"KENTUCKY" NEWEST TECHNICOLOUR HIT

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 42, 28 July 1939, Page 2

"KENTUCKY" NEWEST TECHNICOLOUR HIT

''Kentucky, a 20th Century _Fox production filmed in technicolour, is a romance of the Blue Grass state, and it features in the leading roles Loretta Young, Richard Greene and Walter Brcnnan. Also included in the east are Douglas Dumbrille, Karen Morlcy and Moroni Olsen From all reports, ''Kentucky'' contains the most spectacular climax of any picture in recent years, as it presents, for the first time in the history of the motion picture, the Jven, tuckv Derby filmed in Technicolour. Much of the picture was filmed on location in the heart of the Blue Grass country and the luxuriant beauty of the land where the thoroughbreds roam the meadows is reproduced on the screen in complete naturalness through the perfection of Technicolour. It is interesting to note that Richard Greene and Loretta Young share the romantic leads in ''Kentucky,"' just as they did in Greene's first picture. ''Four Men and a Prayer." \c_cording to n ports they are ideally suited to the roles and the story of their love, all fire and pride makes a great theme for the film. David Butler, famous director whose list of hits reads like a Hollvwood history, directed ''Ke~t nnd considers it th> finest p'cture he has ever been associated with. The screen play was by Lamar Trotti and John Taintor Foote. Darryl V. Zanuck was in charge of the production with Gene Markey associate producer.