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BELINDA
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JANE WYMAN. WON ACADEMY AWARD WITHOUT UTTERING A SOUND
Acclaimed one of the most moving films of all time, Warner Bros.' JOHNNY BELINDA will open at the King's and Lee Theatres simultaneously 10- morrow. Thursday, April 7.
Entirely devoid of any glam- our, but bold and daring in its conception and realisation, JOHNNY BELINDA is a brave venture I unorthodox movie making. It is a simply told tale of love andl betrayal, but through the meritorious team work of all Warner depart- ments, this simple late becomes as rich and deeply touching Alm as has been offered on local streuns in a long, long time.
Briefly, the drama relates the plight of Belinda McDonald, who does most of the chores on her father's bleak form. No one pays any attention to her and kindness is unknown to her. until the village doctor appears and tries to educate her. Life Takes on new meaning as a hitherto unknown world opens up before her, until one night a bully attacks her. Her life then becomes a public scandal and she is ostracised She fights for her baby and kilts her attacker. Placed on trial the doctor comes to her assistance in a most un- usual climax.
voted the Academy Award for the best performance by an actress in 1948:
THE PERENNIAL DOCTOR-LEW AYRES
No less inspiring is Lew Ayres taken
Lew Ayres, the actor who's more pulses than any in the strongly contrasting role living player on the screen of the selfless young doctor today, is back at it again. through whose sympathy, un- tiring efforts and eventually He plays Dr. Robert Richard- love, Belinda is able to risc son in Warner Bros.' JOHNNY
SHE DOESN'T WANT TO GET EVEN!
Jane Wyman as Belinda, the girl who secks no veng cance not even for the ugly memory time will not wash away. A gripping scene from Warner's IOHNNY BELINDA opening tomorrow at the King's and Lee Theatres, ・・・
woefully mistreated by her father. Charles Bickford, and by the townspeople-of her Cape Breton Island village,
Incidentally, Lew Ayres en- tered the movies in the Holly- wood tradition. He was picked from the floor of the Roosevelt Hotel where he was dancing with his girl and offered a contract. Greta Garbo chose him for her leading man in THE KISS, Д role which was followed by another in the Academy Award winning ALL. QUIET OF THE WESTERN FRONT.
KNOW THYSELF- JANE WYMAN DID!
Jane Wyman accomplished what every well-known star Alercely desire complete anonymity.
As Belinda McDonald, the character she portrays in JOHNNY BELINDA, June wears an bid, dirty mother-hubbard. Her hair is dishevelled and she wears no make-up whatsoever..
Because of the nature of her
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role, Jane was able to walk the JANE WYMAN streets of historic Fort Bragg Stars In Warner Bros. during shooting and neighbour-
ing Noyo and Mendocino just as any other tourist.
“JOHNNY: BELINDA”,
Not once, during her month's RCA VICTOR
stay in the northern California
town, was Miss Wyman recog~ | Stars" With The nised by townspeople. She, however heard herself do- starring Jane cribed innumerable times by Wyman and himself, opening many a town gossip who
above her great handicap and BELINDA. find happiness.
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was a "good friend" of hots.
I will be appreciated that by the time Belinda has been ac- quitted and reunited with her doctor, Miss Wyman has had to run through pretty well every conceivable expression of hu- man emotion-all without uiter- ing a sound. With only her eyes and gestures to speak the lines, she maintains a dramatie Sterling performances are also tomorrow at the King's and Lev. declared to associates that he grip on the film and the audi- given by Charles Bickford as ence that is overwhelming. One Belinda's outwardly stern Like any other ethical medico, will not rusily forget her trem- father: Agnes Moorehead as his Ayres won't
Listening in on herself, so to bling animal eagerness when, sour housekeeper. sister with the doctor's help. she Stephen McNally as the village knew.
and doctor, D. Kildaire, he once speak, Jane has learned that she is a blonde, brunette, irst struggling to burst out of bully whose brutality tu
red-haired, beautiful, bright, the loneliness which previously Belinda leads to the dramatic
kind. bad- "Just say" says Dr. Richard, good-natured, imprisoned her: or the silent climax of the picture. Director son
or Low Ayres, that I natured," and oven' penurious, screams of the seduction Jean Negulesco has kept the knew Dr. Kildaire for years sequence; or the mute bliss of warmth and appeal of Belinda and that he was a very good the young nursing mother. paramount in his deft handling non in his profession."
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Miss Wyman gives an extra- The net result is a film which As Dr. Richardson, Lew Ayres Jean Negulesco's skilled direc- ordinary performance and it is you owe it to yourself to see. In ministers mainly to Miss tion, turn in two of the year's only tting that she should be fact, you can't afford to miss it. Wyman, a poor country. lass, outstanding performances.
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