I Loved a Woman (Warner Bros.) (1933)

ADVANCE PUBLICITY Robinson Again Has Role of Historical And Romantic Sweep “T Loved A Woman,’ the First National production starring Edward G. Robinson—with Kay Francis—and coming to the ............... Theatre next—again presents the widely acclaimed hero of “Silver Dollar” with a role of romantie appeal—in a drama which vividly portrays a thrilling period in American life of the last four decades, with especial reference to the machinations of the “beef barons” of Chicago. Mr. Robinson’s work in “I Loved A Woman,” is considered by many critics to surpass his superb characterization in “Silver Dollar” which depicted the rise and fall of the Silver Kings. “I Loved A Woman” is the life drama of one John Hayden, (son of a millionaire meat-packer) whose sensitive and artistic nature infinitely prefers the fragrant antiquities of Greece, to the malodorous stockyards from which the family fortune grew. Recalled to America to head the business by the death of his father, the young man is still more interested in collecting Grecian urns than in selling hams and bacon. Unhappily married to the daughter of one of his fellow-packers, Hayden meets an ambitious young singer with whom he falls in love and whose career he willingly backs with his money. When, in turn, he discovers that the opera singer has made him only one of many men in her life, Hayden cuts himself off from her, and throws himself with fiery enthusiasm into a career of ruthless business aggrandizement. Helping to create the Beef Trust despite tue opposition of the Federal’ Government, he goes from success to success, culminating in winning huge war contracts with the Allies during the Great War. When, however, he attempts to reach out and control food sources on a world scale, his colossal schemes topple of their own weight, and to avoid criminal prosecution, he is forced to flee as an exile to Greece. Kay Francis has the role of the opera singer who, despite her casual infidelities to her benefactor, proves to be his only loyal friend at the close of the drama. Genevieve Tobin plays the part of Robinson’s vindictive wife. Other members of the unusually large cast are Murray Kinnell, Robert Barrat, George Blackwood, Robert MeWade, Henry Kolker, Walter Walker, J. Farrell MacDonald, EF. J. Ratcliffe, Paul Poreasi, William V. Mong, Morgan Wallace and Lorena Layson. Alfred E. Green, whose direction of “Silver Dollar’ was greatly responsible for that picture’s success, is the director of “I Loved A Woman.” ED. G. ROBINSON The star of “I Loved A Woman’ seen in a characteristic pose. His thrilling new picture comes to the eee Theatre on \ Out No.11 Outi15e Mat 5e Page Ten 2 Big Screen Stars Teamed as Lovers in Edw. G. Robinson Hit Two of the truly great dramatic artists of the time are for the first time brought together as screen lovers in “I Loved A Woman,” the First National picture which comes £ONeste aes Theatre on SR ee a next. They are Edward G. Robinson and Kay Francis, each of whom has been starred separately in many pictures—in all of which they have given unforgettable characterizations. With Genevieve Tobin, they play unique parts in the amazing love triangle of “I Loved A Woman.” Miss Tobin is cast as the vindictive wife of the hero—content to wait a lifetime to avenge her wrongs. As the rising operatie star, Miss Francis fires Robinson, as a wealthy young meat packer with her own ambition to gain power. Both in their own ways are utterly ruthless in battling for world conquest. Strangely enough, Robinson is later inspired by hatred for his inamorata instead of love—-when he finds he himself is but one of her many lovers. Outside of the romance the story reveals the dominating forces in the growth of the meat packing industry in the last forty years. There is a notable cast in addition to the principals which ineludes J. Farrell MacDonald, Henry Kolker, Robert SBarrat, George Blackwood, Murray Kinnell and Henry O’Neill. The screen play by Charles Kenyon and Sidney Sutherland is based on the story “Red Meat,” by David Karsner, author of “Silver Dollar.” It was directed by Alfred E. Green. your 3rd story Kay Francis Enacts Role of Opera Star in ‘I Loved A Woman’ Kay Francis, who supports Edward G. Robinson in the First National