The Man with Two Faces (Warner Bros.) (1934)

DMO WE CS 2s ee SGU ee ee ee aS ee ce RE CREE en hoe a, 1 ae a een ea Dianley VONGe 2 i... ie theses Coy See |" Sabaneta oe Se FM okies. hs onesie Morgue Heeeper os. FS see Reet 7 ham a BF ger OE COMA OR pee t The picture has a_ theatrical background with all the glamor of back stage life, and is studded with romance as well as mystery. Edward G. Robinson has the stellar role, with such stars as Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, Mae Clarke, Loius Calhern and a score of others supporting him. Robinson, in the role of Damon Wells, is the most brilliant actor and director of the New York stage, while Mary Astor, as his sister, Jessica, is the most popular actress of the day, until some mysterious occurrence sends her into oblivion with a mental and physical breakdown. The affair is a seven days wonder to the public, but Jessica’s family knows that her collapse is due to the malign actions of her husband, Stanley Vance, a played by Louis Calhern, seems to have a Svengalilike influence over her. Vance strangely vanishes, to the joy of the family, and his influence removed, Jessica gradually regains her health. She stages a theatrical come-back and is again hailed as the greatest actress of the stage. Then Vance, who sneeringly admits he has been in prison, turns up and Jessica begins to break again. Jessica’s family try to save her from the man, but he still retains his hypnotie influence over her, the girl going about as though in a trance. One day Vance takes Jessica to the suite of a fashionable hotel, intending to sell both his wife’s henor and her rights in the show to a Mr. Chautard. Jessica turns up at home, incoherent, and later Vance is found in a closet of the suite, SOE tes Edward G .Robinson se av tng wes «cack AG Mary Astor ahaa oe Ricardo Cortez ee ee ae ae Mae Clarke Louis Calhern ae Deo tee Arthur Byron Pee aa ee John Eldredge CR Cay Saran te re David Landau aig ec naman ee Emily Fitzroy ie ee A, Henry O’Neill Be sie aaah, Arthur Aylesworth Sara sae eee Margaret Dale Be oe ee ee Virginia Sale murdered. Chautard has vanished, leaving not a trace of where he came from or where he went. The police are completely baffled and give up the case with the exception of one officer who sticks to it. He learns that Vanve had murdered a former wife for her money and has been in innumerable other criminal affairs. A false moustache the officer found in a Gideon bible in the murder room, convinces the detective that Chautard was an actor. He recalls a character similar to the description of Chautard whom he had seen in a play years ago. He begins to haunt the theatre and particularly the dressing room of Damon Wells. Wells begins to get uneasy and bursts into a sweat when one night the officer turns over the false moustache to him and aavises him to be more careful where he leaves his things in the future. He is completely nonplussed until the officer tells him that the world was well rid of the scamp, Vance, and that he has given up the case. Wells, a consummate actor and impersonator, had played the part of Chautard, lured Vance to the hotel and made away with him, because he knew he was driving his sister insane. The only person knowing of the crime is Weston, a theatrical producer and lover of Jessica, in whose office Wells changes his Chautard costume. Again freed of her husband, Jessica rises to new heights of success. Weston, played by Ricardo Cortez, proposes marriage to her and she is made supremely happy. be Archie Mayo nc ES George S. Kaufman and Alexander Woolleott Produced by .......... Sam H. Harris Theatrical Enterprises, Ine. DSChEEN DIOY OY. cence. PPROCOGTIDRY BY. oo... erase diac cine: Palin, Fess, eo cna. tL Te La; gene en ae pare een Vitaphone Orchestra Conductor . Tommy Reed and Niven Busch LSAT Minit Tony Gaudio GREE nee eT William Holmes Beer ae Pet 3 John Hughes Leo F. Forbstein EDWARD G. ROBINSON 100% m “THE MAN WITH TWO FACES”’ 100% ne Mary Astor 60% = Ricardo Cortez 60% aa Mae Clarke 60% Louis Calhern 40% Arthur Byron 40% Directed by Archie Mayo 20% A First National and Vitaphone Production 40% Page Two TULL LULL LULU LL UL Edward G. Robinson Edward G. Robinson was born in Roumania in 1893, but came to America with his family when four years of age. He was educated at the New York public schools and took his Master of Arts degree at Columbia University. Having discarded ambitions to become a minister, then a lawyer, he entered amateur theatricals, but this career was interrupted by the World War, during which time he served in the U. S. Navy. Returning to the stage, he portrayed a wide variety of roles and was acclaimed one of the finest actors of the American stage. Among the long list of stage successes in which he played are “The Brothers Karamazov,’ “Right You Are If You Think You Are,” “The Firebrand” and “The Deluge.” Hollywood called and he signed a contract with First National pictures, scoring outstanding hits in “Dark Hazard,” “Little Caesar,” “Smart Money,” “Five Star Final,’ “Two Seconds,” “Tiger Shark,” “Silver Dollar,” “The Little Giant” and “I Loved A Woman.” Who’s Afraid Of The... But it looks as if they are. And by “they”? we mean Mae Clarke, Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor. All the excitement occurs in First National’s “The Man With Two Faces,” the new drama at the Strand. The film was adapted from the