God's Gift to Women (Warner Bros.) (1931)

“Seven Of Hollywood’s Most Gorgeous Girls”’ Is A Great Campaign Slogan. Put It In The Lights! TWO OF MANY LADY LOVES OF FRANK FAY IN “GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN” TALK ABOUT MERE MAN Frank Fay Discussed as the Great Screen Lover and the Answer to a Maiden’s Prayer, by Misses Blondell and Clair (Current Short Feature) Joan Blondell and Ethlyne Clair, who are two of the many wild women set on winning Frank Fay’s attentions in Warner Bros. gorgeous screen comedy, ‘‘God’s Gift to Women,’’ now at Ge ee ..... Theatre, think differently about the types of men they would like to marry—though both regard Frank The ads in this press sheet have been constructed with a wary eye toward their attention arrestin g value. Won’t you mail us tear sheets of your campaign to help us further our efforts? —Press Sheet Editor Fay as a perfect lover of the screen. Miss Clair modified her statement by saying “Mr. Fay is so perfect an actor that one can’t help being convinced even with his screen lovemaking. He has all the tricks of love-making down to such a detailed art that he can stir a woman’s heart by.a mere turn of the hand, a slight lift of the eyebrow, or the faintest shadow of a smile. If a woman married such a character as Frank Fay portrays in “God’s Gift to Women,” she would have to spend her life in figuring out just how to keep up with his lady friends.” Joan Blondell has some very defin ite ideas as to the type of lover she would choose to be her husband, “My perfect lover must be one who doesn’t look it,” Joan said. “He must be modest and shy—the me so the better. He must have t straightforward kind of eyes do not light up every time « woman comes in view. I © lieve in love at first sigh’ only infatuation at fir this is not a very sc on which to build radeship. Love Each one must building up t > Sve : SOSULT ital UNE... ar vee Ai deen ak | which lasts through life. That is the type of man I will eventually marry.” This level-headed choice is rather a surprise when coming from the blonde Joan. What’s more, she is unmarried and can cook. A word to the wise ought to start a stampede in this ease. Hthlyne Clair’s taste in love is somewhat different than Joan’s. She demands the aggressive lover who will go through fire and water, so to speak. She wants lots of attention and unwavering loyalty — which, for a girl of her beauty and accomplishments, should not be hard to find. Miss Clair added the usual feminine P. S.: “He must be a level-headed business man, too. He must be able to run not only his own business, but —with diplomacy—his wife’s affairs as well. This is my opinion of the only way in which a husband can build) a happy home life for his wife.” Reverting to the subject of Frank Fay and his characterization of Toto in “God’s Gift to Women,” Joan said: “After all, Frank Fay is fascinating. He has a sense of humor which certainly is essential in a husband. Perhaps I should inelude something of his characteristies in making up my ideal. “T think Joan is right,” said Ethlyne. “He must be a good lover in real life, too, because he is married in real life—and happily!” Warner Bros. TRAILERS are a mighty means for more money! The one on “God’s Gift to Women” is exceptionally — 4! good. Set it early! Page Six’ i ~~ A MAN IN A MILLION! Take the most famous lover in Paris —give him a harem of seven loving ladies —then tell him that one kiss will kill him! What an idea! What a comedy! It’s a scream! LAURA LAPLANTE His strongest weakness. Wary, but willing! JOAN BLONDELL Gentlemen prefer Blondell. Only gentlemen? See All the women in Paris in love with him..a modern Don Juan who got what he Juanted... One more kiss, the doctor said, and he’d die. Then he fell in love.. Boy, page the hearse! GODS GIF ever \ filmed YOLA D’AVRIL Responsible for the French nina And worth it! _ FRANK FAY LAURA LAPLANTE JOAN BLONDELL YOLA D’AVRIL LOUISE BROOKS ETHLYNE CLAIR A Warner Bros. Vitaphone Production Directed by Michael Curtiz LOUISE BROOKS Makes strong men weak. and weak men __ strong! FIRST SCREEN KISS | Successful Playwright OCCUPIED FORTY FEET OF FILM eae (Short Feature) The niceties of the art of osculation as demonstrated in “God’s Gift to Women,” the Warner Bros. French farce starring Frank Fay, now at the Theatre, bring up the not uninteresting subject of the evolution of the screen kiss. The first screen kiss was a fortyfoot piece of film starring May Irwin and John Rice, in a scene from their stage play, “The Widow Jones.” The picture was first shown at Coster and Beal’s Musie Hall, thirty-five years ago. May was the siren of her day, buxom, curving, her yellow hair, not streaming down her back, but brushed back in a high pompadour from her round face. “The Widow Jones” was on the lookout for a “flame,” a traveling salesman preferably. Johnny Rice was the boy —mustachiod, black-eyed, fascinating, and what a villain! The big moment of the picture was that in which the widow yielded to the stranger’s embrace. It was that embrace and the long soul-kiss which made the red-hot movie of the day—the one that Thomas Edison had the good box-office sense to film at West Orange, N. J., at the staggering cost of $667.61. Then came the two-reeler with Mary Pickford as the ragged country lass and Harold Lockwood as the honest but diffident country lad in the tight checkered suit. Audiences of that day literally rolled out of their seats at the love scenes and kisses of Flora Fineh and John Bunny. Many screen lovers followed—all the idols of their little hour—Lillian |Gish and Bobby Harron; Antonio |} Moreno and Edith Storey; Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne; Rudy in the “Four Horsemen,” with Alice Terry, with Nita Naldi in “Blood and Sand,” with Nazimova in “Camille,” or with Agnes. Ayres in “The Sheik.” Now comes Frank Fay as the 1932 model lover who believes himself to be “God’s Gift to ‘Women,’ and ‘makes them think so, too. Fay is a screen lover who lives up to the hilt the technique of the day-aftertomorrow. Funny as a barrel of monkeys, too. Many screen beauties of the day are in his support and a number of the screen’s cleverest comedians. Eighteen Featured Players Appear In Frank Fay’s Film OMe hs (Advance Story) — “God’s Gift to Women,” the Warner Bros. French faree starring Frank Fay, now at the Theatre, has the larger east of featured players than any previous production not classed as a spectacle. The suave Mr. Fay plays the part of a 1932 model lover who is pursued by ladies galore in one of the funniest love-chases seen in the screen, Frederick Hazlett Brennan is the author. Joseph Jackson and Raymond Griffith did the screen play and dialogue, which was suggested by “The Devil Was Sick,” a play soon to be produced in New York by Brock Pemberton. A unique feature of the piece being the fact that it was written by Jane Hinton, who is barely twenty-one years old. Michael Curtiz directed. The large cast includes Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell, Charles Winninger, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Alan Mowbray, Louise Brooks, Tyrrell Davis, Billy House, Yola D’Avril, Margaret Livingston, Armand Kaliz, Charles Judels, Eddie Lambert, Murray Smith, Jacques Venaire, Douglas Gerrard, Ethlyne Clair, Nena Quartaro, Hazel Howell and the Sisters G. At Twenty-One Years (Current Reader) Jane Hinton, aged twenty-one is credited with the original play from which Warner Bros, “God’s Gift to Woonen;” now. at: thek hss ees Theatre is taken. The picture, a French farce in which Frank Fay is starred, was filmed before it was given a stage production. That it will have a worthy Broadway presentation is assured by the fact that Brock Pemberton has bought the stage rights. BILLY HOUSE BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE (Advance Reader) Billy House, the Minnesota boy who ran off with a carnival and in due time ran off with wooden medal in Broadway musical shows and in vaudeville, makes his debut in the talkies in “God’s Gift to Women,” the Warner Bros. French farce, starring Frank Fay, which comes to the SES ga enna Theatre next. Billy’s height, girth and grim make him a laugh-getter wherever he appears. Beauties of Many Lands in ““God’s Gift to Women” (Current Reader) Among the beauties which surround Frank Fay in “God’s Gift to Women,” the Warner Bros. French farce now at the Theatre are ladies of many nations. Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell, Louise Brooks and Ethlyne Clair are American. Yola D’Avril is French. The Sisters G hail from Germany. Nena Quartaro is Spanish and Hazel Howell is English. (ONE KISS| would make this loving man a has-been! But what’s life without kisses? He was dead if he did and deader if he didn’t! Nutty? It’s food for the squirrels! Funny? You'll laugh yourself silly! HES er = GOT TO BE 4) GOOD AS THE DEVIL with FRANK FAY Laura LaPlante Joan Blondell and a Score of Hol lywood Beauties. A Warner * Bros. & Vitaphone Hit. Cut No.9 Cut 20c Mat 5c AeA. — a she