Fifty Million Frenchmen (Warner Bros.) (1931)

Claudia Dell, Helen Broderick, John Halliday, Vera Gordon, Nat Carr Are in the Cast! American Innocents Aboard in Paris (Current Story) Whoopee With N A French Flavor! | The romantic leads in “Fifty Begins Million Frenchmen,” the Warner f Bros. and Vitaphone Technicolor Tommorrow! Wine, women—and women, — the kind that fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong about! comedy special now at the ........ .... Theatre, are portrayed by William Gaxton and Claudia Dell. Gaxton who created the original role in the Broadway stage produetion of “Fifty Million Frenchmen” which ran an entire season, makes his talking picture debut in this frisky farce of Paris. However, he is not a stranger to the screen as he has appeared in a number of silent productions. Miss Dell’s blonde loveliness has graced the talking screen in such pictures as “Sweet Kitty Bellairs,” “Sit Tight” and “Big Boy.” Both enact American innocents in Gay Paree in “Fifty Million Frenchmen.” Olsen and Johnson, John Halliday, Helen Broderiek, Lester Crawford Charles Judels and Carmelita Geraghty are in the east. Lloyd Bacon directed. Ole and Chic Have No Tears in Hiding Warner Bros. present IFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN with OLSEN and JOHNSON Nuttiest Nuts of Nonsense WILLIAM GAXTON HELEN BRODERICK CLAUDIA DELL and JOHN HALLIDAY Clowns in Wares Bros. ‘Fifty Million Frenchmen’’ at _______ Theatre—Are Clowns at Work and Play. (Current Story) Clowns are usually pictured as gentlemen with tears in their eyes. But there is no laugh, clown, laugh mania about Olsen and Johnson, the screen’s nuttiest nuts of nonsense. They are funny, and enjoy it, all of the time. They are perpetual comics while at work and at play. I Mao ond Chie Johnson, who 2 1nty —_ ner Bros. and + yuvue Technicolor comedy proauction: now-tt=thOs eo ee es Theatre, spend their off hours creating new comedy situations, thinking up funny lines, and practicing their NOT A MUSICAL COMEDY — — — but the kind of comedy that 50 Million Americans are Based on play by Herbert Fields. Critics said it couldn’t be improved on the stage. So Warner Bros. put it on the hilarious antics on their friends. screen. All in’ Technicalling “the greatest ever They are always laughing and always color. fil a!’ : looking for fun. : med. Cut No. 13 Cut Soc Mat 20¢ William Gaxton, John Halliday, Helen Broderick, Claudia Dell, Lester Crawford, Nat Carr, Vera Gordon, Charles Judels and others complete the east of “Fifty Million Frenchmen.” The piece is adapted from the New York comedy success. Joseph Jackson, Al Boasberg and Eddie Welch are responsible for the sereen play. Lloyd Bacon farce. FAMOUS RITZ BAR REPRODUCED FOR PARISIAN FILM (Current Story) The famous Ritz Bar in Paris, gathering place of the much-moneyed from all over the world, has been brought to the screen with all its colorful details. An exact replica of this celebrated Parisian rendezvous, to which ladies are not admitted, was built at Warner Bros. Studio for scenes of the Vitaphone Technicolor comedy special, “Fifty Million Frenchmen,” which is now showing at the Theatre. Photographs of the Ritz Bar were made by. studio representives in France and dispatched by fast mail to Hollywood. The elaborate set was constructed from these pictures. With the long and well-filled bar as the main feature of the room, there are also the familiar well tables with settees, and the small round tables in the center. “Fifty Million Frenchmen” is adapted for the screen by Joseph Jackson from the Broadway stage hit by Herbert Field. The cast includes William Gaxton, Olsen and Johnson, John Halliday, Claudia Dell, Helen Broderick, Lester Crawford, Charles Judels, Nat Carr, Vera Gordon, Carmelita Geraghty and ; athers. on directed “men,” directed this racy “Fifty GAY ‘FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN’ HAS AN IMPOSING CAST (Advance Story) One of the most imposing casts since Warner Bros. gathered almost eighty famous players in “The Show of Shows,” has been assembled for the Vitaphone technicolor comedy special, “Fifty Million Frenchmen,” which comes to the .......... TheaChRRS ee next. Several of the original stage cast and many of the screen’s leading players combine to make the list of artists in this production. William Gaxton, who scored in the Broadway play which War Claudia Dell in “Fifty Million 99 Frenchmen ner Bros. pro Cut No. 20 Cut 15¢ duced, is enactMat 5c * ing the same role in the picture. Helen Broderick and Lester Crawford, also of the