Archive for Lew Ayres
Dancing Screen Star Divorce (March, 1940)
Posted in 1940-1949, Vintage News Photos with tags Ginger Rogers, Hollywood Life, Lew Ayres on June 17, 2017 by WB KelsoMothers Bring Your Daughters! Fathers Bring Your Sons! (March, 1937)
Posted in 1930-1939, Movie Ads with tags Adults Only, Crime, Dorothy Davenport, Drama, Hearts in Bondage, Helen Foster, James Dunn, Juvenile Delinquents, Lew Ayres, Mae Clarke, Melodrama, Narcotics, Republic Pictures, Road to Ruin, Romance, Scared Straight, Sex, Sex Ed, Willis Kent on December 17, 2012 by WB Kelso
Apparently, the Road to Ruin is a very slippery slope — as good girl Anne Dixon finds out, the hard way — which quickly rockets you down a path wrought with fast cars, booze and drugs, that ultimately dead-ends with an illegitimate teen pregnancy, and, horror of horrors, an abortion! And a lethally botched one, at that! Written and directed by Dorothy Davenport, a pioneer of sorts in the male dominated studio system, who apparently made it her life’s goal to warn others about the horrors of narcotics after her husband, writer/director Wallace Reid, died of an accidental overdose of morphine.
The Road to Ruin (1934) Willis Kent Productions :: True-Life Photoplays :: First Division Pictures / P: Willis Kent / D: Dorothy Davenport, Melville Shyer / W: Dorothy Davenport / C: James Diamond / E: S. Roy Luby / S: Helen Foster, Nell O’Day. Glen Boles, Robert Quirk, Virginia True Boardman
Hearts in Bondage (1936) Republic Pictures / EP: Herman Schlom / P: Nat Levine / D: Lew Ayres / W: Karl Brown, Olive Cooper, Wallace MacDonald, Bernard Schubert / C: Jack Marta / E: Ralph Dixon / M: Hugo Riesenfeld / S: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Fritz Leiber
