Havana Widows (Warner Bros.) (1933)

Mae Kmght Sadie Appleby Deacon Jones Bob Jones Duffy Mrs. Jones Mr. Otis Butch O’Neill Mrs. Ryan Mullins Timberg Wheelman < Mae and Sadie, Broadway chorus girls are disgruntled with their lot in life. So when Gladys, a former dancer in the same show, turns up with glad rags and lots of cash, and explains that she picked up a sucker in Havana, and that there were plenty more there to be plucked, they decide to get into the game. They borrow $1,500 from Herman, a gunman, who is sweet on Mae, on a tale that Mae’s mother is sick in Kansas. Herman forges his boss’ name to a check to get the money. In Havana, the girls go to Duffy, a shyster lawyer who had helped Gladys frame her sucker. He steers them into Deacon Jones, supposedly a wealthy man. The Deacon is a bit shy of them, however, because his wife is always on his trail. While the girls are having some drinks with the Deacon in a cafe, his son warns him that Mrs. Jones is looking for him. He tries to get out but she sees him first. He claims he has come to find Bob whom he accuses of being with the girls. Bob accepts the role, dances with Mae and falls in love with her. Mae likes him but she is after the coin and is determined to frame his dad. Sadie and Mae send the Deacon a fake message telling him his son is drunk at a turkish bath house and asking him to come and get him. Two pugs have been stationed at the door who grab the Deacon, undress him, and lock him in a room. Mae slips into the room in a kimono while Sadie takes some flash Director Screen Play by Dialogue Director Cameraman Film Editor Art Director Gowns by Vitaphone Orchestra Conductor LEE ee eatin te eee Guy Kaibbee En ete oe eee ce Lyle Talbot Sie ee eee Allen Jenkins ets pees Frank McHugh SE tkeclas Ruth Donnelly Re Bc Pernt Hobart Cavanaugh ii gion ale eae Ralph Ince Set ae Maude Eburne eR ites ite George Cooper Eerie ee ne Charles Wilson Gary Owen lights of the two, with Mae’s arms tightly clasped about the Deacon. She then gives a signal for Duffy, who is supposed to be outside, to come in and shake the Deacon down. Duffy, who is a bar fly, has. picked up Herman who went to Havana to find the girls and his money, when his boss, Butch, discovered the forged check. Duffy persuades Herman to go with him as a witness. Just as they draw up to the curb of the supposed bath house, another taxi bumps into them. The two drivers get into a fight and disturb the whole neighborhood. Herman sees Butch is the occupant of the other cab and beats it, with Butch after him. The girls try to hold the Deacon, but the police arrive and arrest them all, including Duffy who has been knocked out by a chance blow in the fight. They are arraigned in police court. To their amazement the Deacon’s wife comes forward and thanks them for getting evidence through which she can proeure a divorce from her husband. She holds the money bags and the Deacon has nothing. Butch catches Herman, but instead of putting a bullet through him, says he wants him to come back to him, as his luck has deserted him since Herman left. They all leave for New York together, Bob engaged to Mae. Herman forgives their double cross through his happiness in getting out alive after his scrape with Butch and marries Sadie on shipboard. er ee ee Ray Enright saa 0a ee Earl Baldwin cae eee Stanley Logan en ee George Barnes SRE Rae eee we Clarence Kolster in ee ee Esdras Hartley pen eee Orry-Kelly eee Leo F. Forbstein First National Pictures, Ine. & The Vitaphone Corp. 25% presents “HAVANA WIDOWS” 100% with Joan Blondell—Glenda Farrell— 75% Guy Kibbee—Lyle Talbot 75% Allen Jenkins—Frank McHugh—Ruth Donnelly 60% Directed by Ray Enright 20% A First National and Vitaphone Picture 40% Length—-5765 Ft. Running Time—62 Mins. JOAN BLONDELL In less than two years from the time that Joan Blondell, a native New Yorker, was brought to Hollywood to appear with James Cagney, in the Warner Bros. picture, “Sinner’s Holiday,” she had become a star in her own right and one of the present day’s greatest box office attractions. From earliest infancy, Joan’s life has been closely allied with the theatre. Her father, a well-known vaudeville performer for twenty years, carried his family with him in his treks across the country on the various vaudeville circuits and each and every member of the group had a part in the act not excluding the baby, Joan, when she was scarcely able to walk. Following her sensational debut in “Sinner’s Holiday,” Joan next appeared in “Office Wife” and then in quick succession, “Thicit,” “Other Men’s Women,” “My Past,’ “God’s Gift to Women,” “Night Nurse,” “Blonde Crazy,” “The Famous Ferguson Case,” “Blondie Johnson,” “Three on a Match,” “Central Park,” “Big City Blues,” “Gold Diggers of 1933” and “Footlight Parade.” FRANK McHUGH Frank McHugh has been on the stage since his early youth. Born in Homestead, Pennsylvania, of theatrical parents, Frank’s earliest thoughts were of the theatre. Following years as a trouper in many stock companies throughout the United States and Canada, he was induced by his friend, Frank Fay, to accept a role with the latter in “Bright Lights.” He speedily attention of screen audiences and after having given outstanding performances in many pictures, he was signed under a long term contract by Warner Bros. His latest pictures include “Footlight Parade,” “Elmer The Great,” “Parachute Jumper,” “Grand Slam,” “The Crowd Roars,” “One Way Passage,” “The Dark Horse,” “The Mystery of the Wax Museum,” “Life Begins,” “ExLady” and “Lilly Turner.” drew the GUY KIBBEE Guy Kibbee was born in El Paso, Texas, on March 6, 1886, weighs 