The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (Warner Bros.) (1938)

wee wt com » L. A. TIMES Calls It: “A Breath-taking Film.” Todays SCREEN STORY Edward G. Robinson plays “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse” in the amazing story of a society doctor who turns thief and commits perfect crimes with the aid of Humphrey Bogart’s gang. Claire Trevor is the beautiful “fence” through whom the doctor cashes in the burgled jewels, and who eventually falls in love with the elusive doctor-mobster. The Warner Bros. comedy-drama is now showing at the Strand. (4-col. Picture Strip—Mat 401-B 60c from Campaign Plan Editor) ——————> DR. CLITTERHOUSE calmly warns police chief Donald Crisp that it is bad for his health to worry about the recent jewel robberies. BAD BLOOD exists between the doctor and Bogart, leader of the mob before Robinson stepped in to show the boys how to commit a real crime. Mobster Maxie Rosenbloom looks on — and worries! ‘The Amazing Dr Clitterhouse’? At The Strand HIS RESEARCH OVER, Dr. Clitterhouse prepares to leave, while Claire Trevor begs him to stay. He is shortly caught, however, and the film ends with an amazing trial. (Current) Allen Jenkins Likes Life Of A Sailor Allen Jenkins doesn’t speak with an Oxford accent but he will talk about England wistfully, nostalgically, at the drop of a toothpick. He spent eight weeks there in the London company of “Five Star Final,’ most of it plying an American canoe on _ the Thames. He and a friend would sneak away after the Saturday night performance and paddle up to Maidenhead, spend Sunday night ata pub further on and return the next day. He regards those eight weeks as the happiest tai 4 stretch in his Mat 105—15c ite Aside from sailing a_ boat which he does during every vacation he gets, inhaling a fog or eating sea food, Jenkins enjoys playing the kind of dumb-mugg roles he has institutionalized on the stage and screen. He recently completed ‘The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,”” the highly unusual crook melodrama produced by Warner Bros., which is now showing at the Strand Theatre, with Edward G. Robin son as its star. Robinson’s Hobbies Are Legion Without any serious competition, Edward G. Robinson undoubtedly would walk away with an award, if one were given, as Hollywood's champion hobby rider. It’s a dull day when the star of the Warner Bros. melodrama, ““The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,”” now playing at the Strand Theatre, doesn’t acquire a new leisure pastime. A complete list of his hobbies is impossible, as they vary from day to day, but any partial compilation must include oil paintings, pipes, first editions of famous English music, photography, antique glass, Chinese jade, antique English furniture, golf, and caricatures. At the present moment he is riding hardest on photography and a newly acquired hobby of psycho-analysis, the latter as a result of the role he enacted in “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse.”’ The good doctor in this story is engaged in research on the reactions of criminals. novels, | SEHR PS: Ady Edward G. Robinson realized two long suppressed desires during filming of ““The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,’” now at the Strand. “I’ve always wanted to listen to someone's heart through a stethoscope and to examine jewels with a jeweler’s glass,’’ he said, ‘‘and in this picture | do both.” Gale Page’s only appearance in the Warner Bros. Studio restaurant for luncheon during the weeks she was working in “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,’” was for the purpose one day of having a conference with her director, Anatole Litvak. Ordinarily she spends her lunch hour in a brisk half-hour walk. Grips and prop men had just finished a set to be used for a scene in ‘The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse.” Included in the ‘props’ for the scene was a big bowl of real pretzels. Director Anatole Litvak, passing by, grabbed a handful. “Litvak is chewing up the scenery again,” said one of the prop men. ‘“‘A woman’s clothes tell the story of what she is or wants to be more eloquently than anything she can say or do,” maintains Milo Anderson, who designed the clothes Claire Trevor wears in the Warner Bros. picture, “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,” starring Edward G. Robinson, which is now showing at the Strand Theatre. Milo proves his point by the wardrobe with which he provides Miss Trevor in the picture. In the beginning of the story she is an out-and-out product of the slums, a consort of thieves and gamblers with no overwhelming desire for a higher social status. The first time the suave and intellectual Dr. Clitterhouse meets her, she is in her own apartment. Her garb consists of a pale lavendar satin nightgown, overfitted and overtrimmed with deep ecru lace, and a pale green velvet negligee with full overcape and also too much lace trim — in short, she is overdressed, and in bad taste. Impressed with the doctor at this first meeting, she senses that he is not quite like most of the men she knows. As soon as he leaves her apartment, she dons what is intended to be her most conservative garb. It is a short, fitted black skirt, fitted white Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom, speaking of Edward G. Robinson in “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,” the Warner Bros. picture now at the Strand