“Frisco Jenny”
IN NEW FILM RUTH CHATTERTON DEPARTS FROM TYPE Ruth Chatterton’s latest picture for Warner Bros. First National Pictures will be " ■’Frisco Jenny.” The story is totally different from Miss Ohatterton’s usual type, and for the first time in many months the star discards the drawing-room for the underworld, playing a vivid character who, starting as the daughter of a saloon-keeper on the Barbary Coast, becomes a bootlegger on a, fancy scale, and a power in the "undercover” polities of the city. To bring this character to the screen Miss Chatterton was forced also to discard her beautifully cultured voice for a raucous nasal one, harden her R’s and flatten her A’s, and speak in the slangy, careless manner of the setting and the period. How well she has succeeded is a tribute to her art, for while the ettiquette of the drawing-room is natural to the star, her new role called for all of the technique and acting ability at her command.
Marie Dressier and Wallace Beery will appear together in "Tugboat Annie,” a comedy romance on the lines of their previous success, "Min and Bill.” ■ V:
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7106, 15 March 1933, Page 5
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