Dangerous (Warner Bros.) (1935)

‘Moments are all that matter to you. You live each as if it were the last!’ Now He’s A Woman Tamer Franchot Tone, teamed with Bette Davis in the Warner Bros. pic ture “Dangerous” which opens at the.._.___________________Theatre on Seat Cea, Bee eee , has the role of the man who finally tames the soul killer of “Of Human Bondage.” “Dangerous” is considered Miss Davis’ strongest stellar vehicle. Mat No. 201—20c Franchot Tone Wanted To Be Film Star When A Boy Leading Man in “Dangerous” Has Had Only One Ambition for Career If Franchot Tone, who has the leading masculine role in ‘*Dangerous,’’ which comes to the.............. Theatre on Aen Ewe 3 , hadn’t been such a movie fan when a small boy, some. company might have gained, a vice-president and Hollywood might have lost one of its most capable actors. The line of least. resistance would have led him into either a business or profession. His father was president of a successful firm. Most of his classmates at college planned to be lawyers, architects or financlers. However, his ambition was already firmly fixed by that time. His determination dated from hig boyhood in Niagara Falls, N. Y., when he regularly attended the local movie house twice a week, and sat enthralled at the daring exploits of the brawny Western heroes of the day. Then he went home and made faces at himself in the mirror! He played every part, hero, villain and heroine, and was convineed that he wanted to be an actor. His family realized that his ambition to be an actor was no passing faney and encouraged him in it. When it was time for him to enter college, he chose Cornell because of its fine dramatic course. He became president of the Dramatic Club whose productions are noted among college theatricals His ambitions had long since erystallized into adult plans. When he left college, he went into stock in Buffalo, transferring to New York as soon as he felt he wag capable and experienced enough to do his best. Page Sixteen He fulfilled his early ambition when Hollywood snapped him up after he worked in the Theatre Guild and Group Theatre with noteworthy results. He now has appeared in many pictures, his latest being “Dangerous.” The only thing he regrets is that he missed the boots and spurs of his boyhood dreams for he has never gotten a chance to do a Western picture. A suecess on the screen, he hasn’t changed in at least one respect from his boyhood. He still likes to go to movies, and sees as many pictures as possible. Bette Davis heads the all-star cast with Tone in “Dangerous,” a dynamic dramd of the fall and rise of a brilliant and beautiful actress. Others in the cast include Margaret Lindsay, John Eldredge, Alison Skipworth, Dick Foran and Walter Walker. tunity to display her genius as “Dangerous” again gives her an unsympathetic role but the character she plays has redeeming features that make it entirely different from any she has played heretofore. Alfred HE. Green directed the picture from the story and screen play by Laird Doyle. Franchot Tone Can Solve Any Mystery Play Mystery stories are no mystery to Franchot, Tone. Tone, who has the leading masculine role opposite Bette Davis in the Warner Bros. picture, “Dangerous,” now showing at the.......... theatre, has read so many of them that he invariably guesses the identity of the murderer half way through the book and loses all interest in it. Although previously a mystery novel fan, he has given up reading them for this reason. He has been adept at this for quite awhile but has read through most of them to discover whether his hunches were correct. He says he nailed the culprit every time. “It’s a system,” he said. “The old formula about the most innocent person being the murderer has been modified a bit lately but only in a few details. Sometimes he will be suspected at first and then seemingly completely cleared. Again props will give clues that disclose the secret like radios or unusual fireplaces in which a gun could be set. “T don’t consider that I have any psychic ability. A little logic will unravel the best of them.” “Dangerous” is a dynamic drama of the fal! and rise of a brilliant and _ beautiful actress. Others in the cast include Margaret Lindsay, John Eldredge, Alison Skipworth, Dick Foran and Walter Walker. Alfred E. Green directed the picture from the story and screen