Waterfront (Warner Bros.) (1939)

e ADVANCE PUBLICITY e mat 210 — 30c MARIE WILSON, when she isn't engaged in her usual bouts with the dodoes, makes an attractive picture—as seen above. The young comedienne plays a leading role in 'Waterfront,, coming to the Strand Theatre Friday. Marie Wilson, Who Knows, Insists Nitwits Have Most Fun Brainy girls don’t have nearly as much fun as the Dumb Doras. At least that’s what Marie Wilson, who has acquired quite a reputation in the cinema of being not so smart, thinks. She discoursed on the disadvantages of erudition in an idle moment on the set of “Waterfront,” her latest Warner Bros. picture, which opens at the Strand Theatre next Friday. “Living up to a reputation of being intelligent must be awfully hard work,” she said. “You have to know so many things and be able to talk so people can understand you. Nobody cares what I think about economic questions or current events, so I can form my own opinions and change them as often as I like without anybody being the wiser. And if I’m wrong, nobody knows about it. But a girl supposed to be smart can easily ruin her reputation if she makes mistakes. “You never heard of a big handsome policeman helping an intelligent girl across a street, did you? I should say not; they’re afraid of her because she looks so capable of taking care of herself. Why, the other day, not only one policeman on foot, but two nice officers got out of a prowl car and a _ motorcycle policeman got off his motorcycle to see that I got across Hollywood Boulevard safely. I can take care of myself, too, but I guess they thought I looked like I couldn’t.” It certainly pays for people to think you’re dumb. ieee iia tt eh sri eh JURADO es RAS Be ay WW Gb HE sooo iass fein teks Prankie Dottahitie. -0..-.2.cccc0ccescaecss MGTIO! COTO CU xeon ree eek POT OF GIMME ion oo hacks secindssanieatas SUIS TRIG afeod sesso ein tick eee BE rk SACI OR oii Biri od ge cess Dan: Dolan es Sich TOC BCC Gi. ANA ik: PR isk AORN ase GLORIA DICKSON anecseeen DENNIS MORGAN Msi hos Dts Ne MARIE WILSON eotegaecesetits Sasi eet esos Larry Williams ser stadpaniitnaioeatacnatn oe Sheila Bromley sateen rons tdew, caste c ace Aldrich Bowker Pare in Stor EES Frank Faylen Ber ceers ee Onty Ses Paks Ward Bond SEGA EGEA ee Arthur Gardner Bop es SORmn co bre Pe Se Le George Lloyd PRODUCTION STAFF gL Sa RR Oe RP TN Sercen Pilngby see: P’rom, the PLAY OY-.<.0scieriorsvsrsiveseosPhotegrapny..OYrees..ssciesecoosisccrveseces Art Dirgetotinc weeny imiiciivn ch. Length 5336 ft. sake aint Nnea eae TERRY MORSE ve Katz Arthur Ripley site N ah ee Arthur Ripley PE ete ory Bir eras Louis Hesse erontiges eee Milo Anderson Pas i Ae ae Stanley Jones Running Time 59 mins. Country of Origin U.S.A. SHEILA BROMLEY Life Js Hard-Played Game FINDS MEANNESS For Husky Dennis Morgan PAYS IN MOVIES Sheila Bromley likes to be a meanie. In her case it isn’t the woman who pays and pays but the studio paymaster who reimburses her for her nefarious ways. The diminutive, dynamic little blonde isn’t always a conscienceless Borgia. Sometimes she is just a hard-boiled damsel of the seamier side of life, as she is in Warner Bros.’ “Waterfront,”’ with Marie Wilson, Gloria Dickson and Dennis Morgan in the other leads, which opens next Friday at the Strand Theatre. Nevertheless, she’s a meanie, though, as in this case, the somewhat tarnished glitter of a soul sometimes penetrates her hardboiled exterior. Sheila Bromley is a type, but that is quite all right. “It keeps me busy,” she says. “The woods are full of lovely ingenues and feminine leads and the competition is keen. There aren’t so many girls, though, who like to play unsympathetic roles. “I have no patience with people who worry about being typed. Being a type has a greater stimulation for the bank account than being a counterpart of hundreds who sit at home waiting for casting office calls which come infrequently and far apart. “So many people burn up their energy and waste their life fighting fate. They set their hearts on playing sweet and noble girls mat 106 — l5c DENNIS MORGAN AND SHEILA BROMLEY in ‘Waterfront’ at Strand. and break their hearts trying to get that kind of an assignment when in reality they are definitely typed as another kind of character. As a consequence they get nowhere in their career. SYNOPSIS (Not for publication) Jim Dolan (Dennis Morgan) can’t resist a good fight until Ann Stacey (Gloria Dickson) makes