Ensign Pulver (Warner Bros.) (1964)

Fast Island Romance On discovering Army nurse Millie Perkins on a tropical isle—the first female he has seen in months—Robert Walker proceeds immediately to romance her. Scene is from Warner Bros.’ new comedy drama, “Ensign Pulver’, which opens ........ L 3 7 at the Theatre. The Technicolor-Panavision release, produced and directed by Joshua Logan as a sequel to “Mr. Roberts’’, stars Walker and Miss Perkins along with Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Kay Medford and Tommy Sands. Mat 2-B Still No. 880/66 Great Future As Comedian Awaits ‘Ensign Pulver’ Star, Robert Walker “Bob Walker is one of the brightest comedians on the scene. He is going very, very far in motion pictures.” Those are the words of Joshua Logan, ace stage-and-screen director who should know a comer when he sees one. It was Logan who picked Robert Walker for the name-role of “Ensign Pulver”, new comedy-drama in Technicolor-Panavision which he produced and directed for Warner Bros. release. The role is the first full starring role in Walker’s short acting career. Co-starred with him in “Ensign Pulver”, which opens...... at the Theatre, are Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Kay Medford, Millie Perkins and Tommy Sands. At 23, Walker — son of Jennifer Jones and the late Robert Walker—is a shy, sensitive, publicity-shunning young man. He would rather be strumming his guitar in Europe, or beating the bongo drums in Greenwich Village, both which he has done. Actually, he started out to be a writer, but with a wife and two small children to support, he turned to the performing art. Logan, who knew him as an infant, discovered his comedic talents after Walker had appeared in only two other pictures. Now that he’s launched, he says, “T’m very glad to have the chance. I like acting and I intend to keep studying until I know more about it. I don’t want to be compared to anyone, whether it’s my father or someone else. If I can’t make it on my own, plain Bob Walker (no ‘Junior’, please), then it’s no good.” | Mr. Pulver’ Affable Robert Walker, who wanted to be a playwright but became an actor and hit it big, stars in the name-role of “‘Ensign Pulver”, a sequel to “Mr. Roberts” in Technicolor and Panavision. The new Warner Bros. comedy-drama opens ....... at the Theatre. “Ensign Pulver” was produced and directed by Joshua Logan. Along with Walker, the film stars Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Millie Perkins, Kay Medford and Tommy Sands. Mat 1-A_ Still No. 880/610 Sorehead With Sore Spot While crewmen assist and Walter Matthau, as a ship’s doctor, applies medication, Burl Ives, portraying a brutal ship’s captain, vents his rage over damage done to his fundament by a pellet from a slingshot. Scene is from “Ensign Pulver”, new comedy-drama in Technieolor and Panavision which opens At tess. oe sees Theatre. Matthau and Ives star in the Warner Bros, release, together with Robert Walker, Kay Medford, Millie Perkins and Tommy Sands. Joshua Logan directed “Ensign Pulver”, a sequel to “Mr. Roberts’’. Mat 2-F_ Still No. 880/54 PAGE 6 Hilarious ‘Ensign Pulver’ Conceived As Major Warner Bros. Production New Release Involves Six Top Stars, Important Director, Color, Wide Screen When Warner Bros. decided to make “Ensign Pulver”, new comedydrama which opens ......... at the RAS ae Bi Be PHe athe OM icc ce asoa sequel to its very successful “Mr. Roberts”, the studio realized it would have to think big. Joshua Logan, about as big a stage-and-screen director as there is and also a prize-winning co-author of Broadway vehicles (including the “Mr. Roberts” play) was engaged to produce and direct “Ensign Pulver” in Technicolor and Panavision. The task of writing the screenplay was assigned to Logan and a collaborator. Next the studio lined up an array of top-level stars— Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Kay Medford and Tommy Sands for the character leads, and Robert Walker and Millie Perkins for the romantic leads. The casting for lesser parts included Diana Sands and Al Freeman, Jr., outstanding Negro performers, and James Forentino, Gerald O’Loughlin, James Coco, Sal Papa, Joseph Marr and Larry Hagman, among the best of the current young theatrical-television-screen thespians. To get the “Pacific” atmosphere important to the story, Logan moved his actors and staff of Warner technicians to Acapulco. The big modern Churubusco Studio of Mexico City provided such facilities as lights and generators, air-conditioned buses, and a work-crew of 60. Maritimes Mexicanos, a shipping outfit, pulled a former U. S. Navy cargo vessel out of its regular run and turned it over to Logan as a floating location-site. The Mexican Navy furnished smaller auxiliary craft, and the coves, beaches and airports around Acapulco furnished the settings for many storypoints. Back on the Warner