Word: francey
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Side for the roadshow role of Spit, swaggered gloriously in the part for $45 a week, ad libbed obscenities that brought qualms to managements, blushes to the cast, thrills to the audience. Another convincing performer in the same company was seasoned Actress Millicent Green (Stevedore, The Left Bank), as Francey, the streetwalker...
...provided for in Playwright Kingsley's script was Spit's real-life pursuit of Francey. Ardent notes, visits to her lodgings, abrupt intrusions into her dressing room caused Actress Green anxious moments, finally brought Spit before the Stony Creek, Conn., police. Warned there and released, he worshipped from afar until the company returned to Manhattan, disbanded about seven months...
...able to rebuild the slums but at the same time wants passionately to leave them, the cop who thinks that arresting kids is a humiliating job for a man, Baby Face Martin (Humphrey Bogart), the gangster who comes home to find his mother loathes him, and his old sweetheart Francey (Claire Trevor) is a physical ruin. The not unhappy ending of the screen version of Dead End is no less valid than that of the stage original, should strike even the most critical cinemagoers as art rather than artifice...