Gold Dust Gertie (Warner Bros.) (1931)

OLSEN & JOHNSON HAVE A REAL in beauty baths. “Gold Dust Gertie” Advises Fish Bath For Beauty Hounds Winnie Lightner Who Comes To The Strand.......... Next, Explains New Aid to Feminine Charm i (Advance Story) Winnie Lightner, who comes to Che Ss AEheatres; ns next in “Gold Dust Gertie,” Warner Bros. uproarious comedy, which also features Olsen and Johnson, has something to say in praise of the latest “Anna Held rates the credit for originating the milk bath. Several actresses have taken credit for the champagne bath, designed for other purposes than beauty, and one famous movie star once advocated a buttermilk bath for the skin you love to touch—but take from little Winnie a fish bath tops them all! You take this bath in a boat, entirely surrounded by fish of every sort and condition.. I am just recovering from the effects of two days spent in taking such a bath. Clad only in a bathing suit and a pair of duck trousers, without even stockings to keep the fish off my legs, endured the rigors of deep sea fish bathing with only Olsen and Johnson, as companions in misery. “The script called for the three of us to be submerged in a speed boat, and come to the surface after a heavy wave had passed over us with the boat loaded with fish. After trying the scene at sea, with little success except seasickness and the loss of the fish we made it on She digs “L” out of play and makes it pay! LAFF! She’s the gold-gettingest girl that ever shook the dust from Broadway! LAFF! dry land. At least it was dry when : 2 ee started. Tons of water were Funniest girl on dumped on me and my boy friends—| two legs. Wilder then tons of fish—live fish that had been transnorted twenty miles from {the-séz Sawer arn Uyic ‘deput. “After two days of screaming and dodging among the wriggling denizens of the deep I can’t look even a gold fish in the face! “I don’t know exactly what fish baths are good for, but I recommend them highly,” Winnie says, “Like the boy hitting his head with a hammer, it seems so good when you quit! Others in the cast of “Gold Dust Gertie” are Dorothy Christy, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Hoyt, George Byron, Vivian Oakland, Charley Grapewin, Charles Judels and Virginia Sale. Lloyd Bacon directed. than ever, in her A WARNER BROS. & VITAPHONE HIT! Cut No. 8 Film Beauty Contest In Lightner Comedy “Gold Dust Gertie” Starring Winnie Lightner, Comes to pene Theatre On............ Chic Still Dreads Blows On His Dome, Says Ole (Current Reader) Chic Johnson of Olsen and Johnson, who with Winnie Lightner share comedy honors in Warner Brothers feature picture “Gold Dust Gertie” now at the........ Theatre, has taken most of the punishment in their act for fifteen years but has never grown used to it. He worries constantly before any scene in which he is to be struck with breakaway furniture or crockery or in which he is expected to take a tumble but has never been seriously (Advance Story) _ California tourists were appreciative onlookers at an unadvertised bathing beauty contest during the filming of Warner Bros. “Gold Dust Gertie,” starring Winnie Lightner, which comes to the...... Théatre=... . next for a run of + he event was staged on a comparatively forsaken stretch of beach but before a scene had been made the location had taken on the appearance of the Coney Island water front on a July week-end. The result was that several hundred California tourists appear in the picture “Gold Dust Gertie” along with the hired extras and bit players taken to the location by the studio. This was altogether satisfactory to Lloyd Bacon, director, who claims that no one can look so much like a sight-seeing tourist crowding in to see a bathing beauty parade as a real sight-seeing tourist, crowding in to see a motion picture imitation of a bathing beauty parade. GIANT MOVIE DOG GETS FLAT FEET Winnie Lightner, star of “Gold Dust Gertie’ the Warner Bros. slapstick classic now at the...... Theatre, became familiar to Hollywoodites by driving a midget car in company of a giant St. Bernard dog known as Bim. Unlike his mistress, Bim became careless of his diet and exercise and suddenly developed flat feet. His visits to the set were necessarily banned since he made such a noise when he walked that the sound recorded and shots were spoiled. Others in the cast of “Gold Dust Gertie” are the clowns, Olsen and Johnson—as well as Dorothy Christy, Claude Gilling| water, Arthur Hoyt, George By There are few scenes in pictures to which the public is welcomed but the beach scenes in “Gold Dust Gertie” were the exception. If this had not been so, the company would have journeyed far up the Pacific coast from Los Angeles in search of a really deserted beach. ‘ron, Vivian Oakland, Charley “Gold Dust Gertie” features Ol| Grapewin, Charles Judels and ||S¢" and Johnson—with Claude Gilj Virginia Sale. Lloyd Bacon dilingwater, Charles Judels, Virginia j rected. Sale, Dorothy Christy, Charley Grapewin, Vivian Oakland and Arthur Hoyt. Page Eight — J \p : a Gertie with OLSEN ad JOHNSON Dorothy Christy-Claude Gillingwater (2 = oy ; Koy Cut 40c, Mat 10c Tourists Treated To |Lobsters Add To Clown Terror In Big Comedy (Current Reader) Two huge live lobsters were only a few of the unusual and difficult props needed for the latest Warner Brothers comedy, “Gold Dust Gertie,’ starring Winnie Lightner and featuring Olsen and Johnson. Both weird creatures add to the hilarity of the picture which is the current attraction at the........ Theatre. Charley Grapewin In Support Of Lightner In “Gold Dust Gertie” (Biography May 1, 1931) Charley Grapewin, who plays the part of Mr. Hautrey, the office manager susceptible to feminine charm, in “Gold Dust Gertie’ the Warner Bros. comedy, starring Winnie Lightner, now at the....... Theatre, was for thirty-five years a noted actor of the stage. He was in the legitimate and in vaudeville and both wrote and starred in “The Awakening of Mr. Pipp,” “Up to You,” “Above the Lines,” “Gossip Town” and others. He entered pictures in 1929 appearing in “The Shannons of Broadway,” “Jed’s Vacation,” “Ladies’ Choice,” “The Redhaired Hussy,” and “The Millionaire.” Mr. Grapewin was born in Xenia, Ohio and educated in his native state. His wife’s professional name was Anna Chase. He is five feet seven and one-half inches in height, weighs one hundred and _ fifty pounds and has blue eyes and brown hair. Mr. Grapewin is a 33rd Degree Mason. * _.