Sunny (Warner Bros.) (1930)

Is Measured! Just A First National Aid! Joe Donahue plays the same role in “Sunny” with Marilyn Miller on the screen as his late brother Jack did on the stage. Cut No. 31 Cut 15¢ Mat 5c Marilyn Miller Dances Sans Chorus in “Sunny” (Advance Reader featuring Marilyn Miller) » the Vitaphone adapta “egunny; gs. in e gucce tion of her famous sta80 © > ailft tf’ rst, ally,’ was one of the most popular pictures ever produced. Despite the fact that the dialogue was in English, the picture “packed them in” in practically every foreign country. Miss Miller holds a unique place on the American stage. She is so outstanding as a dancer and as a light comedy opera star that has no competition. There is no other actress with her combination of talents who ean challenge her supremacy. “Sunny” is a different type of picture from “Sally,” but the same comedy prevails. Miss Miller introduced a number of novelties in dancing. There is no chorus in the picture. Lawrence Gray, Joe Donahue, O. P. Heggie, Judith Vosselli and Barbara Bedford are among those in the supporting cast. William A. Seiter directed for First National. oh i] lhe personality prin ES 2 ener ae Marilyn Miller dances into tof suggestions Fat Girl’s Varying Tonnage Arouses Ire of Director (Here’s a story with a comical twist. Pick your newspaper accordingly ) Nobody loves a fat lady, especially Director Bill Seiter who lost half of his few remaining hairs during the filming of “Sunny” because of one. “Sunny” is a story of a cireus built around the personality of Marilyn Miller as the bareback rider of the troupe. In order to make the circus background as authentic as possible First National scoured the country to collect a number of genuine circus’ sideshows. “Sunny” comes to the Theatre on.. One of the necessities of any circus is a fat lady, and First National signed “Little Eva,” weight 614 pounds at the time of her “weight test” to sit around and look just as a fat lady in a ecireus does look. One of the scenes involving “Little Eva” shows the buxom damsel on a scale. The barker is seen pointing to the seale’s hand, which registers 614 pounds. Most of this scene was taken on a Tuesday, and at five o’clock Director Seiter dismissed the company until the following day. Wednesday morning, with everything in readiness for continuing the scene, the fat lady stepped on the scale—and the hand jumped to 621 pounds, a gain of seven whole numbers! Pandemonium reigned. Even a director is not allowed to cut off a lady’s leg, and anyway, as Seiter sa (Lae yee cut age 999 for “Little Kya, © pula ! sorts} so that she could ly a 0 oa | off, make her inhale helium, BV her strong drink so that she would be light headed. It was no use, nothing was practical. . Then someone discovered .that the seale could be adjusted, and the sun began to shine. When you see the seale register 614 in “Sunny” you should know it really is 621. Such deception! / Bel-air Scene of Riding Sequences} (Current Reader) Beautiful Bel-Air, one of the most exclusive residence districts in America, was the scene of the filming of one of the most important sequences of ‘Sunny,” starring Marilyn Miller for First National. The picture is now showing at the ..... ere Theatre. The scenes, in the story, take place at a fashionable mountain summer resort, which has a riding academy and a gymnasium as part of its equipment. The Bel-Air stables, “where a horse is treated like a human being” were used for these scenes. The stables are a rambling ivy-covered, stone affair, resembling .a millionaire’s mansion more than a home for horses. It is here that the millionaires of Southern California come to take their rides over the bridle trails of the 10,000 acre BelAir estate. The exercise ground of the stables resemble a park. STRAN Cut No. 35 Cut 20c Mat 5c 158 Lines Dances Away Fat The easiest way for a woman to keep her weight down to normal and to acquire grace at the same time, A hundred and fifty extras, all of whom are excellent horsemen and horsewomen, appeared in these scenes with Miss Miller, Joe Donahue, Lawrence Gray, O. P. Heggie, Judith Vosselli, and. Barbara Bed is to dance, Marilyn Miller says. Many women find setting-up exercises a bore. Miss Miller recommends twenty minutes of dancing a day as the surest way to keep fit. She is now: appearing in “Sunny” at A REAL STAGE CHILD, STAR AT 5 FIVE WAS MARILYN MILLER, THE | — LEAD PERFORMER IN “SUNNY’) Sang, Danced As Tot With “Five Columbians,’’ Her Family’s Act on Stage Everything Is Sunny Now ~ (A Personality Story for either before or