Embraceable You (Warner Bros.) (1948)

gZ DANE CLARK CAST IN HIT-RUN TALE Screen tough guy Dane Clark has the toughest acting assignment of his entire motion picture career in his present starring role opposite Geraldine Brooks in Warner Bros.’ “Embraceable You,” which opens next Friday at the Strand. Action in one of the scenes calls for Dane to cry real tears. There is no cut in continuity at this particular place to enable a makeup man to apply menthol and produce them automatically in this fashion. The hit-run tale finally went before the cameras and Dane was not asked to cry until near the end of the shooting schedule. He did it convincingly. DANE CLARK Stull DC-173 Mat 698-14 ara EIEN RIRE NUE REESE ERNE SIX-SHEET See other Posters and Accessories on Back Cover. ee Senn nearer eee The CAST Tihs spina, Bis shai DANE CLARK NAHE oe a 5 GERALDINE BROOKS Nae pF ee A es S. Z. Sakall eee oe ee ee Wallace Ford TROY ag oe a hes Lina Romay Pte WAR ee oe Douglas Kennedy ht Fig « 0) Vi | er ara re re Richard Rober PAINE PON 5. hy AiG a Mary Stuart MBE ai ca Ree Philip Van Zandt etme. ci gas) ee ees Rod Rogers PRODUCTION Produced by Saul Elkins. Directed by Felix Jacoves. Screen play by Edna Anhalt; from a story by Dietrich V. Hannekin and Aleck Block. Director of Photography, Carl Guthrie, A.S.C. Art Director, Ted Smith. Film Editor, Thomas Reilly. Sound by Stanley Jones. Set decorations by William Wallace. Makeup artist, Pere Westmore. Special effects by Roy Davidson, Director: Edwin Du Par, A.S.C. Musie by William Lava. Orchestrations by Charles Maxwell. Assistant director, Les Guthrie. Unit Mgr., Don Page. The STORY When Dane Clark, small time crook, drives a getaway car for murderer Richard Rober, he runs down unemployed dancer Geraldine Brooks. Though her injuries are neither visible nor painful, the doctor tells Clark her days are numbered. Detective Wallace Ford suspects Clark and bluffs him into helping the girl. Clark complies, first reluctantly; later, happily, as he and Geraldine fall in love. To escape vengeance-bent Rober, Clark and Ger aldine hide out in a secluded suburb. Here she suffers a severe attack, presaging her imminent death. She divines the truth and they decide to marry. On their wedding day, Clark, tracked down by Rober, is saved by Ford. For the sake of the dying girl, Ford nods assent when Clark pleads for permission to proceed with the wedding before making a complete confession. (Running Time: 80 minutes) GERRY’ BROOKS IN FEMME LEAD Geraldine Brooks fulfills her childhood ambition — to be a dancer—in her current dramatic starring role opposite Dane Clark in Warner Bros.’ “Embraceable You,” opening Friday ‘EMBRACEABLE YOU’ DUE AT STRAND Clark and Geraldine Brooks head a cast of famous Dane stage stars in Warner Bros.’ smashing drama, “Embraceable You,” which premieres next Friday at the Strand Theatre. This drama of the Big City is one of the swiftest-paced films which has come out of Hollywood in months, and in the newly teamed star-duo it offers unusually engrossing entertainment. .. Most of the members of the cast of “Embraceable You” first achieved recognition on the New York stage. Clark under studied Wallace Ford in “Of Mice and Men,” followed him in the role of George, and later played Baby-Face Martin in “Dead End,” as well as leading roles in “Sailor Beware,” “Panic,” and other important productions. Philip Van Zandt who plays the star’s theatrical agent friend in the film, was Clark’s roommate back in the “Dead End” days. Van Zandt appeared in “Having Wonderful Time.” Miss Brooks made her professional acting bow impersonating Katherine Hepburn in “Follow the Girls,” then won her acting spurs as Perdita in the Theatre Guild’s production of “A Winter’s Tale.” Oddly, Richard Rober, menace of ‘Embraceable You” was, in a manner of speaking, Miss Brooks’ employee for 1,179 performances he gave as Judd Fry in “Oklahoma.” Gerry and her sister are one-fifth owners of the hit musical. S. Z. Sakall first won recognition on the European stage before coming to Hollywood. Lina Romay, who goes dramatic in “Embraceable You,” was singing star with Xavier Cugat. Country of Origin U.S.A, Copyright 1948 Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corporation at the Strand Theatre. However, it is not the kind of a dancer Gerry had in mind. Her ambition was of course, to be very good. She is depicted in the film as being very bad. She took instruction from dance director Le Roy Prinz to learn to do a hackneyed tap routine in an inept fashion for her role of a hopeful, but unemployed night club entertainer. Geraldine is actually an expert at both tap and ballet. GERALDINE BROOKS Still GB-Pub A-65 Mat 698-18