Jezebel (Warner Bros.) (1938)

Today , V\ a Starring Bette Davis with Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Fo) J F ZL F B F g Bainter, Richard Cromwell, John Litel, Henry O'Neill and Spring Byington. A William Wyler Production Released by Warner Bros. Coming to the /SCREEN STORY This romantic melodrama of old New Orleans comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday and this is the first of a four-day strip giving a few highlights of the picture by means of scenes from it. The exciting scenes are laid in New Orleans at the height of the Mardi Gras festivities and at a plantation home farther down the river. “Jezebel” is a picturization of the Broadway stage hit by Owen Davis, Sr. The star is Bette Davis and the large supporting cast is headed by Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter and John Litel. | a Miss Julie Marsden (Bette Davis) a Pres Dillard (Henry Fonda) the young banker who means Buck Cantrell (George Brent) glamorous siren of New Orleans who to marry her and whom she loves for his masterfulness, but suitor to whom she turns to rules or ruins the men who love her .. . hates because he tries to tame her and fails .. . anger Pres. (cont. tomorrow) ——aaa= as Second Day Pick Up Headings Dn (THE STORY THUS FAR) Miss Julie Marsden (Bette Davis) furious because her fiance Pres (Henry Fonda) insists that she wear the conventional white dress to the Mardi Gras Ball—goes to Buck Cantrell (George Brent), a former suitor, who has just fought a duel for her sake, asking him to take her, but he refuses. To spite Pres, she buys a flaming red dress, and when he comes to take her to the Mardi Gras Ball, throws aside her cloak and gloats over his dismay and anger. —— Pres Dillard (Henry Fonda) takes her to Julie acts with high disdain when the crowd at the Thrilled by his mastery she both the Ball when Julie tells him he is afraid Mardi Gras Ball ridicules the red dress. Pres holds hates and loves him and inwardly that some one may insult her and make her in a viselike grasp and makes her dance in spite plans to make him submit to her him fight a duel for her sake .. . of her whispered pleadings -. .« desires. (cont. tomorrow) Third Day Pick Up Headings (THE STORY THUS FAR) When Julie (Bette Davis) and Pres (Henry Fonda) get home from the Mardi Gras Ball she hopes he will continue to dominate her, and when he tells her he is about to leave for good, she strikes him across the face. She thinks he will come back but he leaves for New York. She lives in seclusion. When he comes back at the end of a year she throws her arms about him and pleads forgiveness only to be surprised by his changed attitude toward her ... _—— Julie (Bette Davis) is aghast when Pres (Henry Aunt Belle (Fay Bainter) is horrified Julie follows Pres into the garden and Fonda) introduces his Northern wife, Amy (Margaret at Julie’s reckless determination to get makes passionate but futile love to him. Lindsay). Julie controls her feelings, wishes them well, back the love of the man she lost by Almost won over, he at last repulses her. while vowing she will win Pres from his wife . . her own fickleness .. . (concluded tomorrow) Fourth Day Pick Up Headings (THE STORY THUS FAR) Julie (Bette Davis) repulsed by Pres (Henry Fonda), begins to scheme, with the fury of the woman scorned, to stir dissension between Pres’s wife, Amy (Margaret Lindsay) and Buck Cantrell (George Brent). When the abolition argument is at white heat, Pres is called to New Orleans to fight the sudden epidemic of yellow fever. As he rides away, his brother Ted (Richard Cromwell) challenges Buck (George Brent), to a duel. When Buck accepts, Julie gloats over her evil success. os 4 Buck Cantrell (George Brent) is killed in the duel by Dr. Livingstone (Donald Julie (Bette Davis) wins from the wife of Pres (Henry Ted (Richard Cromwell) and before dying, blames Crisp) welcomes Julie who Fonda) the right to go with him to the fever hospiJulie for the trouble. All desert her. She is dehas braved danger to get to tal and risks her own life to save his. She is no longnounced as a “‘Jezebel.”’ Pres gets yellow fever .. . Pres to nurse him... er a Jezebel. (The End) 4-DAY PICTURE-STORY STRIP — Headings, type and photos available in mat form. Order 401-B—60c — from Campaign Plan Editor. oes ee Ce ee ee, Page Eleven