The Footloose Heiress (Warner Bros.) (1937)

PUBLICITY—‘‘FOOTLOOSE HEIRESS’’—PAGE 2 ‘‘Footloose Heiress’’ Loses Decision To Hobo “FOOTLOOSE HEIRESS” WILL BE AT STRAND NEXT WEEK Comedy Deals With Girl With Too Much Money and Boy With Too Much Sense Depicting the jams into which a girl can get herself who has too much money and not enough common sense, ‘‘The Footloose Heiress,”’ a romantic comedy from the Warner Bros. studios, is scheduled to open next week at the Strand Theatre. Ann Sheridan, statuesque redheaded beauty from Texas, plays the part of the girl. The young man who tames her and makes a nice, normal person out of her, is Craig Reynolds, who hasn’t been seen in enough of these light comedy roles. He’s usually portraying villains, and now he’s having the happiest days he’s ever known because he’s a sympathetic character—one that all audiences like. There’s a scene in “The Footloose Heiress’—acecording to all the advance notices—which is said to be the snappiest on the screen since Jimmy Cagney pushed a grapefruit into some gal’s face in a picture several years ago. Craig Reynolds, in this show, takes the voluptuous but brattish Ann Sheridan over his knee, and gives her a real, resounding, oldfashioned spanking. This scene had to be photographed several times over—or so Director William Clemens said while making it—and when it was finally pronounced O.K., the fair Miss Sheridan didn’t forget it for a week. The screen story, by Robertson White, has to do with a bet of $5000 which the gay Ann made that she would be married before her eighteenth birthday is over. Craig, achieving a sudden liking for her and a respect for her father, prevents this silly stunt and eventually wins her for himself after hilarious complications. PRETTY GIRL WELL SPANKED According to the very best tradition no gentlemen ever strikes a lady and so the visitor’s interest was aroused to a fever pitch when he walked onto Stage Two at Warner Bros. studio and discovered Craig Reynolds industriously spanking Ann Sheridan. Smacks resounded and echoed from the rafters and Ann squirmed and twisted and screamed realistically while the handsome leading man plied his good right hand with vigor. “Okay for sound,” shouted the sound mixer when William Clemens, the director, had signalled the end of the scene. SOkay. or. feel, Sheridan added, cautiously too,” Miss as she leaned against a bit of scenery. “Did you ever spank a lady before?” we asked Reynolds. “No, but I think it’s an idea worth developing,” Craig answered, with a grin. “Anne, in this picture, certainly deserves a smacking and having got into my part so thoroughly, perhaps I made the scene a bit too realisfie? The scene is a highlight of “The Footloose Heiress,” in which Miss Sheridan, Reynolds, Anne Nagel and Hugh O’Connell have the leading roles, and which comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday. ACTOR'S AMBITION 10 HOP FREIGHT It took him nearly 20 years, but Craig Reynolds, young Warner Bros. leading man, at last attained his boyhood ambition—to be allowed to hop moving freight trains to his heart’s content. And not only that, Reynolds was well paid for doing what he wanted to do as a small boy but was restrained by parental tabus. He acted the part of a hobo in “The Footloose Heiress,” a romantic comedy, opening next Friday at the Strand theatre, in which he shares honors with Ann Sheridan, Ann Nagel and Hugh O’Connell. Born in Anaheim, California, a small town near Los Angeles, Reynolds spent his boyhood there and as boys the world over do, hung about the railroad yards whenever he got a chance, fascinated by the way brakemen and switchmen flipped on and off the moving ears. In “The Footloose Heiress,” he has the role of a discontented son of a prominent advertising man who leaves home when his father won’t accept his modern ideas of exploitation. He decides to see the country from the vantage point of the “blind baggage” and the “rods” of freight cars and runs into a series of adventures which culminate in a delightful romance. His usual lot in pictures has been “heavies,” but in this production he has a light comedy role and definitely proves that this is his metier. Miss Sheridan, who won her chance for leads by her exceptional performance in “Black Legion,” also proves an excellent comedienne. William Clemens directed from an original story by Robertson White. Mat No. 104—10c Craig Reynolds who, as a care free hobo outwits the million dollar daughter of a million dol lar man in the picture “The Footloose Heiress” which will be at the Strand Theatre. Mat. No. 207—20c When a hobo meets an heiress things really happen in a most surprising manner. See this laugh-by-the-carload comedy, starring Ann Sheridan and Craig Reynolds, at the Strand Theatre next F riday. (ADVANCE READER) ANN SHERIDAN SAYS THAT MARRIAGE AIDS