Screenland (Nov 1931-Mar 1932)

for February 19 32 99 Casts of Current Films *Reviewed in this issue "AMBASSADOR BILL." Fox. Suggested by "Ambassador From the United States" by Vincent Sheean. Screen play by Guy Bolton. Directed by Sam Taylor. The cast: Bill Harper, Will Rogers; The Queen, Marguerite Churchill; Ilka, Greta Nissen; King Paul, Tad Alexander; Lothar, Ray Milland; Prince De Polikoff, Gustav Von Seyffertitz; The General, Arnold Korff; Senator Pillsbury, Ferdinand Munier; Monte, Edwin Maxwell; Northfield Slater, Ernest Wood; Littleton, Tom Ricketts.* "ARE THESE OUR CHILDREN?" R KO. From the story by Wesley Ruggles. Adapted by Howard Estabrook. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. The cast: Eddie. Eric Linden; Mary, Rochelle Hudson; Nick, Ben Alexander; Florence, Arline Judge; Giggles, Roberta Gale; Grandma, Beryl Mercer; Dumbbell, Mary Komman; Benny, Robert Quirk; Heinie, William Orlamond; Bobby, Billy Butts.* "BAD COMPANY." RKO-Pathe. From a story by Jack Lait. Dialogue by Thomas Buckingham and Tay Garnett. Directed by Tay Garnett. The cast: Helen, Helen Twelvetrees; Goldie Gorio, Ricardo Cortez; Steve, John Garrick; Butler, Paul Hurst; King, Frank Conroy; Doc, Frank McHugh; Barnes, Kenneth Thomson; Emma, Emma Dun; Henry, William V. Mong; Monk, Wade Boteler; Pearson, Al Herman; McBaine, Harry Carey; Buff, Tom Kennedy; Prof., Robert Keith. "BLONDE CRAZY." Warner Brothers. Story by Kubec Glasmon and John Bright. Directed by Roy Del Ruth. The cast: Bert Harris, James Cagney; Anne Roberts, Joan Blondell; Dapper Dan, Louis Calhem; Helen, Noel Francis; Joe Reynolds, Ray Milland; Jim, Edward Nugent; Rupert Johnson, Guy Kibbe; Mrs. Snyder, Vera Lewis; Hank, Ed Deering; Lee, Walter Percival; Four-Eyes, Charles Levinson; Bell Hop, Edward Morgan; Bell Hop, William Burress; Mary, Polly Walters. "COMPROMISED." First National. From the play by Edith Fitzgerald. Adapted by Florence Ryerson. Directed by John Adolfi. The cast: Ann, Rose Hobart; Sidney Brock, Ben Lyon; Mr. Brock, Claude Gillingwater; Mrs. Squires. Emma Dun; Connie, Juliette Compton; Tony, Bert Roach; Louise Brock, Florence Britton; Mrs. Munsey, Louise Mackintosh; Mrs. Bird, Adele Watson; Sandy, Delmar Watson; Tipton, Edgar Morton. "CONSOLATION MARRIAGE." RKO. From an original story by Bill Cunningham. Adapted by Humphrey Pearson. Directed by Paul Sloane. The cast: Mary, Irene Dunne; Steve, Pat O'Brien; Jeff, John Halliday; The Colonel, Matt Moore; Aubrey, Lester Vail; Elaine, Myrna Loy.* "CORSAIR." United Artists. From the novel by Walton Green. Adapted by Josephine Lovette. Directed by Rollo Lloyd and Robert Ross. The cast: John Hawks, Chester Morris; Alison Corning, Alison Lloyd; Richard Sentinck, William Austin; "Chub" Hopping, Frank McHugh; Stephen Corning, Emmett Corrigan; "Big John," Fred Kohler; "Fish Face," Frank Rice; "Slim," Ned Sparks; Sophy, Mayo Methot; Susie Grenoble, Gay Seabrook; Jean Phillips, Addie McPhail* "DEVOTION." RKO-Pathe. From the novel "A Little Flat in the Temple" by Pamela Wynne. Screen story by Graham John and Horace Jackson. Directed by Robert Milton. The cast: Shirley, Ann Harding; Trent, Leslie Howard; Harrington, Robert Williams; Mr. Mortimer, O. P. Heggie; Mrs. Mortimer, Louise Closser Hale; Sergeant Coggins, Dudley Digges; Mrs. Coggins, Allison Skipworth; Pansie, Doris Lloyd; Margaret, Ruth Weston; Marjorie, Joan Carr; Elsie, Joyce Coad; Derek, Douglas Scott; Bridget, Temple Pigott; Gas Inspector, Forrester