Dark Passage (Warner Bros.) (1947)

PUBLICITY Star Stories (Humphrey Bogart Feature) ‘Bogey’ Is Very Happy Now With ‘Baby’, Job And Boat Humphrey Bogart now appearing with Lauren Bacall in Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage,” coming Friday to the Strand Theatre, says he has every reason to be contented. He’s got the three things he wanted most out of life: a happy marriage, a steady job, and a good boat. “They all tie in together,” the film star says. “Years ago I figured my life would never be complete until I had those three things.” His marriage to Lauren Bacall, nearing the end of its second year, is recognized as one of the most ideal unions in Hollywood; and a couple of months ago Bogart signed a new 15-year contract with Warner Bros. Studios. “That’s about as steady as a job can get,” he said. New York Boyhood The Bogart boat ambitions date back almost 30 years ago when he was a kid vacationing at Seneca Point on Canandaigua Lake in upstate New York. “My father gave me a one-cylinder motorboat,” he recalled, ‘‘and I used to putt-putt around the lake all day long, exploring every watery inch of it.” It was then that Bogart determined to have a “real” boat. “T believe my ideas went ’way beyond the yacht class. I had something like a private ocean liner in mind.” From his early 11-foot, onecylinder job, Bogart has now progressed to a 55-foot, 16-ton yawl, powered by an 85-horsepower engine. He and Miss Bacall keep their boat, ‘The Santana,” at Newport Beach. Famous Boat “The Santana” has a distinguished history. She was built in 19385 for William L. Stewart, an oil company executive. Stewart won the N. Y.-Bermuda races with her in 1937. In 1939, “The Santana” was bought by George Brent, who sold her to Dick Powell in September, 1944. Powell won the Challenge Cup around Catalina Island from the mainland that year. Shortly afterwards, Bogart acquired “The Santana.” The boat sleeps six in the owner’s compartment and two in the crew’s compartment. She can be handled by Bogart and his wife, but they keep one man, Ted Howard, as their regular skipper. When they are not working, the Bogarts spend weeks at a time on “The Santana” in and around Newport, where they are favorites with Southern California yachtsmen. Miss Bacall too, is now a sailor on her own. Bogey taught her so she can take over when he wants to rest up or rehearse his lines. Still No. 675-25 NICE GOING. Humphrey Bogart who plays his forty-first role under Warner Bros.’ banner in the exciting ''Dark Passage,’ with Lauren Bacall opposite, now currently the main attraction at the Strand Theatre. MAT 2C Plays Convict Minus Stripes Stripes for convicts went out when the war came in, and they are likely to be out for a long time to come. This information came from the Warner Bros. Research Department as the studio launched production of “Dark Passage,” Humphrey Bogart-Lauren Bacall film opening Friday at the Strand Theatre. Bogart, reporting to work for his role of an escaped San Quentin convict, asked, ‘“‘where are my stripes?” “No stripes,” explained Director Delmer Daves. “There is no regulation uniform at San Quentin any more.” San Quentin officials advised the studio that since the war, prisoners wear work clothes and dungarees — all of which are Army and Navy rejects. “This,” commented Bogart, “is the first time I’ve ever played a convict without stripes.” Still No, LB-167 STILL LOOKING UP. Lauren Bacall who checks her slinky enchantress personality for a more sympathetic role opposite Humphrey Bogart in Warner Bros.’ ''Dark Passage’ now on view at the Strand Theatre. MAT 2B ‘Just Groan... 1 Lauren Bacall’s famous line to Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and Have Not,” their first film together, is being repeated, with a slight variation, in their present co-starring Warner Bros. picture, “The Dark Passage” which opens Friday at _ the Strand Theatre. Instead of saying to Bogart, “If you want anything, just whistle,’’ Miss Bacall has switched it to “If you want anything, just groan.” Reason for the “groan” is that Bogart is bedded with injuries when Miss Bacall gives him the line. It’s a telling scene. His 41st for Warner’s “Dark Passage” now at the Strand Theatre is Humphrey Bogart’s 41st film for Warner Bros., the studio where he reported in 1935 for his screen bow as Duke Mantee in “The Petrified Forest,” the same role he created on the stage. During his 12 years in Hollywood, Bogart has outgrown the menace roles that elevated him to stardom. He has since become a hard-hitting hero — still the toughest in the business, but now more frequently tough on the side of law and order. In “Dark Passage” Bogart presents one of his sharpest characterizations. (Lauren Bacall Feature) Lauren Bacall Considered Modern Version of ‘Vamp’ Thirty-five years ago Theda Bara’s great big eyes and quivering nostrils were sending highcollared young men into spasms of delight as she vamped her way through murky reels of tempestuous movie love. After Miss Bara, there were Pola Negri and Nita Naldi; and then the screen vampire reached her tantalizing height, only to fall a few years later to the shapeless flapper whose bangs and bobs presumably produced an alluring effect on the raccoon coat boys with the everready gin bottle. Came the Mae West era, when hips, innuendoes and decolletege were the fashion. There followed the glamorous pin-up girl who served faithfully and well into the war years with her trim figure, her shiny hair, and bouncy smile. She served her country well but the boys were coming home. Now comes the modern vampire — a lady born, possibly, of war and reconversion — a lady of style and humor, long-legged, slim-hipped, and sultry with smouldering emotion. She is best and foremostly represented by Lauren Bacall, who _ co-stars with Humphrey Bogart in Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage,’ coming Friday to the Strand Theatre. For a girl who was hardly born when the movie vamp flourished, Miss Bacall’s impression of these daring creatures is remarkably accurate. But at 22, Miss Bacall is as representative of today’s vampire as Miss Negri was of those in her time. Her grey-green eyes, languid smile, and throaty voice quickly became identified as the requisites of the new-type film charmer. “Tt was unintentional,’ Miss Bacall says. “I doubt that I started a trend; I think it more likely that I happened along when a whistle and a look were most needed.” Miss Bacall doesn’t need a filmy negligee or a jeweled tiara to be the screen’s leading vampire of today. She just needs a look. And that she’s got.