Ever in My Heart (Warner Bros.) (1933)

Publicity —A dvance your Ist story “Ever In My Heart” Starring Stanwyck, Has Powerful Story Romance of unusual strength and interest is said to mark the plot of Barbara Stanwyck’s latest Warner Bros. picture, “Ever In My Heart,” which comes to the guacdee Theatre on In the character of a New England girl a strong friendship exists between her and a cousin and their families take it for granted that they will marry. But when the cousin returns from abroad with a German professor she immediately falls in love with the professor and weds him in defiance of her Puritan relatives. Their love runs smoothly and beautifully until the outbreak of the World War when friends and relatives turn on the husband and later on the girl herself because she will not give him up. But they are eventually torn apart when her husband is driven to return to Germany to join the army by the snubs and cruelties heaped upon himself and wife by their friends. Later Stanwyck as a canteen worker in France meets her husband, as he is spying on the Allied forces. It is here that the picture turns into.one of intense drama 4s she is torn between her love for her husband and her duty toward her own country. Otto Kruger, noted stage star, has the leading masculine role opposite Miss Stanwyck, while the remaining members of the cast are all noted on stage and screen. They include Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Laura Hope Crews, Frank Albertson, Donald Meek, Clara Blandick, Elizabeth Patterson and Harry Beresford. Archie Mayo directed the picture from a screen play by Bertram Milhauser which is based on the story by himself and Beulah Marie Dix. your 2nd story OttoKrugerLearns Screen Technique Between His Roles Otto Kruger, veteran New York stage actor, has been in Hollywood only a year, yet he knows more about the technique of making motion pictures than a great majority of film folk who have been in the This fact was revealed during the making of Barbara Stanwyck’s latest starring picture for Warner Bros., ‘‘Ever In Mey. Et 6:82 02 which comes to OTTO KRUGER the ........-.....00 Out NO LIS Fi Pe: Theatre Cuti5e Mat5e pnoext cece The correct lighting of the sets, the position of the reflectors, the sufficient thicknesses of the gauze filters, camera angles, intonation of diction for the portable microphone, the mixer’s task in the near-by booth and scores of other specialized jobs during the shooting of a scene were all familiar to him. Director Archie Mayo was puzzled. “Say, Otto,” he asked, “how is it that you know so much about the mechanical making of a picture when you have been in the business so short a time. None of these things are in any way connected with stage productions.” “It’s easily explained,” said Kruger. “While I have been in only two pictures, I have nevertheless been in Hollywood a year under contract. While waiting for a strong enough role to come along, I mapped out a systematic chart of a@ picture’s production. Page Four LOVE RECEIVES ITS SEVEREST TEST Ralph Bellamy, Otto Kruger and Barbara Stanwyck, in a tense scene in “Ever In My Heart,” coming to Tar ere a OES Snubbed by her friends for being married to an enemy alien, Stanwyck still sticks your 3rd story to her husband. Cut No.39 Cut45e Matic your 4th story your 5th story 4 Months Old Baby | Barbara Stanwyck| Fine Cast Supports Stars In Powerful|/ Miss Stanwyck In Plays Picture Role WithoutRehearsal It’s never happened before. It probably never will happen again. And it happened on the set of “Ever In My Heart,” a Warner Bros. picture starring Barbara Stanwyck, which comes to the EN GRUEO ON. os tain ek eta ai eas i The scene called for a _ fourmonths-old baby to, first, laugh, then cry. It was known as one of the mental hazards of the picture long before it went into production. Director Archie Mayo worried about it. Miss Stanwyck worried about it a little, and Otto Kruger, who plays the baby boy’s father, worried about it quite a lot. Otto believes that he is not very good with children. Came the day of the baby’s scene. Generally a scene is rehearsed. But something must have warned Director Mayo. When they put the baby under the lights for the rehearsal, he had them turn over both the camera and the microphone mechanism. Miss Stanwyck placed the baby— little Donald Fitzpatrick—in his crib, and chucked him under the chin. Ronald promptly laughed, revealing one tooth. Miss Stanwyck started to pick him up, and Ronald cried. Lustily! Director Mayo snapped his fingers. “Cut, test, and no retakes!” he shouted. The scene was as perfect as if it had been rehearsed over eight or ten days shooting, as is ofttimes required in baby scenes. It’s never happened before, and probably never will again. The entire shooting didn’t take more than fifteen seconds. Then the baby promptly went to sleep and slept through the next scenes as it is supposed to do throughout the rest of the sequence. This is one of the amusing sequences in a picture which is for the most part powerful drama. It is a new type of picture for Miss Stanwyck and one which enables her to show her versatility as Emotional Picture Barbara Stanwyck comes to the BOTCON Of ENG ooicscaciascensseconnncse Theatre next in her latest starring vehicle for Warner Bros., “Ever In My Heart,” a picture that calls for the expression of the deepest and most powerful emotions she has ever been called upon to portray. The story by Beulah Marie Dix and Bertram Milhauser combines rare and beautiful romance with pulsating dramatic action, and tender pathos. It is the story of a New England girl who marries a German professor and whose happy life is broken up when her husband returns to his Fatherland to serve in the army during the World War. Their fight to retain their romance in the face of stinging cruelties of relatives and former friends is a brave through hopeless one. The drama becomes more tense as they are torn apart by