Key Largo (Warner Bros.) (1948)

PUBLICITY “KEY LARGO” (STAR READER) HUMPHREY BOGART ONCE ACTED NICE JUVENILE ROLES It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Humphrey Bogart once played flanneled oafs who sauntered on-stage with racket in hand and invariably inquired: “Tennis, anybody?” “My name was usually Dick or Jack,” Bogart says. “Sometimes we varied it, and I was called Horace.” This was in Bogart’s fledgling stage days, after he had decided that acting was easier and more profitable than stage-managing, and before he had discovered that his future lay in a gun and a grimace, “At that time,” he says, “I thought the only people who used guns were soldiers.” “IT put jarsful of pemade on my hair, slicked it back and tried to look like a 42nd Street version of Rudolph Valentino,” he continues. It was during this period that the actor got his first real role as the juvenile in a play called “Swifty”. His hair slicker and shinier than ever, Humphrey was really in the big-time now. Bogart went right ahead acting. However, it was the stage version of “The Petrified Forest” which brought Bogart to the rumpled-hair, cigarette-inlip, clipped-speech gunman role which won him lasting fame. “Tt took me that long,” he recalls, “to discover that I could act without a tennis racket in my hand.” Today, Bogart, long outgrown the tennis-playing period, essays the role of a tightlipped character in Warner Bros.’ newest smashing drama, “Key Largo”, which comes next Friday to the Strand Theatre. No white flannels, either. ~ HUMPHREY BOGART Still 692-29 Mat 692-1D CRUISER NAMED AFTER BOGART’S Sharp-eyed movie fans will note that the name on the cabin cruiser which figures promi nently in scenes in Warner Bros.’ drama, “Key Largo”, is “The Santana”. This is the Humphrey Bogart’s and Lauren Bacall’s yawl. Bogart, who appears with his wife in “Key Largo”, which comes ,to the Strand Theatre next week, persuaded Producer Jerry Wald to letter SANTANA on the film boat. “Makes us feel at home,” said the actor. (ADVANCE) ‘Key Largo’ Coming to Strand With Extraordinary Star Cast A cast bursting with stellar talent features Warner Bros.’ dynamite drama, “Key Largo”, coming next Friday to the Strand Theatre. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G._ Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor play the top roles, “Key Largo” has been directed by John Huston, the ace director who made film history with “Treasure of Sierra Madre”, another Bogart smash. Jerry Wald produced “Key Largo” under the Warner Bros. banner. It is an action drama, probing the reactions of a disillusioned World War II veteran, who, having helped win the war, is disinclined to help win the peace. Bogart plays this role, with Robinson heading a band of mobster cohorts. Bogart reads a_ portion of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s nowmemorable Declaration of War to Congress in January, 1942 in a sequence of the drama. Edward G. Robinson, as a mob leader, plays the kind of role which brought him to screen fame a number of years ago, while Miss Bacall supplants her usual sultry personality for that of a straight heroine role here. Huston’s distinctive insight into character is clearly presented in several scenes, where Bogart, Robinson, Barrymore, and Miss Bacall and Miss Trevor actually all come in for an equal share of the spotlight. It is a dramatic masterpiece in this way, Huston’s handling of such a stellar cast which gives off sparks brilliantly. ESSENTIAL Frank McCloud Johnny Rocco. Nora Temple ... STUNNING LAUREN BACALL. Warner Bros.’ glamour star who appears in the all-star drama, "Key Largo’, opening next Friday at the Strand Theatre. Sharing stellar honors also are: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor. Still 692-515 The Cast Mat 692-2D INFORMATION HUMPHREY BOGART EDWARD G. ROBINSON LAUREN BACALL LIONEL BARRYMORE Pee a ae ee CLAIRE TREVOR Oa Sitar sean Ok, PM Ne eens tabs boa Ba cw Lac moo wane Thomas Gomez DOLE er tape A ee et re Okan a Gee Harry Lewis CPOE, Oe not ek Ga ti etna phere eS ee Soe John Rodney CE His ese i ocd PO ATION Eee ee ee Mare Lawrence oI GES eg eerie ed NT ROC ERE Sie i oa EON Nica ea RI Dan Seymour fl | ae a RES ANE et Oa ear TRE rR On aie Mite ee oe Money an © Monte Blue Production Silver Heels Redric Red Wing Produced by