him give up battling and marry her. But when his brother is murdered, he swears to avenge the death in his own way. Mart Hendler (Ward Bond) killed the boy, and fearing revenge hides with his girl, Marie (Sheila Bromley). Marie and Ann try to keep the two apart, but with his pal Frankie’s (Larry Williams) aid, Jim sneaks out to get Mart. He is arrested for carrying a gun, breaks jail, and finally locates Mart in his room. But Ann got there first. Things move fast from there on to a highly dramatic finish with justice meted out to all. And Jim and Ann start off to a new life away from the waterfront. ie Dennis Morgan can fell a tree and make love with equal finesse. The laughter lurking in his eyes will always mock life’s vicissitudes; but life will always be a game to be played hard and well by this stalwart, handsome six-footer. Dennis attended grammar school at Prentice, high school at Marshfield, Wisconsin, and University of Wisconsin and Carroll College at Waukesha, Wisconsin. He is a member of Theta Alpha Phi, honorary dramatic fraternity, and Beta Pi Epsilon. In high school he played basketball, football and baseball and was a track man. When he finished college he couldn’t find a job, not even as a lumberjack. One day he walked into a radio station in Milwaukee and sang a couple of songs which he announced himself. They gave him a job as singer and announcer and he remained there a year and a half. From then on his experience was vast and varied. He recalls with amusement sixty consecutive one-night stand presentations of the opera “Faust.” It was a condensed version of the opera and there were five principals and a pianist and no chorus in the troupe. Each of the principals played two or three parts. The troupe, traveling in one small car with scenery and luggage strapped to the top and back, averaged 125 miles per day. There were several seasons of semi-professional baseball in the northern Wisconsin state league, and work in lumber yards, lumber camps and lumber mills when acting or singing opportunities were scarce. Then a presentation of the opera “Carmen” with Mary Garden in the leading role was planned for Chicago. He became acquainted with the noted singer who immediately recognized his talents. She arranged a screen test in Hollywood, which eventually brought him a Warner Bros. contract and he makes his debut in the leading male role in mat 107 — l5c DENNIS MORGAN starred in 'Waterfront’ at Strand Friday. “Waterfront,” which opens next Friday at the Strand Theatre. He is six feet two inches tall, weighs 195 pounds and has blue eyes and brown hair. Essentially an outdoors man, he swims, plays tennis, shoots golf in the seventies, and works out consistently in a gymnasium. He likes fishing and hunting and misses the fights he had with the muskalonge of his native state. He never diets and is fond of brook trout, steaks and wild fowl. Doodles For Beauty Marie Wilson believes in doodling for beauty when she has a few spare moments between scenes, so she tugs those incredible eyelashes to make them still longer, molds her fingertips to a point, and gently massages her scalp so carefully that she doesn’t even molest her coiffure. Marie’s latest Warner Bros. picture, “Waterfront,” comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday. The young comedienne plays a straight role in her latest picture, “Waterfront,” but will soon be seen in “Cowboy Quarterback” as a small town gal who is beautiful, but dumb. OFFICIAL WARNER BROS. Pictures, Inc, Presents “WATERFRONT” with GLORIA DICKSON — DENNIS MORGAN MARIE WILSON LARRY WILLIAMS — SHEILA BROMLEY Directed by Terry Morse Screen Play by Lee Katz and Arthur Ripley From a Play by Kenyon Nicholson A Warner Bros. Picture Fight To A Finish Dennis Morgan renewed acquaintance one day recently with a lumberjack he licked in a northern Wisconsin lumber camp fight a few years ago. The man, who bears no illfeeling but who prefers to remain nameless, had to take another beating—more apparent than real—from Morgan during a fight sequence in Warner Bros.’ “Waterfront,” which opens next Friday at the Strand. Dennis Morgan is the new screen discovery who has taken the film “wise-guys” by surprise. He has all the qualities of a winner and should go far. BILLING 40%, 5% 100% 60%, 40% 20% 3% 2% Copyright 1939 Vitagraph, Inc. License to reproduce with copyright notice granted newspapers, magazines and other periodicals,