Nora Prentiss(Warner Bros.) (1947)

HANG Smith Tickles Sheridan In Her Own Sway, Sultry Ann Sheridan Carries Out A Very Good Neighbor Policy Ann Sheridan, currently on view at the Strand in Warners’ film “Nora Prentiss,’ ° in which she is co starred with Kent Smith and Bruce Bennett, is going Spanish in a big way. The star, a frequent visitor to Mexico, speaks Spanish fluently, and has a large collection of rhumba and samba records. Her next film will star her as a sultry Mexican girl. She lunches on enchiladas and owns property near Vera Cruz. Between Film Shots The Athletic Gast Discuss Their Feats They’re makin’ movies out at Warner Bros., and on one of the many sound-stages you heard plenty of sports-gab during those in-between moments when they were NOT makin’ movies. That was the set of “Nora Prentiss” the new flicker starring Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith and Bruce Bennett, opening at the Strand on Friday. Just let the director yell “Cut!” and someone else, “Kill your arcs!” and the lads would commence with sports talk. And they all knew whereof they spoke, too. The film’s director, Vincent Sherman, was a track star at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia. Cameraman James Wong Howe, the famed Chinese lensman, started out to be a professional fighter and boxed for several years throughout his native northwest for as much as $10 and $25 a fight. Kent Smith, Ann Sheridan’s new leading man and just out of G.I. khaki, was a crew and squash man at Phillips-Exeter and Harvard. Then there’s the make-up man, broad-shouldered Gene Hibbs, one-time All-Coast end at the University of Southern California. And last, Bruce Bennett, who, as Herman Brix, at the University of Washington, was an AllAmerican grid ace, a member of the American Olympic team which participated in Amsterdam, Holland, and held the shotput championship in the U.S.A. from 1928 to 1932! Still No. 659-98 DAPPER KENT SMITH, as he is seen in Warners’ new melodrama ''Nora Prentiss," currently showing at the Strand. Smith is co-starred with Ann Sheridan and Bruce Bennett in the Still No. RA62 ROBERT ALDA, one of the featured players in Warners’ "Nora Prentiss," the melodrama at the Strand which co-stars Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith and Bruce Bennett, plays the role of a night club operator. MAT No. 1G A Knee Bruise By Football Bruiser ‘Applied’ To Ann Ann Sheridan sustained a serious leg bruise above the right knee during the filming of “Nora Prentiss,” which is currently at the Strand, from husky Gene Hibbs, former Southern California grid star and AllCoast end. Gene Hibbs, you see, was the makeup expert and cosmetician for the current Warners’ hit starring Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith and Bruce Bennett, and the bruise he caused on the shapely Sheridan limb was strictly a paint job. Miss Sheridan, in the film, is struck by a truck and examined in the offices of her new leading man, handsome Kent Smith, who plays the part of a doctor. The necessity for the “applied” bruise by young Mr. Hibbs is obvious. Alda’s Aquaintances Of Auld Are Renewed While in San Francisco on location for scenes in the new Warner’ Bros.’ melodrama, “Nora Prentiss,” Robert Alda, one of the featured players in the film which stars Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith and Bruce Bennett, arriving at the Strand on Friday, visited many of his old friends, Alda, used to be in burlesque and vaudeville in San Francisco years ago. Most of Ann Sheridan Gives Some Pointers On Glamour Ingredients The following answer to the question “What makes glamour?” was written by Miss Ann Sheridan, on the set of Warners’ new melodrama ‘Nora Prentiss,”’ which opens at the Strand on Friday. Miss Sheridan is costarred with Kent Smith and Bruce Bennett in the film. “Glamour. What is it? You’ve got me, but they say I have it. Ostensibly, I imagine glamour in a girl is simply the accentuating of her good points and the diminishing of those not so forte. If I do have glamour, I’d give a good portion of the credit to the studio workers who keep me what I am today. “By that I mean men like Pere Westmore, head of makeup at Warner Bros., who has taught me to make the most of what I have facially. Pere thinks I’m the natural, well-scrubbed type of girl. He fights to keep me that way, with a minimum of artifice and goo. Because I dislike goo, so we get along fine. “Helen Turpin, who heads up the hairdressing department at Warner Bros.’, besides being a good friend, has been especially helpful to me _ professionally. My hair has always been too curly and it took ‘Turp’ to tame it. She performs some kind of magic, don’t ask me what or how, that practically makes my hair do her bidding. To me she’s downright wonderful. “Maybe my greatest aid has come from those who have designed clothes for me. That’s because, left to my own devices, I’d probably never wear dresses, but slacks or something equally comfortable. Clothes never meant a lot to me until I met men like Howard Shoup, Orry-Kelly and Billy Travilla, who designed a wonderful set of changes for me in ‘Nora Prentiss.’ “T can’t speak for other socalled ‘glamour girls.’ Their problems are theirs and theirs alone. But I can say that glamour, at least the maintenance of glamour through gruelling days of work at Warner Bros., is pretty much a matter of team work among those helpers whose knowledge it is to develop and retain it. “Without them I (and any girl in the business, for that matter) would be lost.” In ‘Nora Prentiss’ A Peck Leads To A Kissing Grescendo The first mathematicallytimed progressive kisses, beginning with something less than a peck and working up to an osculatory crescendo requiring two pauses for air, will take place between Ann Sheridan and Kent Smith in Warner Bros.’ “Nora Prentiss,” opening Friday at the Strand. The kissing took place in a mountain cabin and began with Ann’s and Kent’s lips meeting for not quite one second. Subsequently, through a total of 22 kisses, each of longer duration, the love scene works up to a final clinch with the kiss divided into three sections of one-minute duration each, a _ two-second pause between. This careful timing is part of the character development of the role played by Kent Smith, who, in the opening sequences, is a shy and reserved doctor. And [It All Tickles Crew It’s a pretty ticklish proposition for Ann Sheridan, having her new leading man, Kent Smith, tickle her tummy, in his doctor’s role and the peals of Sheridan laughter resounded on the set of “Nora Prentiss,” the new Warner Bros.’ melodrama in which they are starred with Bruce Bennett, coming to the Strand on Friday. Miss Sheridan, plays a nightclub singer, victim of a traffic accident outside of “Dr.” Smith’s office. Sensitive Patient Kent, enacting a _ heart-specialist, with all professional aplomb and dignity, conducts a cursory examination of the beauteous Sheridan as she lies on the examining table in his office, where she’s been brought. “Any pain here?” he inquires, pressing a spot on her tummy, in a manner approved by the film’s technical advisor, Dr. Paul M. MacWilliams, medical director of the studio, who stands by during the scene. She shakes her head negatively, until a further probe brings out another outburst of laughter from Ann. “Ts that sensitive?” inquires Smith, seriously. “No,” giggles La Sheridan. “Just ticklish.” A flicker of a smile crosses Kent’s somber features and a Still No. 659-93 "YOU'RE THE FIRST MAN THAT EVER CARED WHETHER | HAD FEEL INGS .. ." says Ann Sheridan to Kent Smith, in a dramatic moment from Warners’ melodrama at the Strand, where they are co-starred with Bruce Bennett. The film features singing by Miss Sheridan, enacting the role of a night club singer who loses her heart to heart specialist, Smith. MAT No. 2C broad, satisfied grin comes from Director Vincent Sherman and Cameraman James Wong Howe, the famed Chinese lensman. “Thank you,” says Director Sherman, and that makes the “take.” Songs For Sheridan By Man Who Wrote Her First Film Song Almost ten years ago when Ann Sheridan was a girl from Texas trying to get a foothold in Hollywood, Moe Jerome wrote her first movie song, a number for “Two Girls on Broadway,” in which Miss Sheridan appeared with Margaret Lindsay and Marie Wilson. Today Miss Sheridan is singing two more Moe Jerome songs in her role as a night club entertainer in Warner. Bros.’ “Nora Prentiss,’’ which opens at the Strand on Friday, starring Miss Sheridan, Kent Smith and Bruce Bennett. Written especially for the actress, the songs are ‘Would You Like a Souvenir?” with lyrics by Jack Scholl and Eddie Cherkose, and ““‘Who Cares What People Say?” The latter is a torch song. The New Warner Smoke Doesn't They sang a new song on the set of Warners’ “Nora Prentiss,” which is opening Friday at the Strand. It was, “Smoke Doesn’t Get in Your Eyes.” In an important sequence of the film which co-stars Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith and Bruce Bennett, Miss Sheridan sings several sultry songs. The set was a replica of a small San Tear Provoke “smoking it up” so that a whitish haze hung loosely about the room. The “Warner smoke” was developed by studio technicians and entails a process wherein ordinary cigarettes are placed in a metal tube with a rubber bulb attached to one end. The bulb sucks out the smoke in long “drags”, filters and washes it in alcohol before expelling it. film. his friends are entertainers in When he meets Ann Sheridan, Francisco night club, and WarResult: No more smoke-filled MAT No. IF night clubs on Frisco main stem. exciting changes occur. ner Bros. Technicians were eyes on night-club sets. ALMA TTT 19