Dark Passage (Warner Bros.) (1947)

PUBLICITY Personality Stories Still No. 675-15 NOW TALK! Clifton Young, as a smalltime crook, deals it out with a gun at the back of Humphrey Bogart in Warner Bros.’ gripping drama, "Dark Passage,’ now the attraction at the Strand Theatre. MAT 2A OH, FOR THE LIFE OF SCHOCLMARM, MOOREHEAD SAYS The Rev. Dr. John H. Moorehead’s daughter, Agnes, wistfully shook her red head and announced that sometimes she’s sorry she ever gave up teaching school to become an actress. “Life was so much simpler then,” she says. pestle 9: Vis (a6 really,” she continues, “I often wonder what my former pupils think of me when they see the horrid things I do on the screen.” As for her father’s former parishioners—well! — Miss Moorehead would rather not even think about the Presbyterian clergyman’s wilful daughter. Miss Moorehead’s comments were aroused as she started her “ampteenth” villainous role in Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage,” starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre. For all her screen villainy, Miss Moorehead off-stage looks and acts like nothing so much as a school teacher, and she said, lighting a cigarette, that she usually feels more like a school teacher than an actress. Miss Moorehead taught school at Soldiers Grove, Wisc., shortly after she won her master’s degree in English and_ public speaking at the University of Wisconsin. Her. teaching gave her enough saving's to send Miss Moorehead to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. There isn’t so much difference at that between teaching school and acting, Miss Moorehead believes. “A teacher is always putting on an act for her students,” she says. Agnes Moorehead MAT 1C Frisco Extras Several members of the San Francisco chapter of Junior League worked as extras in Warner Bros.’ dramatic offering, “Dark Passage” which is currently on view at the Strand. 8 WARNER PLAYER IS FORMER P.A, TURNED ACTOR There have been actors who became directors, directors who became producers, and even newspapermen who became actors. But Tom D’Andrea is probably the only case of a press agent who became a writer AND an actor. Before the war, D’Andrea was thumping the drum for people like Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan and James Dunn. Now he is with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage” coming Friday to the Strand Theatre. And if D’Andrea doesn’t particularly like a line of his (or anybody else’s) dialogue, he goes to the director, Delmer Daves, and proposes a change. More often than not, the change is acceptable. In the days when he peddled his clients’ names and accounts of their activities to the nation’s press, Tom D’Andrea’s only possible talent as an actor seemed to be a glib tongue and a rather sour sense of humor’ which prompted him to say and write things that were unusual or amusing or both. D’Andrea’s job with Warner Bros. grew out of his entertainment experiences in the Army and his appearance, along with 450 other honest-to-goodness soldiers in “This Is The Army.” When his Army demobilization was effected, D’Andrea came right back to Hollywood and Warner Bros. and a role as a Marine in “Pride of the Marines.” His sullen, bitter delivery and his taste for turning a dreary line into a live one brought 37-year-old Thomas James D’Andrea (his father was Italian, his mother Irish) further roles, including the stage manager in “Night and Day” and a nice fat part as Errol Flynn’s buddy in “Never Say Goodbye.” Between Shots During production on Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage,” now on view at the Strand Theatre, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall spent most of their weekends on their boat at Newport Beach near Los Angeles. “The Santana” is a 54-foot yawl. Please, [f You Don’t Mind, Check that ‘Look’ Business If it’s all the same to everybody else, Lauren Bacall would prefer not to be called “The Look.” She hereby abdicates. The epithet—in line with similar tags of a few years ago— was interesting, she said, and even flattering at the time. But now, let’s drop it. Okay? There are at least two other people on Miss Bacall’s team. One is her husband Humphrey (The Menace) Bogart. The other is her director, Delmer (just Delmer) Daves. They agree that the time has come for Miss Bacall’s full acceptance ag an actress of major stature, and that labels like “The Look” are hardly necessary. As a matter of fact, Daves right now is attempting to propel Miss Bacall away from the type of role which first gave her the strange title. In “Dark Passage,’ which Daves directed with Bogart and Miss Bacall for Warner Bros. now showing at the Strand Theatre, the actress plays a_ straightforward role. The part is, according to the director, that of “a sincere young woman with a sense of © humor, a high code of honor, and a determination to help her man out of difficulties.” And that, he adds, is the type of girl Miss Bacall really is, “and pooh on this ‘Look’ routine.” Miss Bacall admits she is grateful for the attention she received three years ago when she made her screen bow in “To Have and Have Not” and came away being called “The Look.” “Tt was complimentary,” she says, “to realize that people paid encugh attention to me to call me anything.” This was the same time when other celebrities were glowing under handles like “The Voice,” “The Body,” “The Threat,” and “The Face.” Some of them still are. Including ‘‘The Look.” Miss Bacall has no intention of making an issue of her desire to slip gracefully away from the title. “I’m afraid, though,” she says, “that if I don’t and if people continue to refer to me as you-know-what, then it will handicap my film career. Nobody will expect me to act. They’ll just expect me to LOOK. And that isn’t acting.” Miss Bacall is hopeful that gradually, maybe, the name will cease to be associated with her or anyone else, and that one of these days she will emerge as Lauren Bacall, the actress. Sometimes, though, she doubts her own hopes. Like the other day, for instance. She heard someone refer to Ann Sheridan as “The Oomph Girl.” Or like a few days before that, for instance. She heard someone mention Mae Murray as “the Ziegfeld girl with the famous bee-stung’ lips.” ‘Dark Passage’ Bought While in Galley Form “Dark Passage,” a novel by David Goodis, was read in galley form by Jack L. Warner who at once saw in it a perfect vehicle for linking again the talents of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. On the day the deal for the book’s purchase by Warner Bros. was consummated, Delmer Daves was assigned to write and direct the film, and after five days’ collaboration with the novelist, Daves turned in the finished script. The film is currently at the Strand. Paints Too Delmer Daves, Warner Bros. director of “Dark Passage” now currently on view at the Strand Theatre, conducts an art class at his Westwood Village home in between pictures. Edward G. Robinson is one of his most enthusiastic pupils in the class having long been a collector. Still No. ART ''A” Role in ‘Dark Passage’ Is Actor’s Prize Plum Clifton Young, who is just turning 30 years old, has his toughest assignment to date in Warner Bros.’ drama, “ Dark Passage” which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre. He outheavy’s the screen’s most able “heavy”—Humphrey Bogart. “This man Bogart,” Young says, “he knows all the menace tricks. He wrote the book. How can I be a good villain when everybody knows they don’t come any tougher than the fellow I am supposed to out-Leer?” Slug Fest The fight between Humphrey Bogart and Clifton Young in Warner Bros.’ drama, “Dark Passage,” took three days to shoot. It was made on a point overlooking the bay at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco where the action of the story is laid and enacted. “DARK PASSAGE" DUO. An artist's conception of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, reflecting the melodramatic mood of the exciting film, "Dark Passage" which is now showing at the Strand Theatre. This is from the popular Saturday Evening Post serial, and is the third time for these vivid personalities to appear opposite each other under Warner Bros.’ banner. MAT 2F