Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

VY/hat promises to be a wow of a picture will shortly go into production. It is "The Swamp," which Eric von Stroheim is directing for United Artists with Gloria Swanson playing the leading role. Tully Marshall is in the supporting cast. ] aura La Plante will star in another mystery picture titled "The Last Warning." The success of "The Cat and the Canary" has influenced Universal to star her in a picture of the same type. Loretta Young and Larry Kent are ah in the cast. A N epic of the North American, "Re< ■^^ skin," will be Richard Dix's next sta ring vehicle for Paramount. "C alvage," a story of the early days of the San Francisco water front, will be Mary Philbin's next. It will be filmed in San Francisco to insure an authentic film of the Golden Gate. '"The Fleet's In," a story which quite obviously deals with the personnel of the Navy while on shore leave, is Clara Bow's next starring picture. \ >-\T Christy, Harold Lloyd's dding woman in " Speedy," n important part in Jack .t's new film, "The Water Hole," which has Nancy Carroll in the leading feminine role. The Paramount picture, "Kit Carson," which is now in production, will show many of the most spectacular exploits in the life of the famous explorer and fighter. Fred Thomson has the name part. Dicardo Cortez and Claire Windsor are making "The Grain of Dust" for Tiffany under the direction of George Archainbaud. T^he picture dealing with co panionate marriage in a r morons vein which Univer is planning to film will be kno as "You Can't Buy Love" stead of "Sex Appeal." f^EORGE HaCKATHORNE, wj has been absent from I screen for a long period, w be seen in "Phantom Finger1 with Bill Cody and Dua Thompson. "UTools ix the For,," whij has May McAvoy and Co rad Nagel in the leading rol| has been changed to "Caugh the Fog." I ina Basquette, Robert Arj strong and Clyde Cook hq passed their screen test for " lebrity." It is a story of a mous pugilist and, of course, t big scene of the picture is world's championship battle J"1 he role of Jule in "Show Boat," which Universal is making as a special production, will be played by Alma Rubens. Emily Fitzroy is also in the P. & A. Adolphe Menjou and Kathryn Carver were married in Paris recently. Here you see how happy the newlyweds looked after the ceremony. They are shown signing the fatal register which made them Mr. and Mrs. A lberta Vaughn, whom y will remember as the st/ of "The Telephone Girl" seri has been signed to play the le; in "Racing Blood," a series < twelve two-reel productions be released by FBO. cast. Paul Fejos will direct "The Charlatan,' Conrad Veidt's next for Universal. "yj^HEX his contract with M-G-M expires in a few weeks, King Vidor may join James Cruze in his independent producing company. "The first film in which the Vitaphone will replace all titles will be "The Terror." It's a Warner picture with May McAvoy, Edward Everett Horton and John Miljan. "The title of the next Char^ Chaplin picture will be "Ci Lights." Myrna Kennedy, wl was his leading lady in "The Circus," w play opposite him. JTrancis X. Bushman is planning to return to the screen in the film version of his vaudeville act, "The Man Higher Up." "The screen version of the stage play "Kongo," which will be titled "West of Zanzibar," will be Lon Chaney's next picture for M-G-M. It is a mystery melodrama with an African setting. f~\ nce again a blonde is preferred. Jeanetj Loff will have the feminine lead ovj posite Johnny Mack Brown in DeMille "Annapolis," instead of Lina Basquette. / Johnny Hines's picture, formerly calk "Black Magic," will in the future q JrpF. Yf.lez will make her first starring appearance for United Artists in "The Love Song," originally titled "La Paiva." William Boyd has been loaned by Pathe to play opposite her. (^hester Conklin, the Paramount ' comedian, will play the role of Charles Rogers' father, a woe-begone college janitor, in Buddy's new picture, tentatively called "Varsity." known as "The Wright Idea." a bright idea. Sounds likl D illie Dove is taking her orders fro) Alexander Korda for the third tinHe is directing her in "The Night Watch/ "The Yellow Lily" and "The Stolen Bride "0° Y°UR Duty," an original screen story by Julian Josephson, will be Charlie Murray's next. Doris Dawson, Debe Daniels will shortly begin work her new picture, "Take Me Horn' She will have Neil Hamilton opposite 1: 16