The St Louis Kid (Warner Bros.) (1934)

Eddie Kennedy Ann Reid Buck Willetts Farmer Benson Richardson Messeldopp Brown Gracie Judge Jones Harris Joe Hunter Louie The Girl Pete THE STO (OSM NTL James Cagney has a_ perfect starring vehicle in “The St. Louis Kid,” a riotously funny story of a rough and ready truck driver who is as quick with his fists as with his tongue, and whose blarney gets him out of one scrape just in time for him to tumble into another. Jimmy, always up to his ears in difficulties, smacks them down right and left, and not only triumphs over his multitude of enemies, but tames the pretty and witty girl who begins as his sworn foe, and ends by becoming his sweetheart, a part played by charming Patricia Ellis. Jimmy, in the role of a red headed, hot-tempered Irish lad from Chicago, Eddie Kennedy, drives a delivery truck between that city and St. Louis. He meets Ann Reid (Patricia Ellis) by running his truck into her car. Ann is telling him what she thinks of him when Farmer Brown (Addison Richards), head of the local milk trust, drives up and attacks him. Eddie knocks Brown down and is arrested. Turning his truck over to his assistant Buck (Allen Jenkins), Eddie talks himself out of a term in the Ostopolis jail by scoring Brown as the oppressor of the farmers and urging the Justice of the Peace, himself a dairyman, to start a milk strike. The strike actually begins and Eddie’s firm is hired to run milk through the barricade. The truck PRODUCTION STAFF Director _. Screen Play by Story by Dialogue Director Photography by Film Editor Art Director Gowns by Vitaphone Orchestra Conducted by OFFICIAL WE DO OUR PAR’ LENGTH RUNNING TIME CAST OF CHARACTERS ne niall James Cagney Patricia Ellis Allen Jenkins Robert Barrat Hobart Cavanaugh Spencer Charters Addison Richards Dorothy Dare Arthur Aylesworth Charles Wilson William Davidson Harry Woods Gertrude Short Eddie Shubert Rely: he and Buck are driving is stopped on its first run. Eddie gets into a fight with the farmers and the Justice sentences him to ten days in jail. He escapes the first night and starts out to wreak vengeance on Ann who runs the village restaurant. Instead, he escorts her to a dance where Ann suddenly finds she likes him in spite of herself— likes him so much, in fact, that she takes him back to jail, making a date with him for the next evening. On her way home, Ann sees Louie (Harry Woods), a gorilla hired to run milk through the ranks of strikers, kill a farmer. Louie kidnaps the girl. Eddie is accused of the murder, but again escapes, liberates Buck, and the two return to Chicago. When Eddie learns that Ann has been kidnapped, he snatches Louie, beats him up and fools him into revealing the whereabouts of the girl. With Buck at his side, Eddie rushes to the rescue and in a whirlwind battle, in which they are aided by friendly truck drivers, the gang of thugs is defeated and captured, and Ann is freed. Ann and Eddie decide to marry, but when they arrive at a hotel for their honeymoon, the house detective makes a slurring remark at Ann. Eddie slugs the officer with the usual results. He manages to telephone, from the jail, a message of affection to the waiting Ann. _......Ray Enright < Warren Duff and Seton I. Miller __.Frederick Hazlitt Brennan Stanley Logan Sid Hickox Clarence Kolster Jack Okey __ Orry-Kelly Leo F. Forbstein BILLING ag Re SAAS Co PR RR “THE ST. LOUIS KID” with James Cagney Patricia Ellis — Allen Jenkins Directed by Ray Enright A Warner Bros. Productions Corporation Picture 100% 90% 20% 40% 5% 25% | _ 6,131 feet __..67 minutes Page Two =e | 42 /o James Cagney James Cagney was born in New York and as a boy had the usual run of office boy and bundle wrapper until he started his stage career as a chorus boy. His next step upward was in big time vaudeville and then to sroadway productions. It was while appearing with Joan Blondell in “Penny Arcade” in New York that both he and Miss Blondell were ushered into pictures, the result of Warner Bros. buying the screen rights to that play and making it into a picture under the title of “Sinner’s Holiday.” Both have jobs as since / risen to stardom under the Warner banner. , Cagney’s more recent pictures include “Here Comes The Navy,” “He Was Her Man,” “Jimmy, the Gent,” “Lady Killer,” “Footlight Parade,” “The Mayor of Hell” and “Hard to Handle”. His eurrent production is “The St. Louis Kid,” which comes to the Theatre on BIOGRAPHIES Allen Jenkins Allen Jenkins, one of the rare comedy characters