Danger Signal (Warner Bros.) (1945)

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Friendly Enemies Still 645-14 Mat 202—30c Mary Servoss, Zachary Scott and Faye Emerson artfully shield their true emotions in the above scene from Warner Bros.’ exciting new melodrama, “Danger Signal," which arrives on Friday at the Strand. Dick Erdman, Rosemary DeCamp, Bruce Bennett, Mona Freeman and John Ridgely are featured in the film's supporting cast. Rosemary DeCamp Begins Career As Easter Bunny From Easter bunny to octogenarian to Hollywood glamor girl may sound like the formula for some Saroyan whimsy—but it has worked out very well for Rosemary DeCamp, Warner Bros. contract actress, currently featured in that studio’s Faye EmersonZachary Scott starring film, “Danger Signal,” now at the Strand. Yes, Miss DeCamp started out as an actress in the rather unpretentiously histrionic role of a rabbit in an Easter play at grammar school in her home town of Prescott, Arizona. — She was twelve at the time, and within another twelve years, she was playing wrinkled old matrons in pictures including “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” ‘‘Rhapsody In Blue,’ and “This Is The Army.” Then she found herself ‘ suddenly going > glamorous, in roles for ‘Pride of the Marines,” in which she is featured with John Garfield and Eleanor Parker; ‘Blood on the Sun” and the forthcoming Mat 107—I5¢ «Weekend at the Rosemary DeCamp Waldorf.” Between, as well as during, these transitions she has been a busy girl. At fourteen, she turned down a contract with the Martha Oatman stock company in Los Angeles after a scout saw her perform in a “little” theatre production in Phoenix, on the promise to her parents to complete her education before starting professionally behind the footlights. She went to Mills College, where she _ received both a B.A. and Masters degree in dramatics, and at the age of 21 was retained on the campus as professor in that field. Later, there was a succession Mat 102—15c of stock comZachary Scott pany jobs’ in Carmel and San Francisco, and 6 then a cross-country tour in a revival of “The Drunkard.” She arrived in New York and variously understudied for Sam Harris’ ‘Merrily We Roll Along,” wrote drama _ reviews for the Morning Telegraph, appeared in stock, and got into radio doing everything from young boys to old matriarchs. Her first screen break developed when Martha Scott persuaded the producers of “Cheers for Miss Bishop” to let her play the immigrant kid who recited the Declaration of Independence. The ages of the characters she played in her next nine pictures reached an aggregate of 762 years. She has apparently, however, been successful, at long last, in persuading the casting director to let her leave her wrinkles in her makeup box. Married to John Shidler, California’s youngest jurist before his entry into the Air Forces, in which he is now serving as a sergeant, Rosemary DeCamp has one child, Nana, born in 1942, Her father’s business, that of a mining engineer, took her with the family from Prescott to New York City; Piedmont, California; Santiago, Chile; and numerous other places. Zachary Scott Takes Injury In Stride There are times during the production of a film when such a thing as a sprained ankle or other injury incurred by a star causes considerable delay or forces a director to shoot around the injured star until he is able to resume work. But when Zachary Scott slipped on the stairs of his home after the first day's shooting of Warner Bros.’ "Danger Signal," the exciting new drama now at the Strand, and wrenched his left knee, production was unhampered. As a matter of fact, painful as the injury was, it helped Zachary. The script called for him to limp through the scenes. Co-starred with Scott in the psychological thriller which was adapted from Phyllis Bottome's novel of the same name is Faye Emerson. Co-Star Reminds Actress Of Dad Faye Emerson received an emphatic shock when she first met Zachary Scott, with whom she co-stars in “Danger Signal,” now at the Strand. “T remember,” she _ recalls, “when I first saw him. It was on the Warner lot, right after he had come out from New York. “I’ve often wondered just what he thought of me_ because my first reaction was to stare at him. And stare I did! But I couldn’t help it. He looked so much like my Dad used to look when I was a little girl. It was something of a shock, and I could hardly take my eyes off him.” That being the case, Faye’s father must have been a handsome young man, for Zachary is a six-footer, with dark brown eyes and the same color hair, and he tips the scales for an even one hundred and seventy pounds. Faye’s father, Lawrence Leon Emerson, is now a rancher in New Mexico, not