play by Laird Doyle. Bette Davis Wears New Type Jacket Dress A new type of jacket-dress, showing several new style ideas for fall, is worn by Bette Davis, Warner Bros. star in “DangerOUS;? NO Weote the. oe ere hn theatre. Employing navy blue crepe, the flared, short skirt is knife-pleated all the way around, and the little jacket features a tight belt and flared peplum in cutaway effect. Under it is worn a white vest, knife-pleated like the skirt, an unusual neckline emanating from the fact that the jacket, although collarless, ties in a knot at the throat, the pleating of the vest continuing up under it and spreading outward in a crisp flare like ruching. It’s Dangerous Kissing Bette Davis proved as dangerous to Franchot Tone in “Dangerous,” the Warner Bros. picture which opens at the Theatre on________ > as it did to Leslie Howard in “Of Human Bondage” and. Paul Muni in “Bordertown.” Mat No. 107—10c Wins By Waiting Margaret Lindsay (above) waits and wins the heart and hand of Franchot Tone despite the allure of Betté Davis in the Warner Bros. drama of a woman who scaled the heights and fell to the gutter, “Dangerous,” which opens at the pub AES Theatre on Mat No, 205—20c Star Says It’s Tough Job To Play Role Of Actress Bette Davis Finds Such a Part in “Dangerous” Difficult Having an actress play an actress, instead of being as easy as it sounds, might well be the most difficult assignment possible. Bette Davis, whose role of ‘‘ Joyce Heath’’ in the Warner Bros. picture ‘‘Dangerous,’’ now showing at the........... theatre, parallels in some instances the tempestuous life of a famous Broadway actress, considers it the most difficult one in her sereen career. “Playing an actress is unlike portraying an ordinary woman who never thinks of a camera or an audience. On stage or off Joyce Heath plays a part, shrewdly, perhaps unconsciously analyzing her ‘dialogue’ for effect on the ‘audience.’ “She is an actress to the core. The few times she acts naturally are in definite contrast to the hectic, off-key, overtoned pitch in which she lives her life. Where her natural emotions and reactions leave off and where the artful dodges of the theatre begin are impossible to determine. “All her gestures are a trifle too broad, all her emotions a shade too theatric. Her greed, her insatiable zest for living, her all encompassing ego make her seem completely pagan, but a_ cultivated pagan who knows all the tricks of her trade.” Bette, in preparing for the part, had to recall some of the eraft of the theatre which she discarded when going before the intimacies of the camera. But still playing for the camera, she had to be careful not to overdo it. “All in all, the problems which Joyce Heath hag given in trying to make her real, make her rank with ‘Mildred’ in ‘Of Human Bondage’ as the most interesting character I have done,” the actress concluded. Others in the cast are Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge and Dick Foran. The story and sereen play by Laird Doyle paint a powerful emotional drama baring a woman’s very soul. Alfred BE. Green directed. Margaret Lindsay Weeps Over Sad Scenes in Film To the legions of women throughout the land who attend matinees to have a good ery, add the name of Margaret Lindsay. She will even ery herself on the screen if a scene impresses her as being sad. “It’s not that my acting has such an emotional quality,” she said. “When watching a picture, I always will forget that I know the people on the screen and think that the things pictured are really happening. “There’s an interesting example of this in ‘Dangerous,’ which comes to the theatre on ek Se .. Desperately in love with Franchot Tone, I give him up when he tells me of his fatal attraction for another woman, Bette Davis. “T read the scene many times, learning it by heart. On the set I spoke the lines at least fifteen times in rehearsals and ‘takes.’ The next day I saw the ‘rushes’ of the sequence. “But when the preview came, I found myself sniffling and sobbing with sympathy for the girl on the screen to my acute embarrassment when the lights went on. I guess I’m just a softy!” “Dangerous” is a dramatic story of a beautiful and_ brilliant actress who wrecks the lives of those she contacts and also her own. Others in the cast include Dick Foran, John Eldredge, Alison Skipworth, Walter Walker and Richard Carle.