Heat Lightning (Warner Bros.) (1934)

ea et She thinks she is in love with | “Steve Laird, Myra to have anything to do} Steve and go to a dance. desert gas station to keep her ‘Screen play Oye ee oo ae Doorsk Myra Genbee in oe at A A A ee gota eater fs | Mapeeae Ae 6 PRs tee Rew ATS aes ee eA a ae Talbot Mrs. Tifton + teen en ln Farrell Bie are oe ay ee NN 7 McHugh Mrs. Ais Ashley Sak coat ne onemee een Ruth Donnelly fos) TERI he tale Cae ae pe EE OBL eee ee ~Theodore Newton Hveret: BU So ea MUlcnkev 8, 8 aR Pa ev Se Willard Robertson . The Man ee Cc: Bradley : Se me Ia ager es Muriel Evans Olga, bard, cold, and a some| the safe while he takes care of what mysterious: woman, runs a| Olga. gas station in the heat ridden | Olga, still | in love with me desert with her younger sister can’t resist his advances and he attending to the juneh | goes to her room. This gives. pia sciae Myra is terribly dis| satisfied with the. life they lead, | f ety and romance. | toward morning, somewhat inloueing oe gaye of toxicated and completely disil lusioned about Steve. She ar|rives just in time to see George slip out of her ‘sister’s” room. When confronted by Olga, who has heard her sister come in, Myra readily admits that everything her sister had warned her , a loafer from a near-by town. The older sister has forbidden | with Steve, so the latter arranges | to slip out of the house after ‘Olga has gone to sleep, to meet | | her sister of being just as bad Among the persons who stop| as she is. Olga takes the sobbing at the gas station that day ar girl in her arms and soothes her. See = J at, bai are fleeing| As she is returning to her own ~ TLver MUVIng Tok }room she hears a noise in the base seis k ile ie cashiers. | lunch room. She sees George George finds: that Olga is an old standing over Jeff with a reflame, a dance hall girl who had | volver in his hand, fc serge left him some years before. She tells him that she started the last moment having refused. She gets a gun, shoots George and tells Jeff to beat it George diesga younger sister from the life one had been leading. : George promises to keep her| secret and says he is going right on, but when two divorcees from Reno drive up, loaded down with | diamonds, | he decides to stay long Olga, drives up. For the first enough to rob them. The jewels | time Olga’s_ steely composure are put in the safe for the night| breaks and she asks Everett to and George orders: Jett to eee help her out of the mess. him. As Olga stands wearily in [the doorway, Everett Marshall, a rancher, much in love with Director. ou) ae if UREA ee Mervyn | LeRoy From a play (area sais ene Abrams and George Abbott _......Brown Holmes and Warren Duff Photography ye esha Seine eet ere _..........9id_ Hickox Film Pe a se A a Howard Bretherton Art Director nea i seat Ps Ace apron Weslaco Jac k Gowns by_... Dialers Bax tories cone anemia ena 5 V. ita phone Orchestra Conductor... Leo F. F orbstein : ~ y From an original play Bers ae | by Leon Abrams and George Abbott ey Wh hoe ‘ Aline MacMahon __ Sint * 8OUe Ann Dvorak—Preston Foster Bowie Lyle Talbot—Glenda Farrell — 15% Frank MecHugh—Ruth Donnelly 20% Directed by Mervyn LeRoy 20% a . Warner Bros. and b euipas. ay ayia ; ae cy ames Taekin ; to the iy ge ae bern Fenton Myra her chance to slip out and meet Steve. She returns home © and “The Crowd Roar Fe | about had happened and accuses” to ¢rack the safe, Jeff “at the a telling Olga he had it. coming to 100% dine Big eae “esa. pe ‘ihe: sprang to stardom over-night. from “extra” in the studios near her | work home. oe important tion ae Sigs War abilities. | a amber: ev ] after a whirl ind cou tship. The honeymoon | and returned in the Fall of 1933 when Ann resumed her picture work. | Her first picture. this” season was “College Coach” followed by “Massacre. v Among the productions in which she appeared last r are “Three On A Match,” “Crooner, ve “Love Is A Racket” =) L rle ‘Talbot Lyle. Talbot was baa eent in Pittsburgh of a theatri al family and began his s reer at the age of sixteen in his father’s | stock OmpANY.: After appearing in stock and in the Little Theatre field for several years, he was signed by. Warner Bros. Doug Feirbanice,. Jr, in _ “Love Is A Racket.” ince then he. has enacted h pictures» promin nt parts in as “Mandalay, » &Qo lege Coach,” “Havana Widows,” “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” “Ladies They Talk About,” «20, 000 Years in Sing Sing,” “42nd Street,” “She Had To Say Yes” and “The Life of Jimmy Dolan. oars Glenda Farrell Glenda Farrell” was ‘born in Enid, Oklahoma, and made her on ‘the aiag ee 3 sittie; Eva ever since, onvile ng ainak: oe her . “life, as she expresses it, in a trunk. ae She was a member of the Brissac seo Putas as ; successes National a play the in the Distttes ‘Your ‘Nuh er for a