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

Ad vance Veatures Barbara Stanwyck Reforms With “Ever In My Heart” Unusually Fine Story Affords Her Brilliant Characterization in Her Most Emotional Role ARBARA STANWYCK has reformed. No longer is she the girl of the underworld, the gun moll, the tawdry taxi dancer, the convict. Nor is she living in luxury at the price of gilded sin. No longer does she scoff at marriage VOWS. She is now a devoted wife and mother. Motion picture patrons who may have wondered why this fine artist and character portrayer has practically always been cast in the role of a scarlet women, will at last have an opportunity to of a Canadian wheat farmer, she see her in a new and entirely dif-|i8 not without smirch, for she be ferent characterization in her latest| gan life as a cabaret entertainer and BARBARA STANWYCK Star of “Ever in My Heart’? Warner Bros. film arriving at Strand Die fone stots next. Cut No.10 Outi15e Mat 5c starring vehicle for Warner Bros., “Ever In My Heart,” which comes ee nee pers ie ee Theatre ey a ae ae In “Baby Face,” Miss Stanwyck’s last picture prior to her current pro enamorata of the proprietor. In “So Big,” it is true, she portrays a woman of fine character, but here again she begins as a daughter of a gambler who is killed in a brawl. Is Good Woman In “Ever In My Heart’ she is ever the “good woman,’ a somewhat deceptive phrase which might lead one to believe she leads a calm and even existence. Far from it, she is tossed on the conflicting waves of love and hatred; she suf fers more poignant grief, and passes through more emotional stress than in all her other pictures combined. In “Ever In My Heart,” Barbara starts out as the daughter of a prosperous and _ aristocratic, though somewhat narrow minded New England family. Against the wishes of her family she marries a somewhat sentimental German professor of chemistry. Her life is ideally happy until the outbreak of the World War. And here race prejudice comes to wreck her happiness. Battling to hold their love, the young couple are ostracized by their friends and relatives. Her husband returns to Germany to join his native troops. The strongest emotional scene duction, she played the part of an| Stanwyck has ever played takes unmoral gold digger who lived in| place in a military cantonment in luxury on the bounty of a long suc-| France, where she is working in the cession of lovers whom she quickly threw aside for better and bigger game. Prior to that she had been a tawdry taxi dancer in “Ten Cents a Dance,” a gun moll, and convict in “Ladies They Talk About” and a woman of the underworld in “TIllieit.” Even in “The Purchase Price,” in which she is shown as the wife canteen for the American army, when she discovers her husband in camp as a German spy. In her struggle between love of husband and country, Miss Stanwyck is given the opportunity for the most powerful dramatic role of her career, in a life that has been far from a bed of roses. Yet it has been the very rough THEIR BIG MOMENT Her friends present her husband with a loving cup in commemoration of his becoming an American citizen. Barbara Stanwyck and Otto Kruger in “Ever In My Heart’ at the................0..000.... Out No. 38 Page Six Cut 30c Mat 10c HIGHLIGHTS OF “EVER IN MY HEART” | Ny ! OTTO KRUGER'S FRIENDS GIVE } HIM A CUP TO COMMEMORATE. HIS BECOMING AN AMERICAN /, CITIZEN f At A = aN BARBARA STANWYCK AND OTTO KRUGER SUBLIMELY IN LOVE WITH EACH OTHER. HEA Uf yi i \ 3 Hi 4 MAYBE YOu SHOULD HAVE MARRIED JEFF 3 ‘GO ON AND SAY IT/ WE'RE BEING SNUBBED BY OUR BEST FRIENDS/ » Ulf Barbara Stanwyck, Ralph Bellamy and Otto Kruger, all do excellent work in Strand’s current attraction. Cut No.41 COut45e Matic Shoot Winter Movie Scene With Thermometer at 100 Players Swelter Making New England Christmas Sequence for Stanwyck’s ‘‘Ever in My Heart’ OW ean they make winter scenes for motion pictures in H sunny Southern California? Well, they can. Warner Bros. did it to represent a New England Christmas for Barbara Stanwyck’s latest starring vehicle, ‘‘Ever In My Heart,’’ which comes to the......................... Theatre OB SA. eakee oe It was one of the hottest days in August when the scene was shot, with the thermometer on the Warner Bros. lot where the road she has had to travel since a little girl, that equipped her with her recognized ability as the premiere emotional actress of the screen. Left an orphan at an early age with her own way to make, her life was a constant struggle against