during “Sunny’s” engagement.) Marilyn Miller, who danced her way into the Theatre on cares in “Sunny,” the First National Vitaphone version of her famous stage success, is no mere ac cidental claimant to fame. ~Miss Miller has literally lived a life of dancing. She was born to the stage. Her mother and father were in vaudeville, and Marilyn was born ‘fon the road.” Finding it difficult to take care of her after she began to grow up, at the age of four they sent her to her grandmother’s home in Tennessee. There, little Marilyn Miller was taught to dance by the colored children. At the age of five she knew toe dancing, much to her mother’s amazement, for she had picked it up by herself. Her mother saw an opportunity to use the child in their vaudeville troupe. Some dancing lessons followed, and then the family BEES opened in vaudeville at Columbus, \ Ohio in an act known as “The Five Columbians,” The course of the act did not run smooth. Reformers invoked theatre laws to prevent the tiny child from appearing on the stage. Child labor laws caused so much trouble that they decided to eee billings abroad. — aagolt> was vas that “ppeit of the Columbians” travelled ee a Marilyn was educa seven years. Be py private tutors. DY PUapo co amaruiyn Was still under seer during the — Bebe ‘made age and more trouble came up, 80/t9 the “Sunny” set. The two are another European tour followed.|} ¢loge friends, and have been for ¢ During the war Marilyn was the long time, and each wishes the oth rage at the Embassy Club in London happiness in their respecti and was praised by the Prince of| prospective, marital ventures Wales. Lee Shubert saw her and] stars have been among the engaged her for the Winter Garden, | popular and sought after in screen the beginning of her American suc-| and stage society. . eek: “Sunny” is the First National and Since then she has been one of the Vitaphone version of Miss Miller’s most brilliant figures on the Ameri-| famous stage production. Lawrence can musical comedy and revue stage.| Gray, Joe Donahue, O. P. Heggie She has literally danced and sung|and many others are in the cast. her way to the heights of stage and screen fame. “Sally” was a tremendous hit, and “Sunny” was just as sensational a success. “Sally” was one of the most popular and biggest money-making pictures of the year, and “Sunny” is being hailed by critics as an even greater hit. Miss Miller is supported by Lawrence Gray, Inez Courtney, Joe Donahue, Judith Vosselli, O. P. Heggie, Clyde Cook and Barbara Bedford. William A. Seiter directed. Marilyn, Bebe Pals Despite Hollywood Cynicism in “Sunny” Cut No. 32 Cut 15¢ Mat 5c gaged to Michael Farmer, a wealthy young Irishman eteakte act. sew Geto |) CA PATOL J Miss Daniels Pays Call On Miss Miller, Ex-Wife Of Her Ex-Sweetheart (Human interest story. Place it prior to your playdate.) One of the visitors on the set where Marilyn Miller was filming “Sunny,” which comes to the Sica Theatre on Bebe Daniels. The fact ereated a. ripple of comment in Hollywood, Every Story Is Captioned! Every Advertisement Marilyn Miller and Alexander Gray _ who passes much WEEK Be laughing and loving her way through romance in ‘SUNNY’ illll with JOE DONAHUE LAWRENCE GRAY O. P. Heggie, Clyde Cook and a huge cast. ford. William A. Seiter directed. Gray Former Salesman Lawrence Gray, who plays opposite Marilyn Miller in “Sunny,” now showing at the Theatre, started out to be a salesman. He got into the movies as a business manager, when a director suddenly discovered that he was a screen screen, the “Sunny,” the First National picture now showing at the Theatre, LaPlante. piest couples in the film colony, and entertain a great deal at their beach Pub Mo 2 Cuter: Maeoe type. He rapidly became. one of|home at Malinu. FA the outstanding 64 Lin’ | the star of “Sunny,” and Miss LaPlante ; are fast friends, which is always alert to choice morsels of gossip. & Bebe Daniels and Jack Pickford were seen a great deal together from time to time, and there were rumors of an engagement, Then Pickford married Marilyn Miller. Later they obtained a Paris divoree, following which Ben Lyon was seen a great deal with Miss Miller in New York and, when in Hollywood, talked to her ass times over long distance. * ee Eventually Ben Lyon “married Bebe, while Miss Miller became en Theatre. LAURA SEITER William <A. Seiter, who directed is the husband of Laura They are one of the hap Marilyn Miller, Sunnier, Funnier Faster Than “Sally” with JOE DONAHUE LAWRENCE GRAY O. P. HEGGIE A FIRST NATIONAL & VITAPHONE PICTURE Cut No. 3 Cut 20c Mat 5c 81 Lines