Sunny (Warner Bros.) (1930)

wa rx _—— . Ww \ >. ‘~ _ You’ll Find Enough Features In This Press Sheet ~ To Get At Least One In Every Sunday Paper! VERSATILITY AND BEAUTY COMBINE TO ASSURES MARILYN MILLER’S FAME Dancing, Singing Star Has Added Comedy And Acting To Her Abilities. Needed All Her Talents For “Sunny” Role (Sunday Feature. your playdate advance of catch Sunday Plant way im to edition before ' your opening.) = No actress in recent years has achieved such fame, success, Sree! and-suelworld-wide acclaim after having made but one picture as has Marilyn Miller’ Her rise to the pinnacle of ta Iking picture stardom is one of the sensations of the industry, and vet it was not unexpected by| those who know her, or those who have followed her stage career. They had tremendous faith that she would do just what she did when she appeared before the cameras in ‘*Sally,’’? which has been applauded by more fans the world over than any other VERSATILE! Cut No. 19 Cut r5c Mat 5c No actress on the screen or stage can match the versatility on Marilyn Miller, star of ‘“Sunny’’ at the Theatre. She sings, dances, emotes, elowns to perfection. Her ‘dances include everything from the classics to the clogs! Gray and Donahue Share Male Leads In “Sunny” (Advance Reader featuring supporting cast) Marilyn Miller, who comes to the sce tes es .... Theatre. on in “Sunny,” has two leading men in ‘this picture. They are Lawrence Gray and Joe Donahue. Donahue is a newcomer _to the screen, but is well known on the stage. He is red-headed and Irish and is one of the best eccentric dancers in the business. He acts as Miss Miller’s dancing partner in a number of scenes in “Sunny.” There is no dancing in the picture outside that of Miss Miller and Donahue. There is no chorus. Lawrence Gray is one of the best known leading men on the screen, and has appeared opposite Gloria Swanson, Marion Davis, Colleen Moore, and a number of other stars. O. P. Heggie, Judith Vosselli, Mackenzie Ward and Barbara Bedford are among those in the cast of “Sunny,” which was adapted by Humphrey Pearson and Henry MceCarty from Miss Miller’s famous stage success. William A. Seiter directed, Page Six talking picture. Miss Miller is now appearing in her second talkie, “Sunny,” and like her previous picture, “Sally,” it is adapted for the screen from one of her famous stage successes. “Sunny,” which is now showing at the Theatre, ran for three years in New York, and then for a long period on the road. It is a story in which the plot and the player are so closely related that nobody else has ever, or would ever attempt to take the “Sunny” role. The picture, like the play, has a little bit of everything, singing, dancing—as only Miss Miller ean dance, — tomfoolery, clowning, pa thos, and romance, but above all it is dominated by Miss Miller’s personality. Many great stage actresses have assayed pictures with only indifferent success, never attaining the heights on the screen, or capturing the picture fans, as they did on the stage. oe ee | ppearea ree Sie aa t rerophone before ally.” She has never even talked or sung before a microphone for the radio. She approached her first screen work seriously, but with trepidation. She was not as sure as was Jack L. Warner, vice-president in charge of production for First National, who signed her on contract at one “lof the biggest salaries ever paid to a star, that she would “click.” She worked at “Sally” as few stars have ever worked before the cameras. She danced until she wore out her pumps, and her feet were blistered. The result is too well known to be recounted again. It was a much happier Marilyn Miller who filmed “Sunny,” for now the uncertainty as to her future, and her reception by the public, was gone. She is today one of the greatest stars of the picture firmament, and “Sunny” has added brilliance to her fame. There was a great spirit of play, of happiness, of clowning during the making of “Sunny” that was quite in keeping with this gay story. The “Sunny” set where William A. Seiter was directing Miss Miller, was one of the most amusing and _ happiest places in the studio. What is the secret of Miss Miller’s success? What is the cause of such instant fame and admiration the world over? Those who have followed her career on both stage and screen says that it is due to a combination of many things. They point out that Miss Miller is not known as a star because she excels in any one field, and no other: she is far more than just a wonderful dancer. She sings exceedingly well. She has beauty of face and figure. She has charm