Hot Heiress (Warner Bros.) (1931)

LENGTH (Vitaphone) 7309 Feet RUNNING TIME 80 Minutes _ 321 WEST 44th STREET FURST NATIONAL And VU TApHon: TALKING > PICTURES FIRST NATIONAL PICTURES HOT HEIRESS With BEN LYON — ONA MUNSON Permission is granted licensed exhibitors to reproduce with proper notice of copyright all matter containedherein NEW YORK CITY, U.S. A. fare. “ay, a social lion | Who’s Who In “The Hot Heiress” | s UMMA R-Y Comedy-romance of a wealthy debutante and a handsome young steel riveter. It has clever, wisecracking dialogue and snappy incidental songs. It is essentially light, gay, and highly diverting screen LHE CAST Hap Harrigan, a steel riveter... Juliette Hunter, an heiress....... cere eee etree ee eeeee ONA MUNSON—Broadway stage| INEZ COURTNEY—Seen on the favorite in “No No, Nanette,” “Tip-Toes,” and “Hold Everything.” Seen in First National’s “Going Wild” with Joe E. Brown and in the leading role in “The Hot Heiress.” Born in Portland Oregon. BEN LYON-—Star of stage and screen recently in “Hell’s Angels,” Warner Bros. “My Past” and in First National’s “The Hot Heiress.” Husband of Bebe Daniels. Born in Atlanta, Ga. TOM DUGAN—Character actor of stage and screen. Seen in “Sonny Boy,” “Bright Lights,” “They Learned About Women,” ‘“Melody of Love,” “Broadway Babies” and “Drag.” Born in Dublin, Ireland. WALTER PIDGEON—Stage and screen favorite seen in “Woman Wise,” “The Girl from Rio,” “Her Private Life,” “A Most Immoral Lady,” “Melody of Love,” “Bride of the Regiment,” “Viennese Nights,” and “The Hot Heiress,” Born in Canada. Exploitation TABLE OF CONTENTS Feature Page| Feature Page Accessories ................. 10|Lobby Frames ............. 3 Billie 3|Pennants 0... Biographies... Pee. Program Cute fe: : CVIEWS eS 4,5 Cateniines 2k. Rone Sian 1 ast ec. ee ae 1 Summary ee oe 1 Exit Banner... 2| Synopsis ...........0.....0...... 1 nee 2, 3| Who’s Who screen in First National’s “Loose Ankles,” “Song of the Flame,” “Spring Is Here,” “Bright Lights,” and “The Hot Heiress.” Born in Amsterdam, New York. THELMA -TODD—Appeared in “The Noose,” “Seven Footprints to Satan,” “Naughty Baby,” ‘“Careers,’ “The Crash,” “Hell’s Angels,” “Her Private Life,” “The House of Horror,” ‘Trial Marriage,” and “The Hot Heiress.” Born in Lawrence, Mass. HOLMES HERBERT—Seen in “The Terror,” “On Trial,” “Say It with Songs,’ “Madame X,” “The Thirteenth Chair,” “Un tamed,” “The Kiss,” and “The _ Hot Heiress.” Born in Dublin Ireland. GEORGE IRVING—On the stage in “Craig’s Wife,” “The Goose Hangs High,” “Pigs,” and many others and on the screen in ‘‘Co quette,’ “The Dance of Life,” “Paris Bound,’ ‘“Thunderbolt,” “The Last Performance,’ and “The Hot Heiress.” Born in New York City. | NEW SCREEN SWEETHEARTS | Cut No. 14 Cut 30c, Mat 10c newest reel-life sweethearts to come is “The Hot Heiress,’ a delightful comedy-romance. Tom Dugan, InezCourtney and Walter Pidgeon are Ona Munson and Ben I to the Strand screen. among the other notables in the cast. It is a First National and Vita. phone Picture. ROUTINE STORY (This story contains all the important facts about “The Hot Heiress.” Release it several days before the coming of the picture to your house.) “The Hot Heiress,” latest First National comedy-drama, comes tg the Cae at ee Theatre. .........next for a run of......days.This strictly modern romance is from an original story by Herbert Fields. The cast is headed by Ona Munson, beautiful recruit from the Broadway stage, and Ben Lyon of “Hell’s Angels” fame. Others who play prominent parts are Tom Dugan, Walter Pidgeon, Inez Courtney, Thelma Todd, Elise Bartlett, Holmes Herbert, Nella Walker and George Irving. Clarence Badger directed. “The Hot Heiress” presents the startling adventures of Juliette Hunter, a Park Avenue society girl, whose roving eye sees and covets a roughneck riveter, Hap Harrigan, who nonchalantly works among the steel girders of the skyscraper, which is mushrooming up, next