Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

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Max JO. s n ( ) W M E N ' S K A I ) 1-". \i V. \ 1 1-: w Patjc 15 N D E C I N © HCLLTWCCD with the "Oldtimer" Jack L. Warner is writing a personal letter to 14,000 exliibitors calling their attention to "A Family Affair". The last time Mr. Warner wrote a letter of this kind was for "Four Daughters", and if "Family Affair" is as good as "Four Daughters", we suggest that Mr. Warner continue his writing. Looks like Producer Harry Sherman is raiding the Latin qu'arters of both Hollywood and Los Angeles for the next two pictures, "The Double Dyed Deceiver" and "Argentina"'. Every available Latin, making his or her living in motion pictures, has been added to the Sherman roster. Dorothy Sebastian, that swell star of years ago, is staging a comeback in MGM'S "The Women" under George Cukor's direction. Miss Sebastian will appear in the department store sequences with Joan Crawford. Loads of good luck . . . and here's hoping we'll see a lot of you in the future. Will someone please tell us what the line was that followed Gracie Allen's "How are your pansies", at the preview of "The Gracie Allen Murder Case"? Must have been very funny, as the audience laughed so loud and long, we did not hear it. If you like "screwball" comedy, see this one. Harry Cohn & Company, Columbia to you, has one of the top money-makers of the current season in Howard Hawks' "Only Angels Have Wings", a picture that has everything. A great big "hand" to Mr. Hawks, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Jules Furthman's excellent screenplay. STR will be six years old in two weeks . . . young in age but old in experience, when you consider that Editor "Chick" has been an active member of the industry for the past thirty years. We can still remember him as Uncle Carl Laemmle's first office boy at the old IMP studio. Many happy returns. Producer and Star Charles R. Rogers, Paramount producer of "The Star Maker," chats on the set of the nezv picture -with Louise Campbell, one of the "Golden Circle" players. Bing Crosby, Linda Ware and Ned Sparks are also featured in the comedy which is based on the life of Gus Edwards Ida Lupino Gets Feminine Lead in Para's "Light That Failed" Ida Lupino has been signed hy Paraniounl for one of the two principal feminine roles opposite Ronald Colman in "The Light That Failed", William A. Wellman's ])roduction of th great novel by Rudyarh Kipling. Miss Lupino, at present on a vacation in New York with her husband, Louis Hayward, will prepare for the role immediately upon her return to Hollywood. With Wellman directing, Colman as the star, and a super-budget to give full play to their talents, this is one of the richest plums that Paramount has to offer an actress this year. Present plans call for the production to start the latter part of next month. Victor Fleming and Sam Wood to Continue Co-Directors of "Wind" David O. Selznick has announced that both Victor Fleming and Sam Wood will work on "Gone With the Wind", shooting simultaneously on two top units. Wood picked up the directorial assignment two weeks ago when Fleming had to retire due to ill health. Fleming is expected to report back to the studio this week, and his return will expedite completion of the picture. He will familiarize himself with the work that has been done by Wood in the past two weeks, after which both directors will function with separate units. New Legal Cash Award Contest E. L. Alperson and C. C. Ezell have organized the Contestntte Corporation for the purpose of producing and distributing novelty musical short subjects in connection with a new legal cash award contest known as "You Title the Song" contest. Each subject will be a miniature motion picture production running approximately 350 feet in length and will contain a new, untitled, unpublished song. Contestnite will be distributed through franchise holders. Gene Towne Joins RKO George Schaefer, president of RKO, concluded a deal which will bring Gene Towne, noted screen author, to the studio as an independent producer. Terms of the deal call for Towne to produce four pictures yearly, with actual preparation on his first film slated to start immediately. Graham Baker, former First National production head and Townees writing partner for the past five years, will continue his association as vice-president. Production Booms at Columbia With six features in the editing rooms and five productions now being filmed, Columbia is preparing to start five additional pictures during the current month. This peak of activity has taxed to capacity the sound stages of both the Gower and Melrose Avenue plants, with many of the units utilizing the Columbia ranch in San Fernando Valley. In production are "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," "Golden Boy," "Good Girls go to Paris," "Coast Guard" and "Parents on Trial." "Cavalcade" in Technicolor Tlie $2,000,000 production of "Hollywood Cavalcade," the cinema capital's first historical film of the silent era of motion pictures, will be made in Technicolor, Darryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century-Fox production chief announced. The productio'n will co-star Don Ameche and Alice Faye under the direction of Irving CuMMiNGs and the associate producership of Harry Joe Brown and Mack Sennett. SenNETT will also serve as technical adviser. Taking Bows David Loew and Sol Lesser, tivo of the new United Artists producers, take a how at the recent convention in Hollywood. In the background is Lynn Farnol, United Artists director of advertising and publicity. All-Male Cast in RKO's "Bad Lands" to Spend Three Weeks on Location Featuring a cast of well-known character players, conspicuous by the absence of actresses, the "Bad Lands" company left the RKQ' studios this week for the rugged mountains near Victorville, Calif., to spend three weeks on location. Included in the cast are Noah Beery, Jr., Bob Barrat, Douglas Walton, Andy Clyde, Big Boy Williams, Francis Ford, Paul Hurst, Stanley Ridges and Francis MacDonald. Robert Sisk is producing with Lew Landers directing from the screenplay by Clarence Upson Young, based on a dramatic episode of the old West in 1875. U. S. Navy Okay's "Thunder" Approval of the United States Navy Department in Washington has been given the filming of iMGM's "Thunder Afloat." A location unit to film submarine battle scenes on the Atlantic Coast left last week by plane for Annapolis to meet Commander Harvey Haislip. Studio scenes are scheduled to start in a few days under the direction of George Seitz, with Wallace Beery and Robert Young in the leading roles. Music Hath Charms . . . A JoHANN Strauss symphony carries Hedy Lamarr's thoughts back to her native Vienna in this off-stage study with Robert Taylor between scenes for MGM's "Lady of the Tropics," produced by Sam Zimbalist and directed by Jack Conway.