Local Boy Makes Good (Warner Bros.) (1931)

CHALK Ub. _ LE tl —— _. OTHER BIG MOE Es _ « HIT IT SLOVE AT FIRST FRIGHT! |HOLLYWOOD’S MOST FAMOUS DOUBLE GETS THE THRILL OF HER LIFE AS SELF IN JOE E. BROWN COMEDY BIT nts He wants to fly! He wants to faint! But all he does is to take it and blush! And boy, CAN HE TAKE IT? the raving sensation — laffs! Laffs! Nothing but LAFFS! in LOCAL BOY MAK ES GOOD with PORO THY Ter Ruth Hall, Eddie Nugent Directed by MERVYN LEROY WARNER A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE ' Cut No. 3 Cut 4oc Mat roc Joe E. Brown Performs| EDWARD NUGENT IS Real Athletic Feats In His Coming Film (Advance—Plant 3 Days Before) Joe E. Brown, who has always had to hide his light under a bushel in pictures—so far as his real ability as an athlete was concerned, gets his innings in his new comedy, “Local Boy Makes Good,” which comes to Theatre next. In this play he wins a series of He was seen daily—morning, noon and night — trotting in the finest form from dressing room to stage and back again. Chauffeurs on the First National lot were warned to be on the lookout for the star who was liable to dash from unexpected places at most inopportune times. track events strictly on merit. For actual track scenes in “Local Boy Makes Good” it was necessary that Brown make several fast laps completely about the Bovard Field at the University of Southern California, a feat which his lifelong training as a baseball player helps to make convincing. Mr. Brown’s support includes Dorothy Lee, Ruth Hall, Edward Woods, Wade Boteler, William Burress, Edward J. Nugent and John Harrington. The picture is based on a play by J. C. and Elliott Nugent. Mervyn LeRoy directed. Page Eight HERE IN SUPPORT OF JOE E. BROWN (Biography, Sept. 30, 1931) Edward Nugent, who plays the part of Wally Pierce, the college athlete in support of Joe E. Brown in “Local Boy Makes Good,” the First National picture now at the Soe oa es Theatre was born and educated in New York City. His father was a stage manager and Eddie started out by playing in his father’s company. Pictures fascinated him and to get into the game he took a laborer’s job on the M.G.M. lot. He was for a time a gag-man and then went back to acting. Pictures in which he has appeared include “The Bellamy Trial,” “The Duke Steps Out,” “Our Modern Maidens,” “Loose Ankles,” “Untamed,” “Girl of the Show,” “The Vagabond Lover,” “Young Sinners,” “Bright Lights,” “Remote Control,” “War Nurse,” “Night Nurse” and “Local Boy Makes Good.” Joe E. Brown Thriftily Saves His Spectacles (Advance Reader) Although the First National property department provided six pairs of thick-lensed glasses for Joe E. Brown’s use in his new picture, “Local Boy Makes Good,” which OPONSsee Sse ‘St theists see TGALRO = itess. cs next, Joe went through the entire picture without breaking a single pair. Olive Hatch, Professional Thrill-Hunter, Appears in “Local Boy Makes Good,” Joe’s Latest First National Hit, Now At The Strand Theatre (Human Interest Story for No. 2 Paper) Joe E. Brown, now at the Theatre in ‘‘Loeal Boy Makes Good,’’ his latest First National starring vehicle, is frankly thrilled by the exploits of Miss Olive Hatch, who is equally thrilled apparently by the chance to appear as herself ‘“Miss Hatch’s record even in a bit in a Joe E. Brown comedy. is amazing,’’ says the star. “She once doubled for Garbo in a love scene on the bottom of the ocean. She won a swimming race for Norma Shearer in a picture called ‘The Waning Sex.’ She drove a motor boat at forty miles an hour straight up onto a sandy beach for Winnie Lightner and another time she played a death-defying water scene for Joan Crawford! “She is willing to risk her life at least once a week on any old stunt. She holds the championship for the one hundred yard swim in Southern California. She is captain of the Los Angeles Athletic Club’s women’s relay swimming team which has won the national championship. SWIMMING CURED HER “Perhaps the most surprising part of the whole thing is that Miss Hatch has much beauty as well as that indefinable quality known as screen personality. Beauty and daring seldom go together as feminine qualities but the amazing Miss Hatch has both. “She was born in Canada” she tells me, “and was seareely able to keep from drowning during her first swimming attempts a little more than six years ago. A sickly childhood led her to the swimming class for her health’s sake and since that tin ~hasn’t been ill a day. “Three years ago she was so pro-| ficient that she was recommended to the Central Casting Bureau of Hollywood as an expert swimmer who could double in pictures for difficult water scenes. One of her first assignments was to be washed out of a great glass tank when an irate lover smashed the tank with a chair. It was a perilous assignment but she braved it through. It was one of the dramatic highlights of Billie Dove’s picture ‘The Man and the Moment.’ DAREDEVIL DIVER “Her courage and coolness win her many additional assignments. Although diving is not her specialty she made a fifty-foot dive in Lola Lane’s costume in ‘The Ivory Trail’ and then repeated it in a man’s costume when the double hired for that purpose misjudged and landed splashily on his tummy and was temporarily knocked out. “Because of her beauty she is coming to be more and more in demand for these doubling roles. She looks a little like Billie Dove and a makeup artist can transform her into a passable copy of Garbo or Shearer or Rose Hobart when occasion demands. “Miss Hatch has had several narrow escapes from gerious injury,” he says. “A premature release of twenty tons of water from a dump vat high above her, washed her over a ship’s rail and onto the concrete ocean below. Another time a high ocean-swell intervened between her and a motor launch under which she was supposed to dive, just at the wrong time. Quick thinking on her part and quick action on the part of the driver of the launch, saved her life. “It would seem that Miss Hatch’s life up to now had been exciting enough to satisfy anyone: But she is ever on the still hunt for more thrills. The one she wants just now is to appear on her own account in pictures, not as some famous star in the role of a well paid but never mentioned double. She gets more kick out of seeing herself as herself at seven dollars and a half a day in pictures. Sometimes she makes a hundred times that much for a daring stunt in a picture but she says that neither money nor stunt gives Greta. THE RAVING SENSATION! any way you look at him! Joe E. — BROWN LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD with DOROTHY LEE Ruth Hall Directed by MERVYN LEROY Cut No.2 Cut20c Mat sc her the thrill that the tiny bit role in my picture gave her. ATTENDS UNIVERSITY “Between her several exciting interludes Miss Hatch is completing her education at the University of California at Los Angeles. She has managed to pay her way for two years, with time out for swimming meets in Florida, New York, Honolulu and Long Beach, Calif. “Tt takes all kinds of people to make up the motion picture world. Olive Hatch is one with an appetite for thrills. It is an appetite not satisfied with love scenes under water with Nils Asther, nor thrilling sea rescues by Rod LaRocque, nor winning national championships in racing meets, nor even the prospect of taking part in the Olympic games in Los Angeles in 1932. “Her real thrill is a bit role with Joe E. Brown in ‘Local Boy Makes Good”—ean you imagine!” Supporting Joe E. Brown in “Local Boy Makes Good” are Dorothy Lee, who plays lead—Ruth Hall, Edward Woods, Wade Boteler, William Burress, Edward J. Nugent and John SO THIS IS HOLLYWOOD Here Are The Items A Broadway Columnist Would Find If He Went News Hunting In The Movie Capital (Program Filler) Joe E. Brown’s baby is learning to walk. Her mother brings her to the set where he is making “Local Boy Makes Good” for First National almost every day to show him how she is progressing. By the time Brown gets home at night the baby is in bed, and she rises long after he is at the stud. Her name is Mary Elizabeth Ann, and she is just ten months old. In another year or so she'll be able to sing, “Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now!” * * * Marian Marsh, recently seen in “Five Star Final” with Edward G. Robinson, has a family that is tennis-minded. All her brothers and sisters play, and her mother is an expert at the game. In sheer self defense, she is developing into a very fine player. “It’s easier to win on the courts than to try and win arguments afterwards,” she explains. Ah there, Marian! * * * Bebe Daniels, who has just finished “Honor Of The Family” for Warner Bros., is an author. She has sold a comedy to a famous pair of comedians, who will produce it as a short subject. She got real money for it, too. * * * George, Ernst and Dickie Moore, three young brothers in Hollywood, have been getting instructions in playing baseball. And they are paid for it! They got their training from Mike Donlin, who ought to know his baseball, and it was all done in the pictur“The Star Witness,” in which er ee William Powell, recently starred in Warner Bros. “Road to Singapore,” buys on an average of thirty suits a year. They are made by one tailor in Hollywood. * * * Loretta Young, whose latest picture was Warner Bros. “The Ruling Voice” with Walter Huston, was born in Salt Lake City and has never been east of Denver. Her life ambition is to have time enough between pictures to go to New York City. * * Polly Walters, who played a telephone operator in “Five Star Final,” wants to work at a switchboard this summer, “just for fun.” If she has a little time off she may get her chance at the Warner Bros. private exchange. * * * After the pre-view of “Five Star Final” at the Forum theatre recently, a perfectly strange young lady threw her arms around Edward G. Robinson and kissed him. Eddie, always gallant, didn’t even resist. * * * Francis Starr, who plays the mother in “Five Star Final” with Edward G. Robinson, says she is the most unusual woman in Hollywood. She hasv’t gone blonde yet. JOE E. BROWN SCORNS IDEA OF DIETING (Current Reader) Dieting to Joe E. Brown, beloved comic of the screen and stage, now at the Theatre in “Local Boy Makes Good,” his latest First National starring vehicle, is a thing to laugh at. He says he eats as much ag he wants of what he wants whenever he wants it. The fact that Joe’s tummy never rebels is probably due to the strenuous exercise he is foreed to take in his pictures and to his active participation in baseball and other outdoor sports. “Local Boy Makes Good” is Mr. Brown’s most excruciatingly funny picture, though he does not resort to slapstick as in former pictures. Harrington. Mervyn Le Roy directed.| to get his laughs. ‘e featured.