The Great O'Malley (Warner Bros.) (1937)

“THE GREAT O'MALLEY” PRODUC FIONA eA Below is the official billing for “The Great O’Malley.”’ It is important that this be followed without change or variation. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. 40% present / PAT O'BRIEN 85% in “THE GREAT O'MALLEY” 100% with ANN SHERIDAN —_ FRIEDA INESCORT DONALD CRISP — SYBIL JASON 202, HENRY O’NEILL—CRAIG REYNOLDS— HOBART CAVANAUGH—GORDON HART 10% Directed by William Dieterle 25% “K Warner Bros, Picture ee s “y 3 Patrick ‘Aloysius O'Malley... Pat O’Brien Barbara Pes, ee ee a ae Sybil Jason PORN PHOS a ee eS Humphrey Bogart ci SE ol LL) eee Me oe learner ae eee Oe a Frieda Inescort FURY TIO. ee ee Ann Sheridan Captain Cromwell. eee Donald Crisp perormey tor Detenke 2 Se Henry O’Neill Mire OC Maney a Mary Gordon RAGS. Pest ee a ee Mabel Colcord PAtNGe Fate. 2 oe Frank Sheridan Bate eer a a eee Lillian Harmer WAIMOY 2 er) at ee Delmar Watson 2 yee 1 OES Sie oop: Be cel ow wat use einen 5) Gs Frank Reicher Dieetge ae William Dieterle DetCel Olay BY 2 Milton Krims and Tom Reed SIOIVOY = ee re Gerald Beaumont PMBIOnrdOny OY ee Ernest Haller, A.S.C. FUM EGUOr < e Be oe Warren Low Pat Director oe te gh Reticker BAGGieAL DMChOr 6 85 Leo F. Forbstein Piglogue: Director. 2 Irving Rapper PNG BY a ee a Milo Anderson A Warner Bros. Picture e Country of origin U. S. A. Copyright 1937 Vitagraph, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright is waived to magazines and newspapers. Officer James O’Malley (Pat O’Brien) is a New York cop who lives by his book of rules. He has no heart. Pinkey Holden, fresh young reporter (Hobart Cavanaugh) ridicules O’Malley in his paper. This infuriates Captain Cromwell (Donald Crisp), commander of the precinct. Unable to break O‘Malley of his habit of handing out tickets, the captain assigns him to guard a street crossing in front of a public school. John Phillips (Humphrey Bogart), unemployed workman, comes along in his rattletrap car. Its muffler is broken. O’Malley gives Phillips a ticket, which delays him so that he loses his chance at a job he was seeking. Phillips goes sadly to his home, where are waiting his wife (Frieda nescort) and their little daughter (Sybil Jason), who has been lame since birth. He gets his war medals and takes them out to pawn. In a squabble with the pawnbroker, he knocks the man out, then—suddenly tempted—grabs all the money in the till and flees. O’Malley later arrests Phillips, not because of the theft (of which he knows nothing) but because he hasn’t had the broken muffler fixed. This brings another blast of ridicule from the papers. But Phillips is sent to Sing Sing. Little lame Barbara Phillips is knocked down at O’Malley’s crossing. He and the child’s teacher, Judy Nolan (Ann Sheridan) carry her - HUMPHREY BOGART HUMPHREY BOGART—“The most menacing eyes and most menacing voice in Hollywood”’—That’s what they say about Humphrey Bogart — He switched his allegiance from stage to screen only a few #months ago—He genj erally plays villains— Bogart is a native New Yorker, born there January 23, 1899 — Was stage manager for William A. Brady — Got first break by substi_ tuting for leading man Mat No. 103— in “The Ruined Lady” 10c¢ with Grace George — Biggest Broadway hit was “The Petrified Forest,” with Leslie Howard—Brought by Warner Bros. to Hollywood for same role—Since then played heavies in “Two Against the World,” “Bullets and Ballots”’—Was daring aviator that flew ship through storm in “China Clipper’—Current picture is “The Great O’Malley” now on view at tHGs hae ee eee ane Theatre, in which he plays the role of a desperate man, out of a job, who steals money for the sake of his wife and child. SYBIL JASON SYBIL JASON—was born in Capetown, South Africa, November 23, 1929 — Her parents still reside there — Her father is a commercial traveler—Was taught singing, dancing and recitations by her two elder sisters and a brother, for their own samusement — Made a it in a charity concert when 3 — Two years later her sister, took her to where their Mat ee 104— ‘Anite, London, uncle, Harry Jacobs, was a prominent figure in the amusement world—Sybil is 3 feet 6 inches tall—Weighs 46 pounds, Ni & “4 F ssp RS 3 ¥F MS LUnOSs we home. It is only then O’Malley realizes the child is the daughter of the man he caused to be sent to prison. This knowledge strikes home. He has come to love the child—and also her teacher. O’Malley goes to a great specialist, who performs an operation that restores little Barbara to health. He voes before the Parole Board, pleads that Phillips’ stealing was only because his family was starving, and wins a release for the prisoner. Also he gets a job for Phillips. Phillips knows nothing of all this. When he reaches his old neighborhood, everyone tells him “O’Malley is looking for you; O’Malley wants to see you.” Phillips thinks the policeman is going to hound him back to jail. He gets a gun. The two meet on the stairway of the Phillips home. Phillips, half-crazed by his prison-term and his fear of persecution, shoots O’Malley. But the policeman by now is a changed person ——a real human being with sympathy and understanding. He insists that Phillips did not wound him, that the whole business was an accident; he had fallen downstairs and his own gun went off, he declares. When he recovers from his wound, thanks to a blood transfusion from Phillips, O’Malley goes back to duty a different man. He forgets the trivialities of the rule-book. He and the Phillips family become fast friends. Above all, he wins the love of Judy Nolan. PAT O’BRIEN PAT O’BRIEN—Most patriotic Irishman in America, perhaps, is Pat O’Brien— Yet he was born in the Teutonic-tinted town of Milwaukee — Has real Irish names for his two children Mavourneen (meaning darling) aged 2, Padraic Shaun (meaning Patrick John) for the boy not yet 1—Is regular he-man; likes fights and horse races; wins on former — Picked Braddock to Mat No. 105— heat Baer; Louis to 10¢ beat Baer; Schmeling to beat Louis; now picks Braddock to beat Louis if they ever meet—Doesn’t do so well with races; who does?—Educated for legal career at Marquette University—Jimmie Gleason tempted him away to become stage actor — Made smash hit in “Front Page”; ealled to Hollywood to repeat it in films—Did so; signed by Warner Bros.; last year reached stardom—Happily married to Eloise Taylor of Des Moines; introduced by pal, Frank McHugh—Is 5 feet 11, weighs 176; handball champ of Hollywood; blue-eyed, dark-haired—Currently plays New York cop in “The Great O’Malley,” now showing at the........ Theatre. and is black-haired and black-eyed — She appeared in two British pictures— “Barnacle Bill” and “Dance Band” with Buddy Rogers—Then Warner Bros.’ British representative tested and signed her —Sent her to Hollywood—Sybil has appeared here in “Little Big Shot,” “I Found Stella Parish,’ “Changing the Guard,” “The Singing Kid” with Al Jolson—and her current picture, “The Great O’Malley,” which opens at the........ Theatreon3. 4h