Life Begins (Warner Bros.) (1932)

Note to Exhibitor: Build up “Life Begins” by exerting extra effort to land publicity stories daily for at least a week before your opening. Be frank with the critics and tell them you want their help in putting over what is unquestionably the finest picture ever to come to your theatre. Ain day of run Dorothy Peterson Always Cast in Mother Role In less than two years, Dorothy Peterson has been mother to twentyfour children—and likes it. She is unmarried, twenty-eight years of age and good looking. But Hollywood marked her as a ‘‘mother’’ the moment she first set foot within its cinematic confines. Naturally, all of her twenty-four children have been screen children, but that does not ex plain the mystery of why Dorothy has had to go histrionically maternal. She has been a mother in all but four out of sixteen pictures, and in one of the four, ‘‘ Life Begins,’’ the First National sensation in which she is seen with Loretta Young and Hric dummgen ab The... <2. s:i5..seees Theatre, she has the role of a psychopathic patient with a motherhood complex. Hers is one of the most beautiful and affecting pieces of acting ever seen on the screen. The role was a test for her. It : required not only a lot of acting ex “perience, but also an .nner under-— wea standing of the maternal urge. She never particularly felt it in real life, never having given marriage a serious thought; but being a mother in twelve pictures had certainly piled up a lot of imaginary experience in her favor. There were three children for her in both ‘‘So Big’’ and ‘‘Beast Of The City.’’ Two fell to her share in ‘‘Penrod and Sam’’ and only one each in ‘‘Bought,’’? ‘‘Up For Mur der,’’ ‘‘Business And Pleasure,’’ ‘‘The Way Back Home,’’ ‘‘Limpy,’’ and ‘‘ Attorney For The Defense.’’ Quite rightly they now call her the Madonna of the Screen. Dith day of run Loretta Young Wore Only Nighties in “‘Life Begins” Dame Fashion for a time lost a devotee, and one of the smartest young films stars of Hollywood took pride in the fact that she had not worn a dress for weeks and weeks. Loretta Young, currently co-featured with Eric Linden at the............ Theatre in the First National epic, ‘“Jaife Begins,’’ has just completed a period in which she wore nothing but night gowns. Some time ago, Loretta was confined for weeks in a Los Angeles Hospital with an attack of the flu. Night gowns were the order of the day and night. As soon as she was well enough to work, she went through the making of ‘‘Life Begins,’’? a production which is filmed entirely within a maternity ward. Miss Young’s wardrobe for the entire picture consisted of nightgowns—and nothing else. Going from or coming to work, she wore nothing but slacks or pajamas —items in which her personal wardrobe abounds. She claims possession of twenty-five suits of pajamas alone. She is one of a long list of ardent fighters for pants or pajamas for women. She means to stick to it even if all of Hollywood goes back to dresses. current — SHORTS — apvance Loretta Young’s Role in “Life Begins” Too “Soft” While most girls limit their dancing and night social affairs to safeguard health, Loretta Young had to do a lot of stepping out at night as a health measure. She required a lot of exercise and dancing as a rest from her work in the daytime. Filming ‘‘Life Begins,’’ the powerful woman and motherhood drama which First National will: present at the .............. Mheatres er eos , the greater part of her days consisted of lying in a hospital cot for hours and hours. Thus she danced for relaxation of tired muscles. Film Studio Making M.D. Out of Preston Foster It is getting so that Preston Foster can’t get the aroma of disinfectants, chloroform and medicines out of his hair. No sooner had he finished tinkering with test tubes and chemicals as a young doctor in the mystery melodrama, ‘‘Doctor X,’’ than the First National studio decided that the M.D. title fitted him. He now is an obstetrician in the maternity ward which figures so largely in First National’s Loretta Young-Eric Linden picture, ‘¢‘Tife Begins,’’ which comes to the Rigg MSP tas TOGO dsceee te ees P.S.: Foster admits he doesn’t even know how to bandage a sore finger. Gilbert Roland Plays Role in “Life Begins” Gilbert Roland, famous lover of the sereen and former leading man for Norma Talmadge, will be seen in ‘‘Life Begins,’’ the First National picture which comes to the Beene Seer sensational maternity ward story, produced under the joint direction of James Flood and Elliott Nugent. Earl Baldwin adapted the screen play from the original by Mary McDougall Axelson, which was produced not long ago on Broadway at the Selwyn Theatre. Loretta Young and Eric Linden are co-featured in ‘‘ Life Begins,’’ which employs a large company of players. Vivienne Osborne Coming Here in “Life Begins” In ‘‘Life Begins,’’ sensational First National picture which comes to the See TNGAGO