Action (May 1941 - Mar 1958)

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Heavy Production Slated for Sept., Oct. This dramatic study of lights and shadows by photographer Ray Nolan, taken on the Nevada location of SIXTY SADDLES FOR GOBI, won first award at the Laguna Beach Still Photographers' Carnival. The 20th Century-Fox Company was on location for this exciting story of weather observation specialists for the Navy in the Gobi Desert during World War II. Current Production Office release indicates that the Fall schedule of activity is well under way, with eight to ten productions to be rolling, from local stages to Germany. Currently in progress in Munich is MAN ON A TIGHTROPE, swiftly moving story about a circus man and the deliverance of his people from behind the Iron Curtain. Elia Kazan is directing the Robert Sherwood piece, with Robert Jacks producing. Frederic March is in the feature spot. Scheduled to finish shooting October 2nd is THE SILVER WHIP, being co-produced by Robert Bassler and Michael Abel. The company completed a Sonora, California, location junket and is now shooting on the lot. THE SILVER WHIP has a Western background. Additional dance numbers for THE GIRL NEXT DOOR will be scattered throughout September, October, and possibly November. The Technicolor musical is a Robert Bassler production, with Dan Dailey, June Haver and Dennis Day featured. Richard Sale is directing. THE PRESIDENT’S LADY was re-scheduled to begin September 15th. It is the dramatic love story of Andrew Jackson, the American President and his sweetheart, Rachel. Charlton Heston and Susan Hayward are the principals in this picture, to be produced by Sol Siegel and directed by Henry Levin. September 15th was the starting date for BAPTISM OF FIRE, a Julian Blaustein production. William Bloom is producing under Blaustein. The picture is being shot entirely on location at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Robert Webb is megging the Korean war story, a drama about a hard-hitting Greek outfit and the role it takes in fighting communist aggressors in Korea. Victor Mature has been set for this. Also commencing on September 15th was principal photography for CALL ME MADAM. Irving Berlin’s Broadway hit is being filmed in Technicolor, features Ethel Merman, Donald Wanda Ia$f4>: "GIVE US A CALL" As a TCF Employee you can now have . . . ☆ MEATS ^ POULTRY ^ VEGETABLES and all frozen foods in retail quantities at wholesale prices MAN.Y SEPTEMBER SPECIALS JEWEL HOME FOODS 400 E. 1st STREET Phone MU. 5098 14