Harvey; Maid, Margaret Daily; Young Man, Pat Somerset; Mrs. Trent, Olive Tell; Junior Partner, Claude King; Telegraph Boy, Donald Stewart; Reporter, Cyril Delevante. "FANNY FOLEY HERSELF." RKO. From a story by Juliet Wilbor Tomkins. Adapted by Carey Wilson. Directed by Melville Brown. The cast: Fanny Foley, Edna May Oliver; Seely, Hobart Bosworth; Lucy, Florence Roberts; Carmen, Rochelle Hudson; Lenore, Helen Chandler; Teddy, John Darrow; Burns, Robert Emmett O'Connor; Crosby, Harry 0. Stubs. "FRIENDS AND LOVERS." RKO. From the novel by Maurice De Kobra. Directed by Victor Schertzinger. The cast: Captain Roberts, Adolphe Menjou; Alva Sangrito, Lily Damita; Lieutenant Nichols, Laurence Olivier; Victor Sangrito, Eric von Stroheim; McNellis, Hugh Herbert; General Armstrong, Frederick Kerr; Lady Alice, Blanche Frederici; Ivanoff, Vandim Uraneff; Non-com., Lai Chand Mehra; French maid, Yvonne D'Arcy; French barmaid, Kay Deslys; English barmaid, Dorothy Wilbert. "GIRLS ABOUT TOWN." Paramount. From the story by Zoe Akins. Screen play by Raymond Griffith and Brian Marlow. Directed by George Cukor. The cast: Wanda Howard, Kay Francis; Jim Baker, Linda Watkins is in the racket — the tennis racket — and she challenges you to a game. Her next picture is appropriately titled "Good Sport." Joel McCrea; Marie, Lilyan Tashman; Benjamin Thomas, Eugene Pallette; Jerry Chase, Allan Dinehart; Mrs. Thomas, Lucile Webster Gleason; Alex Howard, Anderson Lawler; Edna. Lucille Brown; Webster, George Brown; Simms, Robert McWade; Winnie, Judith Wood; Anne, Adrienne Ames; Dot, Claire Dodd; Joy, Hazel Howard; Billie, Patricia Caron.* "HER MAJESTY, LOVE." First National. From an original story by R. Bemauer and R. Oestreicher. Adapted by Henry Blanke and Joseph Jackson. Directed by William Dieterle. The cast: Lia Loerrele, Marilyn Miller; Fred Von Wellingen, Ben Lyon; Lia's Father, W. C. Fields; Otmar. Ford Sterling; Baron Von Schwartzdorff, Leon Errol; Hanneman, Harry Stubbs; Emil, Chester Conklin; Aunt Harriette, Maude Ebume; The Lawyer, Alfred James; Reisenfeld, Harry Holman; Elli, Mae Madison; Factory Secretary, Ruth Hall; Cornelius, Clarence Wilson.* The picture producing companies each month in SCRFENLAND, 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: MetroGoldywn-Mayer, page 2; Fox Films, page 3; Paramount, page 5 ; Warner Brothers, page 7. "NEW ADVENTURES OF GET RICH QUICK WALLINGFORD." Metro-GoldwynMayer. From "The Wallingford Stories" by George Randolph Chester. Directed by Sam Wood. The cast: Wallingford, William Haines; Schnozzle, Jimmy Durante; Blackie Daw, Ernest Torrence; Dorothy, Leila Hyams; McConigal, Guy Kibbee; Charles Harper, Hale Hamilton; Mr. Tutlle, Robert McWade; Mrs. Laylon. Clara Blandick; Mr. Laylon, Walter Walker. "ONCE A LADY." Paramount. From a play by Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolf Oestreicher. Adapted by Zoe Akins. Directed by Guthrie McClintic. The cast: Anna Keremazoff, Ruth Chatterton; Bennett Cloud, Ivor Novello; Faith Fenwick. the girl, Jill Esmond; The child, Suzanne Ransom; Jimmy Fenwick. Geoffrey Kerr; Lady Ellen, Doris Lloyd; Roger Fenwick, Herbert Bunston; Mrs. Fenwick. Gwendolen Logan; Alice Fenwick, Stella Moore; Caroline Gryce, Edith Kingdon; Allen Corinth, Bramwell FletcherMiss Bleeker. Ethel GrifHes; Harry Cosden, Theodore von Eltz; Sir William Gresham, Claude King; Jane Vernon, Lillian Rich.