Naughty but Nice(Warner Bros.) (1939)

‘OOMPH' GIRL AT WORK in "Naughty But Nice.'' Need we say that the girl is Ann Sheridan — and the boy is Dick Powell. (Mat 217—30c) (ALE PAGE SINGS FOR HER SUPPER IN NEW MUSICAL In planning a screen career it’s a pretty good idea not to carry all of your eggs in one basket. Irene Dunne and John Boles are outstanding examples to prove the point. Gale Page is the latest to discover its wisdom. Like Irene and John, Gale was signed to a film contract because of her splendid singing voice. And like them, Gale had to prove herself as a dramatic GALE PAGE Mat 110—15c actress before she was given the opportunity to sing on _ the screen. That opportunity arrived with the filming of Warner Bros.’ “Naughty but Nice,” opening next Friday at the Strand Theatre, in which she plays a romantic feminine lead. For four years her voice charmed the country on such coast-to-coast radio broadcasts as Roy Shields’ Revue, Today’s Children, A & P Gypsies, and Fibber McGee and Molly, emanating from Chica:o. Its charm reached the ears of film executives, who signed her to an attractive Warner Bros. contract. The studio was all out of singing roles when she arrived in Hollywood and so she was placed in “Crime School’ opposite Humphrey Bogart and then was cast as one of the “Four Daughters” in the picture of that title and she was definitely established as a dramatic actress. Her talent for song was not forgotten during this time. Casting for “Naughty but Nice” was begun and she was chosen as the ideal girl to carry the torch for Dick Powell in the comedy. Page Twenty-two ¢ ADVANCE PUBLICITY ° Short Advance Notices > 99 Four hit tunes, “Corn Pickin’, “Hooray For Spinach”, “I’m Happy About The Whole Thing”, and “In A Moment Of Weakness” are introduced in the new Warner Bros. comedy “Naughty But Nice”, which makes its local debut at the Strand Theatre on Friday. Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer penned the tunes. Starred in the production are Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell, Gale Page, and a host of comedians including Helen Broderick, Allen Jenkins, Maxie Rosenbloom and Zasu Pitts. Ray Enright directed. Recently selected by a poll of prominent male members of the theatrical profession as America’s “Oomph” Girl, Ann Sheridan has her first starring role in “Naughty But Nice” which opens at the Strand Theatre on Friday. The beautiful Texas redhead shares honors with Dick Powell and Gale Page, and in the supporting cast are such capable comedians as Helen Broderick, Allen Jenkins, Zasu Pitts, Maxie Rosenbloom, Jerry Colonna, Luis Alberni and many others. Ray Enright directed, from a script by Richard Macaulay and Jerry Wald. “Naughty But Nice”, the comedy in swingtime opening at the Strand on Friday, is the riotous saga of a serious young music professor who comes to the big city to sell his classical compositions on Tin Pan Alley. Instead Tin Pan Alley sells him on the idea of writing swing tunes based on old classics. Ann Sheridan and Gale Page share the feminine honors, with the comedy angle in competent hands of such players as Helen Broderick, Allen Jenkins, Zasu Pitts, Maxie Rosenbloom, Jerry Colonna, as well as Luis Alberni, Granville Bates and Halliwell Hobbes. Whenever Slapsie Maxie Roseenbloom wants a bottle of Scotch with which to entertain friends in his home he steals his own liquor from the bar in his night club when the bartender isn’t looking. Maxie doesn’t drink, he revealed on the set of ‘Naughty but Nice,” but he gets a kick out of obtaining liquor in this way. Vera Lewis, who was in the first film that Zasu Pitts ever made and played Zasu’s mother in “As the Sun Sets,” in 1920, is the sister of Miss Pitts in “Naughty but Nice,” the Warner Bros. comedy coming to the Strand Theatre. ‘“Miss Pitts has grown up since she was my daughter, but I feel just as young as I ever did,” the veteran character actress commented to the others on the film set. Behind the scenes in Tin Pan Alley is the setting for the new comedy “Naughty But Nice” which will open at the Strand on Friday, and the legendary street of songwriters takes a riotous lampooning. Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell and Gale Page head the cast, supported by a host of comedy stars, and the National Jitterbug Champions in a “jam session” specialty. Four new swing tunes by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer are introduced in the picture. Ray Enright directed. The current musical vogue for “swinging” everything from a Bach fugue to ‘Home, Sweet Home” forms the merry theme of “Naughty But Nice’, the new comedy opening at the Strand Theatre on Friday. Dick Powell plays a serious young composer who finds that he can sell his compositions only when they are set to swingtime. Competing for his romantic interest are Ann (“Oomph”) Sheridan and Gale Page. Others in the cast include Helen Broderick, Allen Jenkins, Ronald Reagan, Zasu Pitts, Maxie Rosenbloom and Jerry Colonna. The music is by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer, with acknowledgments to Wagner, Liszt, Mozart and Bach. The adventures of a_ staid young music professor when he falls into the clutches of a bunch of Tin Pan Alley “swingsters” are recounted in Warner Bros.’ new comedy “Naughty But Nice” which bows into the Strand on Friday. Ann Sheridan, Dick Powell and Gale Page head the cast with able assistance from a sterling cast of comedians, and the National Jitterbug Champions. The four songs introduced are by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer. Ray Enright directed the production. Dick Powell wrote a parody on “Rosalie,” which starts out “Rosenbloom, my Rosenbloom,” and had the entire “Naughty but Nice” company singing it, much to the discomfiture of Maxie Rosenbloom. ‘Naughty but Nice,” the Warner Bros. comedy with music coming on Friday to the Strand Theatre. Maxie Rosenbloom is writing his life story, he said during the filming of “Naughty but Nice,” the Warner Bros. picture opening Friday at the Strand Theatre, The title, “Six Months to Live,” is based on a pronouncement doctors made when he was 10 years old and was found to be suffering from anemia. He expects his story to be published in a national magazine and in book form later, as well. SWING I7, SISTERS! (Left to right) Elizabeth Dunne, Vera Lewis, and Zasu Pitts in a scene from “Naughty But Nice", coming Friday. (Mat 205—30c) ANN SHERIDAN IS A MUST-SEE FOR VISITING FIREMEN Add the name of Ann Sheridan to the list of things one must see in Hollywood when one visits there. She is much a part of the scenery as the Hollywood Bowl— and much more _ beautiful. Her hair is red, her features are perfect, her form is plump and magnificently proportioned her temper is good and her attitude friendly. She is a pearl ANN SHERIDAN Mat 119—15c among pearls, a rose among roses, a peach among peacherinos. There is nothing wrong with the average tired business man that a look at Ann Sheridan won’t cure. It has taken Warner Bros. three years to become convinced that all this is true. Ann is to be starred in pictures now, as a consequence. Her first “stellar” role is in “Naughty but Nice,” with Dick Powell and Gale Page, which opens next Friday at the Strand Theatre. Ann comes originally from Texas where she first entered and immediately won a “search for beauty” contest. She has been photographed more than _ ten thousand times. Her portrait has been painted by famous artists. She has inspired a song or two and three young men have threatened to commit suicide over her— but Ann persuaded them not to do so. She told them she wouldn’t consider it a compliment to her. Ann lives with a girlhood school friend in North Hollywood and is beginning to take her screen work seriously. She almost never writes letters, often forgets appointments and can’t be bothered with diets. She is a refreshing breeze in Hollywood, where strong winds usually blow too hot and cold. What, No Bathing Suit? Ronald Reagan arrived at the Warner Bros. Studio one day carrying a leather jacket and aviation outfit and a full dress suit and wearing a business suit. He had three calls to work and didn’t know which picture he was going to work in first that day. The business suit was for “Naughty but Nice,” the comedy opening next Friday at _ the Strand Theatre, the full dress for Bette Davis’ “Dark Victory” and the flying togs for added scenes for “‘Secret Service of the Air” in which he is the star.