of the screen, was born in New York City. He turned to the stage when a boy and has been linked with the theatre ever since. Ile started as a chorus boy, playing in the same show with James Cagney. After three years in the he attended dramatie school and branched out as a character actor. He played in many Broadway successes, including “Blessed Event,’ “What Price Glory,” “The Last Mile,” “Rain” and “Five Star Final”, His chorus, recent more pictures include “Happiness Ahead,’ “The Case of the Howling Dog,” “Twenty Million Sweethearts,” “Jimmy, The Gent,’ “I’ve Got Your Number,” “Bedside,” “The Mayor of Hell” and “The Merry Frinks”’. He is now appearing in “The St. Louis Kid,” which comes to the Theatre on Beautiful Pat of “The St. Louis Kid,” the title of the That’s what they call lovely Patricia Ellis, who plays the sweetheart ___ Theatre’s latest Warner comedy. James Cagney is the St. Louis Kid, himself, and Allen Jenkins is his dumb but loyal pal. Mat No. 4—20c Robert Barrat Robert Barrat was born in New York City and educated in the publie schools there. His debut in theatrical circles was in stock in Springfield, Mass. Later he appeared in many noteworthy productions with some of the leading dramatie stars of the stage. It was while playing the role of the strong man in the stage play, “Lilly Turner,” that Warner Bros. | that engaged him for identical role with Ruth Chatterton in the picture. Since then he has played in “I Sell Anything,” “Big Hearted Herbert,” “Midnight Alibi,” “The Dragon Murder Case,” “Here Comes The Navy,” “Friends of Mr. Sweeney,” “Fog Over Frisco.” “Return of the Terror,” “Upper world,” “Wonder Bar” “A Very Honorable Guy.” His current picture is “The St. Louis Kid,” now showing at the Theatre. and Dorothy Dare Dorothy Dare, who plays an important part in the Warner Bros. “The 8t. Kid,” now showing at the picture, Louis Theatre, is a famous Broadway musical comedy star, although she is only twenty-one years old. She was born in Philadelphia and started her stage career at the age of seven. She played in the musical “Night Boat” with Hal Skelly, Ernest Torrence and Louise Groody; appeared in several of the Ziegfeld shows and made a tremendous hit in “The Only Girl’. Her greatest success before going to Hollywood was in Joe Cook’s show, “Hold Your Horses,” in which she stopped the show every night in her numbers with Tom Patricola. This led to her contract with Warner Bros., her first picture being “Happiness Ahead”, => Patricia Eni, : Patricia Ellis was borp York, the daughter of Aleyasd Leftwich, one of that ¢ wed » WAT ity’s » Patricia Ellis Mat No. 9 —10c noted stage directors and yop ducers. She has been on the stage si _the time she was old enough § walk and appeared in such Bry way productions as “The p, Family,” “Once In a Lifetip and “Elizabeth The Queen” Signed to a contract with ¥, ner Bros., Miss Ellis has made markable strides toward star playing important roles in “}% Hearted Herbert,” “The ¢; Clown,” “Side Streets,” “Hy Teen,” “Easy To Love,” vention City” and “The Worl Changes”, Her current production is “ St. Louis Kid,” which aa the — SCREEN RECORD JAMES CAGNEY—‘Here Co the Navy,” “He Was Her Man} “Jimmy, the Gent,” “Lad Killer,” “Footlight Parade “Mayor of Hell.” ; PATRICIA ELLIS —‘ii Hearted Herbert,” “The G Clown,” “Side Streets,” “Ha Teen,” “Easy To Love,” © vention City.” ALLEN JENKINS—“Happ. Ahead,” “The Case of # Howling Dog,” “Twenty Mi lion Sweethearts,” “The Mer Frinks,” “Bedside.” } ROBERT BARRAT — ‘I vd Anything,” “Big Hearted Hee bert,” “The Dragon Murdeg Case,” “Here Comes The Navhid “Fog Over Frisco.” | HOBART CAVANAUGH 7 Sell Anything,” “A Lost Lath “Kansas City Princess “Madame Du Barry,” “How “Wonder Bar,” T wife,” Key.” SPENCER CHARTERS “Th Cireus Clown,” “Wonder ye “Fashions of 1934,” “tT! e Ke nel Murder Case,” “Female ADDISON RICHARDS—“"" men Are Born,” “The Can the Howling Dog,” “Br Agent.” DOROTHY DARE — “Papp. Ahead.” seve AYLESWORTH = “Gentlemen Are Born, i Bike Rider,” “The — Howling Dog.” “The } Murder Case.” CHARLES WILSON Dragon Murder Cas Cireus Clown,” “FOR Frisco,” “Harold i Got Your Number. , WILLIAM DAVIDSON wl Dragon Murder Case, of Mr. Sweeney, | Frisco,” “Convention “Lady Killer.” HARRY WwooDs — Clown,” “Bhadows “a Sing,” “Haunted Gol oe ae ltt “Texas Gun Fig “Law and Order.” : GERTRUDE SHORT -“ Key,” “Secret Sinners, ‘n 419,” “Blonde Venvs RAY ENRIGHT (D me | “Dames,” “The Ciress “Twenty Million ae “Pye Got Your , “Havana Widews. » “Pog (ir