Dark Passage (Warner Bros.) (1947)

PUBLICITY | HUNTED an) ie Still No. HB-367 HELP WANTED. Humphrey Bogart stages a neat escape from San Quen tin in Warner Bros.’ "Dark Passage" now at the Strand Theatre. With all society against him, he tries to prove his innocence. MAT IF MISS MOOREHEAD NOW GLAMORIZED Agnes Moorehead has stepped out of a 19th Century farthingale and into a 20th Century negligee, and thereby becomes a real glamor girl for the first time in her screen career. “It’s gratifying,” the actress says, “to play something besides dowdy old shrews or imbecilic harridans.” Miss Moorehead’s husband (who is Jack Lee, radio director), however, will look at his wife differently when he sees her in Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage,’ opening Friday at the Strand Theatre, the picture for which she has become glamorized, having completed the hoopskirt role of Sydney Greenstreet’s repressed wife in “The Woman in White.” In “Dark Passage,’ Miss Moorehead plays the ‘other woman” with Humphrey Bogart as The Man and Lauren Bacall as The Woman. “T feel almost normal,” she says. “I wear an elegant wardrobe; I speak fairly intelligently, and I’m in love with Humphrey Bogart.” Now that she is breaking away from the blowzy, stringyhaired roles that have helped make her famous, Miss Moorehead hopes she will be able to return to the glamor path from time to time. Play It Again Producer Jerry Wald studied many old-time song hits before making a final selection of ‘Too Marvelous For Words” for Warner Bros.’ ‘Dark Passage” which opens Friday at the Strand Theatre. First considered were “My Heart Stood Still’ and “I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan.” Wald selected “As Time Goes By” for revival in “Casablanca” which came back with smashing popularity. Bogart-Bacall Lenser Sid Hickox, A.S.C., director of photography for Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage,” opening Friday at the Strand Theatre, might be called official cameraman for the Bogart-Bacall vehicles, since he also filmed “To Have and Have Not” and “The Big Sleep,” all Warner films. 10 ‘DARK PASSAGE’ SQUIBS Humphrey Bogart is playing what he calls his first “fright” role. In Warner Bros’ “Dark Passage,” now at the Strand, he wears a gruesome white mask, following a plastic surgery job. “Even Frankenstein’s monster looked good by me,” Bogart remarked, Bernard Newman, Warner Bros. designer, says of Lauren Bacall’s wardrobe in Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage,” now at the Strand, that her clothes were especially designed to emphasize “simplicity, long legs and slim hips.” For the first time in the history of San Francisco’s municipal cablecar line, a two-mile run of one of the city’s famous hill-climbing cars was taken over by a film company for a movie scene, With Delmer Daves directing and Humphrey Bogart a passenger among 27 extra-player passengers, and a camera crew headed by Sid Hickox, the cablecar made its run up and down San Francisco hills for a scene for Warner Bros,’ “Dark Passage,” now at the Strand Theatre. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made the front page of The San Quentin News. Photographs of the stars appeared in the penitentiary newspaper while they were in San Francisco on location with Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage,” the story of an escaped San Quentin convict and is now showing at the Strand Theatre. Delmer Daves, Warner Bros. director of “Dark Passage,” which co-stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, currently on view at the Stand, has renewed his friendship with Joan Crawford by reminding her that almost 20 years ago he played the villain in a picture called “The Duke Steps Out,” starring Miss Crawford and William Haines. Delmer Daves, Warner Bros. director of “Dark Passage,” which co-stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, currently on view at the Strand, is enlarging the library of his home in Westwood Village. The 5,500 books he owned when he built the house a few years ago have grown to a collection of more than 8,000, and it is still growing. Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall caught a screening of their last movie, “The Big Sleep,” at a neighboring theatre in San Francisco during the production of Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage,” which is now showing at the Strand Theatre. It was the first time the stars had seen the picture since the rough cut. Humphrey Bogart has hired a new skipper for his boat. He is Captain Ted Howard, old-time seaman who was interned by the Japanese at Shanghai during the war. Bruce Bennett prob&bly made the quickest location trip on record for a scene in Warner Bros,’ “Dark Passage,” during shooting in San Francisco. The blonde actor arrived on the 7:55 plane, went from the airport to a San Francisco apartment house where the scene was made and he was en route back to Hollywood on the 9:30 plane. The apartment house on Montgomery Street, San Francisco, which Delmer Daves and the Warner Bros. “Dark Passage” company used for film scenes was formerly the residence of the late Hiram Johnson. More than 1,500 San Francisco movie fans tied up traffic at the Golden Gate bridge and brought out a dozen highway patrolmen to disperse the crowds when Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were working in a toll-gate shot on the San Francisco entrance to the bridge for the Warner Bros. film, “Dark Passage,” now completed and ready for showing Friday at the Strand Theatre. The stars obliged with autographs and posed with photographs until the situation got out of hand. Stil No. 675-62 GLAMORIZED, Agnes Moorehead is decked out in smart fashions in War ner Bros.’ ''Dark Passage," now at the Strand Theatre, but she still manages to project that vicious brand of menace jin the film. MAT 1H Still No. BB-23 CHAMP. Bruce Bennett, Olympic champ in the shot-put, plays an im portant role opposite Humphrey Bo gart and Lauren Bacall in Warner Bros.’ "Dark Passage," now at the Strand Theatre. MAT 1G Chatter Column Fillers LOOKER Still No. 675-54 MISS BACALL. Though she would like to discard ‘The Look’ tag, Lauren Bacall appearing opposite Humphrey Bogart in Warner Bros.’ "Dark Pas sage’ now at the Strand, still carries that distinctive label. MAT IE BENNETT ONCE OLYMPIC STAR The small fry who yelped a derisive “Pretty Boy!” at Bruce Bennett the other day didn’t know whereof they yelped. Fourteen years ago Bruce Bennett would have been their hero. In 1932 he was Herman Brix, All-American from the ‘University of Washington, and the idol of gridiron-conscious youth from Seattle to Tampa. “And I never was a pretty boy,” he says. Bennett’s career has been a roller coaster affair, marked principally by the fact that, unlike other athletes-turned-actor, he capitalized not at all on his muscles or his ball-carrying talents. As a matter of fact, AllAmerican Bennett has never appeared in a football picture; and Olympic Champion Bennett (the shot-put) has never appeared on the screen in a track suit. And he hasn’t done badly. Take “Mildred Pierce,” for example. He was Joan Crawford’s husband. Or take “A Stolen Life.” He was Bette Davis’ lover. Or take “Cheyenne.” He made love alternately to Jane Wyman and Janis Paige. Today Bennett is romantically in competition with Humphrey Bogart for the favors of Lauren Bacall in Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage” which opens on Friday at the Strand Theatre. And all that without muscle. His Best Yet Clifton Young, in Warner Bros.’ “Dark Passage” opening Friday at the Strand Theatre, achieves the biggest part of his career with this company, which started following his discovery in the Actors’ Laboratory presentation of “A Bell for Adano.” Most of Young’s fight with Humphrey Bogart in “Dark Passage” was filmed on a bluff overlooking the Golden Gate. That ‘Casual Look’ Bernard Newman, who designed Lauren Bacall’s wardrobe of 20 dresses for Warner Bros.’ “The Dark Passage,” now at the Strand, says that the star is no longer “The Look.” She is now “The Casual Look.” That, explained Newman, is how she is dressed for her new role — in “Dark Passage” — casually.