far from Zachary’s native Texas. Still 645-69 Mat 112—15c Faye Emerson, attractive Warner star, plays an unusual dramatic role in Warner Bros.’ gripping new film, "Danger Signal,"' currently playing at the Strand Theatre. Zachary Scott is co-starred. Late Call Gives Actress Hit Role In Hollywood from time to time there is new evidence that one’s bad luck is another’s good fortune. Right now there’s a perfect example of this refiected in the cast of the new Faye EmersonZachary Scott starring film, Warners’ “Danger Signal,” now at the Strand. Petite Ann Blyth had been scheduled to do the role of Faye’s sister. But shortly after production was launched, Ann injured her back in a tobogganing accident. Ann’s bad luck was Mona Freeman’s good fortune. The youthful player was quickly borrowed from another studio to step into the role which Ann had to forego. Currently at Warners, another newcomer is playing opposite Dennis Morgan in the soon-to-be-released “The Time, The Place and The Girl.” She is Martha Vickers, and she got her break in this Technicolor musical because virus pneumonia prevented Jane Wyman from doing the role. There are many other such examples, too numerous to detail, all of which prove that it definitely is an ill wind that blows nobody good. Sister Act Still 645-39 Mat 205—30c It's sister against sister in Warners’ gripping drama, "Danger Signal," as Faye Emerson and Mona Freeman fight it out for the love of Zachary Scott. The film, currently at the Strand, features Dick Erdman, Rosemary DeCamp, Bruce Bennett, Mona Freeman and John Ridgely in supporting roles. Zachary Scott Regular Dr. Jekyll—Mr. Hyde Zachary Scott, judging from his current film roles and his real life, is Hollywood’s newest and strongest Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His is a double life—the kind spelled with a capital D and a capital L. When he leaves home for work he puts on a mask. And he wears it well. Possibly nowhere in the film city can an actor be found who, at home, is actually more unlike the roles he plays on the screen. But Scott doesn’t mind. At least, he’s not minding now, although someday he may rise up to demand a sympathetic or comic role. Currently the actor is co-starring with Faye Emerson in Warner Bros.’ exciting film adaptation of the Phyllis Bot . tome best-seller, “Danger Sig nal,” at the Strand. In that story he is, in the parlance of the times, a heel, a dastardly fellow to whom murder is apparently all right if the desired end is reached. In the recent “The Mask Of Dimitrios,” he also was cast as something a few shades darker Still 645-6 Mat 113—15c Zachary Scott remains the exemplary screen villain in Warner Bres.' latest psychological melodrama, "Danger Signal," arriving Friday at the Strand. Co-starred with him in the film is lovely Faye Emerson. than a mere cad; and in the current Joan Crawford vehicle, “Mildred Pierce,’ he was similarly cast. Zachary Scott, once out of the camera’s range, is the antithesis of all that he is when in front of the camera. There is nothing sinister nor unsavory about his character. On the contrary, he is one of filmland’s most personable young men. The son of a surgeon, Dr. Zachary Scott, Sr., of Austin, Texas, he came to Hollywood from that Texas city via London and New York where he picked up considerably more than a modicum of success. He picked it up where the picking is good—on the stage. Three weeks after leaving school, he worked his way to England aboard a freighter and within a few days had wangled from Gerrard Neville the leading juvenile role in the English Repertory Company’s “The Outsider.” He remained in England a year, doing roles in twenty plays. He returned chiefly to marry a girl to whom he proposed by mail. She was Elaine Anderson, a former schoolmate. They were married in 1935 and two years later became the parents of a daughter, Waverly. It is to these two—Elaine and Waverly—that Zach rushes after a day’s work at the studio. With them, he enjoys to the full the pleasures of home and fireside. It is with them that he is a character distinctly opposite those sinister fellows he portrays on the screen. “l’m just an ordinary, homeand-family-loving guy,’ is the way Zach describes his real self. And the description, he hopes, will enable him one day to be cast in a role in which he can be just a regular fellow: Actress Upped From Nurse To Doctor Rosemary De Camp, who played the important nurse's rele in the John Garfield-Eleanor Parker starring film, "Pride Of The Marines," was given a professional boost at Warner Bros., when she was promoted to a screen doctor fer “Danger Signal,’ the psychological drama starring Faye Emerson and Zachary Scott, which opens Friday at the Strand. — ==