Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

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June S, 19 39 6 T I I A N N I \' E R S A R Y ISSUE Page 63 History-Biography for 20th-Fox HEADED by such spectacles as "The Rains Came", "Stanley and Livingstone", "Ealling Stars", "Brigham Young" and "Drums Along The Mohawk", the complete roster of pictures to be made by Twentieth Century-Fox is the most ambitious in that company's history. All these big pictures will be personally supervised by D a r r y 1 F. Zanuck including those to be released as Cosmopolitan Productions. And Sol Wurtzel will also continue producing The Jones Family, Mr. Moto, Charlie Chan and the Jane Withers releases, reinforced by higher production budgets and bigger "name" casts. The acclaim with which historical and biographical films have been received during the last year has prompted Zanuck' to include many more such films on his list for the coming season. Prominent among these both from the interest aroused by the subject matter and the care and expense which will go into the production are "Brigham Young," for which Louis Bromfield, author of "The Rains Came" is now preparing the script, "Steinmetz the Great", "The Story of Lillian Russell" and "Belle Starr." The forthcoming months will also see three Shirley Temple pictures and three Sonja Henie pictures. The first of each group is now in the cutting rooms, almost ready for release. The next Temple vehicle will be "Susannah of the Mounties", which Darryl Zanuck features Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood and J. Farrell MacDonald. Her next two pictures will be "Lady Jane," and Maeterlinck's "Blue Bird." This last will be made in Technicolor. Sonja Henie's next picture, being readied for early release, is "Second Fiddle." With songs by Irving Berlin and such players as Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee, and Mary Healy in the cast, "Second Fiddle" will be one of the most lavish productions ever made for the blonde queen of the ice. Her next picture after "Second Fiddle" will be "Everything Happens at Night", an adventure story which will probably command the services of both Tyrone Power and Richard Greene to form a topnotch romantic triangle. Her third venture selected for the forthcoming season is as yet untitled. But the story, by the late S. S. Van Dine, will be in the form of a Philo Vance mystery. Now in production is another important Twentieth Century-Fox release, "The Rains Came." This picture has a cast including Tyrone Power, George Brent, Myrna Loy, Henry Travers, Maria Ouspenskaya, Joseph Schildkraut, Laura Hope Crewes and one of Zanuck's "finds," Brenda Joyce. Also before the cameras is "Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women", featuring the internationally famous hostess, Elsa Maxwell, herself; Linda Darneli, another Zanuck discovery; Ann Sothern, Jimmy Ellison, Joyce Compton, Alan Dinehart and many others. Another spectacle, one which has been in preparation for over three years is "Stanley and Livingstone", with Spencer Tracy, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan and Henry Hull for November release. A month or so earlier "Drums Along the Mohawk" with Claudette Colbert and Henry Fonda will be delivered to audiences throughout the land. Based on the best-selling novel by Walter D. Edmonds, the picture deals with early Colonial days. An even more famous novel is also the property of Twentieth Century-Fox and will go into production as soon as Nunnally Johnson, who is also going to act as associate producer, puts it in screen play form. It is John Steinbeck's thrilling and vital "The Grapes of Wrath." Other productions slated for the coming year are: "Say It With Music", an Irving Berlin special which will include many of the most famous of the songs of that master of popular melody including, "Always", "Lady of the Evening", "My Wife's Gone to the Country" and "Because I Love You", a new version, all in Technicolor, of "The Mark of Zorro" with Tyrone Power probably in the leading role; "The Khyber Rifies", dealing, as the title suggests, with the frontier of India. It is based on a novel by Talbot Mundy dealing with the India of twenty years ago, but posing problems that are equally vital today; "Maryland", another Technicolor picture about trotting horses ; "Johnny Apollo" which will be Tyrone Power's next picture after "The Rains Came"; "Here I Am A Stranger", a strong drama of college life with Richard Greene and Nancy Kelly in the romantic leads; "Scotland Yard", history of that celebrated institution produced on a scale similar to "Lloyds of London"; "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce taking again the roles they played in "The Hound of the Baskervilles". WALTER BULLOCK SALI-Y. IRENE AND MARY HAPPY LANDING LITTLE MISS BROADWAY JUST AROUND THE CORNER THE LITTLE PRINCESS WIFE, HUSBAND & FRIEND THE THREE MUSKETEERS LADY JANE