Boxoffice (Apr-Jun 1937)

^7^lctutQ6 JOh lltQ PREPARING A PKAYHii rOK are sons (WB) — with Kay Francis, Biiiy and Bobby Maucii. Originai: Hugh Waipoie. AMSTEB (RKO) — Original: Jacques Deval. AN EMPIRE IS BORN (Para) — with Joel McCrea, Bob Burns. Producer: Frank Lloyd. BONANZA (Para) — with Edward Arnold, George Bancroft, John Trent. Producer: B. P. Schulberg. Director: Richard Wallace. BOOEOO (Para).^with Colin Tapley. Producer: Clyde E. Elliott. Original: Walter Post. DUKE COMES BACK, THE (Rep) — Original: Lucian Cary, Screenplay: Adele Buffington. FRONTIER TOWN (GN) — with Tex Ritter. Producer: Edward L. Finney. HIGHWAY TO HELL (RKO) — Original: Helen Vreeland. Hilda Vincent. KELLY AND STONE OF THE MARINES (GN) — Producer: Richard A. Rowland. LOVE AND HISSES (20th-Fox) — with Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie. Producer: Kenneth Macgowan. Original: Arthur Arthur. Screenplay: Arthur Arthur, Curtis Kenyon jr. LOVE RUNS INTO MONEY (GN) — Producer: B. F. Zeldman. Original: Erwin Gelsey. MR. NICKLEBY sits DOWN (20th-Fox)— Origi nal: Alfred Prowitt. NOTHING SACKED (UA)— with Fredric March. Carole Lombard. Producer: David O. Selznick. Director: William A. Wellman. Original: Ben Hecht. SECOND MRS. DRAPER (Col) — with Gloria Swanson. Original: Noel Pierce. SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT (GN)— with James Cagney. Producer: Victor Schertzinger. Director: Victor Schertzinger. Original: Victor Schertzinger, Austin Parker. THAT WOMAN IS DANGEROUS (WB)— with Bette Davis, George Brent. Original: Donn Byrne. TOO MUCH LIMELIGHT ( 20th-Fox)— with The Jones Family. Producer: Max Golden. Director: Frank Strayer. Screenplay: Robert Chapin, Karen de Wolf. WHITE phantom: (Condor)— with Wally Albright, Rex, King of Wild Horses. Producer: George Hirliman. Director: Art Rosson. Screenplay: W. Scott Darling. WIFE, DOCTOR AND NURSE (20th-Fox)— with Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck. Producer: Raymond Griffith. Director: Walter Lang. Original: Kathryn Scola, Darrell Ware. WHJ) .VND WOOLLY (20th-Fox) — with Jane Withers, Walter Brennan, Jackie Searl. Producer: John Stone. Director: Alfred Werker. Screenplay: Lynn Root, Frank Fenton. YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER (WB) — with Olivia de Havilland. YOUNG MAN’S FANCY (Univ)— with Alice Faye. Ken Murray, Ella Logan, Larry Blake, Harry Stockwell, Casper Reardon, Dave Appelon. Producer: Buddy G. de Sylva. STARTING ANYTHING FOK A THRIFF (Condor)— with Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, June Johnson, Ann Evers. Producer: Maurice Conn. Screenplay: Juan Mertz, Joseph O’Donnell. ALCATRAZ ISLAND (WB)— with John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Dick Purcell, Mary Maguire, William .Hopper. Director: William McGann. HURRICANE (UA) — with John Hall, Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor, John Carradine,, Spencer Charters, Raymond Massey, Barbara O’Neil, Jerome Cowan, Movita Castenada, Mamo Clark. Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: John Ford. Original: James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff. LAW FOR TOMBSTONE (Univ)— with Buck Jones. Producer: Buck Jones. Original: Charles M. Martin. Screenplay: Frances Guihan. LET’S TALK OF LOVE (Para) — with Ann Dvorak, John Trent, Harry Beresford. Producer: B. P. Schulberg. Director: Charles Vidor. Original: James Edward Grant. Screenplay: Frank Partos, George Bruce. PERFECT SPECIMEN (WB) — with Errol Flynn, Edward Everett Horton, Donald Meek. Dick Foran. Producer: Harry Joe Brown. Director: Michael Curtiz. Original: Samuel Hopkins Adams. Screenplay: Lawrence Reilly. REPORTED MISSING (Univ) — with Robert Wilcox, Jean Rogers, William Gargan, Henry Hunter, Hobart Cavanaugh. Producer: E. M. Asher. Director: Milton Carruth. S-26^ (WB) — with Pat O’Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris. Director: Lloyd Bacon. Original: Frank Wead. THIS WAY PLEASE (Para) — with Shirley Ross, Buddy Rogers, Fibber McGee and Molly, Mary Livingstone. Producer: Melville A. Shauer. Director: Robert Florey. Original: Bill Thomas, Max Shane. 