Theatre, was supposed to say, “If he isn’t a lunatic he must be a genius.” After mixing up five takes, Maxie came out with, “If he isn’t a lunatic he must be crazy.” Gale Page, new Warner Bros. player appearing in “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,”” learned soon after she arrived in Hollywood that she has a ready-made fan club. She was informed that her radio fan club had become her movie fan club with an addition besides of 237 members. Edward G. Robinson, whose latest Warner Bros. picture, ‘““The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,”’ is now playing at the Strand Theatre, says the best way to tell a personally autographed star’s picture from one a secretary has faked is to check the spelling. ‘‘Nine times out of ten,”” he says, “the genuine will have the recipient’s name misspelled.” GOV Bred ALE. 1 Ley, By HELEN WALTER blouse and lacy bolero jacket. As Jo begins to spend more time with the doctor, she becomes more acutely conscious of Mat 102—15c CLAIRE TREVOR — as a gangster’s moll, plays opposite Edward G. Robinson in “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse’ now at the Strand. NQUIBS Allen Jenkins is planning a sea voyage to Mexico as soon as he can get as much as six weeks off at one time. He’s been listening to George Brent’s enthusiastic account of his recent trip and now has the fever himself. But Allen, whose latest Warner Bros. picture is “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,’’ seems to be much too popular for his employers to allow him that much time off. Claire Trevor had all the males ogling and all the females greening on the Warner lot when she first appeared in the stunning hairdress she wore in ““The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse.”’ It’s an extreme evening hairdress, with tightly-clustered curls on the very top of her head. It was only after he decided to take up motion picture acting in earnest that Maxie Rosenbloom, now playing in “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,” broke down and made his middle name public. The boxer’s middle name is ‘‘Everett.”’ FROCKS the difference in their backgrounds. She makes a somewhat pathetic attempt to appear glamorous in his eyes by coming to his hangout one evening in a formal gown of which he could almost approve except that the decollete with its myriad of narrow cross straps is just a shade too daring and over luxurious. Over this she wears a red fox cape. Realizing there is some reason why she is not attracting the cultured Dr. Clitterhouse, Jo suddenly becomes over-conservative and is waiting for him after the big fur robbery in a trim navy blue suit fashioned with zippered jacket and worn with a white pique blouse. From this point on Milo feels that the character, Jo, has learned the lesson of conservatism. Consequently the last three ensembles she wears in the picture are chic and properly simple. A slim black dress combined with a cire satin bodice, a grey wool suit with plaid trimming and a steel blue wool ensemble with touches of white pique. This last outfit she wears in the final courtroom scene, and it is a triumph of good taste. And even though she doesn’t get her man in the picture — she has learned an important lesson in fashion. (Current) ‘Beefing Game Amuses Cast On Movie Set Just as a relief from the serious and exciting action in the picture, the company began playing the new game of ‘‘What I would soonest not do,’ on the set of ““The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,” the Warner Bros. melodrama now showing at the Strand. Claire Trevor started it. Miss Trevor would “‘sooner not wear such high heels.’’ Her heels in the characterization of Jo Keller, the flashily dressed gang queen, were 3!/ inches high, and gave Miss Trevor a back ache. Edward G. Robinson said he would sooner not play a role where he couldn’t smoke his cigars. In the film Eddie, as a society doctor, was limited to one cigarette, in one camera scene. Humphrey Bogart, who played the gangster who considers himself a rival of Robinson in the film, said he would sooner not get bumped off in nearly every picture role he takes. Gale Page said she would sooner not have to do without one single pretty dress on the screen. In this, her second picture, she wears a nurse’s uniform throughout. Allen Jenkins said he would sooner not have the mocking birds begin to sing at 3 o'clock in the morning, just about the time he wanted to go to sleep; and just about that time Director Anatole Litvak said he would sooner not hear so much talking around the set, and he would sooner not have to ask them again to start rehearsing. Litel’s Assets Are Poise, Maturity Film audiences sometimes wonder why so many of the best actors appear so frequently as doctors, attorneys or clergymen. The explanation is simple. Actors like John Litel, Donald Crisp, Henry O'Neill, Claude Rains, appear so often in such roles because the professions of law, medicine and the cloth always require the most sympathetic and intelligent depiction. In “The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse,” the Warner Bros. comedy-drama now showing at the Strand Theatre, Edward G. Robinson is a physician who engages in criminal activity in order to record all the pathological reactions of a man engaged in major crime. John Litel, another finished actor of vast experience, is the player cast to prosecute Robinson for murder in the final trial scene.