circumstances they can not surmount and winds up with a smashing climax when they come face to face in France, where the young wife is a canteen worker and her husband a spy for the German army. It is a far different role from anything which Miss Stanwyck has before been called upon to portray. Gone is the unmoral, gold digger, of “Baby Face,” “Ladies They Talk About” and “Tllicit.” There is an exceptionally strong supporting cast with Otto Kruger, one of the greatest players of the legitimate stage, playing the leading masculine role. Though comparatively new to the screen, Kruger is an accomplished actor and is famous on the Broadway stage for his strong characterizations. Other players, noted on both stage and screen, include Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Laura Hope Crews, Frank Albertson, Clara Blandick, Elizabeth Patterson and Harry Beresford. Archie Mayo directed the picture from the screen play by Milhauser. sete eee e ee eecec eres eecesesces an actress. Others in the cast include Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Laura Hope Crews and Frank Albertson. Archie Mayo directed. “Ever In My Heart” Barbara Stanwyck, whose latest starring vehicle for Warner Bros., “Ever In My Heart,” comes to the A cit Gebsina sample MPROGCEO OD ois ncssessccsansceeg is supported in this picture by a notable cast of stage and screen celebrities, several of whom have been starred in their own names. Otto Kruger, who is comparatively new to pictures, has the leading masculine role. He is however a veteran of the New York stage—a great Broadway favorite who has starred in many productions before the footlights. Among his most notable successes are such productions as “Trelawney of the Wells,” “The Great Barrington” and “To the Ladies.’ Ralph _ Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly and Laura Hope Crews are all products of the Broadway stage who have been appearing in pictures the past two years. Bellamy rose to RALPH BELLAMY screen success Out No. 16 with such picOut15e Mat5e tures as “The Narrow Corner,” “Picture Snatcher” and “Airmail.” Miss Donnelly, who made her first big hit in pictures in “Blessed Event” has repeated that success in such pictures as “Female,” “Footlight Parade” and “Bureau of Missing Persons.” Miss Crews is noted for her stage work both in this country, in England and on the Continent. She was long one of Henry Miller’s famous stars and appeared in “The Silver Cord,” “Mr. Pim Passes By” and “Olympia.” Other noted stage and screen celebrities in the cast include Elizabeth Patterson, Donald Meek, Harry Beresford, Frank Albertson, Clara Blandick, Wallis Clark, Nella Walker, George Cooper, Frank Reicher, Virginia Howell, Ronnie Crosby and Florence Roberts. The screen play by Bertram Milhauser is a powerful drama based on a story by Milhauser and Beulah Marie Dix. Archie Mayo directed. your 6th story Barbara Stanwyck Injury AddsRealisn ToRole She Enacts Barbara Stanwyck played under a terrific strain during the latter half of the production of the Warner Bros. picture, “Ever In My Heart,’ which comes to the Theatre on Not that it will be noticed, however, for in this part of the picture she enacts the role of a woman under such great mental strain that she suffers a complete physical collapse. Two years ago Barbara was thrown from a horse in making a picture. The horse also sat on her breaking her hip. Then again later she fell and injured the same hip. And in the middle of her current picture she wrenched the same leg. Despite the injury she showed up on the set her face white and drawn with pain. Archie Mayo, her director, ordered her home. “No,” she said. “I am going to finish the picture. We have finished the cheerful part of the picture. Now we are going into its tragedy. It won’t hurt the picture if my face is drawn. In fact it should make it more realistic. I can stand it and I won’t have to act. I ean just be myself and do whatever suffering I have to do before the camera.” So they went on with the picture and when the character she represents appears to be in anguish, Barbara really was in anguish. The story is that of a young New England girl who marries a German professor against the wishes of her family. They are _ idealistically happy until the outbreak of the World War when prejudices become mixed with patriotism. “Ever In My Heart” is said to present Barbara Stanwyck in her most emotional story which carried a terrific climax. The story by Beulah Marie Dix and Bertram Milhauser is one of rare beauty with powerful dramatic action. There is a strong supporting cast which includes Otto Kruger, Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Laura Hope Crews and Frank Albertson. your 7th story Entirely Different Barbara Stanwyck, “Ever In My Heart” It’s an entirely new and different Barbara Stanwyck who comes to the screen of the Theatre on in “Ever In My Heart,” her latest starring vehicle for Warner Bros. Almost always she has appeared in the role of a woman more or less soiled. In “Baby Face” she was a gold digging girl who had no scruples whatever about vamping and ruining men for the sake of luxury. In “Ladies They Talk About” she was a gangster and convict and in “Ten Cents a Dance” and “Illicit”? a gum moll and taxi dancer. Even in “The Purchase Price,” she starts out as a cabaret girl enamorata of the bootlegging proprietor. In “Ever In My Heart,” however, she is a changed woman, being a New England girl of strong character and moral fiber assailed by cruel fate. To Miss Stanwyck’s credit, her talent is such that she is said to enact this role with even more force and feeling than she has protrayed the women of the underworld. The picture is said to be a romance of rare beauty as well as a drama of terrific emotions and dynamic action. It is tinged with the pathos of an American girl who loves and is married to a German professor at the time of the great conflict. The cast is unusually strong.