Gold Dust Gertie (Warner Bros.) (1931)

' . a LENGTH (Vitaphone) 6085 Feet tenn ry WA RUNNING TIME 66 Minutes 321 WEST 44th STREET Permission. is granted licensed exhibitors to reproduce with proper notice of copyright all matter contained herein RNER BROS, NEW YORK CITY, U. S. A. WINNIE LIGHTNER ~ GOLD DUST GERTIE” S-YN.O PS 15 _ (Not for Publication) Copyright 1931, Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved Harlan and Guthrie are married to twins and spending their honeymoon at Niagara Falls. The men insist they have never loved before but are back home for only a short time when Gertie, a gold digger, comes to the office, announces that she is the former wife of both men, and writes their homes, informing them that they are back in their alimony. The twin wives get the letters and the boys are hard put to it, to invent alibis. Harlan and Guthrie are trying to promote sales of bathing suits man _ ufactured by the company they work for. They want them cut low, but Arnold, the president of the Company, objects. He is abetted by Dr. Tate of the League for the Preservation of Matrimonial Ties, who proves to be the preacher who had married Harlan and Guthrie to Gertie. In fury Arnold discharges the French designer when he displays a daring costume. Gertie arrives to collect her alimony and the boys explain that they will never be able to pay if Arnold insists on his puritanic ideas about bathing suits. Gertie sets out to reform Arnold. She tells him that she has been discharged for designing conservative suits, and he at once employs her, saying that she may show the result of her ingenuity in Florida. Gertie makes Arnold hire a yacht, and with him and Harlan and Guthrie, sets sail for Florida. Harlan and Guthrie sneak to Gertie’s stateroom in the night, fearing what she may be scheming to trap them, and while there find a note from Osgood, captain of the yacht, which reveals that he was formerly her husband. Gertie gets the boys drunk and they crawl out the porthole, when Arnold comes in to make love to her and to ask her to marry him. Gertie consents. On the day of the Bathing Suit Parade, the twin wives arrive and find the boys in a hotel room with a bag of feminine apparel. As the wives accuse them, Gertie walks in and takes her suitcase. Arnold, in Gertie’s room, finally persuades her to display the suit she has designed. He is at first angered, but when she puts it on, he is so pleased with the effect that he lets her wear it. She wins the prize and the boss makes her general manager. The wives object, saying that their husbands had advocated the same style for years. Gertie, in retaliation, decides to keep the boys. The crowd collects on the yacht to witness the wedding of Arnold and Gertie. Osgood is a bit too pointed in wishing Arnold good luck. Dr. Tate comes to perform the ceremony, and recognizing the boys and Gertie, takes Arnold aside to put him wise. The boys and Gertie flee in a sea sled. But Arnold still wants to marry Gertie and pursues her in a speed boat, finally catching her, while the boys are pursued by their irate wives. CUTS NEW COMIC CAPERS | Winnie Lightner in “Gold Dust Gertie” SUMMARY Wild Winnie Lightner Romping Through A Mad Fandango of Mirth Assisted By Olsen & Johnson, Noisy Knockabouts Of Nonsense. Faster Than “Gold Diggers Of Broadway’ — Funnier Party’ —A Real Audience Attraction! WHO'S WHO WINNIE LIGHTNER — “Gold/C LAUDE GILLINGWATER— Diggers of Broadway,” “She Couldn’t Say No,” “Show of Shows,” “The Life of the Party,” “Sit Tight,” “Hold Everything.” Born in Greenpoint, Long Island. OLSEN AND JOHNSON—Team in vaudeville—“Monkey Business” on stage and on the screen in “Oh, Sailor Behave,” “Fifty Million Frenchmen.” DOROTHY CHRISTY—“So This Is London,” “Playboy of Paris,” “Big Money,” “Extravagance,” “She Got What She Wanted,” “Caught Cheating,” “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath,” “Party Hus THE CAST GERTIE, Gold-gettingest girlie going.... WINNIE LIGHTNER Harlan, Her re-wed hubbie, good for alimony........ Chic Johnson Guthrie, Another re-wed, good for same Ole Olsen Mabel, Harlan’s present wife Dorothy Christy Arnold, Amorous old bathing-suit maker Claude Gillingwater Dr. Tate, Sanctimonious Marrying preacher.......... Arthur Hoyt Capt. Osgood, Discarded husband of Gertie........ George Byron Lucille, Guthrie’s ball-and-chain.................. Vivian Oakland Mr. Hautrey, Susceptable Office Manager Pestalozzi, Foreign Bathing-suit designer Secretary, Who pinch-hits as a model Charley Grapewin Charles Judels Virginia Sale 5 See Y KO UJ NebeSd.0.R (This story contains all the important facts about “Gold Dust Girtie” Reledse it several days before the beginning of the engagement) Winnie Lightner, who won instant fame by her portrayal of the high-handed Mabel in “Gold Diggers of Broadway” comes to town in her dizziest comedy, Warner Bros. “Gold Dust Gertie,” on....... next, according to the announcement of Manager........ ol the. 2. 35; Theatre. _ “Gold Dust Gertie” may be said to be a rather descriptive title, as hard-hitting Winnie succeeds in extracting gold dust, or its equivalent, from everybody in sight—and is either married or has been married to everybody of the masculine persuasion in the picture, from the two newlyweds, played with their usual slapstick insanity, by Olsen and Johnson, screenland’s oddest clowns—to the aged and erstwhile painfully modest maker of bathing-suits. Winnie blows into the office of the said bathing suit manufacturer with a claim for unpaid alimony which affects the two newlyweds whose pugilistic wives—twin sisters, by the way—appear at the wrong time for the frightened hubbies, and beat them into a figurative pulp—which comes near to being a very literal one. are The boys wish to put over a very modern bathing suit to win the prize in a Florida bathing beauty contest, thus to put the business on a better footing. It is Winnie who wheedles over the bald and amorous boss, and makes him consent to taking a yacht trip to Miami. Things too ludicrous for description take place on the trip—the newlyweds, formerly Winnie’s husbands are forced to take to the high seas—the captain proves to be an ex-husband also—the boss proposes marriage—and to cap the climax—the irate wives reach Florida—almost before the boat. That Winnie wins finally, may be imagined—but how she wins—only a trip to thé: 2 Theatre can tell. “Gold Dust Gertie” is the fastest and funniest of Winnie’s pictures, which is saying a lot. “Gold Dust Gertie” is an adaptation of the play “The Wife of the Party,” by Len. D. Hollister. The cast includes Dorothy Christy, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Hoyt, George Byron, Vivian Oakland, Charley Grapewin, Charles Judels and Virginia Sale. Lloyd Bacon directed. == TABLE OF CONTENTS Accessories Than “Life Of The band” and “Big Business Girl.” Born in Reading, Pa. “Stolen Kisses,” “The Great Divide,” “Oh, Kay,” “Smiling Irish Eyes,” “So Long Letty.” Born in St. Louis, Mo. CHARLES JUDELS—Stage in “Artists and Models,” “Gay Paree,’ “Greenwich Village Follies,” etc. On screen in “Fifty Million Frenchmen,” “The Life Exploitation of the Party.” Born in AmsterLobby Fitnei o e 2 dam, Holland. : f Prepared: Reviews:.0 = 3 a 3, 4 VIRGINIA SALE— Bright : Lights,” “Show Girl in HollyRoutine Story 2 81# 0.6 06.0066 0: M'n 0-080. d 010.6 B68 1p (0d be e050 Ore 6670 0-80 e-e pangs o'b.4 6 miewst a: 6 Gale i wood,” “This Is Heaven,” “Too Young to Marry.” Born in Urbana, Ill. ROO Ome CaO RC OVC COCO CROC oc este pererecritenerVisewedeceeeccvetenveeveseso Synopsis