Showmen's Trade Review (Apr-Jun 1939)

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Jinu 10, l'^3^ S 1 1 ( ) W M K N ' S T l< A I ) R V 1 1-: w Page 21 Dales Shown Are Release Dales This department is primarily intended to convey important information regarding product on which no press book or ad material are available. Showmen who run pictures pre-release will find it a valuable source. Listings will appear but once. BABES IN ARMS MCM Drama Not Set Selling Names: Mickey Rooney, J inly (larhuul, Grace Hayes, Chas. Winninger. Director: Busby Berkeley. Producer: Arthur Freed. Story Idea: Grace Hayes and Charles Winninger, an old vaudeville team leave on Umr. Mickey Rooney, their son and Judy Garland, daughter of another theatrical team decide to give a show of their own. Grace's and Winninger's tour is a flop, but Rooney's show gets a producer, who gives them an engagement and appoints Winninger a director. Catchline: "He was a good trouper, on and off the stage." Univ. BRIGHT VICTORY Drama Not Set Selling Names: Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartliolomew, Melville Cooper. Director: Josepii Santley. Assoc. Producer: Burt Kelly. Story Idea: Jackie Cooper and his mother Dorothy Peterson are working to complete a wildcat well on the last of their Texas holdings. Alan Dinehart, an unscrupulous oil operator, arranges with Melville Cooper, a gambler and his son, Freddie Bartholomew, to help him get this land. But Cooper and Freddie, when they win the good vvill of Jackie and his mother, turn around and help tliem instead. Catchline: "He redeemed himself with one good deed." FORGOTTEN WOMEN Univ. Drama Not Set Selling Names: Sigrid Gurie, Donald Briggs, Eve Arden, William Lundigan. Director: Harold Young. Producer: Edmund Grainger. Story Idea: Sigrid Gurie, while serving a prison term for a crime she did not commit, has a child. The guilty man confesses, but Paul Harvey squelches the story because it might injure the reputation of Donald Briggs, the district attorney. When Briggs, who had adopted the child without knowing his identity, learns of this, he rights the wrong. Catchline: "She was willing to sacrifice the love of her child for his future." nial stationed in Vienna, meets Brenda Marshall enroute to America and upon their arrival, they elope. Brenda is accused of being a German spj', so McCrea resigns from the service. Then McCrea and Brenda pledge their lives to the extermination of the Nazi spy ring and are acclaimed by tlie Secretary of State when they succeed in breaking it up. Catchline: "I-Ie gave the nation's answer to a foreign spy ring." FALLING STARS 20th Cent-Fox Drama Not Set Selling Names: Don Ameche, Alice Faye, J. Edward Bromberg, Lynn Bari. Director: Irving Cummings. Assoc. Producer: Harry Joe Brown. Story Idea: Don Ameche thrilled with Alice Faye's performance at the Winter Garden, signs her up for pictures. Broke and out of a job himself, he borrows, money from J. Edward Bromberg, his friend, and brings her to California. He makes a tremendous success, until Alice marries someone else, then he loses heart and starts going backward. When Alice's husband is killed, the two get together again and Alice starts Ameche up the ladder again. Catchline: "It was a woman's love that spurred him on.'"' UA REAL GLORY Drama Not Set Selling Names: Gary Cooper. Andrea Leeds,. David Niven, Reginald Owen. Director: Henry Hathaway. Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Story Idea: Gary 'Coop'eF~a"d6ctof~in the American Army, is sent to the Philippines to replace the commanding officer who had been killed. He finds everyone in deadly fear of the natives, but, when cholera breaks out, Andrea Leeds, daughter of the captain, helps him check the epidemic and then route the troublesome natives. Catchline: "The birth of the Philippines." Univ. THE UNDERPUP Drama Not Set Selling Names: Roliert Cummings, Nan Grey, Gloria Jean, Virginia Weidler. Director: Richard 'Wallace. Producer: Joe Pasternak. Story Idea: Gloria Jean, a product of the New York slums, v.'ins a trip to th'. summer camp of an exclusive girl's club. Virginia Weidler is the only one who befriends Gloria and, when Virginia tells her of her unhappy homelife, Gloria writes to C. Aubrey Smith, her grandpa and has him get after Paul Cavanaugh and Margaret Lindsay, Virginia's parents and straigliten them out. Because of this and other deeds, Gloria is accepted as a member of the club. Catchline: "She was the Underpup . . . but not for long." Para RANGE WAR Western Sept. 29 Selling Names: 'William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Betty Moran. Director: Lesley Selander. Producer: Harry Sherman. Story Idea: William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy) turns stagecoach robber as well as priest in his efforts to circumvent the activities of a ruthless gang that seeks to prevent the building of a railroad. He brings the outlaws to justice, while Russell Hayden falls in love with Betty Moran, the rancher's daughter, for whose hand he is compelled to fight, ;, Catchline: "Hopalong's detective work saved the railroad." "Reserved for Mules — " "Reserved for mules during the showing of the feature picture, T'm From Missouri' with Bob Burns" v/as the copy which appeared on a homemade hitching post placed on the sidewalk in front of Warners' Ogden Theatre, Chicago, by Manager E. R. Erickson. CN ISLE OF DESTINY Drama Not Set Selling Names: W'illiam Gargan, Wallace Ford, June Lang. Director: Elmer Clifton. Producer: Frankly n Warner. Story Idea: June Lang, on iier flight around the globe, stops at a tiny island in the Pacific to visit with her brother who is in command of an emergency air base. She meets an adventurer of questionable background, who operates a trading post on the island and he tricks her into flying to Guam. Her plane is wrecked on a Jungle Island and she discovers contraband goods belonging to the adventurer. She is saved by her brother and his Marines. Catchline: "Fate changed her destination." WB CAREER MAN Drama Not Set Selling Names: Joel McCrea, Jeffrey Lynn, Brenda Marshall. Director: Lloyd Bacon. Assoc. Producer: Lou Edelman. Story Idea: Joel McCrea, a young diplo PREPARE FOR ANOTHER STORM OF THRILLS AND RECORDS . . SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S producfion THE HURRICANE with Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey, John Carradine and Jerome Cowan Directed by JOHN FORD RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS