Going Wild (Warner Bros.) (1930)

Play Up Ona Munson With “Going Wild”’ And Cash In On Her Future Pictures. Dizzy whirls and whizzy an amorous aviator who found love at It sets the girls and first flight. record for laughs. LAWRENCE GRAY ONA MUNSON WALTER PIDGEON LAURA LEE FRANK McHUGH THEATRE NAME He’ll Land Today! The Clown Prince of Joy in his, and at his funniest! A_ FIRST NATIONAL VITAPHONE & PICTURE Cut No 8 Cut goc Mat toc 264 Lines LAURA LEE ISA LICENSED PILOT; PASSED IN 1928 (Advance Reader on Laura Lee) .“And I get paid for it!” exclaimed Laura Lee, comedienne, who is featured in “Going Wild,” the First National and Vitaphone comedy which opens at the Theatre “Going Wild” is a hilarious comedy of aviation, starring Joe KE. Brown, and featuring a lot of flying and ending with an airplane race. Miss Lee, who was a sensation in her first picture, “Top Speed,” is actually an aviator, and holds a Department of Commerce limited pilot’s license issued in 1928. Since coming to California she has had very little opportunity to fly, because. she has been kept busy at the studio practically all of the time. No wonder she let out a whoop of glee when she was cast in “Going Wild,” playing opposite Joe E. Brown. It gave her a chance to fly and keep her hand at the controls. COMIC CUT-UP Cut No 14 Cut 15¢ Mat 5c Laura Lee is teamed again with Joe E. Brown, that master “Jt killed two birds with one stone of mirth in “‘Going Wild,”’ the —and I got paid for it in addition,”| First National and Vitaphone she said. Page Six laugh riot at the Strand. Biographies of the Players Biography of JOE E. BROWN — Cut No 19 Cut 15¢ Mat 5c (As of Oct. 1, 1980) Joseph E. Brown was born in Holgate, Ohio. At the age of nine he became the youngest member of The Five Marvelous Ashtons, a troupe. of aerial acrobats. He usually played through the summer and went back to his home in Toledo for school in the winter. The Ashtons were filling a vaudeville engagement in San Francisco at the time of the earthquake of 1907. The next season he worked for another manager. Then hig leg was broken. He tried professional baseball with the St. Paul team when he was 17, and then with the Yankees. More vaudeville bookings followed. Brown decided he wanted to be a comedian and joined a New York burlesque show. He appeared in “Listen Lester,’ “Jim Jam Jems,” “Greenwich Village Follies,” “Betty Lee,” “Captain Jinks” and “Twinkle, Twinkle.” The pictures he playe “Crooks Can’t Win.” ‘ Kid!" Hit. _ the Show,” “Song _ “Sally,” “Hold Everything,” Top Speed” and “Maybe It’s Love.” He is under contract to First_Nation —He_—is.—five—feet;~8 inches tall; weighs 148 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes. Biography of LAWRENCE GRAY (As of. Oct. 1, 1930) Lawrence Gray, who plays one of the important roles in “Going Wild,” was born and educated in San Francisco. He had no intention of becoming an actor. When he completed his academic work he entered business and for several years was a traveling salesman. Through contact with a film company on location, a position in the business end of that company was offered him. He left salesmanship and came to Hollywood in the capacity of a production manager for the organization. After he had worked at this for several months the studio closed down. Just as Gray was about to abandon movie work Paul Bern, then directing for Paramount saw him, and decided that he was just the type he wanted for a part in his picture, “The Dressmaker From| Paris.” So Gray turned actor. He did so well that he attracted the attention not only of studio officials, who put him under contract but also of Gloria Swanson, who chose him as her leading man in her next picture. He made such a hit that he was immediately called east to play the lead opposite her in her next two pictures. He also played the lead in the first picture directed by Mal St. Clair, “Are Parents People?” He was as successful in the talkies as he was in silent films. He played opposite Marion Davies in “Marianne.” He also had a leading role with Bernice Claire in “Sprnig is Here,” with Marilyn Miller in “Sunny” and Joe E. Brown in “Going Wild,” for First National. He is an all-around athlete, has dark hair and brown eyes and is six feet tall. Biography of LAURA LEE Cut No 20 Cut 15¢ Mat 5c r. (As of Oct. 1, 1930) Laura Lee was born in Brooklyn, July 31, 1910. She made her theatrical debut at the age of 12 as the boy Tarzan in “Tarzan of the Apes.” Vaudeville over the Keith cireuit followed. Then the Palace in New York with Johnny Dooley; with Frank Tinney in the Vanities of 1927; then on three-year contract with the Shuberts, in “Listen Dearie,” a musical version of “Trilby,” Greenwich Village Follies, “A Night in Venice,’ “Broadway Nights,” and “Great Day.” Then she signed a First National contract, and made her screen debut in the picture “Top Speed.” Laura Lee is five feet, two inches tall, weighs 105 pounds has brown eyes and blonde hair. Biography of W ALTER PIDGEON LAS £0FOC. ls L980) -?idgeon was born in Hast dian army. He was: wounded after serving a year at the front. He remained in French hospitals for the following 19 months. It was while he was in a hospital that he met Elsie Janis. He returned home broken in health. When he finally recovered, he joined a Boston brokerage firm in which he invested a large sum of money he had inherited. It was during this period that he married. His wife died shortly after a daughter was born. A financial crash wrecked Pidgeon’s fortune and he determined to turn to music for a living. Charles Dillingham, Miss Janis’ manager, advised Pidgeon to join her. He toured the United States and England with Miss Janis in “At Home.” Returning to New York he went into vaudeville with Miss Janis, then played in “Puzzles of 1925.” Joseph Schenck, the producer, secured his release from the Dillingham contract. He then appeared in “Mannequin,” “The DesertHealer,” and “Miss Nobody.” He is under contract to First National and his talking pietures include “Her Private Life,” “A Most Immoral Lady,” “Bride of the Regiment” and “Kiss Me Again,” “The Hot Heiress,” “The Gorilla,” and “Going Wild.” Walter Pidgeon is six feet, two inches tall, weighs 190 pounds, has grey eyes and black hair. DID YOU KNOW THAT-- Joe E. Brown doesn’t smoke, and detests it, although he is frequently called on to do it in pictures, such as “Going Wild” now at the Theatre. Walter Pidgeon, who also plays in “Going Wild,” doesn’t drink, although he is an excellent host to others? Frank McHugh owns the largest collection of bow ties in Hollywood? Lawrence Gray plays comedy roles and serious heavies with equal facility? Laura Lee is a licensed airplane pilot? Also that she sang to Commander Byrd at the South Pole? ———O a a ae Biography of ONA MUNSON (As of. Oct. 1," 1930) Ona Munson, one of the reigning queens of musical comedy in New York, who was recently signed on a long-term contract by First National Pictures, was born in Portland, Ore gon, on June 16, 1908. Her parents are Owen and Sally Wolcott. She is a direct descendant of Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Her father is. a real estate dealer. Her education was received at Catlin’s private .school in Portla. She started on the stage in vaudeville, and jumped from that to starring in musical comedies. In school she majored in English literature. She likes to write and has written two plays, which she hopes to produce herself some day. She appeared on the stage in “No, No, Nanette,” “Tip-Toes,” ‘“Tinkle Twinkle,” “Manhattan Mary” and “Hold Everything,” and then was signed by First National to play the leading romantic role in “Going Wild,” Joe E. Brown’s starring comedy, following which she appeared op “site Ben Lyon in “The Het sired beautif -_ — with a splendid musical ww. voice, but is an accomplished dancer, being one of Marilyn Miller’s few rivals. She does ballroom, toe, tap ana. acrobatic dancing, and while in ~ York took a dancing lesson every of her life. Her only other pictu__ work has been in a short, “College Model.” She has travelled extensively, lived a year on the Riviera, in France, and would prefer to live in Switzerland “because it is so easy on the nerves.” Her pet aversion is the telephone, her favorite actor Ronald Coleman, and actress, Constance Bennett. In music she prefers the Rhapsody in Blue, and in books “The Oxford Book of Verse.” She has three Chihuahua dogs. She plays tennis, swims, rides horseback, and plays ping pong. She is married to Eddie Buzzell, the comedian. She is 5 feet 2 inches in height, weighs 115 pounds, has blue eyes and brown hair. Biography of FRANK McHUGH (As=o0f-Oct.--1,°°1930) Frank McHugh was born in B stead, Pa., May 23, 1899. He is of Irish-American parentage and is one of four children. . His father and mother were stage folk, and his own first stage work was with them in “For Her Children’s Sake,” in 1909. At 17 he became stage manager and leading man at the Empire Theatre in Pittsburgh. There followed nine years of stock and road work.. MeHugh crashed Broadway in 1925: in James Gleason’s “The Fall Guy.” Then he went to London with Gleason and Richard Tabor in “Is Zat So,” and “The Fall Guy.” In New York he played in “Fog,” “Excess: Baggage,’ “Tenth Avenue,” “Conflict,” and “Show Girl’ for Ziegfeld. He signed a long-term contract with First National Pictures in January, 1930, and has given outstanding comedy performances in “Bright Lights,” “Kiss Me Again,” “Top Speed,” “The Dawn Patrol,” and “Going Wild.”