| outbreaks, the artistic licenses of her life. Winnie Lightner Proud Of Background Remote From The Four Hundred But — Close To Life of The Four Million Star of Warner Bros. “‘Gold Dust Gertie” Now Showing ALTO a Theatre, Tells Of Her Struggles With Poverty And Of Those Who Blame Others By Saying That They Have ‘No Background’ A happy marriage goes crashing on the rocks of discord amid lurid publicity. “No background,” says a wise guy. “No background,” echoes a sensation-loving public. A new screen star soars into prominence, followed immediately by stories of her extravagance, her temperamental “No background,” concludes the smuggly domesticated. “What can you expect, without any background?” asks one ordinary mortal of another, indicating thereby that they have something which the star lacked. Which leads Winnie Lightner, star of the Warner Bros. pictures “Gold Dust Gertie’ now at the........ Theatre, to inquire: “What is background, anyway? “Well, what is it? “All of my mistakes and some of my successes have been blamed on background, ’ declares Winnie Lightner. “I’ve made up my mind to find out what it is. “All my life I’ve been haunted by the idea that I had no background. At first I thought they meant that I had not gone to Miss Somebody’s finishing school. Later it seemed to be because my family was not in the social register. Now I don’t know what it means except that few people in public eye who make any mistakes of any kind, ever have it, in the opinion of all others. “Well, most backgrounds aren’t made up of finishing schools and social registers any more than mine is. The majority of them are much like mine, full of hardships, poverty sometimes, love of family and work. “T’ve come to the place where I’m proud of my background or the lack of it if you prefer to call it that, because it’s just like several million other peoples’ pasts; just as full of mistakes and happiness and misery and luck. “Now when I hear something about myself and hear it blamed onto my background I can smile about it. But for a long time it hurt. I had the idea that everybody else, nearly, had been born with a Bradstreets rating and a gold knife, fork and spoon. er wasn’t. My mother died two hours after I was born. I didn’t know it for eleven years, though, because an aunt and uncle, my mother’s sister and her husband, took me into their home. They were poor but they had no children of their own and they loved me very much. “Until my foster mother died about two years ago, I never told anyone she wasn’t my real mother. But when I was eleven my father visited me. His family had never forgiven his marriage to my mother, mostly for religious reasons, and for all those years I had not known of his existence. I remember it particularly because he gave me a dollar. It was my first whole dollar. “I moved to Buffalo with my aunt and uncle. I don’t know that we ever lacked for enough food or clothing but there never was much to spare. That part of my background isn’t glorious but it’s common enough in the world. “Nobody thought I could live when my uncle and aunt came for me to take me home with them. They had no money for expensive doctors but they had time and energy and love to spend on me in abundance and that seemed to do just as well. I’m rather proud of that piece of background. “I went on the stage to earn a living, and to help out with the family finances. It was hard work and I was only sixteen years old. At seventeen I married John Patrick, then prominent in pictures. I didn’t know anything about love or marriage and so it didn’t last. I wanted happiness then as I have always wanted it since—without ever finding it. “There are three broken marriages behind me. They represent three mistakes I made, along with some other ones, less important. There has been plenty of unhappiness mixed up in any success I have had. “So I’ve made my own background. It’s hand embroidered, and homespun. It’s no antique heirloom that has to be lived up to. Every experience has added to it and my humble ancestry doesn’t worry me now as it once did. In fact I’m rather proud that I have done as well as I have with modest original equipment. “T find the backgroundedest people in the country have their troubles and make their mistakes just like the rest of us and they have no general excuse like those of us who had so little ‘foundation’ to work on. When they get into trouble perhaps it’s a case of too much background to live up to and not enough chance to be themselves.” So Winnie’s background is of her own making; a little patched in places but honest in values and lined with experience, even motherhood. Her baby boy is not yet three years old. As a matter of fact the development of her selfmade background has changed Winnie. The hoiden of London and Paris night life, of some years ago, has developed a serious side. She has plans for the future as well as pride in the past. ; “No one has a right to say ‘no background’ about anybody else,” Winnie concluded. “It may be a different kind of a background but it’s there and the poorer it is the prouder the person who has come a long way from it ought to be. “When Mrs. Astorbilt gets into trouble—and sooner or later she generally does—I don’t cluck my tongue and say ‘no background.’ The next time you hear someone criticize someone else ask them what they mean by background, anyhow! Do that for me, will you?” Others in the merry sequences of “Gold Dust Gertie” are Olsen and Johnson, Dorothy Christy, Claude Gillingwater, Arthur Hoyt, George Byron, Vivian Oakland, Charley Grapewin, Charles Judels and Virginia Sale. Lloyd Bacon directed. = FINE FASHION PHOTOGRAPHS There are available some especially posed “stills” of Winnie Lightner in up-to-the-minute styles in ladies: apparel and accessories. These are admirably suited for rotogravure display as well as window tie-ups. Order these photographs, mentioning item of apparel you desire and enclosing 10c for each, direct from, Still Department WARNER BROS. PICTURES 321 West 44th Street, New York, N. Y. Prompt Attention Will Be Given Your Request