Ae eae with Loretta Young and Eric tanden co-featured, Vivienne Osborne is one of eight young mothers about whom the story revolves. The play’s entire action takes place in a maternity ward. When she first started her stage career in New York, she played an ingenue lead, a type of role which she stuck to until she came to Hollywood and the movies. Then Hollywood made her an arech-vamp. Now comes ‘‘ Life Begins’’ and she becomes a mother. But Vivienne Osborne says her career is too young for the title to have any literal meaning. No Gorgeous Clothes for Loretta Young in Her Latest, ‘“‘Life Begins” Loretta Young wears seventeen ‘night gowns in ‘‘Life Begins,’’ a First National picture in which she and Erie Linden will be co-featured at DDO ek tein Phenteey sess She claims to be the first eeriphitte nighter’’ of any actress in pictures. Most of the scenes take place in a hospital maternity ward and she was in bed for almost three weeks straight during the production of the picture. A new gown was required each day. She wears but three ‘‘dress up’’ gowns as against Ruth Chatterton’s 27 in ‘The Crash,’’ and Constance Bennett’s 22 in ‘‘Two Against the World.’’ a Eric Linden Actually Lived His Father’s Role Although Erie Linden, 22, is a bachelor, he claims actual experience for the father role he plays in First National’s intimate drama of a maternity ward, ‘‘Life Begins,’’ which IS NOW Sab sthegre coe Theatre. He wasn’t exactly a father in his real experiences, but he said he did it so well once that he was called on to do it again. When his brother’s first child was born, Eric helped him take his wife to the hospital. It was late at night and they were both tired—so tired that they had to take turns pacing the floor and making anxious enquiries from time to time. Eric was so adept at it that the nurses and doctors couldn’t figure out which one of the two men was the father of the child. Eric and Loretta Young are cofeatured in ‘‘Life Begins.’’ Stars in “Life Begins” Barely Out of Teens Two of the fastest-coming young players in Hollywood today are Loretta Young and Eric Linden, whose combined ages total 41 years—Loretta being 19 and Eric 22. Each has scored individual triumphs on the screen in the last few months, now they are co-featured in ‘‘Life Begins,’’? a First National picture at sols aeeecauaie Petcare nan geen Theatre. This is a stirring drama of maternity and, by an odd coincidence, is Loretta’s first assignment since < i Marriage’? recetly_com: Wotad. Linden, who made a hit in ‘¢Are These Our Children?’” his first picture, has recently appeared in ‘<The Crowd Roars,’’ and ‘‘Big City Blues. ’’ “Life Begins’ Offers New Screen Player from Stage ‘‘Tife Begins,’’ the First National picture co-featuring Loretta Young and Eric Linden at the .................... Theatre, presents a new actress from the New York stage in her initial screen appearance. She is Ruthelma Stevens, a striking brunette who has the role of Rose, a super-modern girl of Bohemian persuasion in the story which is laid in the maternity ward of a great hospital. She played the same role in the stage production of the play, and was brought to Hollywood directly from Broadway. Others who have important roles in ‘¢Life Begins’’ are Preston Foster, Reginald Mason, Aline MacMahoua, Frank McHugh, Gloria Shea, Vivienne Osborne, Clara Blandick and Hale Hamilton. Elliott Nugent and James Flood, co-directors of ‘‘The Mouthpiece,’’ directed. Eric Linden Actually Scared in “Life Begins” First night nervousness is not confined to stage folk. In the movies it is more prevalent than is generally suspected. Erie Linden gets a severe case the first day he begins every picture. This nervousness came in handy when he went to work with Loretta Young on her latest First National picture, ‘cThife Berins,’? now at the ci Theatre. The young actor plays the part of a husband who awaits the birth of his child in a maternity ward, and in a ease like this nervousness reigns supreme. ‘<Life Begins,’’ hailed as the year’s most sensational picture, co-features ——po iss Young 9v4s Eric Lin supporting cast includes A] Mahon, Glenda Farrell, . i Stevens, Gloria Shea, Vivien. : Osborne, Dorothy Peterson, Dorothy Tree, Helena Phillips, Preston Foster, Frank McHugh, Reginald Mason, Hale Hamilton, Herbert Mundin, and Walter Walker. Earl Baldwin wrote the screen play from a story by Mary MacDougall Axelson. James Flood directed, with Elliott Nugent as codirector. ex Ba ~ = peter Esco LORETTA YOUNG and ERIC LINDEN AN. BCONE -FVOM ENE 52 Nonsense sacesey Theatre’s dramatic hit, “Life Begins.” The film is daily proving one of the most popular ever to show at the Sete ta and according to Manager Seton ._ has already established a new attendance record. Aline MacMahon, ‘Frank McHugh, who lend a superb comedy touch, Glenda Farrell and Preston Foster are others in the distinguished cast. Out No. 36 Mat 10c Page Twenty-One