Screenland (May-Oct 1931)

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for September 1931 93 r Casts of Current Films "A FREE SOUL." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From novel by Adela Rogers St. John. Adapted by John Meehan. Directed by Clarence Brown. The cast: Jan Ashe, Norma Shearer; Stephen Ashe, Lionel Barrymore; Ace Wilfong, Clark Gable; Dwight Sutro, Leslie Howard; Eddie, James Gleason. "ALEXANDER HAMILTON." Warner Brothers. Based on the play by George Arliss and Mary Hamlin. Adapted by Julian Josephson and Maude Howell. Directed by John Adolphi. The cast: Alexander Hamilton, George Arliss; Mrs. Betsy Hamilton, Doris Kenyon; Senator Roberts, Dudley Digges; George Washington, Alan Mowbray; Mrs. Reynolds, June Collyer; Mr. Reynolds, Ralf Harolde; Chief Justice John Jay, Charles Middleton; Thomas Jefferson, Montagu Love; General Philip Schuyler, Lionel Belmore; James Monroe, Morgan Wallace; Count Talleyrand, John T. Murray; Martha Washington, Gwendolin Logan.* "CHANCES." First National. From the story by A. Hamilton Gibbs. Adapted by Waldemar Young. Directed by Alan Dwan. The cast: Jack Ingleside, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Tom Ingleside, Anthony Bushell; Molly Prescott, Rose Hobart; Mrs. Ingleside, Mary Forbes; Major Bradford, Holmes Herbert; Jr. Archie, William Austin; The General, Edmund Breon; Private Jones, Harry Allen; Lieutenant Wickham, Edward Morgan; Ruth, Mae Madison.* "CONFESSIONS OF A CO-ED." Paramount. Directed by David Burton and Dudley Murphy. The cast: Dan, Phillips Holmes; Patricia, Sylvia Sidney; Hal, Norman Foster; Peggy, Claudia Dell; Adelaide, Florence Britton; Lucille, Martha Sleeper; Mildred, Dorothy Libaire, Sally, Marguerite Warner; President, George Irving; Dean Winslow, Winter Hall; Dean Marbridge, Eulalie Jenson; Mark, Bruce Colman.* "DADDY LONG LEGS." Fox. From the novel and play by Jean Webster. Adapted by Sonya Levien. Directed by Alfred Santell. The cast: Judy Abbott, Janet Gaynor; Jervis Pendleton, Warner Baxter; Sally, Una Merkle; Jimmy, John Arledge; Riggs, Claude Gillingwater. Sr.; Wykoff, Edwin Maxwell; Mrs. Semple, Effie Ellsler; Freddie Perkins, Kendall MacComas; Mrs. Pendleton, Kathlyn Williams; Mrs. Lippett, Elizabeth Patterson; Miss Pritchard, Louise Closser Hale; Katie, Martha Lee Sparks; Gloria, Sheila Manners.* "DAYBREAK." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From the novel "Daybreak." Adapted by Ruth Cumming. Directed by Jacques Feyder. The cast: Willi, Ramon Novarro; Laura, Helen Chandler; Herr Schnabel, Jean Hersholt; General von Hartz, C. Aubrey Smith; Otto, William Bakewrell; Emily Kessner, Karen Morley; Yon Lear, Kent Douglass; Franz, Glenn Tryon; Josef, Clyde Cook; Emil, Sumner Getchell; Frau Hoffman, Clara Blandick; Herr Hoffman, Edwin Maxwell; August, Jackie Searl. "EVERYTHING'S ROSIE." ' Radio. From the story by Al Boasberg. Adapted by Tim Whelan. Directed by Claude Bruckman. The cast: Dr. J. Dockweiler, Droop, Robert Woolsey; Rosie, Anita Louise; Billy Lowe, John Darrow; Mrs. Lowe, Florence Roberts; Mr. Lowe, Frank Beal; Oberdoff, Alfred P. James; Miss Van Dorn, Chevret; Sheriff, Clifford Dempsey. "FAME." Warner Brothers. From the play "You and I" by Phillip Barry'. Directed by Alfred Green. The cast: Nancy White, Doris Kenyon; Maitland ' White, Lewis Stone; Roderick White, John Darrow; Veronica, Evalyn Knapp; Geoffrey, Charles Butterworth; G. T. Warren, Oscar Apfel; Etta, Una Merkle. "JUST A GIGOLO." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From the play by Alexander Engel and Alfred Grunwald. Screen adaptation and dialogue by Hans Kraly, Richard Schayer. Directed by Jack Conway. The cast: Lord Robert Brummel, William Haines; Roxana Hartley, Irene Purcell; Lord George Hampton, C. Aubrey Smith; Lady Hartley, Charlotte Granville; Lady Agatha Carrol, Lillian Bond; A French Husband, Albert Conti; A French Wife, Maria Alba; Freddie. Ray Mil land; Gwenny, Lenore Bushman; Tony, Gerald Fielding; Pauline, Yola Davril.