of manner. And above all she is a great actress. All of these things have been woven together and inter-mingled to give her personality — real personality. She dominates every scene in which she appears. She is able to project her wistful, appealing personality directly through the medium of the screen to her audiences. There is no question that she has established a new and definite type of screen personality, one which is BO She wasn’t so green, This grass rs i dow ? was Art Plus a thing or two! What a Girl! WARNER BROS. Y; D One husband’s too many, Ten sweet~ hearts few. She tempted with kisses That burned through and through! What a Show! better, brighter; funnier than’ she was in Solly”as J OE DONAHUE LAWRENCE GRAY O. P. HEGGIE—INEZ COURTNEY A FIRST Cut No. 5 S80 Lines NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE Cul 40c Mat toc an imitation of no one else, which is neither the conventional flapper, nor the conventional and sweet type of heroine, nor the romantic figure. She is the first talkie heroine who accounted as definite parts of her personality as an actress her dancing and her singing. “Sunny” fulfills every promise of “Sally.” It is a greater picture, and one distinct and different from her former success. Lawrence Gray plays opposite her, and Joe Donahue, O. P. Heggie, Judith Vosselli, Clyde Cook and Barbara Bedford are in the cast. too | MARILYN MILLER SCORNED FILMS IN SILENT ERA (Personality Story of Marilyn . for pre-showing publication, The most steadfast holdout against the lure of the films. That was Marilyn Miller’s reputation on Broadway and along Hollywood Boulevard. The dainty queen of musical comedy was for years beset by producers and their offers were large enough to turn the head of any young star. Certainly the salaries that they spoke of to tempt Miss Miller were sufficiently prodigious to have changed the mind of even the most adamant actress. But there wasn’t enough money in the world to lure Marilyn Miller into the silent pictures. It wasn’t until First National came along with a fat contract in one hand and, of equal importance, the Vitaphone in the other, that the “perennial holdout” would consider the films. “T had no high hat attitude +ward pictures,” Miss Milley plained. “Some of my friend. acquaintances of the legitimate su.g¢ used to say that they never would go in the movies. That was never my theory. I enjoyed the movies, and was quite a fan. I had almost as many friends in pictures as I had along Broadway. Everyone who knew me knew about the offers that the old silent pictures had made, and it never was a question of money, for I must say that I might have been a very rich girl merely by signing for one picture. “But I. do pride myself on a certain independence. I have worked long and hard to perfect my own technique, which consists of a combination of my dancing, my singing, and my acting. Of course it was obvious in silent picture days that one of tne three qualities upon which 1 had spent so much time had no chanee in silent pictures. “Now, if for some reason the cinema today could not let me d or act, I still would be know; girl who refused to enter pic. The point I want to make elear is that all three phases of my work are mutually interdependent. There are actresses who make a specialty of singing, or of dancing, or of their histrionie talent alone. But in my case I have studied all three and my reputation consists of whatever mastery I have of the three phases. “When the talkies came into being I knew that sooner or later I would enter pictures. What I had been waiting for had at last arrived, that is, a medium which would permit me to dance, sing and act as I always had done on the stage. First National made me an _ eminently satisfactory monetary offer, and I compared Vitaphone with all the other talking apparatus and decided Vitaphone was far superior. That was really what decided the whole thing, and JI signed with First National.” Just how well pleased Miss ” has been with her First Nation sociation is, perhaps, best de. strated in her work in “Sunny,” which comes to the Heatre: Ons Saar as is her second big talking picture, and in it she is supported by such wellknown performers as Lawrence Gray, Joe Donahue, brother of the late Jack; Judith Vosselli, O. P. Heggie, Mackenzie Ward, Inez Courtney, Barbara Bedford and others. William A. Seiter directed “Sunny,” and according to Manager Of the= os ee Theatre, it is a sure hit. pee Re? 2? Peet 1 ee = Have You : ~. Ordered Your FRAILER 8 = From First e 6 ~ ~. National, Yet? | cet Ge i ee oes Oi a es et