Deep Valley (Warner Bros.) (1947)

PUBLICITY (Wayne Morris Feature) Reconversion Is Snap Wayne Morris States ’ “It’s easy,” says Wayne Mor ris, who co-stars with Ida Lupino and Dane Clark in Warner Bros.’ “Deep Valley,” which opens at the Strand Theatre Still No. WM-113 WAYNE MORRIS, now out of Navy uniform, plays the role of road supervisor in Warner Bros.’ rugged drama of the California mountainside, ‘Deep Valley’’, opening Friday at the Strand, with Ida Lupino and Dane Clark also starred. MAT 1G on Friday, October 10. Reconversion is what he meant —personal reconversion, the kind that returned servicemen are experiencing all over the world. Almost a year out of the Navy, the actor has had time to meet and evaluate the problems of the veteran. “People talk too much about readjustment,” he says. “It makes a man conscious of a thing that is better ignored.” Upon his release from active duty, the Navy flier made an agreement with his wife that they would pick up where they left off as though there had never been the intervening war years. “It’s no problem at all,” he says. “I’m the same guy I was four years ago, maybe mellowed a little bit by some pretty exciting doing's.” Morris says he has no patience with veterans who are making an issue of readjustment and using it as an excuse for erratic behavior. “It isn’t always their fault,” he submits: “It’s often the fault of their families and friends who nag them into readjustment jitters by reminding them that they are being reconverted. So the veteran gets to thinking about it and worrying about it, and the first thing you know, he’s wn-reconverting; and then his friends say, ‘See ... 1 told you so... it isn’t easy for these boys...” Moreover, Morris says, he didn’t find life in the United States changed. “Now it’s postwar instead of pre-war. What’s the difference? Maybe prices are higher, houses are hard to get, and so are steaks. But those are surface matters. (Current Theatre Story) ‘Deep Valley’ Rugged Love-Drama At Strand California’s Big Sur country, south of Monterey provides the background for Warner Bros.’ newest dramatic offering, “Deep Valley” starring Ida Lupino, Dane Clark and Wayne Morris, which is currently on view at Still No. 669-521 READY TO SHOOT it out. Dane Clark, plays an escaped convict in Warner Bros.’ exciting mount tain drama, “‘Deep Valley’, now playing at the Strand Theatre. MAT 1H the Strand theatre. It is a rugged locale which is depicted, emphasizing the stark drama of the wretched Saul household. Hate and suspicion dominate the dilapidated farm. The mother (Fay Bainter) feigns illness for years and stays upstairs, and the father (Henry Hull) vents his anger out on the land. The daughter Libby (Miss Lupino) is so timid and repressed that she cannot talk distinctly. Only when love moves into the drama is she able to lose her stammer and relax. Into this frustrated atmosphere comes a road gang which is pushing a new coastal highway through the rocky countryside. Jeff (Morris) is the supervisor in charge and he tries to make love to Libby. Burnett (Clark) has a violent temper and is serving time because of this fiery characteristic in his nature. As the drama progresses this group of assorted individuals is thrown together in a series of dramatic events which pulsate with love and violence. All of the rugged elements of the Big Sur are introduced in the fast-moving action. A landslide is one of the spectacular moments in the story, and heavy rainstorms convey mood and atmosphere to the colorful drama. Jean Negulesco’s direction makes fine use of the distinctive characteristics of the country, and Ted MCord, A.S.C. in charge of photography has captured many scenes of unusual striking quality. “Deep Valley” is from a screenplay by Salka Viertel and Stephen Morehouse Avery, adapted from a novel by Dan Totheroh well-known writer. (Ida Lupino Feature) Ida Lupino Confesses, She Sings in Bath-tub Ida Lupino, who co-stars with Dane Clark and Wayne Morris in Warner Bros.’ “Deep Valley,” currently at the Strand Theatre, is a bath-tub singer at home. She is also, she admits, sometimes a bath-tub lyricist, making up rhymes to accompany the Still No. IL-600 IDA LUPINO, brilliant young dramatic actress, who essays the difficult role of a shy mountain girl in Warner Bros.’ “Deep Valley”, now at the Strand, with Dane Clark and Wayne Morris sharing honors. MAT IF (Henry Hull Reader) Henry Hull Featured In Strand Hit Marriage and career do not mix successfully, declares Henry Hull, noted character actor who appears with Ida Lupino, Dane Clark and Wayne Morris in Warner Bros.’ “Deep Valley,” currently at the Strand theatre. “A woman can’t be both actress and mother,” says Hull, who has appeared in many of Broadway’s most famous plays and Hollywood’s best films. “The family suffers; it’s bound to.” Hull married an actress himself 30 years ago. Today she’s still his wife and he has two sons and a daughter. So he speaks as an expert. “My wife and I were both on the stage when we married,” Hull recalls. “She decided then that raising kids was a bigger and more important career than the theatre. We both found out that she was right.” Hull, who plays Ida Lupino’s father in “Deep Valley,” feels that unless a couple plans on being another Lunt and Fontaine they can’t bank on raising a brood properly. “When a baby wants its mother it wants her now,” Hull says. “Not tonight when she _ gets home from rehearsals. A baby forgets who its mother is if she simply fills in the vacancies between nurses.” To take care of his own family needs on both sides of the country, Hull maintains homes in Connecticut and Hollywood. In New York he puts up at a Hotel or apartment—with his family close by. tunes she hums to herself for later recording on paper. Ida does not own—nor use— a “pen that writes” under water for this purpose. In fact, she prefers a pencil for all writing because she invariably gets ink on her fingers and clothes when she tries to use any sort of an ink pen. As one consequence of Ida’s habit of singing in the bath tub, her house is seldom a quiet place. Neither is it ever a dark or poorly lighted one. Ida is extravagant with electricity, keeps many lights burning all the time and can sleep as well with light as without it. Music and the writing, composing and singing of it, is only one of several hobbies the star of “Deep Valley” professes to follow. She collects guns and fishing tackle, makes a habit of never returning a library book on time, is self described “camerafiend” and once won a prize for an oil painting. She loves life and hopes to live to a ripe old age. The only time she ever slapped a man, she says, he slapped her first. Further than that she refuses to talk. Ida stays up to all hours of the night when not working in a picture and sleeps all morning. And she takes off her shoes at every opportunity —not just when she is preparing to burst into song in her bath tub. Considering the fact that Miss Lupino played a girl with stammering speech for several long months during the filming of “Deep Valley”, giving vent to musical expression at home becomes easily understandable. (Fay Bainter Reader) Fay Bainter Plays Ma In ‘Deep Valley That popular actress, Fay Bainter is a featured member of the cast of Warner Bros.’ “Deep Valley” which stars Ida Lupino, Dane Clarke and Wayne Morris, cpening on Friday at the Strand theatre. Miss Bainter portrays Elly Saul, wife and mother in the wretched Saul household which figures prominently in the motivation of this drama. In the film, she has not spoken to her husband nor seen him for seven years following a violent argument. She is bedded with imaginary ills until her daughter Libby (Miss Lupino) leaves her home abruptly which forces the mother to get up and once more face her husband. Miss Bainter returned from retirement several years ago to win an Academy Award for her role in “Jezebel.” Since that time she has been one of Hollywood’s most active free-lance actresses. Her role in “Deep Valley” is a drab one, but it becomes a standout performance in the hands of this accomplished performer. Jean Negulesco directed “Deep Valley” which was written for the screen by Salka Viertel and Stephen Morehouse Avery, from the novel of the same name by Dan Totheroh. Henry Blanke produced this action-packed drama, with Ted McCord, A.S.C. responsible for the photography. Max Parker and Frank Durlauf handled the art direction which strikes a new high for spectacular scenic effects on outdoor films.