Kid Nightingale (Warner Bros.) (1939)

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Going to New York, he is taken to a gymnasium where he wanders by mistake into a stout women’s reducing class. The women are doing reducing exercises which include an aesthetic dance to “Hark, hark, the meadow lark,’ as played on the piano by Jane Wyman. He and Jane fall for each other and the entire elass for him. They are all on hand to root for him when he engages in his first professional Mat 401 — 8% inches x 4 columns (460 lines) — 60c A WARNER BROS. Picture, with JOHN PAYNEJANE WYMAN WALTER CATLETT * ED BROPHY Directed by GEORGE AMY Screen Play by Charles Belden and Raymond Schrock * From a Story by Lee Katz Marien ad] W SUNN ell. ct DD old tH Da tA Dts Alec D Nn DADAM ctl ase, ld ccAUD a AMM cA cD dt EDD atlas ett dco EDD Alaa Daca EDD ADDN cD cell AOU D AED cla celts cll tlle cll Also in 3 column size — Mat 302 — 6% inches (261 lines) — 45c PUBLICITY agque sega seg segue egg eggs ageing egg egies egies gene seg seg egg eye se gece engage gene eggs ge eye eee egies eg eg ggg gg gg gg ggg gee ete eee gegen ec (Lead Story) ‘Kid Nightingale’ Coming, Novel Prize-Ring Comedy fight, which he wins by a kayo. This fact impresses the slick fight promoter who names Payne “Kid Nightingale’ and makes him sing from the ring at the end of each bout. To keep him happy his managers introduce him to a third rate wrestler, who resembles a well known opera star and he is told that the wrestler is the great singer. The fake opera star advises the “Kid” to keep on fighting in order to develop his chest and his breathing. His girl-friend, however, isn’t fooled by all this and when the “Kid” finally gets into the ring to fight for the championship, she brings the real opera star to hear him sing after the fight. The champion knocks him cold in short order, but the opera star tells him that he really has a marvelous voice and should go in for opera. So, the fight game’s loss becomes Jane’s and the opera’s gain, and everybody’s happy except his managers. Cooperating in making this pieture an uproariously funny production is an expert cast of comedians, which includes Walter Catlett, Ed Brophy, Charles D. Brown, Harry Burns, and William Haade. The sereen play, written by Charles Belden and Raymond Schrock, was based on an origina! story by Lee Katz and George Amy directed the production. Movie Twin Problem Solved by Make-Up Movie ingenuity made two actors grow where only one grew before. Perc Westmore, Warner make-up chief, is credited with the feat. He did it for “Kid Nightingale,’ in which a famous opera singer is supposed to resemble a wrestler. The casting office scoured the twin market unsuccessfully, so it was decided to use one actor, Harry Burns, for both parts. It was important that the two characters look almost alike, but still be unmistakably different. Westmore explained that in the afternoon a person has more wrinkles, is a_ trifle shorter, looks a little older. With the aid of make-up, the vital difference could be arranged. Burns’ schedule was arranged so that he played the wrestler in the morning, and the opera singer in the afternoon. The movies had solved another problem. ‘Kid Nightingale’ Coming “Kid Nightingale,” the new Warner Bros. comedy with John Payne and Jane Wyman will be the next attraction at the Strand Theatre, starting Friday. The story is about a waiter with operatic aspirations who gets side-tracked into prize-fighting as a career. 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He’s all keyed for a _brainbashing boxing match with big William Haade, actor now, but former steel worker and navy boxer. Other mornings he’d been getting up at dawn for workouts with trainer Mushy Callahan, to prepare for this bout. “That’s for later in the day,” Assistant Director Les Guthrie tells him, as he sits getting his coat of make-up in a _ barber chair. “This morning,’ Guthrie continues calmly, “you sing.” “What!” the actor exclaims. “Why, I haven’t practiced for three days—” “Schedule change. Don’t worry. Yowll make it, all right,” says Guthrie. “Maybe that’s the way it should be done,” said Payne, “anyway, I wasn’t a bit nervous. My throat wasn’t tight at all, so the results were better, I think, than usual.” Callahan appears and _ says, “That’s why they did it. Doesn’t give you a chance to be scared. Come along with me, now. You got half an hour before you get in the ring there with Bill Haade, an’ I want to work some more on the way you roll away from his right hand. If you don’t get that roll, Bill will knock your brains loose.” So Payne goes from recording room to gymnasium, and finally, to the stage. According to the script he’s supposed to be helpless, and taking a bad beating. Director George Amy stops the slaughter after working at it from 11 a.m. (an hour for lunch at 12) to 3:30 p.m. “Take a shower and change into Costume Number 8,” Les Guthrie tells him. And before long he’s back again before the cameras, this time line-bucking his way through a mob that’s inclined to fight back. At 6:10 the company “cuts” for the day. Payne eats a bite at the studio, and sees rushes. After rushes, the cast goes into lengthy _ conferences on what they have seen . advising and being advised as to technique, ete. 8:30 sees John starting his car, ready for the long, dreary, twenty mile drive home through the California hills. 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