odds. Her choice of occupations as a night club entertainer, or rather her lack of choice which forced her to take whatever came to hand, did not make her path any easier. Naturally tender hearted, sensitive, she built such a wall about herself that few can penetrate. She spoke seldom and then said very little. She still says little, but her eyes and her mind are busy. She observes. Cool, apparently cold, level headed, intelligent and practical, she has learned to weigh and judge character. And in her varied experience she has met the best and the worst. She knows those with whom she comes in contact. And that is the secret of the ease with which she steps from the roll of a butterfly girl or underworld character into that of a woman of culture. She knows character and her fine understanding of histrionies enables her to portray it. She has an unusually strong supporting cast with Otto Kruger, the famous stage star playing the leading masculine role opposite Miss Stanwyck. Among the other noted stage and screen players are Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Laura Hope Crews, Frank Albertson, Donald Meek, Clara Blandick, Elizabeth Patterson and Harry Beresford. “Ever In My Heart” is based on a story by Beulah Marie Dix and Bertram Milhauser. It was directed by Archie Mayo from the screen play by Milhauser. little New England village had been built, registering above the 100 mark. If you had been on the set that August day you would have seen Director Archie Mayo and others concerned with the shooting of the picture, but not in the actual scenes, sitting or standing about in white linen suits or shirt sleeves with snow all around them. The snow stood high on both sides of the walk and against the cottages and stores. Frosty window panes glittered in the sun. A few natives of the town were on the street but presumably it was much too cold an afternoon for many to be out. Those who were had bundled up for bitter weather. The women wore fur coats; the men had pulled down fur flaps and put on galoshes. The snow, of course, was salt— barrels of salt and corn flakes. The salt, being heavy, was used for the solid body of the snow and the corn flakes, being light, blew about and drifted just as real snow. That’s the only kind of snow available in Hollywood. A closed car stood well in the foreground. It was drawn up before a cottage from which Barbara Stanwyck and Otto Kruger emerged, also dressed for zero weather. Far up the icy street another car moved Slowly towards the cameras. The wheels of both were fitted out with skid chains. That was a tough assignment for the prop man in any kind of Cali fornia weather. No one uses skid chains in Southern California. But one of the cameramen remembered he had a set of chains at home which he had used in driving to the mountains for winter sports. Then it was discovered there was a giant pepper tree squarely in the middle of the set. And pepper trees being semi-tropical do not grow in New England. So they cut off the lower branches of the pepper tree and substituted some drooping pine branches, gathered from trees some fifty miles away in the mountains. | No Cranberries | But these items were as nothing to the search for cranberries which Barbara Stanwyck strings in the New England fashion for her baby’s Christmas tree. berries to be had anywhere in August, but the property man discovered that Jerusalem berries are similar to cranberries in size and shape. So these were painted red and used for cranberries. There were no cran While Mayo fanned his damp brow and conducted his rehearsal, the company wilted slowly under fur coats and ear muffs. its Studio skill and ingenuity Everything was in place. had provided each accurate detail. There stood the. snowbound Massachusetts village on a winter’s afternoon—complete to the last bleached corn flake. finally It was as realistic as any genuine snow storm. But there was one item missing that no property department could supply. If you are particularly observant perhaps you will notice it when you see the picture. The village is Barbara Stanwyck’s honeymoon home until the World War breaks out and comes as a terrible barrier between her and her German husband. The story by Beulah Marie Dix and Bertram Milhauser is one of rare beauty but of terrific conflicting emotions that crushes the hearts of lovers. Others in the cast include Ralph Bellamy, Ruth Donnelly, Laura Hope Crews, Frank Albertson, Clara Blandick, Elizabeth Patterson, Harry Beresford and Frank Reicher.