Hot Heiress (Warner Bros.) (1931)

First National Is Giving You A Corking Picture-And A Campaign That Can’t Be Beat! SHE BELONGS TO THE FOUR HUNDRED! HE BELONGS TO THE FOUR MILLION! But they belong to each other when they discover that love is the same on Park Avenue or the Bowery! a : manners were bad— But his Written by the Brilliant Authors of NOW PLAYING REXY Broadway’s Biggest Hits Fields, Rodgers & Hart with BEN LYON and ONA MUNSON |°”*** as the torrid love team, supported by Walter Pidgeo SSR = Pee A, Inez Courtney “Walter ridgeon Is | Movie Extra Work OY a ~ Hollywood's Most Eligible Bachelor (Advance News) When Ben Lyon recently married Bebe Daniels, Walter Pidgeon, ac cording to Hollywood chatter, be-|_ came the film colony’s most eligible bachelor. Pidgeon’s work as the swashbuckling colonel in “Bride of the Reginent” established him as the type which has become almost extinct in this day of polite drawing room comedy and films devoted to college romance. He has become the target for adoring fan notes and the subject of eulogies from lady fan magazine writers. The crown of filmdom’s favor rests very lightly upon its new wearer. It neither annoys him nor pleases him overly much. He is a man’s man six feet, two inches tall and athletic, fulfilling both the requirements of romance and good fellowship. Pidgeon is seen in what for him is a new type of role in “The Hot Heiress,” a First National and Vitaphone production which comes to ieee eee Whedtrée. ss S3: Other principals in the cast include Ben Lyon, Ona Munson, Inez Courtney, Tom Dugan, Thelma Todd, Holmes Herbert, and Nella Walker. “The Hot Heiress,” directed by Clarence Badger, is an original for the screen by Herbert Fields, with incidental songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. STARTING FRIDAY rons She’s got the Country Bothered! Cut No. 22 Cut 20c, Mat Sc Too Slow For Lyon Ben Wanted To Reach Stardom MHurriedly So He Took to the Stage (Advance Reader) Discouragement with his lack of progress as a movie extra is responsible for the present successful screen career of Ben Lyon who is seen in “The Hot Heiress,” a First National and Vitaphone presentation now current at the.......... Theatre. Lyon has always been moviestruck. At the age of 15 he set out to make a name for himself in pictures. Extra work and very occasional bits dampened his enthusiasm. He left pictures in disgust and went on the stage. In a few years he was playing leads in important Broadway productions. His work in the plays, “Wonderful Thing” and “Mary the Third,” attracted the attention of film producers who offered him lucrative movie contracts. He happily returned to his first love, the screen, and since that time has worked for every major producing company. Ona Munson, Broadway star, is co-featured with Lyon in Clarence Badger’s production of “The Hot Heiress,’ an original for the screen by Fields, Rodgers and Hart. The supporting cast includes Walter Pidgeon, Tom Dugan, Holmes Herbert, Inez Courtney, Thelma Todd and Nella Walker. Inez Courtney in New Role Inez Courtney, diminutive comedienne who was recruited from the New York stage for her screen debut in “Loose Ankles,” is seen in a typical characterization in “The Hot Heiress,” a First National and Vitaphone production coming to the eee Theatre Ben Lyon and Ona Munson play the romantic leads. Miss Courtney recently appeared in “Spring Is Here,” “Song of the Flame,” and “Bright Lights.” EIRESS Ben Lyon, Famed Star, Says Marriage Doesn’t Conflict |' With Film Careers In His Opinion (Advance News) “IT see no reason why marriage and two careers cannot be successfully combined,” says Ben Lyon, whose recent wedding to Bebe Daniels, film star, was the outstanding social event of the year in Hollywood. “The fact that the marriages of a large percentage of picture people have not lasted doesn’t in the least disturb us. “T think conditions in Hollywood have changed greatly during the last five years. A few years ago a professional couple had more difficulties to overcome before they could attain happiness. “Perhaps the most important change has taken place within the public itself. “A public which idolized the screen’s romantic figures didn’t want its illusion shattered by knowing that the objects of its adulation were just ordinary home mortals like themselves. “To know that a much-admired player had breakfast seven times a week with his wife, an actress thoroughly familiar to the public, somehow conflicted with the accepted idea of romanticism. “Now no one seems to care about a player’s domestic state so long as his talkie performances are adeThis saner attitude of the ‘SHE PASSES 2 Great VITAPHONE SHORTS é G5 Bo a Hollywood Marriages Safer To-Day Due To Saner Attitude Taken By Movie-Going Public Se i is a a a ae Ly PALACE| I’M FALLIN’ FOR YOU, BABY?” She’s one of the idle rich who works fast!! public has removed one of the most formidable stumbling blocks in the paths of movie marriages. “Professional jealousy — another difficulty—is being removed as pictures come more and more to be built around a competent cast rather than around a single personality. “Hollywood, while still far from standardized, is nevertheless much less hectic than it formerly was. Which is yet another point in favor of its residents who contemplate matrimony. That Romantic Team BEN LYON-ONA MUNSON Walter Pidgeon-Inez Courtney “Bebe and I—she insists upon being called Mrs. Lyon, which I find very encouraging—follow no particular code of do and don’t. We've both had love affairs before so we each felt we knew when we had met eae ae = A First National & Vitaphone Picture e had a long engagement an didn’t plunge into’ marriage hastily eee Sa a consequently we’re quite certain that our chances for continued happiness are very great.” Actress Favors Poetry : : For the last six years the Oxford ; Lyon S next screen appearance is} Book of Verse has always been on a in “The Hot Heiress,” a First Na-| stand beside the bed of Ona Muntional and Vitaphone production son, featured player in “The Hot wae comes to the........ Theatre| Heiress,” a First National picture Gi ae beginning next........ which will be the next attraction at The supporting cast includes Onalthe.......... Theatre. It is Miss Munson, Walter Pidgeon, Inez] Munson’s custom to read several Courtney, Thelma Todd and Tom! poems every night before she falls Dugan. | asleep. Shelley is her favorite poet. UP A COMING-OUT PARTY | | FOK A | GOING-OUT PARTY! Counts didn’t — count when she could spend the evening with a day-laborer! He was a high-class lover from a low-class family! RESS with BEN EYON AND ONA MUNSON Walter Pidgeon—Inez Courtney—Tom Dugan A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE HIT! Cut No. 12 Cut 60c, Mat 15c Page Seven