Jerry Wald. Directed by John Huston. Screen play by Richard Brooks and John Huston; based on the play by Maxwell Anderson, as produced on the spoken stage by the Playwrights Company. Photographed by Karl Freund, A.S.C. Art Director, Leo K. Kuter. Film Editor, Rudi Fehr. Sound by Dolph Thomas. Special Effects by William McGann, Director; Robert Burks, A.S.C. Set Decorations by Fred M. MacLean. Makeup Artist, Pere Westmore. Music by Max Steiner. Wardrobe by Leah Rhodes. Orchestrations, Murray Cutter. Assistant Director, Art Lueker. Unit Manager, Chuck Hansen. CLAIRE TREVOR YET TO BE BRUNETTE Pity poor Claire Trevor! She’s one actress who admits that she doesn’t know what color her hair really is. “T’ve been changing its color so frequently for the last few years that I’m not sure what it looked like when I started.” Currently, Miss Trevor is a golden blonde for her role of an ex-night club sinber in Warner Bros. dynamite drama, ‘Key Largo”, produced by Jerry Wald at Warner Bros. This exciting film opens next Friday at the Strand Theatre. Last year about this time she was a strawberry blonde, and the season before she was more of a brownette. This constant changing of her hair shades has been done, the actress says, to accommodate film producers, who all have dif ferent ideas as to how she ought to look on the screen. “It’s wearing me out,” she says. “Just once I’d like to be a natural whatever-I-am!” She has had all the varying degress of shades between platinum and brown, but she has yet to be a real brunette. “That'll probably be next,” she © said with resignation. So being a brunette is her next move. (REVIEW) FIVE TOP STARS HIGHLIGHT CAST OF ‘KEY LARGO’ Out of Warner Bros.’ top drawer has come a dramatic smash, “Key Largo’, which has a truly superlative cast of vivid personalities. “Key Largo’, which premiered last evening at the Strand Theatre, has Humphrey Bogart, Edward G._ Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore and Claire Trevor, each cast in important roles. The play itself adapted from Maxwell Anderson’s stage production of the same title, is set in Florida with most of the action confined to a resort hotel, over which tension and menace lurks. One of the most memorable achievements of this moving drama is director John Huston’s skill in handling such a stellar array of stars. Bogart dominates the screen at one minute, Robinson takes it over the next, and so on down the line. And when all the stars are gathered before the camera for a climactic scene, the suspense and histrionics which are handed out, is something to _ shout about. Each one of the five ranking stars comes in for a share of the spotlight which is a remarkable feat in itself. Bogart slugs it out with Robinson; Miss Trevor sings “Moanin’ Low” off-key, minus any accompaniment; Miss Bacall stares Robinson down, and Barrymore delivers many of the most potent lines from a _ wheelchair. The assembly of mobsters, who comprise Robinson’s gang in the drama, is another distinctive feature of the film. Thomas Gomez and John Rodney are standout characters in this specially selected cast. Not to forget the hurricane sequence which the Hollywood artisans have staged in terrifying style. It is this disastrous storm which provides one of the dramatic highlights in the actionfilled story. “Key Largo” bursts with stars and excitement! LAUREN BACALL HAS NEW EAR-DO Lauren Bacall uncovers her ears for the first time on the screen in an unveiling that prompted Cameraman Karl Freund to observe that the Look also has ear appeal. “Indeed,” the film cameraman says, “the lady has_ shapely ears. They cling closely to her head and they have nicely rounded lobes—not too prominent. Neat, I guess, is the word for those cute little ears.” The occasion for this ‘discovery” of Miss B.’s ears was her new hair-do for Warner Bros.’ explosive drama, “Key Largo”, due Friday at the Strand. Heretofore, the actress has been lounging around her films with a shaggy coiffure that not only covered her ears but also part of her face. With the approval of Producer Jerry Wald, Husband Humphrey Bogart, Director John Huston, and other prominent people on the Warner lot, Miss Bacall revised her coiffure into something simple that she tucks back of her ears and. clamps with a barrette on the back of: her neck. It looks smart. 9