* "MEN CALL IT LOVE." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on Vincent Lawrence's play "Among The Married." Directed by Edgar Selwyn. The cast: Tony, Adolphe Menjou; Connie, Leila Hyams; Jack, Norman Foster; Helen, Mary Duncan; Callie, Hedda Hopper; Joe, Robert Emmett Keane; Brandt, Harry Northrup. "NIGHT NURSE." Warner Brothers. From the novel by Dora Macy. Directed by William A. Wellman. The cast: Lora Hart. Barbara Stanwyck; Mortie. Ben Lyon; Moloney, Joan Blondell; Dr. Bell, Charles Winninger; Mrs. Ritchey, Charlotte Merriam; Egan, an interne, Edward J. Nugent; Dr. Ranger, Ralf Harolde; Miss Dillon, Vera Lewis; Mrs. Maxwell, Blanche Frederici; Nick, Clark Gable; The first interne. Allan Lane; The drunk, Walter McGrail; Nanny, Betty Graham; Desney, Marcia Jones.* *Reviewed in this issue "SEED." Universal. Adapted from Charles G. Norris' novel. Directed by John M. Stahl. The cast: Barl Carter, John Boles; Mildred, Genevieve Tobin; Peggy Carter, Lois Wilson; Jennie, ZaSu Pitts; Bliss, Richard Tucker; Bob, Jed Prouty; Junior Carter, Kenneth Seiling; Dicky Carter, Don Cox; Danny Carter, Terry Cox; Margaret Carter, Helen Parrish; Johnny Carter, Dickie Moore; Junior Carter (older), Raymond Hackett; Dickie Carter (older). Jack Willis; Danny Carter (older). Bill Willis; Margaret Carter (older), Bette Davis; Johnny Carter (older), Dick Winslow; Nancy, Frances Dade. Picture fads may come and go, but Westerns go on forever! Buck Jones' next "horse opera" will be "The Fighting Sheriff." "SKIPPY." Paramount. From the story by Percy Crosby. Directed by Norman Taurog. The cast: Skippy Skinner, Jackie Cooper; Sooky Wayne, Robert Coogan; Eloise, Mitzi Green; Sidney, Jackie Searl; Dr. Herbert Skinner, Willard Robertson; Mrs. Ellen Skinner, Enid Bennett; Harley Nubbins, Donald Haines; Mrs. Wayne, Helen Jerome Eddy; DogCatcher Nubbins, Jack Clifford; Dad Burkey, Guy Oliver. "SMART MONEY." Warner Brothers. Screen story and dialogue by Kubec Glasman, John Bright. Lucien Hubbard and Joseph Jackson. Directed by Alfred E. Green. The cast: Nick, Edward G. Robinson; Irene, Evalyn Knapp; Jack, James Cagney; Sleepy Sam. Ralf Harolde; Sport Williams, Boris Karloff; District Attorney, Morgan Wallace; District Attorney's Girl, Margaret Livingston; Marie, Noel Francis: Greek Barber, Maurice Black; Hickory Short, Ben Taggart. "THE LAWYER'S SECRET." Paramount. From the story by James Hilary Finn. Adapted by Lloyd Corrigan and Max Marcin. Directed by Louis Gasnier and Max Marcin. The cast: Drake Norris, Clive Brook; Laurie Roberts, Charles Rogers; Joe Hart, Richard Arlen; Kay Roberts. Fay Wray; Beatrice Stevens, Jean Arthur; "The Weasel." Francis McDonald; "Madame X," Harold Goodwin; "Red," Syd Saylor.* The picture producing companies, each month in SCREENLAND, announce new pictures and stars to be seen in the theatres throughout the country. Watch this announcement. This month they will be found on the following pages: Fox Films, Pages 8 and 9; Paramount, Page 5; Warner Brothers, Page 7; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Page 11; Educational, Page 13. "THE MAD PARADE." Liberty. From tho r by Doris Malloy and Gertrude Orr. Adapted by Doris Malloy, Gertrude Orr and Henry McCarthy. Directed by William Beaudine. The cast: Monica, Evelyn Brent; Janice, June Clyde; Dorothy, Marccline Day; Fanny, Louise Fazenda; Lil, Lilyan Tashman; Mrs. Schuyler, Irene Rich; Snoop, Fritzi Ridgeway; Rosemary, Elizabeth Keating; Bluebell, Helen Keating* "THE NIGHT ANGEL." Paramount. From the story by Edmund Goulding. Directed by Edmund Goulding. The cast: Yula Martini, Nancy Carroll; Rudek Berkem, Frederic March; Theresa Masar, Phoebe Foster; Countess von Martini, Allison Skipworth; Biezel, Alan Hale.