New York stage success by Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufmann. Mat No.6—20c Soe oes EDWARD G ROBIN SON— “Dark Hazard,“ Loved, a Woman,” “The Little Giant,” “Silver Dollar,” “Tiger Shark,” “Two Seconds,” ‘‘Hatchet Man.” MARY ASTOR—‘“‘Return of the Terror,’ “Upperworld,” “Convention City,’ “The World Changes,” “The Kennel Murder Case,” “The Little Giant.” RICARDO CORTEZ—‘Mandalay,” “Wonder Bar,” : “The House on 56th Street,” “The Big Shakedown,” “Big Executive,’ “The Torch Singer.” MAE CLARKE—“Lady Killer,” “Made on Broadway,” “Rivets,” “Parole Girl,” “Breach of Promise,’ “Night World,” “As the Devil Commands.” : LOUIS CALHERN—“Frisco Jenny,” “Merry Go Round,” “Night After Night,’ “Blondie Johnson,’ “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing.” ARTHUR BYRON—‘Fog Over Frisco,” “You Said a Mouthful,” “College Coach,’ “Grand Slam,” “The Mayor of Hell,” “Private Detective 62.” DAVID LANDAU—“As the Earth Turns,” “Bedside,” “Lawyer Man,” “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,” “70,000 Witnesses.” HENRY O’NEILL—“Isle of Fury,’ “The Personality Kid,” “Side Streets,” “Wonder Bar,” “Upperworld,” “Fog Over Frisco,” “ve Got Your Number.” DOROTHY TREE—“Friends of Mr. Sweeney,” “Side Streets,” “Life Begins,” “Husband’s Holiday,” “East of Fifth Avenue.” Louis Calhern Louis Calhern was born in New York City and embarked upon his stage career with a Stock Company when only seventeen years old. Following several years in stock in New York and St. Louis he was starred in a number of stage productions, including “Cobra,” his greatest success. His first screen experience was with Lois Weber in “What’s Worth While,” “Frisco Jenny,” “They Call It Sin,” “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing,” “Okay America,” “Merry Go Round” and “Blonde Crazy” are some of his best known productions in addition to his current release “The Man With Two Faces,” now showing at the BRE eR nae Theatre. Mae Clarke Mae Clarke was born in Philadelphia but moved to Atlantic City with her parents when a child. She attended the local schools and Dawson Dancing Academy. Later she appeared successively with Barbara Stanwyck and Walda Mansfield at the Strand Roof, the Everglades Club and Vanity Fair. The three girls, who were inseparable chums, were persuaded to try Hollywood and pictures by Carter De Haven. But the three stayed only a short time on their first venture, returning to New York to play in “The Noose.” Afterwards all three wmiade good in the movies. Miss Clarke’s first big hit was with James Cagney in “Public Enemy” in which picture the now famous grapefruit episode took place. TATU ULU AULA LR LLL LLL Rieardo Cortez Ricardo Cortez was born in Vienna but moved to New York with his parents when three years of age. He received his early education there and then entered a brokerage office as a messenger boy. He was always interested in the theatre and spent all his spare pennies for seats in the peanut gallery. His first chance to play before the footlights came when he got a job as a super in a theatrical spectacle. Then he was given work as fly boy in a Forty-First Street Theatre. An advertisement for extras at a Fort Lee studio caught his eye. He applied and got a job. Cortez quickly advanced from extra to bit parts and finally to leading roles. He was Garbo’s leading man in her first feature, “The Torrent.” When the talkies came in he was even in more demand than in the silent pictures, having an excellent speaking voice. His more recent pictures include “Mandalay,” “Wonder Bar,” “The Big Shakedown,” “The House on 56th Street,” “Big Executive,’ “Torch Singer,” “Broadway Bad” and “The Giant Swing.” Mary Astor Mary Astor was born in Quincy, Illinois, where her father was a teacher in the local schools. Later she went to Chicago where her mother secured a position as teacher at the Kenwood Loring School for girls. Miury entered the same school to study diction and drama. She entered a beauty contest conducted by a motion picture magazine and won an honorable mention in the preliminaries. So she went to New York, got into the finals and came out second. Mary then got work in a New York studio playing in short subjects and finally was selected to play opposite Huntley Gordon. Later she played leads with Eugene O’Brien and Glenn Hunter. Finally she turned to Hollywood where she appeared in a number of outstanding features. Among her most recent pictures are “Return of the Terror,” “Up perworld,” “Easy To Love,” “Convention City,” “The World Changes,” “Jennie Gerhardt,” “The Kennel Murder Case,” “A Successful Calamity” and “The Little Giant.” Arthur Byron Arthur Byron is one of the best known actors on the American stage and has been associated with it all his life. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1872 of theatrical parents, he launched upon his stage career in 1889 working with his father. Since then he has played in innumerable stage successes and won fame, in the past, as leading man to such notables as Ethel Barrymore, Maxine Elliott and Maude Adams. He originated the role of Editor in the New York production of “The Front Page” and the role of Warden in “The Criminal. Code” on Broadway. His first work for the screen was in “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing.” He has also played in “Fog Over Frisco” and “College Coach.” Length 6667 feet Running Time 72 minutes