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

ADVANCE FEATURES — SHORTS 22 imme oe me ‘I Loved a Woman,”’ Stars THRILLING SCENE FROM STRAND PICTURE Newest Screen Love Pair Edward G. Robinson and Kay Francis Appear Together for First Time in Dramatic Hit NE of the most astounding love dramas ever enacted forms O the underlying theme for First National’s ‘“‘I Loved a Woman,’’ which comes to the... Theatre on crs emer next, with Edward G. Robinson in the stellar role supported by Kay Francis. His secret love life is presented | as the motivating force in the rise of a wealthy meat baron to world dominance and his ultimate downfall through the crashing, from sheer overweight, of the structures he had built in his mad ambition to become the greatest power on earth. New Screen Lovers Robinson and Miss Francis, both of whom have been starred separately in many productions, are brought together for the first time as screen lovers. The two form an unusually appealing team—Robinson, a dominating personality and Miss Francis tall, stately and possessed of both beauty and rare intelligence. Robinson, in “I Loved A Woman” is the son of a wealthy packer. He has high ideals and a taste for art, but is lured into the battle for financial power through his mad infatuation for a rising young opera star whose sole ambition is to win fame and to gratify her own desires. She it is, as played by Kay Francis, who teaches him to be unscrupulous in his fight for world domination. Hatred later proves an even stronger stimulus than love in his lust for power. For he comes to hate his inamorata, who, trapped with another lover, openly admits that she is a woman of many loves, and claims that they are necessary for inspiration. Genevieve Tobin completes a unique triangle in the role of Robinson’s vindictive wife, who spies on him and is content to wait a lifetime to be avenged. The picture is vast in scope, covering a momentous period in American history, and centering about the development of the packing industry to its present magnitude, with Chicago’s appallingly squalid Packingtown as the setting for some of its earlier scenes. | T.R. and the Big Stick The building of an industry that made a score of multimillionaires— their intimate affairs and political and financial intrigues, are revealed in the picture which is based on David Karsner’s novel, “Red Meat.” Mr. Karsner also wrote “Silver Dollar’ in which Mr. Robinson also starred. “T Loved A Woman” touches upon the sensational episodes in the history of the Beef Trust, dramatizing the incidents attendent upon the embalmed beef scandals of the Spanish-American War. It uncovers the political intrigue in the ‘shelving’ of Theodore Roosevelt, who had threatened the packers with prosecution, by placing him on the ticket with McKinley as Vice President. It evidences their consternation when McKinley is assassinated and Roosevelt comes into power and earries out his threat. The hero’s attempt to corner the world food market during the World War and the eventual crash of his business and his flight from the country after indictment for fraud is also vividly portrayed. Although only one president is actually seen in the picture, Theodore Roosevelt, three other chief executives play an important part in the unfolding of the story. | Panorama of Chicago | The picture is accurate in its presentation of historical events and in its picturesque settings, months of research having been due before the picture was even started. Chicago’s squalid Packingtown, which was exposed by Upton Sinclair in Page Fourteen his sensational novel, “The Jungle,” has been faithfully reproduced, as has also the famous Chicago City Club in which Roosevelt made his threat against the meat barons for the sale of poisoned meat to the soldiers. In addition to the three principals, the cast includes such noted players as J. Farrell MacDonald, Henry Kolker, Robert Barrat, Murray Kinnell, George Blackwood, Robert MeWade, Walter Walker, Henry O’Neill, Sam Godfrey, E. J. Ratcliffe, Paul Porcasi, William V. Mong and Claude Gillingwater. Alfred E. Green, who directed Robinson in “Silver Dollar,” also directed the present production while Charles Kenyon and Sidney Sutherland wrote the screen play. In this smashing episode from EDWARD G. ROBINSON’ ae is but one of the ma Pasglawgieset ss wac to the star in a moment of anger. film, coming How Singer Lured Modern Napoleon To His St. Helena Three Most Sensational Decades in Our History Were Recreated for “I Loved A Woman” N eminent historian, not long ago, characterized the thirty years from 1890 to 1920 as the most momentous and sensational years in the history of the United States. During those years, ushered in by ‘‘the gay nineties’’ lurid cataclysm of the World War, every and closed by the department of human life was the scene of revolutionary changes. It is the spirit and significance of those thirty years, filtered through the character of one man, that makes the First National production, “I Loved A Woman,” starring Edward G. Robinson with Kay Francis, a huge dramatic canvas, upon which the human drama is played against a background of national and international events. Robinson, who plays the stellar role of John Hayden, Chicago meat packer, industrial genius, Colossus of “Big Business,” considers the picture the most impressive and important vehicle that has been given him since he came to the screen. Drama of an Epoch “The story of John Hayden,” said Robinson during the making of ‘I Loved A Woman,’ which comes to ABO! wicca... cs eee oe Theatre on %-........ P “is more than the story of the rise and fall of a man through boundless, uncontrollable ambition, though that is the main theme. It is really the dramatization of the forces at work during a vital epoch in American history. “The fundamental conflict in the picture is the conflict between Hayden—who symbolizes all the captains of industry of that era—and those forces, which finally crushed him after thirty years of apparently miraculous success. “For twenty years of his astounding career, Hayden and his contem-. porary business captains took for their ruling motto, ‘the public be damned!’ and shaped all their actions accordingly. “The story of The Beef Trust, in which Hayden was the leading spirit, the ‘embalmed beef’ scandals growing out of the Spanish-American War, the conspiracy of the beef barons to ‘pocket’ Theodore Roosevelt, their arch-enemy, in the VicePresidency and Fate’s outwitting of the conspirators when the sudden assassination of President McKinley swept Roosevelt into the White House, the victorious campaign Roosevelt waged against the overlords of the meat industry to force a cleanup of industrial conditions and bring about a respect for the rights of the public—all these historical events are marshalled into a drama of Sweeping power in ‘I Loved A Woman.’ “All Napoleons,” continued Robinson, “sooner or later find their way to some St. Helena. Hayden, who aspired to be the industrial Napoleon of the food industry, even tually met his Waterloo, and ended his days in the homesickness of exile. “Interwoven with Hayden’s life are the lives of the two women who moulded and dominated his actions from first to last—the woman he married and the woman he loved. How they each contributed to his successes and his failures is translated into stirring drama during the course of the picture.” Months of research were necessary before any of the important scenes that went into the making of “1 Loved A Woman” could be recreated for the screen. Chicago’s notorious “Packingtown,” the squalid district in which the employes of the stockyards and their families existed, was brought back to life in all its unlovely filth and misery for the purposes of the picture. The interior of Chicago’s City Club, where the memorable declaration of war on the packers by Theodore Roosevelt took place, was reproduced on a massive scale. Such events as the sinking of the Maine in Havana harbor, in February, 1898, the charge of the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill, the eleetion of McKinley and Roosevelt in 1900, the dawn of the horseless age, the outbreak of the World War, the signing of huge food contracts by the representatives of the Allied governments and _ other turning points in the history of the thirty years which comprise the scope of “T Loved A Woman” are reproduced with dramatic vividness and accuracy. Based on David Karsner’s novel, “Red Meat,” the story was adapted for the screen by Charles Kenyon and Sidney Sutherland. The cast is a large and brilliant one surrounding Robinson. Kay Francis is the aspiring opera singer whose career Hayden makes possible with his money, and with whom he falls madly in love. Genevieve Tobin has the role of John Hayden’s wife, waiting with patient bitterness for a quarter of a century to take vengeance on her husband for his love of another woman. S new picture, “I Loved A Woman,” we see the ny amazing incidents from this sensational new SR ee ne Kay Francis is the picture’s feminine star. Cut No.5 Out 45ce Mat 15e Famous Gangster Owns Only a Phony Revolver Edward G. Robinson, who is famous for his gangster roles on the screen has never fired a revolver in his life, and has never owned one except a tin imitation. ‘This is an automatic which holds cigarettes. This he kept in his dressing room at First National. During the produetion of “I Loved A Woman,” the sensational drama now at the............ Theatre. He frequently startled his friends by pointing the pistol in order to commandeer a cigarette. Edw. G. Robinson Never Sheds His Lucky Ring Edward G. Robinson, who is starred with Kay Francis in the First National picture, “1 Loved A Woman,” now at the Theatre, has a good luck ring which has never left his finger since he purchased it fifteen years ago. He bought it from an Inatan while playing in stock in Denver, Colorado. It is made of hammered silver with a strangely-colored agate setting, carved in the shape of a gammadion (consult your dictionary). He was warned by the Indian that it would cause bad luck ir taken off, but would be a good omen as long as worn. It is Eddie’s one pet superstition. Genevieve Tobin Ready For Gabriel’s Trumpet Genevieve Tobin, who plays the part of a wronged wife in the First National romance, “I Loved A Woman,” now showing at the Theatre, is one of the few actresses in Hollywood who ean play a harp. She kept an instrument in her dressing room on the set during the production of the picture and frequently played between scenes. Kay Francis, who heads the support of Edward G. Robinson in the picture was curious as to how Miss Tobin happened to learn to play an instrument so little used in these days. In reply to her inquiry, Miss Tobin said: “I like the sound in the first place —and then again I believe in preparedness—when Gabriel blows his trumpet, you know!” CURRENT SHORTS Robinson Develops Hectic Golf Complex Edward G. Robinson developed an interest in golf during the producetion of the First National picture, “I Loved A Woman,” now showing at. thogeeernn. Theatre. His conversation is punctuated with “divots,” “niblicks,” “mashtes,” “putts” and similar links lingo and he is looking forward to the day when he’ll break 90 oftener than Bobbie Jones. Robinson Buys Movie Camera to Snap Baby For years Edward G. Robinson, starred with Kay Francis in the First National picture, “I Loved A Woman,” now at the Theatre, had resisted all efforts to sell him an amateur motion picture camera. But recently the actor bought one with special lenses, projector, screen, and untold yards of films. “It’s on account of the baby,” he explained sheepishly to those who knew how long he had resisted camera salesmen. “We’ve just got to have a record of the baby.” One of the Famous Blackwoods in Film George Blackwood, the well-known Stage player, who is one of Kay Francis’ many lovers in the First National picture, “I Loved A Woman” now atthe .c.6 4. Theatre, comes from a famous line of writers. Although born in America himself, he is a grand nephew oft William Blackwood, the Scoten publisher, who founded Blackwood’s magazine, 2» London publication noted for its farcical humor and biting sarcasm. He also is a cousin of Algernon Blackwood, the famous English author. Edward G. Robinson is costarred with Miss Francis in “I Loved A Woman” and is also one of her lovers. O’Neill of Broadway Has Gone Hollywood Hollywood has picked another luminary out of the theatrical firmament of Broadway when First National Studios signed Henry O'Neill, prominent character actor who recently appeared in “Shooting Stars,” for a part in Edward G. Robinson’s “T Loved A Woman,” a romantic drama now at the ................... Theatre. Other recent New York stage successes in which O’Neill appeared are “Old Man Murphy,” “The Last Mile” and “Wonder Boy.”