George Raft, Sylvia Sydney Paired Again

Northern Advocate, 22 April 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

George Raft, Sylvia Sydney Paired Again

The fact that parole laws of many states forbidi marriages for paroled persons motivates Paramount’s new Sylvia Sidney and George Raft picture, “You and Me.” The two stars, last seen together in “Pick Up,” play the roles of young ex-convicts, working for a philanthropic department store owner whose hobby is to give men and women a chance to go straight. Raft, who has served his parole, marries Miss Sidney after making a complete confession to her about his shady past. Miss Sidney, still on parole, conceals her past from him because she knows that by probation regulations, she may not marry. And also, she is aware of the fact that Raft is desperately trying to steer clear of anything that will remind him of his gangster days. ' When Raft learns of her past he becomes embittered, gives up his struggling to go straight, returns to the “mob.” and is saved from another criminal career only by the daring action of Miss Sidney, who risks-another stretch in the “Big House” to save him.

Two favourites of earlier film days. Jack Mulhall and Julia Faye, are cast in small supporting roles in the new picture, which also includes in its cast Warren Hymer, Roscoe Karns, Harry Carey and George E. Stone. Fritz Lang, who directed Miss Sidney in “Fury,” directed and produced the new picture.

Mickey Rooney was a guest at the American News Qongress dinner for Mrs Roosevelt, held in New York recently.

Perhaps it's just the case of the Trade Wind . . .! Hedy La Marr called for Gene Markcy at his studio the other evening wearing a blonde wig, and Markey thought she was Joan Bennett.