “American Mad ness”, “Virtue”. ARTHUR BYRON—‘The Silk Express”, “The Mayor of Hell’, “Private Detective 62”, “You Said a Mouthful’, “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing.” LYLE TALBOT—“‘Havana Widows”, “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” “She Had To Say Yes”, “42nd Street”, “Girl Missing”, “Ladies They Talk About”. HUGH HERBERT—‘Bureau of ANN DVORAK Ann Dvorak, who has the femnine lead in “College Coach,” a Warner Bros. picture, was born in New York City but came to Hollywood when a young girl. Ann is the daughter of Ann Lehr, one-time toast of Broadway, and it was natural that she should plan to follow in her mother’s footsteps. " Ann was the local girl who made good, for she sprang to stardom overnight from “extra” work in the studios near her home. An, important role in “Searface” attracted the attention of the Warner Bros. studios to the young actress’ potential abilities and she has since appeared in “Three On A Match,” “Crooner,” “Love Is A Racket,” “Stranger In Town,” “Strange Love Of Molly Louvain,” and others. LYLE TALBOT Lyle Talbot was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., of a theatrical family. He began his stage career at the age of sixteen in his father’s stock company. After appearing in stock and in the Little Theatre field for several years, he was signed by Warner Bros. for a role with Doug Fairbanks, Jr. in “Love Is a Racket.” Since then he has enacted prominent parts in such pictures as “Havana Widows,” “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” “Ladies They Talk About,” “20,000 Years in Sing Sing,’ “Three on a Match,” “Stranger in Town,” “The Purchase Price,” “She Had to Say Yes” and “The Life of Jimmy Dolan.” PHILLIP FAVERSHAM Phillip Faversham, who has one of the important roles in “College Coach” Warner Bros. football film, was born in New York City and received his education in eastern schools and on the Continent. As the son of the noted William Faversham and Julie Opp it was but natural that the young actor should feel the eall of the theatre. A summer stock company brought about Faversham’s debut into his parents’ footsteps and eventually he landed in Los “Angeles with a travelling com pany. Warner Bros. signed him to a screen contract after his first performance. Already he _ has taken part in “The House On 56th Street,” “The Big Shakedown,” “Footlight Parade” and “Captured.” Missing Persons”, “Footlight Parade”, “From Headquarters”, “Goodbye Again’, “She Had To Say Yes”, “Strictly Personal’. ARTHUR HOHL—‘The World Changes”, “The Kennel Murder Case”, “Ever In My Heart”, Lipo hl pe) cg Me Ole la AM aai ae asaleraract © SAR aES e ee Bene William A. Wellman| “Footlight Parade”, “Captured”, Story and Screen Play by-....----------Niven Busch and Manuel Seff| “The Narrow Corner”. ENSUN 2T 41 | | Re PRI FRAN GRAN EEL iu Pe eae Arthur Todd| PHILLIP FAVERSHAM — “The 5 RS ia? Sd ecb i aah STIS TT AMEE yee 8 MLR Thomas Pratt House on 56th Street”, “The Rays Dthemtnr a e ee ee ees Jack Okey Big terns ec an cee oon Gowns by Ges sats SUC estes 2 eee B Minstrels 2 ps Si at Col Mes Orry-Kelly earl a” Foothent pee Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted by__________-_-___Leo F. Forbstein prpliededayeaiee cS Se AMS—“You Said a Mouthful’, “The Devil Is Driving”, “The Great Meadow”, “70,000 Witnesses”, “Drifting Souls’. NAT PENDLETON—“‘Baby Face”, “A Fool’s Advice’, “You Said a Mouthful’, “The Tenderfoot”, “Are You Listenin’,” “Secret Witness”. WILLIAM A. WELLMAN— ‘Wild Boys of the Road”, “Heroes for Sale”, “Lilly ‘Turner’, “Central Airport”, “Frisco Jenny”, “So Big”. PAT O’BRIEN Pat O’Brien was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and educated at Marquette University where he studied law and starred in football. He gave up law to join a stock company and finally drifted to New York, making his first Broadway appearance in “Gertie.” This was followed by many other productions, including “Henry Behave,’ “You Can’t Win,” “This Man’s Town” and “Coquette.” He was selected as one of the ten best actors of the stage for his performances in “The Up and Up” and “Overture.” While rehearsing for the lead in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” his release was purchased and he was taken to Hollywood to play Hildy Johnson in “The Front Page,” his first picture. He continued in picture work and has to his eredit such successes as “Laughter in Hell,” “Air Mail,” “Virtue,” “Hollywood Speaks,” “American Madness” and “Seandal for Sale.” His most recent pictures are “Bureau of Missing Persons,” “Destination Unknown,” “The Public Be Damned,” and “Flowing Gold.” HUGH HERBERT Hugh Herbert, who provides most of the comedy in “College Coach,” is a native New Yorker, having been born and educated within the roar of Times Square. Herbert’s natural theatrical tal one of the town’s ablest comedians. Brought to Hollywood for pictures Herbert proved as funny on the screen as he had been on the stage. Numbered among his screen hits are “Bureau Of Missing Persons,” “Footlight Parade,” “From Headquarters,” “Goodbye Again,” and “She Had To Say Yes.” Arthur Hohl was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. ‘but moved to California at the age of nine. He attended Stanford University for two years. After that he went off to dramatic school and finally got into professional work. He appeared in his first New York production, “The Dummy,” in 1913, and during the five years following was with the original Theatre Guild, the Washington Square Players. The war took him to France, where he rose from Private to Second Lieutenant. He returned to New York and to the stage, appearing in many of the big hits of the seasons between 1919 and 1932, when he entered motion pictures with Warner Bros. Studios, appearing in “The World Changes,” “Footlight Parade,” “Baby Face,” “The Silk Express,” “Private Detective 62,” “The Narrow Corner,” “The Life of Jimmy Dolan,” and “Captured.” ARTHUR HOHL YOU WILL FIND IT HELPFUL TO CLIP THE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE STARS AS THEY ARE PUBLISHED. A COMPLETE FILE OF STAR BIOGRAPHIES WILL AID YOU IN BOTH YOUR EXPLOITATION AND PUBLICITY. ent couldn’t keep him away from the stage, and after serving an apprenticeship in road_ stockcompanies, the Warner Bros. player tried his luck on Broadway. His success was instantaneous and he earned a reputation as Page Three