* "OVER THE HILL." Fox. Based on the pcems by Will Carleton. Screen play and dialogue by Tom Barry and Jules Furthman. Directed by Henry King. The cast: Johnny, James Dunn; Isabel. Sally Eilers; Ma, Mae Marsh; Pa, James Kirkwood: Tommy, Edward Crandall; Phyllis, Claire Maynard; Ben, William Pawley; Isaac, Olin Howland; Susan, Joan Peers; Bill Collector, David Hartford; Minnie, Eula Guy; Stephen, Douglas Walton.* "POSSESSED." Melro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From the play "The Mirage." Dialogue by Lenore Coffee. Directed by Clarence Brown. The cast: Marian Martin, Joan Crawford; Mark Whitney, Clark Gable; Al Manning, Wallace Ford; Wally, Skeets Gallagher; Trovers, Frank Conroy; Vernice, Marjorie White.* "PLATINUM BLONDE." Columbia. Story by H. E. Chandlee and Douglas Churchill. Directed by Frank Capra. The cast: Gallagher, Loretta Young; Str<t' Smith, Robert Williams; Anne Schuyler, Jean Harlow; Mrs. Schuyler, Louise Closser Hale; Michael Schuyler, Donald Dilloway; Dexter Grayson, Reginald Owen; Bingy, Walter Catlett; Conroy, Edmund Breese; Smylhe, Halliwell Hobbes; Dawson, Claude Allister. "STRICTLY DISHONORABLE." Universal. From the story by Preston Sturges. Screen play by Gladys Lehman. Directed by John M. Stahl. The cast: Gus, Count Di Ruvo, Paul Lukas; Isabelle Parry, Sidney Fox; Judge Dempsey, Lewis Stone; Henry Greene, George Meeker; Tomasso, William Ricciardi; Mulligan, Sidney Toler; Waiter, Carlo Schipa; Waiter, Samuel Bonello; Lilli. Natalie Moorhead; Cook, Joe Torillo; Officer, Joseph W. Girard.* "SUSAN LENOX (HER FALL AND RISE)." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From the novel by David Graham Phillips. Adapted by Wanda Tuchock. Dialogue by Zelda Sears and Leon Gordon. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. The cast: Susan Lenox, Greta Garbo; Rodney, Clark Gable; Ohlin, Jean Hersholt; Burliugham, John Miljan; Mondstrum, Alan Hale; Mike Kelly, Hale Hamilton; Astrid. Hilda Vaughn; Doctor, Russell Simpson; Madame Panoramia, Cecil Cunningham; Robert Lane, Ian Keith. "THE AGE FOR LOVE." United Artists. From the story by Ernest Pascal. Adapted by Ernest Pascal. Dialogue by Robert E. Sherwood. Directed by Frank Lloyd. The cast: Jean Hurd, Billie Dove; Dudley Crone, Charles Starrett; Sylvia Pearson; Lois Wilson; Horace Keats, Edward Everett Horton; AT»'na Donnet, Mary Duncan; Jess Aldrich, Adrian Morris; Dot Aldrich, Betty Ross Clarke; Floyd Evans, Jed Prouty; Eleanor, Joan Standing; Mr. Pearson. Charles Sellon; Annie, Alice Moe; The Poet, Andre Beranger; Grace, Vivian Oakland; Jules, Count Pierre De Ramey; Pamela, Cecil Cunningham.* "THE CHAMP." Melro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Story by Frances Marion. Directed by King Vidor. The cast: Champ. Wallace Berry; Dink, Jackie Cooper: Linda, Irene Rich; Sponge, Roscoe Ates; Tim, Edward Brophy; Tony, Hale Hamilton; Jonah, Jesse Scott; Mary Lou, Marcia Mae Jones.* "THE CISCO KID." Fox. O. Henry story scenarized by Alfred Cohn. Directed by Irving Cummings. The cast: Cisco Kid, Warner Baxter; Sergeant Mickey Dunn, Edmund Lowe; Carmencita. Conchita Montenegro; Sally Benton, Nora Lane; Dixon, V. S. A., James Bradbury. Jr.; Bouse, U. S. A., Eddie Dillon; Lopez. Charles Stevens; Gordito, Chris Martin; Billy, Douglas Haig; Annie, Marilynn Knowlden.* "THE MAD GENIUS." Warner Brothers. From the plav by Martin Brown. Adapted by J. Grubb Alexander and Harvey Thew. Directed by Michael Curtiz. The cast: Tsarakov. John Barrymore; Nana, (Continued on page jsi)