picture, “I Loved A Woman,” which comes to the Tlsétre oes... next, delineates an amazing woman who wins world fame through love and ruthlessness. It is her most powerful dramatic role. In her strange code of ethics she wins her start on the operatic stage by throwing herself into the arms of a wealthy meat baron. But she is not content with one love and flits from lover to lover, as her faney dictates or her ambition prompts her affairs ranging from young students to old sovereigns. She is able through a magnetic personality to inspire those with whom she comes in contact to almost superhuman deeds and it is she who is responsible for the changing of a dilettante youth into a ruthless business man who comes near conquering the world before the gigantic structure he has built topples over and crushes him. In addition to its powerful love theme the story treats in dramatic fashion with the frenzied finance employed in the growth of the packing industry to one of the greatest in the world. It is colorfully depicted in the novel by David Karsner, author of “Silver Dollar,” in a story titled “Red Meat” from which the screen play was written by Charles Kenyon and Sidney Sutherland. There is a notable cast which includes beside the two stars, Genevieve Tobin, J. Farrell MacDonald, Henry Kolker, Robert Barrat, George Blackwood, Murray Kinnell, Robert McWade, Walter Walker and Henry O’Neill. Alfred E. Green directed. KAY FRANCIS, as the brilliant young opera singer loved by EDWARD G. ROBINSON, creates a glorious figure in “I Loved A Woman,” First National’s sensational hit, comin 9 & Cut No. 12 your 4th story Vital Parts Played s By Four Presidents s s a in Robinson’s Film Four Presidents of the United States play vital parts in the plot of “I Loved A Woman,” the First National picture which opens at the Se eee engok Theatre OM ..ccccceseeseeeees next, with Edward G. Robinson and Kay Francis in a double star cast. ‘William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson each provide an important turning point in the career of John Hayden, head of the house of Hayden & Company, meat packing millionaires. It is the assassination of McKinley which brings Theodore Roosevelt into office, as the nemesis of the Chicago packers. In the picture, Hayden and his fellow-conspirators are depicted as pulling political wires to have Roosevelt safely shelved as Vice-President. When in office, he brought about the enactment of the Federal Meat Inspection Act. Taft inaugurated a federal investigation of the packers’ combination to bring about a monopoly in the meat industry. At the outbreak of the World War, the dissolution of what had become known as “The Beef Trust” was ordered under the administration of Woodrow Wilson. Each of these Presidential acts formed a turning-point in the dramatic rise of John Hayden to a position of international importance, in the world of finance and industry. Of the four Presidents, however, only one actually appears in the drama as a living character—Theodore Roosevelt, played by E. J. Ratcliffe. But though McKinley, Taft and Wilson are not visualized on the screen, their far-reaching influence upon the life of John Hayden is powerfully brought out in the course of the picture. Other members of the cast are Genevieve Tobin, Murray Kinnell, Robert Barrat, Henry Kolker, Robert MeWade, J. Farrell MeDonald, George Blackwood and Henry O’Neill. The picture is based on a novel by David Karsner, author of “Silver Dollar,” and is the dramatic story of the love of a powerful packer for an opera singer. Alfred E. Green directed it from the screen play by Charles Kenyon and Sidney Sutherland. Out 30¢e eS earn to the ................Theatre. Mat 10¢ your 5th story Edward G. Robinson Vows He Ain’t Got Sound Horse Sense Edward G. Robinson is one actor who will never be a western star. Gifted though he is in many ways, he still lacks “horse sense.” When, as, and if, Robinson is ever called upon to play Shakespeare’s immortal “King Richard IIT” he may read the lines: “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” but he will never really mean them. In the First National picture, “I Loved A Woman,” which opens at the Theatre on .... next. Robinson appears briefly in a “gay ninety” sequence, driving a span of spirited