door to the hifalutin Hunter apartment. Hap, one lucky day, misses the rivet that Dugan, his comical helper, tosses to him. The hot metal hurtles into the dainty boudoir of Juliette, igniting the carpet. Hap and Dugan crawl into the high room to put out the blaze and Juliette promptly feigns a faint-in the arms of the handsome Hap. She then and there decides to capture him for a husband, in spite of the wealthy man-about-town to whom she is engaged. Her swanky friends sneer, her aristocratic parents scold, but Juliette stands pat. On one occasion Hap fancies her ashamed of him, and disappears. The undaunted lady takes a room adjoining the next building on which Hap is riveting—manages, by hook and by crook, to rivet his attention, and—but that is the story! “The Hot Heiress” has the complete bag of tricks—thrills, laughs, snappy dialogue, romance and—for good measure—several songs by those Tin Pan Alley hit-makers, Rodgers and Hart. Z These bits of haunting melody are so cleverly interwoven with the texture of the story that they seem an inevitable and altogether delightful part of it. The titles of the songs are “Like Ordinary People Do,” “You're the Cats” and “Nobody Loves a Riveter.” Ona Munson and Ben Lyon render the verses with Inez Courtney and Tom Dugan chiming in on the comedy choruses. “The Hot Heiress” is the sort of entertainment that puts old man care on the run. It is the ancient story of love that laughs at locksmiths, in a modern setting—with overtones of the life of the magical city, which O. Henry called “Bagdad on the Subway.” Put cn your list of pictures that must be seen, “The Hot Heiress.” SYNOPSIS (Not for Publication) Copyright 1931. First National Pictures, Inc. All rights reserved. From the bedroom window of her Park Avenue apartment Juliette Hunter, a wealthy debutante, can see the framework of a new building being erected next door. _Hap Harrigan and Tom Dugan, riveters, are working outside Juliette’s window. Hap misses a rivet which Tom has tossed to him, the bit of hot metal crashes through Julie’s window and ignites the carpet. Tom and Hap crawl into the bedroom to put out the fire. Julie faints. When she revives in Hap’s arms she decides she’s going to like him. Hap is awed but pleased. Julie has lunch for two sent into her boudoir next day and invites possible, ms Julie’s parents have arranged an advantageous marriage for her. She tells them that she wants to marry | Hap, adding that he is an architect. The Hunters consent to meeting him, so Julie invites Tom, Margie, and Hap to a weekend party at the Hunter country estate. Hap is presented to Mr. and Mrs. Hunter who find him impossible, Mr. Hunter refers to Hap’s architecture and Hap learns of Julie’s attempt to deceive her parents about his station. He interprets it as meaning that Julie is ashamed of him, He leaves the party. Julie hears nothing from him for several months until a chance meeting with Margie brings the information that he is working in Greenwich Village. Juliette finds the place, rents a room in an untidy old house from the window of which she can watch Hap and Tom work. Hap looks up and sees her one day but refuses to pay the slightest attention. He nishes work on the second story that day and is to move up to the third tomorrow. Julie likewise moves up a story in the rooming house. _The next day she ‘prepares lunch, signals Tom to place a board between the buildings so she can crawl across to eat with Hap. Halfway across she becomes frightened and screams. Hap looks up and is overjoyed to see her. Between bites, of pie they agree to be married after Julie has promised she will be content to live on Hap’s salary with no financial assistance from her par SHORTS Suggested shorts to fill the program are— BELIEVE IT OR NOT Robert L, Ripley’s Sensational Series ——— ey DRAMA SERIES _— CELEBRITIES Any one of the above will delightfully accompany “The Hot Heiress”. Page One