CAREERS Movie Actress Ascribes Her Hollywood Success To Matrimonial Adventure There’s nothing like a happy marriage and the responsibilities of a home to help along the career of a young actress ambitious to attain screen stardom, in the opinion of Ann Sheridan, beautiful red-haired Texan now under contract to Warner Bros. Miss Sheridan dates the start of her success on the screen from her romantic elopement with Edward Norris, young leading man. “Before I met and married my husband,” she says, “I was inclined to be a bit ‘flighty’ with no particular responsibility to myself or anyone else. I wanted to succeed, of course, but the real incentive seemed to be lacking. “Now that Ihave a husband and a home, I am determined to be a star and I am devoting much more serious attention to my work than I ever did before. I want to be worthy of his praise and to that end, I study and rehearse ten times harder than I ever did before when I was entirely on my own. “When I was single, I was always more interested in dates and having a good time than I was in my job, but now it’s the other way around.” That Miss Sheridan has definitely advanced her career since her marriage is a matter that permits no argument. She got her first big chance as leading lady in “Sing Me a Love Song” and did such outstanding job, that she was immediately cast for leads opposite Pat O’Brien in “The Great O’Malley” and “San Quentin.” Now she’s taken another defi nite step forward in being given the principal role in “The Footloose Heiress,” a modern comedy made by Warner Bros., which opens next week at the Strand. Mat No. 110—10c A rich man’s daughter who’s outsmarted by a hobo. Ann Sheridan, as “‘The Footloose Heiress’’ in the picture by that name which is coming to the Strand Theatre next Friday. (OPENING DAY STORY) BRAINS VS. MONEY IS THE THEME OF FILM AT STRAND Headed by the lovely Ann Sheridan, who gave up _ schoolteaching in Texas to become a leading lady in Hollywood films, and handsome Craig Reynolds, one of moviedom’s most promising young leading men, a Warner Bros. comedy-drama called “The Footloose Heiress” opens today at the Strand Theatre. Ann Sheridan plays the part of a very spoiled girl who has always had her way, plus a great deal too much money to have it with. Her father, played by Hugh O’Connell, has about despaired of ever taming her down, but Craig Reynolds, who enters into the picture with some new and drastic methods, proves to be more than adequately prepared to handle even her most violent outbursts. One of the means which Reynolds employs, is a _ honest-togoodness spanking which he administers to Miss Sheridan right in public. This scene is said to be one of the genuine highlights of the picture and has ealled forth much favorable comment. William Hopper, son of the famous De Wolf Hopper, is a newcomer to the screen, who plays the male role next to importance to that taken by Craig Reynolds. In the picture he is Jack Pierson, whom the “footloose heiress” is going to marry in order to win a $5,000 bet. RADIO PROGRAM IN NEW MOVIE An insight into how high powered advertising agencies sell radio programs to their big clients is given in dramatic and comedy detail in “Footloose Heiress,” a Warner Bros. production which will have its first showing at the Strand Theatre on Friday. It is a phase of radio and advertising, highly entertaining, that has not previously been touched upon by the movies and it promises delightful entertainment, with a strong cast headed by Ann Sheridan, Craig Reynolds, Anne Nagel, Hugh O’Connell, William Hopper and Teddy Hart. In the story, O’Connell, who plays Miss Sheridan’s father, is an advertising agency executive. He is badly in need of a new idea for the radio and is strugg]ing to whip a script into shape when Reynolds, masking as a hobo, enters the scene. He has fallen in love with the lovely daughter of the house and broken up an impulsive elopement between her and Hopper. Her father takes the young “hobo” into his home in appreciation and he proceeds to lay seige to the girl’s heart. She’ll have no part of him, and he turns to on O’Connell’s script to help him with his radio program. When it is all but finished, Reynolds vanishes and O’Connell chases him madly. He is joined by Miss Sheridan who realizes that she loves the young stranger after all, and they finally discover him where he was when they first saw him—riding the rods under a box-ear, en route to his home in Boston, where his father also operates a big advertising agency. The picture is replete with comedy, and also has many dramatic punches. aan a eT I a ST TT Se Se I SOY Wen a ae SSS SPSS SS SR SS SSS SSS SSS SSCS SSS SSS SPARS NOR ERCASO WE Country of origin U. S. A. Copyright 1937 Vitagraph, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright is waived to magazines and newspapers.