Parrish (Warner Bros.) (1961)

ee me = nl as at a Donahue Tops ‘Parrish’ Cast Troy Donahue and Sharon Hugueny are surrounded by an enthusiastic mob of students who have volunteered to work in his tobacco fields when he makes a determined bid to break her father’s monopoly in this climactic scene from Warner Bros,’ Technicolor production of “Parrish,”’ opening ........ At: PEE rectors tere Theatre. Mat 2-D_ Still No. 858-68 THE STORY (Not For Publication) Ellen McLean (CLAUDETTE COLBERT) arrives at the tobacco farm home of Sala Post (DEAN JAGGER) in Connecticut to report for her new position of companion and chaperon to his spirited and motherless daughter, Alison (DIANE McBAIN). Sala had not expected Ellen’s handsome 19-year-old son, Parrish (TROY DONAHUE), would be living with her on the Post farm. There is immediate friction over Parrish’s presence and Parrish uses this excuse to strike out on his own and take a job in the Post tobacco fields. Teet Howie (DUB TAYLOR), Sala’s foreman, teaches him tobacco growing and rents him a room in the big, old house occupied by Teet’s large family. Teet’s pretty sister-inlaw, Luey (CONNIE STEVENS), slips into his upstairs room nights, and Parrish learns about love from her as he learns about tobacco from Teet. There are no secrets in Tobacco Valley, and when Parrish sees Ellen after many weeks she gently reprimands him and warns him that a girl who is always available may not necessarily be wonderful. His mother’s words later have a disturbing echo for Parrish when he finds she has been dating the powerful and unscrupulous tycoon of the tobacco area, Judd Raike (KARL MALDEN). Alison Post, having learned her father objected to Parrish because of her, is more than eager to meet the good-looking stranger. She and Parrish fall quickly in love. Cold nights bring the wireworms out of the ground to eat the young tobacco plants and ruin one of Post’s fields. Raike’s spy system, headed by his sons, Edgar (HAMPTON FANCHER) and Wiley (DAVID KNAPP), soon informs him of Post’s difficulties. He buys up all the tobacco shoots available on other farms so Post will have none to replant his field. Judd Raike asks Ellen to marry him. A widow for 10 years, she happily accepts. Parrish goes to work for Judd and moves into the Raike mansion, although he cannot stomach the hateful Edgar or the hard-drinking Wiley, who do not conceal their dislike for him. Judd’s 16-yearold daughter, Paige (SHARON HUGUENY), does weleome Parrish warmly, Paige, unlike her weakling brothers, is not afraid to stand up to her domineering father. Parrish catches Edgar setting fire to the cloth tent over the plants of a farmer who had defied Judd. In an angry meeting with Judd, Parrish quits his job. Alison believes Parrish now has no future. She gives him the air and accepts the marriage proposal of Wiley Raike. After a two-year hitch in the Navy, Parrish returns to the Sala Post farm. He leases 20 acres from Post, who had given up trying to fight Raike. Parrish cannot employ field hands, who are fearful of Raike reprisals against them. Paige Raike comes to his aid by enlisting her schoolmates to work weekends. She also hunts up Teet and other Post employees and induces them to return, Edgar is eager to crush Parrish. While making a show of writing names of Parrish’s workers in a black book for future reprisal, he drops a lighted match in the dry grass near a cloth cover on Parrish’s field. Parrish tears up the notebook and flings it in Edgar’s face. A fierce fight ensues, watched by Post, Paige and Judd Raike and the Sala field workers. Parrish beats Edgar into abject submission. Then he realizes that Judd had watched without raising a finger to aid his son. Sala and Paige and the entire