Gold Diggers of 1935 (Warner Bros.) (1935)

“Tall Stories and Short Qnes — LEAD-OFF STORY r Awaited 2 Years, 1935 Gold Diggers Booked by Strand It has been two years in the making, but if advance reports prove true the First National picture “Gold Diggers of 1935,” which= Manager aes... iiec arta has booked. for the: ca. ai. TheatTexOl ake » was well worth waiting for. First National, always famed for magnificent musical spectacles, has outdone itself in this picture, which marks the advent of Busby Berkeley as the director of a complete production. Berkeley, it is claimed, has taken a funny, clever story, gathered together a cast of film favorites that includes ten of Warner Bros.’ outstanding stars, and, with the assistance of more than 300 of the prettiest dancing girls in Hollywood, has assembled the whole into a tuneful comedy in which his talent for spectacular sereen innovations has been given full sway. The director was the musical comedy genius responsible for the spectacles. in “42nd Street,” “Wonder Bar,’ “Gold Diggers of 1933,” “Footlight Parade” and other musicals. <tr “Gold Diggers of 1935” he is said to have created the most gorgeous and unique dance numbers of his career. There are three outstanding specialties including a dance in which 90 snow white grand pianos actually cavort on the stage. The dance team of Ramon and Rosita is also featured. In the cast are Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Joseph Cawthorn, Grant Mitchell, Dorothy Dare and Winifred Shaw. The story is by Robert Lord and Peter Milne. It is a catchy romance with a fashionable summer hotel as the setting. <A wealthy widow, who is essentially penurious, is the target of the gold digging propensities of a trio of schemers enacted by Men PRODUCTION STORY r Berkeley Stages Film Dances Like An Army Sergeant Four or five million Americans learned, during the late World War, what it is to do things by the numbers, but it remained for Busby Berkeley to make full use of his army training in the creation and direction of screen spectacles. Every thrill that: Berkeley has provided audiences in the musical numbers of “42nd Street,” “Footlight Parade,’ “Wonder Bar,” “Dames” and his latest First National musical, “Gold Diggers of 1935,” which comes to the .......... Theatre -On: ....2 cen » was filmed by count — with Berkeley himself doing the counting. A rehearsal on the Berkeley sets during the filming of “Gold Diggers of 1935” sounded a little like a drill field during the training period of the war — with Berkeley acting as a sharp voiced top-sergeant. It doesn’t look like that, however, with some two or three hundred lovely young ladies in shorts and swimming suits and similar practice clothes, playing the parts of the training soldiers. jou, Cawthorn and Mitchell. The widow, which is the funniest role ever essayed by Alice Brady, has two children. She is trying to marry off her daughter, Gloria Stuart, to Hugh Herbert, also a millionaire, but who is more interested in writing articles on snuff than on love. Her son, Frank MceHugh, four times married and divorced, falls for the hotel hostess, and the daughter falls in love with the room clerk in the person of Dick Powell. Glenda Farrell does a little gold digging of her own at the expense of Hugh Herbert, but it all ends happily in one of the most amusing climaxes ever filmed. There are three remarkable song numbers written by Harry Warren and Al Dubin. On The Gold Standard Gloria -Stuart, judging by appearances, feels the same way about Dick Powell as the rest of America does. Incidentally, the two young sters make one of the most lovable star teams you’ve ever seen in the movies. They’re in “Gold Diggers of 1935”? at the ........................ ;: along with 10 of your favorite Warner Bros. stars. Mat No. 14—200 Page Sixteen ON THE CAST + Alice Brady Has New Type Of Role In “Gold Diggers” Alice Brady, in silent picture days, was one of the screen’s foremost actresses. Her dark beauty and fine dramatic ability seemed ideally suited to tragic and emotional stories, and her pictures were highly popular. Miss Brady thought of herself as a comedienne, however, and determined to do something about fulfilling her desires. She went to the head of her studio. “My dear young woman,” said that executive, “there’s one thing you should learn. When one has a flowing well, one doesn’t desert it to go dig a brand new one.” Alice saw the point, and for the remainder of her silent screen career, emoted as dramatically as her employers and fans wanted her to. And then she deserted the screen to return to the stage, where she made a great name for herself in a great variety of roles. Although she played several comedy parts, it was as the somber “Lavinia” of Eugene O’Neill’s “Mourning Becomes Electra” and the downtrodden wife in William Hurlbut’s “Bride of the Lamb” that she made her greatest triumphs. Last year, when the talkies beckoned to Miss Brady, she made her second screen debut in the role of the fluttery, dim-witted matron in “When Ladies Meet.” Since that time she’s been, almost exclusively, as far as the screen is concerned, a fluttery, dim-witted matron. The fans have loved her in such pictures as “Stage Mother,” “Broadway to Hollywood,” “The Vinegar Tree,’ and “The Gay Divorcee.” But Alice, after her first picture, didn’t love herself. ss “In “Gold Diggers of 1935,” the spectacular new First National musical which comes to SiGe acess 2. Die atre+ Ons: niss..n0 Miss Brady has a brand new type of screen role that she hopes the public will like. All done up in a gray wig, she is playing the eccentric old millionairess mother of Gloria Stuart. It’s a hilarious character role, something entirely new to Miss Brady, and she played it to the hilt. Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Dare and Frank McHugh are others in the cast. STAR STORY rs Dick Powell Told Joy Of Matrimony By Gold Diggers If Dick Powell’s expressed determination to remain a bachelor has apparently weakened in the past few weeks, his associates in “Gold Diggers of 1935,” the First National Production now showing ab the: 22 Theatre, can be held to blame. Dick’s leading lady in this picture is Gloria Stuart, who was married shortly before the picture started and who is quite obviously happy and enthusiastic about the state of matrimony. Busby Berkeley, who married Merna Kennedy not long ago, is the director of the picture and he loses no opportunity to belittle the state of single blessedness. Adolphe Menjou is in the same cast. He has been married only a few weeks to Verree Teasdale and is an ardent advocate of marriage. Alice Brady, also in “Gold Diggers of 1935” is an incurable romanticist and does all she can to encourage Dick to name the time, the place and the girl. If all these arguments and examples have any effect on the young actor, they should culminate when he is relieved of his contract under which he agreed “not to marry. “Gold Diggers of 1935” is a gigantic musical spectacle with 300 beautiful girls in the numbers staged by Busby Berkeley, who also directed the entire production from the screen play by Manuel Seff and Peter Milne, dramatized from the story by Robert Lord and Milne. The music and lyrics are by Warren and Dubin. PRODUCTION STORY rs Three Hot Song Hits Add Zest To ‘Gold Diggers’ Illustrating in picture, lyrics and melody the story of a sophisticated Broadway dawn, when the show-gal and play-boy start for their homes to get some much needed sleep just as workaday Manhattan is awakening to the rattle of milk bottles and the roar of morning trains—such is the “Lullaby of Broadway.” This “Lullaby,” whose smart modern lyries by Al Dubin are set to the swinging big-city melody of Harry Warren, is expected by the song team to be their hot-song of the First National musical comedy spectacle “Gold Diggers of 1935,” which comes to hess nee Theatre on .............-. “There are two other important songs in the show — ‘The Words Are In My Heart,’ a love-ballad in waltz time, and ‘I’m Going Shopping With You,” a rhythm number that the bands will be erazy about,” said Dubin. “But, despite the fact that our ‘Lullaby’ is freakish in both musical and lyrical treatment, we believe it will be widely played and sung, and will prove a hit.” With Dick Powell on the scene with her, and with a characteristic Busby Berkeley chorus of dancing beauties to set off the colorful number, Winifred Shaw sings the song. It is a true production number, also typical of for Your DAILY PUBLICITY” ON THE CAST + McHugh Insures His Queer Laugh For $100,000 Flat Frank McHugh, who has an important role in the First National production, ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1935’’ which comes to the ssethncis savastaae Theatre ON ..........ccceny has taken out the strangest insurance in Hollywood — possibly in the world. A year or so ago McHugh discovered that he had something that had never been heard before —on stage or screen. The strangest, silliest, most contagious laugh in the world. So now he has insured it. For one hundred thousand dollars. When he took his medical examination for the insurance, the doctors all but got his larynx out, Frank says, and twanged on it. But he got the insurance. Frank’s contagious laugh can be heard in ‘‘Gold Diggers of 1935,’? a mammoth musical comedy romance and gorgeous spectacle. Three hundred of Hollywood’s most beautiful girls take part in the dances created and staged by Busby Barkeley, who also directed the picture. Music and lyrics are by Warren and Dubin. The all star cast includes Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady, Glenda Far rell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Her_ bert and Joseph Cawthorn. Terpsichorean Suave Adolphe Menjou gives full sway to his inimitable flair for comedy as the frenzied dancing maestro in “Gold Diggers of 1935,” now playing at the.......... Theatre. Mat No. 4—10e “Buzz” Berkeley treatment, with numerous intereut shots, illustrated by special catch lyrics, taking the audience to all parts of Manhattan in the morning as the “Night Owls” trek homeward to sleep. The ballad, “The Words Are In My Heart,” is sung by Dick Powell to Gloria Stuart, with whom he falls in love in the plot. Dick also sings “I’m Going Shopping With You” to Gloria. There is an all-star cast in the picture, which includes besidcs Dick Powell, Gloria Stuart and Winifred Shaw, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Joseph Cawthorn and a chorus of 300 beautiful girls. NN te