lot, the “Ensign Pulver” company filmed certain sequences including a long and funny one where Robert Walker performs surgery on Burl Ives in a tropical island locale. The final authentic Mean Skipper All-around Burl Ives—actor, writer, mariner, traveller and folkballadeer—stars as the meanspirited “Captain” in “Ensign Pulver’? Warner Bros.’ new comedy-drama which opens the ...... Theatre. Also starred in the Technicolor-Panavision sequel to “Mr. Roberts” are Walter Matthau. Robert Walker, Millie Perkins, Kay Medford and Tommy Sands. Joshua Logan produced and directed “Ensign Pulver’. Mat 1-C_ Still No. 880/56 touch for the “island” set was a covey of young “wild” pigs. At the finish of the scene instead of re-entering the truck in which they had come the porkers dashed onto the “My Fair Lady” sound-stage next door and scared the daylights out of some 250 actors dressed in the elaborate fashions of Victorian England. ‘Pulver’ Made By Joshua Logan, Ace Producer Director Writer Joshua Logan can lay claim to one of the most distinguished records of modern show business. His sparkling list of stage-hits includes “Picnic” (director); “Mr. Roberts” (coauthor, director) ; and “South Pacific” (director, co-producer, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author). In motion pictures, he has to his credit “Sayonara” and “Fanny” as well as screen-versions of “Mr. Roberts”, “South Pacific’ and “Picnic”, for which he won an Oscar nomination. Logan’s newest film, “Ensign Pulver”, which he produced, directed and co-authored for Warner Bros. as a sequel to “Mr. Roberts”, opens SSRIS at the Theatre. Robert Walker, Millie Perkins, Burl Ives, Walter Matthau, Key Medford and Tommy Sands star in the Technicolor-Panavision release. Born in Texas, Joshua Lockwood Logan III attended Culver Military Academy where he played every possible sport to toughen himself. In 1927, he entered Princeton and plunged into the theatrical activities of the famed Triangle Club. Summers, he worked in a Cape Cod stock company which numbered among its members such future luminaries as James Stewart, Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan. Logan won a scholarship to study in Russia at the great Moscow Art Theatre. In 1936, he broke into Hollywood as a dialogue director, then co-authored and co-directed a movie. He went back to Broadway to direct such huge stage successes as “On Borrowed Time”, “I Married An Angel” and “Knickerbocker Heoliday”. When he was drafted, Logan asked for active duty and was sent to Officer Candidate School from which he graduated at the head of a class of 3,000. At the end of World War II he had attained the rank of captain. He resume directing and came up with hit after hit both on stage and for the screen. Logan is married to the former Broadway star, Nedda Harrington. They have two adopted childen, an apartment on New York’s swanky East side and a house in Connecticut where he finds relaxation by growing prize carnations. Pretty Millie Now Back In Business Six years ago, Millie Perkins, playing Anne in “The Diary of Anne Frank”, was the most publicized girl in films. Then, with release of the picture, it was over—and so, almost, was her career. But Millie and her dark, frail beauty were not forgotten. Joshua Logan, the famed author-producerdirector of countless stage and screen hits, decided she was just the girl to portray an Army nurse and provide the love-interest opposite young Robert Walker in “Ensign Pulver”, the new Warner Bros. comedy-drama in Technicolor and Panavision which OPENS: 3.0 s.8< at the Logan tested her against 50 other hopefuls, and suddenly Millie was back in business. Now she’s no longer little Anne but a grown-up beauty who makes all the young men in “Ensign Pulver” turn their heads. “Tt’s wonderful to be working again,” she says. “And the time I spent in drama-school and just studying and reading will, I feel sure, pay off. Now, maybe, I can make it as Millie Perkins, girl actor. That’s my prayer”. Vivacious Vivacious Millie Perkins, who achieved cinematic fame in the title-role of ‘““The Diary of Anne Frank”, is starred as an Army nurse in “Ensign Pulver’, Warner Bros.’ comedy-drama in Tech nicolor and Panavision which opens ...... AESENE Seas sete Theatre. Mat 1-B_ Still No. 880/65 Se ee ee | Happy Operation | It’s a tense but hilarious moment as Robert Walker, playing the the name-role of “Ensign Pulver”, completes an emergency operation upon ship’s captain Burl Ives, with the aid of Army nurses Millie Perkins and Kay Medford while the natives of a tropical isle cavort in joy. Scene is from the new Warner Bros. comedy-drama in Technicolor and Panavision which opens ....... AUT 35. . Theatre. Walker, Ives and the Misses Perkins and Medford star in “Ensign Pulver” along with Walter Matthau and Tommy Sands. Joshua Logan produced and directed. Mat 2-E_ Still No. 880/74