role with eptges she couple spent a year abroad on a M.D.,” “She Had ° e , _ Preston Foster "= Foster. was” akira in Grand Opera and was” singing in Phila-— delphia when Warner Bros. first pressed him int His first screen ators was. with Edward G. Robinson in “Two Seconds, 2” in the same role in ich he> had played on the ne more recent ae Dared,’ ” Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,” “You Said a Mouthful.” ALINE MacMAHON World Changes,” “Gold I Diggers “The of 1933,” “The Life of Jimmy Dolan,” “Silver Dollar.” ANN DVORAK — “Massacre,”. cones Coach,” “Three on a Match,” #soonen “Love Is a Racket,” “Stranger in Town.” ‘i PRESTON FOSTER — “Ladies They Talk About,” “Elmer the Great,” “The Man Who Dared,” “All American,” “You Said a Mouthful.” GLENDA_ FARRELL—“Tve et ! Your Number,” “Hi, Nellie!” “The Big Shakedown,” ‘Dark Hazard,” “Havana Widows,” {Bureau of = cop Bei ec %, © ll ag Coach,” Widows,” — “Mary ~ Stevens, To Say Yes,” “Girl Missing.” FRANK McHUGH—“Fashions of 1934,’? “Convention . City,” “Son of a Sailor,” ¢ The House © on 56th Street,” Widows.” ; “Havana RUTH DONNELLY — “Manda lays “Convention City,” “Havana Widows,” “Ever in My Heart,” “Rootlight Parade,” “Bureau of Missing Persons.” THEODORE NEWTON — “From Headquarters,’ “The World Changes,” “Voltaire,” “The Working Man.” WILLARD ROBERTSON—“Lady Killer,” “Dark Hazard,” “The World Changes,” “Tugboat Annie,” “Another Language,” “Frisco Jenny.” HARRY C. BRADLEY — “Qonvention City,” “Beauty Par lore. the Smiling phones ant. 9 2 JAMES DUERKIN—“Wild Girl) me “Nice Women,” “Alexander Hamilton,” Vice ‘Squad, 2 “Gun Smoke,” “Conquering Horde” JANE DARWELL — ee: Won't Tell,” Back Street.” ‘MERVYN LeROY (director) — “Heat ‘Lightning, 22 Trouble,” “The ests rs Preston Fos fer was Aes i a ‘rise in filmdom “Bive Star Final,” igs a antes _teur theatricals. — e ¢ clusion of her school days, she Talk About, ” : eeimer 1 The ‘Gisat ” “Doctor X,” “Life Begins,” “I “Once In A Lifetime” tha was asked to appear opp Edward G. Robinson in § World Changes,” “Gold Diggers” “Heroes for Sale,” “Silver Dotiay. a Trenton, N. J., a niece of Mayor with Ina Claire in nine Quaker» aoa wood a little more than a year ras hy ee iene ie ° re . / eas, ago, appearing in minor roles in “Mandalay,” | “Havana —“Footlight: Parade,” “Bureau of — and Tae In My Heart.” many stock companies t role with the latter in “Brigh Lights”. ing performances in many pic’ tures, he was signed under a long MPaations of 1934,” “Conventio um igre Meee ‘Aline MacMahon: Aine MieMahon; the noted stage player, whose bined commenced of McKeesport, Pa., where she received most of her primary y education. ; It was while she was attending Barnard College in New York City that she first became interested in the stage through amaAt the con made her professional debut in Edgar Selwyn’s production, “The. Mirage.” — It was while she was playing _ on the stage in Los Ange Star Final.” Her sue picture led to eeiet as her latest pi of 1933, ” Heroes For Sale,” “The Life of Jimmy Dolan,” and Ruth ‘Donnelly i Ruth Gonaaily was born in 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 Girl. ” Miss Donnelly ant to Holly several pictures. Her first. dis.. netive hit came with her her role | in “Blessed Event” after which she was signed by Warner Bros. Her recent “pictures include “Convention City,” Widows,” “Female, 2 Missing Persons,” “Lilly Turner” Frank McHugh — Prank ee has been on the stage since his early youth. Born in Homestead, Pa., of theatrical parents, Frank’s earliest thoughts were of the theatre. _ Following years as a trouper i out the United States and Ca ada, he was induced by hi friend, Frank F. y, to accept 4 He speedily drew the attentions of screen audiences and after having given outstand a, contract by the Warner Aataad pictures include City, ” “Son of a Sailor,” UW House on 56th Street,” “Hava: Widows,” “ExLady,” “Bootlight Fornde and saved erner.” a are three Vilaphike short, apie schedaled: | | i release the same week as “Heat Lightning”. Packed | _ | with “names? ” they make for a fine all-around show. | _ “BUSINESS Is A PLEASURE” with Teddy Joyce, Hobart Cavanaugh, Bobby Agnew and Betty Grable. A two-reel Broadway Brevity Technicolor. — ture. production wallop! Rel. No. short with that scintillating Se octneny udnarst chorus and fea. 517. ‘Running time 20 min. A “JERUSALEM, THE HOLY orry” by E. M Newman, A one-reel ‘ “Musical World Journey”. _ minutes. Rel. No. 8207. Rw Colorful glimpses of the everafar ting Bible land, time 10 presented with a beautiful musical accompaniment. EASY ACES in “Isnt THAT AWFUL”. . A one-reel “Pepper Pot”. Rel, No, 8314. ‘Running time 10 minutes. J ane and Goodman Ace, radio favorites, ring the gong again in a fast and furious Teel that will have the audiences ribs s begging for mercy! —