* "THE SHE-WOLF." Universal. Based on the stage play, "Mother's Million." Adapted by Winifred Dunn. Directed by James Flood. The cast: Harriet Breen, May Robson; David Talbot, James Hall; Tom Breen, Lawrence Gray; Faire Breen, Frances Dade; William Remington, Edmund Breese; Maria Peppy, Lillian Harmer; Mrs. Talbot, Leah Winslow Peggy, Elinor Flynn; Detective Burke, William L. Thome.* "THE SMILING LIEUTENANT." Paramount. Screen story by Ernst Vajda and Samson Raphaelson. Based upon "Waltz Dream" by Leo Jacobson and Felix Doorman and also the novel "Nux Der Prinzgemaht" by Hans Muller. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The cast: Niki, Maurice Chevalier; Franzi, Claudette Colbert; Nanne, Miriam Hopkins; King, George Barbier; Orderly, Hugh O'Connell; Max, Charles Ruggles; Adjutant Von Rokoff, Robert Strange; Lily. Janet Reade; Emperor, Con Macsunday. "THE SQUAW MAN." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From the play by Edwin Milton Royle. Directed by Cecil B. De Mille. The cast: Captain James Wynnegat, Jim Carston, Warner Baxter; N alchurich. Lupe Velez; Diana. Eleanor Boardman; Cash Hawkins. Charles Bickford; Sir John Applegate, Roland Young; Henry. Paul Cavanagh; Shorty, Raymond Hatton; Sheriff, DeWitt Jennings; Big Bill, J. Farrell McDonald; Hal, Dickie Moore; Tabywanna, Mitchell Lewis.* "THE VICE SQUAD." Paramount. From the story by Oliver H. P. Garrett. Directed by John Cromwell. The cast: Major Stephen Lucarno. Paul Lukas; Alice Morrison, Kay Francis; Magistrate Morrison, William Davidson; Madeline Hunt, Helen Johnson; Detectire-Sergeant Mather, Rockcliffe Fellowes; Josie, Esther Howard.* "TRANSGRESSION." Radio.. From the novel by Kate Jordan. Adapted by Elizabeth Meehan. Directed by Herbert Brenon. The cast: Elsie Maury, Kay Francis; Robert Maury, Paul Cavanagh; Don Arluro, Ricardo Cortez; Honora Maury, Nance O'Neil; Serafin, John St. Polis; Julie, Adrienne d'Ambricourt; Countess Longueval. Cissy Fitzgerald; Paula Vrain, Doris Lloyd; Carlos, Augustino Borgato.* "UP FOR MURDER." Universal. From the story by Monta Bell. Directed by Monta Bell. The cast: Robert Marshall, Lew Ayres; Myra Deane, Genevieve Tobin; William Winter, Purnell B. Pratt; Herk. Richard Tucker; Collins, Frank McHugh; Maid, Louise Beavers; City Editor, Frederick Burt.* "WHITE SHOULDERS." Radio. From the story by Rex Beach. Adapted by J. Walter Ruben. Directed by Melville Brown. The cast: Norma Selbee, Mary Astor; Gordon Kent, Jack Holt; Lawrence Marchmont, Ricardo Cortez; William Sothern. Sidney Toler; Marie Fontaine, Kitty Kelly; Head Waiter, Nicholas Soussanin.* "WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS." Fox. Story and dialogue by Barry Conners. Directed by Raoul Walsh. The cast: Flagg, Victor McLaglen; Quirt. Edmund Lowe; Elsa, Greta Nissen; Olsen, El Brendel; Fifi, Fifi Dorsay; Pee Wee, Marjorie White; Captain of Marines, T. Roy Barnes; Hassen, Bela Lugosi.* "YOUNG AS YOU FEEL." Fox. Based on the play, "Father and the Boys," by George Ade. Adapted by Edwin Burke. Directed by Frank Borzage. The cast: Lemuel Morehouse, Will Rogers; Fleurette, Fifi Dorsay; Mr. Marley, Lucien Littleneld; Billy Morehouse, Donald Dillaway; Tom Morehouse, Terrance Ray; Dorothy Gregson, Lucile Browne; Rose Gregson, Rosalie Roy; Lamson, C. Henry Gordon; Colonel Stanhope, John T. Murray; Robbins, Brandon Hurst; Mrs. Denton, Marcia Harris; Secretary, Otto Hoffman.* "YOUNG DONOVAN'S KID." Radio. From the novel "Big Brother" by Rex Beach. Adapted by J. Walter Ruben. Directed by Fred Niblo. The cast: Jim Doncnan, Richard Dix; Midge Murray, Jackie Cooper; Kilty Costello. Marion Shilling; Father Dan. Frank Sheridan; Cokey Joe, Boris Karloff; Burke, Dick Rush.