Mary Stevens MD (Warner Bros.) (1933)

Fo KAY FRANCIS, LYLE TALBOT and GLENDA FA ner Bros. romantic hit now at the 4% Cut No.8 Cut 45ce Mat 15c RRELL in a scene from “Mary Stevens, M.D., Saat Theatre. the War NEWSY SHORTS (Advance) Women Doctors Best In Opinion of Kay Francis Kay Francis who has the rele of a surgeon in the Warner Bros. picture, “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” which opens at: the—............:........... Theatre on believes that women are better fitted to be physicians and surgeons than men. “Women have a more delicate and defter touch than men, which is one of the requisites of surgery,’ she says. “When it comes to general practice they are much more sympathetic. They are born to be doctors as well as nurses.” Lyle Talbot has the leading maseuline role in this picture which is a romance evolving about the medical profession. Francis Enjoyed Role of Female Physician Kay Francis, enacting the title role in the Warner Bros. production, “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” which opens at the Theatre on .... cnn » greatly enjoyed her part as a successful physician. Kay reveals that she has many friends of her sex in the medical profession and argues that women of that vocation have to overcome a false standard of values created by a public which too long has thought that medical activities should be confined to males. This role affords Kay an opportunity to make the public “female physician” conscious so to speak. Others in the east include Lyle Talbot, Glenda Farrell, Thelma Todd and others. Direction is by Lloyd Bacon. Lyle Talbot Wins Role Opposite Kay Francis Lyle Talbot, rising young Warner Bros. star, won his spurs when he was assigned to play the leading male role opposite Kay Francis in “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” which opens at the Theatre on .... Bee, wee ee Talbot has been progressing steadily since he deserted the stage for the screen two years ago. From Hard Boiled Patient To Wise Cracking Nurse | Glenda Farrell made her first big hit in pictures in a hospital as a patient in “Life Begins.” Now she plays the role of a wise cracking nurse in the Warner Bros. picture, “Mary Stevnes, M.D.,” which opens at the Theatre on ... Peete Four weeks on a hospital set in “Life Begins” taught her enough about nursing to give her working knowledge for her present picture, according to Glenda. Kay Francis and Lyle Talbot have the leading roles in the production. Ex-School Teacher Plays Vamp in ‘Mary Stevens”’ A former school teacher plays the role of vamp in the Warner Bros. icture, “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” which opens at the .................. Theatre on SE The ex-teacher is Thelma Todd, who forsook her career for the movies after winning a beauty contest in Massachusetts, where she was born. Her first picture role was with First National, but later she left the Warner Bros.-First National banner to return again for an important part with Kay Francis, Lyle Talbot and Glenda Farrell in a romantic and dramatic story of the medical profession. In the picture Thelma is the tlirtatious daughter of a big shot politician, and she knows something about polities too, for her own father. was an alderman in their home town, Lawrenee, Mass. (Current) Glenda Plays Glenda In “Mary Stevens, M. D.”’ Friendships often cause ruined scenes, during the filming of a motion picture, when a player makes the mistake of addressing another with the real name instead of the character name being used in the production. During the making of the Warner Bros. picture, “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” no such error was connected with Glenda Farrell. Glenda, for the first time in her sereen career, bore her own name as her character name, that of Glenda, the nurse assistant to Kay Francis who plays the leading role, Lyle Talbot, Thelma Todd and others are included in the stellar cast of this production directed by Lloyd Bacon and showing at the Theatre. Kay Fulfilled Urge In Role of Woman Doctor Kay Francis fulfilled an ancient urge when she worked in the Warner Bros. picture, “Mary Stevens, M. D.,”’ which is now playing at thes 2 ose ee Theatre. Ever since she first went to a _ doce tor, she had always wondered what it was that they heard through the stethoscope that gave them the authority to diagnose everything from angina pectoris to ingrown toenails and dandruff. Playing the part of a female doctor in the picture, and wearing a stethoscope as part of her costume, she tried it out on every member of the cast. Her curiosity was satisfied, but she still can’t figure out how the doctors arrived at their diagnoses. Beauty Contest Lands Thelma Film Contract Education lost one of its great inducements several years ago when a beauty contest was staged in Massachusetts. At that time, Thelma Todd, who is seen this week at the Theatre with Kay Francis in the Warner Bros. picture, “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” was a school teacher in that state—and how the pupils must have flocked to her school. Along came the beauty contest, and Thelma ran off with first prize, thus winning for herself a chance in the movies and a change in occupation from that of teacher to actress. Glenda Wears Beehive Hat in Latest Picture Glenda Farrell, who insists she’s no Kay Francis when it comes to setting fashions, has the chance of a lifetime to start a new fad in “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” in which she has a prominent role, and which, oddly enough, is Kay’s latest picture for Warner Bros. now at the Theatre. In this film, Glenda wears a hat copied exactly from a_beehive! Same shape, same graduated layers, same round built-up “fence” around the top, ’n’ everything. It’s of gray wool. Francis Showed ‘“‘Prop”’ Boy Art of Bed Making It happened during the filming of “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” the current attraction at the .. Theatre with Kay Francis ‘n the title role. The principals were rehearsing their lines while their “stand-ins” took their positions in front of the camera during this necessary rite of adjusting lights and focusing the camera. A new prop boy was making up a bed to be used in the scene and was having a rather difficult time at his unaccustomed task, until Miss Francis, realizing his plight, came to his aid and with a few deft movements quickly smoothed out the unruly sheets and spread. Lost Voice Almost Cost Talbot Screen Career Lyle Talbot, who appears opposite Kay Francis in the Warner Bros. picture, “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” now at the Theatre, is still trying to account for the practical joke nature played on him when he first got an offer to appear in pic tures. The day he left for Hollywood, he very strangely lost his voice. He could not speak all the way enroute, and when he met the studio executives he couldn’t utter a sound. But when he awoke on the morning that he was to take his screen test, he found that his voice had miraculously returned. If it had persisted longer, Lyle believes that he would never have gotten into pictures. SHORTS — PRODUCTION DATA THE STORY Mary Stevens and Don Andrews, who have been friends since childhood, study medicine together, pass their apprenticeship as internes in the same hospital and begin practice in adjoining offices. Mary is in love with Don, and while he has a warm affection for her, he pays court to Lois Rising, the daughter of a politician, whose influence he believes will further his ambition. Don eventually marries Lois and is rewarded with a political appointment. Lois soon tires of him. He begins to drink and also to graft. Mary helps him out by operating for him when he is intoxicated. Finally he is caught grafting and is indicted for malfeasance. He goes to White Sulphur Springs while his father-in-law seeks to quash the indictment. Mary happens to go to the Springs at the same time for a rest. The two meet and her old love flames up. Don, very unhappy, discovers he loves her. She yields to his love making when he promises to resign his position and get a divorce from Lois. They return to New York when Don gets word that the indictment has been quashed. He tries to resign, but his father-in-law refuses to permit him to do so, declaring it would throw suspicion on the entire political ring. Lois is as Mary Stevens Don Andrews Glenda Lois Rising Mrs. Simmons Walter Rising Mr. Simmons us Hospital Superintendent Dr. Clark CAST OF CHARACTERS anxious for a divorce as Don, but Rising also puts his foot down on that, merely as an expedient to keep their names out of the papers when a scandal might ruin him. Mary, who has made a big success handling children’s cases, realizes she herself is going to have a child. So she goes to Paris, where she adopts the baby born to her. When returning to New York, she gets a radio message aboard ship that Don’s trouble has blown over. He has resigned, got a divorce and set up in private practice. She is very happy until three babies aboard the boat, including her own, are stricken with meningitis. She, being a specialist in children’s cases, works with the ship surgeon to save them. She manages to save the two other babies, but her own dies. This kills every hope in life for her. She returns to New York a broken woman. Don tries to help her but nothing can be done. Mary is about to end her life,. when a call comes to save a baby who has swallowed a pin. At first: sho refuses, but finally is forced to go by Glenda, the nurse who has never left her. She finally extracts the pin and saves the baby’s life. The incident arouses her from her lethargy and she is herself again. She and Don start over, this time as man and wife. Kay Francis Si > eee ee Lyle Talbot ers. Ss ee Glenda Farrell ee ee et Charles Wilson _ ee Se Hobart Cavanaugh oF ... Soha ee Harold Huber a Se eee George Cooper No tS pele tak Berges John Marston ee sestsssseseeeesesss. Obristian Rub eae: eres Reginald Mason nos ae eS eee es Walter Walker Scr Sieve. oe See Ann Hovey PRODUCTION STAFF Director Based on novel by Screen play by Photographer Film Editor Art Director Gowns by Vitaphone Orchestra Conductor ee ae ee Lloyd Bacon RT ee ee Virginia Kellogg Wee ne ee Rian James Meee ER ren Sid Hickox me Teeags ae Fe Ray Curi:s Esdras Hartley Nese ee Orry-Kelly OFFICIAL BILLING Warner Bros. & The Vitaphone Corp. Pictures, Ine. 25% present ‘““MARY STEVENS, M.D.’’ 100% with Kay Francis Lyle Talbot — Glenda Farrell Thelma Todd —Una O’Connor Directed by Lloyd Bacon A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Picture Length 6655 ft. Talbot and Bacon Sires Once Were Show Partners Lyle Talbot who has the male lead opposite Kay Francis in the Warner Bros. picture, “Mary Stevens, M.D.,” now at the Theatre, discovered that Lloyd Bacon, the Director, is the son of a man associated with his own father in the ownership and management of tent shows some years ago. The man was the late Frank Bacon, who conceived the idea for “Lightnin’, ” which brought him international fame, while a partner of Talbot’s father. 85% 60% 20% 20% 40% Running Time 72 mins. New Film Offers Screen Bad Man Novel Role Death or imprisonment has usually been the climax of the roles which Harold Huber has thus far played in pictures, but in the part he plays with Kay Francis in the Warner Bros. picture, “Mary Stevens,” M.D.,” which is now at the Theatre, a birth forms the climax of his role. Instead of being a toughened gangster, he becomes the ' father of twins in this film, thus get ting away from the other extreme with a vengeance. Page Seven