200 pounds and is 5 feet 10 inches tall. Launched upon a stage career at an early age, he toured the country for years with various stock companies and won attention as one of America’s most capable actors. His performance in the Broadway production, “The Torch Song” was so outstanding that Hollywood summoned him for important sereen roles, and since his introduction to movies audiences, he has gained a huge following among the fans. His more recent pictures include: “42nd Street,” “Footlight Parade,” “Gold Diggers of 1933,” “The World Changes,” “Lilly Turner,” “The Silk Express,” “The Life of Jimmy Dolan,” “Girl Missing” and “The Crooner.” JOAN BLONDELL—Footlight Parade,” “Gold Diggers of 1933,” “Goodbye Again,” “Blondie Johnson,’ “Lawyer Man,” “Central Park.” GLENDA FARRELL—‘Bureau of Missing Person,” “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” “The Keyhole,” “Central Airport,” “Girl Missing,” “Life Begins,” “The Mystery of the Wax Museum.” GUY KIBBEE—‘The Changes,” ‘“Footlight Parade,” “Lilly Turner,” “The Silk Express,” “Gold Diggers of 1933,” “42nd Street.” LYLE TALBOT—“Mary Stevens, M.D.,” “She Had To Say Yes,” World ALLEN JENKINS Allen Jenkins, one of the rare comedy characters of the screen, was born in New York City. He turned to the stage when a boy and has been linked with the theatre ever since. He started as a chorus boy, playing in the same show with James Cagney. After three years in the chorus, he attended dramatic school and branched out as a character actor. He played in many Broadway successes, including “Blessed Event,” “What Price Glory,” “The Last Mile,” “Rain” and “Five Star Final.” Last season he played in an even dozen pictures for Warner Bros.-First National, with whom he is under contract. The more recent include “The Silk Express,” “The Mayor of Hell,” “The Keyhole,” “Mind Reader,” “Blondie Johnson,” “42nd Street” and “Bureau of Missing Persons.” LYLE TALBOT Steeped in the atmosphere of the theatre since infancy, it is not surprising that Lyle Talbot should early take up theatricals. He was born in Pittsburgh where his father was operating a stock company and made his first appearance under his father’s direction when sixteen years of age, as a magician. After several years in stock and in the Little Theatre field, he was signed by Warner Bros.-First National for a role with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in “Love Is a Racket.” Since then he has appeared in many outstanding productions under the Warner Bros.-First National banner including “Ladies They Talk About,” “20,000 Years in Sing Sing,’ “The Blue Moon Murder Case,” “Three on a Match,” “She Had to Say Yes” and “Mary Stevens, M.D.” “Girl Missing,” “The Life of Jimmy Dolan,’ “Ladies They Talk About.” ALLEN JENKINS—“Bureau of Missing Persons,” “The Silk Express,” “Mind Reader,” “The Keyhole,” “Mayor of Hell,” “Blondie Johnson.” FRANK McHUGH—‘Footlight Parade,” “Lily Turner,” “Elmer the Great,” “Parachute Jumper,” “Ex-Lady,”’ “Grand Slam,” “One Way Passage.” RUTH DONNELLY—‘Footlight Parade,” “Bureau of Missing Persons,” “Goodbye Again,” “Private Detective 62,” “Lilly Turner.” RALPH INCE—“You Said a Mouth GLENDA FARRELL Glenda Farrell was born in Enid, Oklahoma, and made her debut on the stage as Little Eva “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” at the age of seven. With the excep in for education, she has been on the tion of occasional pauses stage ever since, spending most of her life, as she expresses :t, in a trunk. of the Brissac Stock Company of San Diego, the Moroseco Company of Los Angeles, and the Aleazar in San Francisco. She was a member From there she went to Broadway where she played in such successes as “Divided Honors,” “Love Honor and Betray,’ “The Rear Car” and “Skidding.” Her last stage play was “Life Begins” and her work was so outstanding she was selected by Warner Bros.First National to play the same part in the picture. This brought her a long term contract. Her chief interest is now centered in pictures and she has played with success in “I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang,” “The Match King,” “Grand Slam,” “Central Airport,” “Girl Missing,” “The Keyhole,” “Mary Stevens, M.D.” and “Bureau of Missing Persons.” RUTH DONNELLY Ruth Donnelly was born in Trenton, N. J., a niece of Mayor Fred Donnelly of that city, who has the long distance record of holding down that chair for twenty-two years. She was trained for the stage from childhood and started her theatrical career in the chorus with Ina Claire in “The Quaker Girl.” She was with George M. Cohan for four years and played comedy leads with Broadway shows for many seasons before entering pictures. Miss Donnelly went to Hollywood a little more than a year ago, appearing in minor roles in several pictures. Her first distinetive hit came with her role in “Blessed Event,” after which she was signed by Warner Bros. Her recent pictures inelude “Female,” “Footlight Parade,” “Bureau of Missing Persons,” “Goodbye Again,” “Private Detective 62,” “Lilly Turner,” “Hard To Handle,” “Employees’ Entrance,’ “Ladies They Talk About” and “Ever In My Heart.” Tenderfoot,” “State’s ful,” “The Attorney,’ “The Mouthpiece,” “Men of America.” “Lucky Devils.” MAUDE EBURN—“Ladies They Talk About,” “Stranger in Town,” “The Reckless Age,” “The First Year,” The Trial of Vivienne Ware.” GEORGE COOPER—‘Forbidden Trail,” “Uptown New “York,” “Flames,” “Sky Devils,” “Laughing Sinners,” “Paid,” “Gentleman’s Fate.” RAY ENRIGHT (Director)—“The Silk Express,” “Blondie Johnson,” “The Tenderfoot,” “Play-Girl,” “Scarlet Pages,” “Dancing Swesties.” Page Three