horses. The day it was filmed was admitte d ly EDWARD G. one of the ROBINSON most trying Cut No. 2 of Robinson’s Cut 15e Mat be life. “I know more about gangsters than I do about teamsters,” he confessed. “How do you guide this contraption?” The purpose of the reins was explained to him. “Don’t you have a brake or anything?” he demanded. “How do you stop it?” The owner of the team demonstrated and sat with Robinson while he rehearsed the scene. But guiding the team up to the curb and stopping it within the camera angle was almost too much to ask. After eight or nine tries he managed it. “T Loved A Woman,” which stars Robinson with Kay Francis, is a smashing love drama centering about a meat packer who makes himself a world figure first through his love of a woman and then through his hatred of her. Others in the cast are Genevieve Tobin, J. Farrell MacDonald, Henry Kolker, Robert Barrat, George Blackwood, Murray Kimnnell and Henry O’Neill. The screen play by Charles Kenyon and Sidney Sutherland, is based on the novel by David Karsner, author of “Silver Dollar.” Alfred E. Green directed. LUSTROUS HEROINE OF NEW PICTURE | your 6th story Stage Stars Make Picture Debut in ‘‘! Loved A Woman’’ Two noted stage players who have been signed under long term contracts to First National, make their debut in pictures in “I Loved A Woman,” which comes to the Theatre on next, with Edward G. Robinson and Kay Francis in the starring roles. They are George Blackwood and Henry O’Neill, both of whom have had long experience on the stage before they were lured from Broadway to Hollywood. Blackwell, after a few years in stock played leading roles in New York, his most recent plays being “Elizabeth the the Queen,’ “Doctor X,” “Showboat,” “Romance,” “All the King’s Men” and “Holiday.” He has the role of one of Miss Francis’ lovers in “I Loved A Woman.” Henry O’Neill’s most recent Broadway productions include “I Loved You Wednesday,” “Conquest,” “Fool’s Cap,’ “Black Sheep” and “Shooting Star.” In “I Loved A Woman,” his first picture, he has the role of a detective in a fashionable society agency which supplies evidence for divorces. The picture is an astounding love story centering about the rise and fall of a wealthy meat packer and his amours with a grand opera star. Others in the cast include Genevieve Tobin, J. Farrell MacDonald, Henry Kolker, Robert Barrat, Murray Kinnell and Robert MeWade. The screen play by Charles Kenyon and Sidney Sutherland is based on the novel, “Red Meat” by David Karsner, author of “Silver Dollar,” and was directed by Alfred E. Green. your 7th story Wealth and Poverty March Side by Side in ‘| Loved A Woman’ Replicas of the picturesque though tumbledown homes of Chicago’s Packingtown in the nineties were constructed for the First National picture, “I Loved A Woman,” which GGMOS= 00 UNO oi. ier ae: Theatre Ws next, starring Edward G. Robinson with Kay Francis heading the supporting cast. One house in which some of the important sequences is enacted, is a one story board shack, occupied by a man and his wife, her mother and four small children, two of them sick. The interior shows one small room in which all seven sleep and eat, when they have food. The walls are bare of any plastering and the winds of winter and the hot blasts of summer sweep in. The furniture consists of but one bed in which some of the members of the family sleep, the others lying on rags on the floor. There is one dilapidated wooden rocker for the aged woman, two broken chairs and boxes for the children. A wreck of a stove and a bare table complete the furnishings. Outside is mud and filth. It is these conditions that Edward G. Robinson, as a wealthy young packer with high ideals, sets out to remedy, although later in life he becomes the most ruthless of all the packers. He it is who is singled out by Theodore Roosevelt, when president, to prosecute for selling contaminated meat to the soldiers in the Spanish American war. The picture is an epie of Packingtown in the nineties, following the lives of its principals down to the present time, with one of the most amazing love intrigues ever depicted. Also in the cast are Genevieve Tobin, Murray Kinnell, George Blackwood, Robert Barrat, Robert MeWade, J. Farrell MacDonald, Henry Kolker and Henry O’Neill.