original footlight play, are appearing in the roles they created before the cameras and microphones. Olsen and Johnson, famous nuts of nonsense, head the recruits from the screen in “Fifty Million .Frenchmen.” Claudia Dell, John Halliday, Charles Judels, Nat Carr, Vera Gordon, Carmelita Geraghty and Daisy Belmore are included in the cast. Joseph Jackson adapted the piece from Herbert Field’s play. Al Boasberg and Eddie Welch prepared the special screen dialogue. Lloyd Bacon directed. Double of Famed Parisian Seen in French Farce (Current Story) Monsieur Frank, known to. every Paris visitor as the famous proprietor-waiter at the Ritz Bar, has entered the movies by proxy. Monsieur Frank’s double enacts the role in “Fifty Million Frenchmen,” the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Technicolor comedy special now at the Theatre. The double is William Emile, who is a dead-ringer for Monsieur Frank, according to Jake Kiley, technical director of the picture who knows his Paris. Emile is not a novice at acting. He is French and an expert duelist. He has trained many screen stars for dueling scenes in pictures and played many such parts himself. The cast of “Fifty Million Frenchmen” includes William Gaxton, Olsen and Johnson, John Halliday, Claudia Dell, Helen Broderick, Lester Crawford, Charles Judels, Vera Gordon, Nat Carr, Carmelita Geraghty and others. Lloyd Bacon directed. Lloyd Bacon Always Plays “Bit” in Films He is Directing (Current Story) Lloyd Bacon the well known director, who always plays a bit part in his pictures, had a hard time deciding what part to play in “Fifty Million Frenchmen,” the Vitaphone technicolor comedy special which is now at the Theatre. Bacon’s one superstition is to enact a small role in each one of his directorial efforts. No matter how Gay Paree Scene Of Speedy French Comedy Soon Here (Advance Story) Fifty million Frenchmen ecan’t be wrong—so goes the saying, but nine out of ten who use it haven’t the faintest idea what it means, according to William Gaxton, who enacts a youthful American-about Paris in “Fifty Million Frenchmen,” the Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Technicolor comedy special which comes to the Theatre Every Frenchman believes next. that Paris is the center of creation and anyone seeing Paris will agree that fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong! Paris provides the stirring for “Fifty Million Frenchmen” in which an all-star cast appears. Among the players are William Gaxton, Olsen and Johnson, John Halliday, Claudia Dell, Charles Judels, Nat Carr, Vera Gordon, Helen Broderick, Lester Crawford and others. Joseph Jackson wrote the screen play from the Broadway original by Herbert Field. Lloyd Bacon directed. background insignificant the part, he never passes up the opportunity. But for a long time he was unable to find a spot for himself in “Fifty Million Frenchmen.” At last he succeeded. Can you find him? William Gaxton, Olsen and Johnson, Claudia Dell, John Halliday, Charles Judels, Helen Broderick, Lester Crawford, Carmelita Geraghty, Vera Gordon, Nat Carr, Daisy Belmore and others make up the east of “Fifty Million Frenchmen.” BELA LUGOSI WINS TALKIE PART BY VOICE REGISTRY (Current Story) Contrary to existing opinion, a screen actor’s face is not always his fortune. This was brought out when Warner Bros. signed a. well known character actor because his voice was exactly what was wanted for a role in “Fifty Million Frenchmen,” the Vitaphone Teehnicolor comedy special in which Olsen and Johnson are featured in the all-star cast at the Theatre. appearance meant nothing for his include heavy whiskers, making him unrecognizable to the audience. The well known character actor is Bela Lugosi, who became famous on the stage as the creator of Count Dracula in “Dracula,” and is now in the movies. Lugosi’s exceptional recording voice is heard in the role of a Hindu fakir in “Fifty Million Frenchmen.” His facial character makeup had to In addition to Olsen and Johnson, . the east of this frisky French farce includes William Gaxton, John Halliday, Helen Broderick, Claudia Dell, Lester Crawford, Nat Carr, Vera Gordon, Charles Judels and others. Lloyd Bacon directed this all color screen comedy which is adapted from the Broadway footlight hit of the same name. William Gaxton, Miss Broderick and Lester Crawford were in the original stage production of “Fifty Million Frenchmen” which was one of New York’s most pronounced suecesses, running for an entire season in one of Broadway’s largest theatres. Page Eleven RNAI ii pits