Tobacco Valley are aware that now Parrish has won his battle. RUNNING TIME: 137 MINUTES rte ale ale af Screen Seethes With Tangled Passions: ‘Parrish’ Pits Families Against Selves Donahue, Colbert, Malden Head Cast Of Bright New Stars In Modern Tale (Advance Story) Star Has Envious Task: Dream Of Donahue At Night Diane McBain, who plays one of Troy Donahue’s three sweethearts in “Patrish;” opening 0) 7.60448 at Lome Onrenn ee Theatre, was told by the film’s director to “think hard” about young Donahue during the day and “even dream about him at night,” if she could. Delmer Daves, director of “Parrish” in Technicolor for Warner Bros., said he wanted 19-year-old Miss McBain to know Troy “like you would know a man who has changed your whole life.” Diane only knew Troy as a boy she had dated occasionally since she started acting at Warners about a year ago. No romance, just friends. “Then, when you look at Troy in a scene,” Daves told her in explaining the result of such mental conditioning, “your face will show an understanding of him, and not reflect just your feelings discovered in the rehearsal immediately before.” Daves is known as a developer of young talent and was the director of “A Summer Place” which made Donahue a star. Diane is a pretty blond who played a straight romantic role in “Ice Palace.” Her “Parrish” role calls for a panoply of tense emotions. “Keep notes on Troy,” Daves also told her, “and on your own experiences in life paralleling those in the script. The results will surprise you.” Diane admitted that the “method” of Davies, who has often declared that there is no such thing as a system suitable for all actors, did produce results. “Thinking of Troy as the handsome, challenging farm hand of the story gave the real Troy different dimensions for me. I know he hasn’t changed. It is I.” Would Diane still date him? “Of course,” she said. “But I think playing Alison has matured me. Going out with Troy again would seem like going out with a brand new date.” “Parrish” is a screen version of Mildred Savage’s novel laid in Connecticut’s Tobacco Valley. Besides Troy and Diane the cast includes Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, and Connie Stevens, and introduces 16-year-old Sharon Hugueny. TROY DONAHUE CLAUDETTE COLBERT KARL MALDEN DEAN JAGGER CONNIE STEVENS DIANE McBAIN SHARON HUGUENY Dub Taylor Hampton Fancher David Knapp Saundra Edwards Sylvia Miles Bibi Osterwald Madeline Sherwood Hayden Rorke Se ee See a Tee ey seine. 6 etext ie! (eh 6 eC ei ge (s,s eh Sie, weal etre hel mice: +e otee) ia) ete te CTS: 8. Oey fe! BSS eS, eh se: He We Bey he oc Welw SS Ne! NO! eh Re 18 a Oe” HS ley S26) e Wiwelé pe Se Hoe ee eee We, eee) he le. ete, ae oe Mee Se, 6) ol me eho easy 0) le) 6" wi iepye Lee. ce. ex rer tem sesay i 28: a8) 16a) 56) ore ol ow) eee BPA 8: BESO. tei 8. Jee, Fe e. ® "ete eb) ROT Gell eer eee, 6, SeFie) 6 ne he a (6 We ON eo) Bi et. oh een eRe ume UNinelle 6 ae ent ray ee ee Ps OM) OG 368. 6) 6 ey ey a eee ie All Work, No Play For Film's Stars Hollywood actors playing field hands and actual field hands worked alongside each other in a strange juxtaposition of make-believe and real in the filming of Warner Bros.’ “Parrish,” opening 202.14). ¢<.. at the teats A Theatre. Producer-director Delmer Daves shot the picture on Connecticut Tobacco Valley farms like those described in the Mildred Savage novel with Claudette Colbert, Troy Donahue, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens and others. The glamor contingent planted shoots, hung netting to filter the sunlight and stacked leaves in the drying sheds, imitating the movements of the real workers just out of camera range. Scenes were made on the land of large growers such as Howard McCormick, Ford Ransom, and Howard and Warren Thrall, leading names of Tobacco Valley. They were shot by Daves over a stretch of four months to synchonize the story action to the steps in tobacco growth. Photography is in Technicolor and the picture introduces 16-year-old Sharon Hugueny in a principal role. Parrish’ Co-Stars Title-Role 2 Films Two of the young feminine stars in “Parrish,” iopeniag 6.64. at theses nn.) acy. Theatre, have landed title roles in other pictures at Warner Bros. because of their performances in the recently completed film. Connie Stevens is working in “Susan Slade” and Diane McBain has been cast for “Claudelle Inglish.” Troy Donahue plays the title role in “Parrish.” Parrish McLean Ellen McLean Judd Raike Sala Post Lucy Alison Post Paige Raike Teet Howie Edgar Raike Wiley Raike Evaline Raike Eileen Addie fe ale ale ale CREDITS Written, Produced and Directed by. . Delmer Daves From the Novel by ........ Director of Photography ergo ae Mildred Savage Harry Stradling, Sr., ASC Art Director Film Editor Music by Sound by Assistant Directors Orchestrations by Costumes Designed by Makeup Supervisor ae ale afe afe OO Ro Re. ere! ie TOO ch gl ce ee 9 |e a) Nal: 6°59) 6) “REL OY nce? 6 Ares Oe Lowe Seis) er lele 9,86. eS ee 8 0 OP 8) a 8) oe 6 “eter seh ehee. 6 nk S4C SHS 6) Seh et we teste arte’ 6 a Ye tGie ne Sc O61 et Te 6 ee wee 6 O16) Cor ‘eee; “as 6) 8) 6. C Re. ifs er ele 1b oe ere pet pecarator ... «oo. as urs s Leo K. Kuter Owen Marks Max Steiner Stanley Jones Chuck Hansen and Russell Llewellyn Murray Cutter Howard Shoup .. Gordon Bau, SMA ... William L. Kuehl 6) 6 Si 6 66. 6 0 wey ms, novel, filming it on location in Connecticuts famous Tobacco Valley, against the historic setting of the 19th Century whaling village at Mystic and at the luxurious Terra Mar Boatel and yacht club at Old Saybrook. Donahue is top-cast in the title-role of “Parrish”—as the restless young atavist who displays all of the resourcefulness and determination of his pioneer forebears in setting out to conquer the crop blights and grower rivalries endemic to the verdant Tobacco Valley. Returning to the screen after a five-year absence during which she starred on Broadway in hits like “The Marriage-Go-Round,” Claudette Colbert portrays Donahue’s mother. Although she had no intention of resuming her screen career, Miss Colbert was attracted by the challenge the character of the mother represented. Karl Malden stars as the selfstyled ruler of the Valley who marries Miss Colbert and finds himself first sponsoring the career of his stepson and then in bitter conflict with him. Connie Stevens, Diane McBain and Sharon Hugueny are spotlighted as the rivals for Donahue’s affection. Submariner Donahue Has Gobs Of Hair Troy Donahue’s sailor uniform and all his activities aboard a U.S. submarine in Warner Bros.’ “Parrish,” opening ..... at the 0 013 Theatre, are strictly according to Navy regulation except for one thing—his haircut. Troy’s hair was comparatively long, as he had worn it throughout the rest of the picture, while the other sailors, all members of the crews of the USS Jallao and the Sea Robin, had butches. “In the tight quarters of a submarine,” explained an officer, “there isn’t room for a man with long hair.” BILLING Warner Bros. "25% Pictures Presents 5% “PARRISH” 100% Starring TROY DONAHUE 50% CLAUDETE COLBERT 50% KARL MALDEN 50% DEAN JAGGER 25% CONNIE STEVENS 25% DIANE McBAIN 25% SHARON HUGUENY 259% with Dub Taylor 10% Hampton Fancher 10% David Knapp 10% Saundra Edwards 10% Sylvia Miles 10% Bibi Osterwald 10% Madeleine Sherwood 10% TECHNICOLOR® 15% From the novel by Mildred Savage 15% Music by Max Steiner 3% Written, Produced and Directed by Delmar Daves 15% Ale ale ale ofa Page Seven