13TH MAN (Mono) — with Grace Durkin. Milburn Stone. Henry Otho, Selmer Jackson, John Dilson, Dan Wolheim, Eddie Gribbon, Arthur Van Slyke, Eadie Adams, Weldon Heyburn, Inez Courtney. Producer: Lon Young. Director: William Nigh. Original: John Krafft. WEDDING DRESS (M-G-M) — with Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley. Producer: Henry Rapf. Original: Helen Grace Carlisle. Screenplay: Marion Parsonnet. WINDJAMMER (RKO) — with George O’Brien, Constance Worth, William Hall. Paul Renay, Jim Blane, Hymie Marks, Brandon Evans. Producer: George A. Hirliman. Director: Ewing Scott. Original: Ewing Scott. Screenplay: Dan Jarrett, James Gruen. » WELL ALONG ARTISTS AND MODELS (Para) — with Jack Benny, Gail Patrick, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen, Ben Blue, Jerry Bergen, Cecil Cunningham, Blanca Vischer, Donald Meek, Nick Lukats, Elsa Connor, Virginia Brissac, Pat Moran, Jane Weir, Hedda Hopper, David Newell, Ethel Clayton, Katliryu Kay, Jack Doley. Producer: Lewis Gensler. Director: Raoul Walsh. BLACK ACES Univ) — with Buck Jones, Kay 1 inaker, Fred Mackaye, Robert Frazer, Arthur Van Slyke. Producer: Buck Jones. Director: Les Selander. Original: Stephen Payne. Screenplay: Frances Guihan. Bl.ACK TORRENT (Col) — with Jack Holt, Mae Clarke, Joseph Crehan, Ray Walker, James Bush, Harry Worth, Harold Huber. Producer: Larry Darmour. Director: Ernest Schoedsack. Original: Ralph Graves. BORN RECKLESS (20th-Fox) — with Barton MacLane, Rochelle Hudson, Brian Donlevy, Chick Chandler, William Pawley, Robert Kent, Pauline Moore, Phyllis Brooks, Harry Carey. Producer: Milton Field. Director: Malcolm St. Clair. Original: Jack Andrews. CALIFORNIAN (20th-Fox) — with Ricardo Cortez, Katherine de Mille, Marjorie Weaver, Fred Kohler, Pierre Watkin, Helen Holmes, George Regas, Gene Reynolds, James Finlayson, Steve ('lemento, Morgan Wallace, Maurice Black. Producer: Sol Lesser. Director: Gus Meins. Original: Harold Bell Wright. Screenplay: Gilbert Wright, Gordon Newell. DEAD END (UA)— with Joel McCrea. Sylvia Sidney, Humphrey Bogart, Ward Bond, Doris Nolan, Allen Jenkins, George Humbert. Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: William Wyler, Screenplav: Lillian Heilman. DOUBLE OK NOTHING (RKO) — with Bing Crosby, Martha Raye, Mary Carlisle, Benny Baker, Samuel Hinds, Alphonse Berg. Ikaf Hytten, Calgary Brothers, J. Carrol Naish, William Frawley, Andy Devine, Fay Holden, William Henry, Walter Kingsford, Gilbert Emory, Jack Peimick. Producer: Benjamin Glazer. Director: J. Theodore Reed. EBB TIDE (Para) — with Frances Farmer, Oscar Homolka, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Fitzgerald. Producer: Lucien Hubbard. Director: Henry Hathaway. Original: Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne. FLASHING SKATES Col) — with Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth. Ward Bond. J. Farrell MacDonald, Max Hoffman jr., John Gallaudet. Producer: Harry L. Decker. Director: D. Ross Lederman. Original: J. Berton Cheney. Screenplay: Fred Niblo jr.. Grace Neville. FIREFLY” (M-G-M) — with Jeanette MacDonald, Allan Jones, Milton Watson. John Piccort, Douglass Dumbrille, Warren William, Belle Mitchell, Frank Puglia, Corbett Morris, Boyd Gilbert, Jean Perry, Ed Phillips, Rolfe Sedan, Mabel Colcord, Eugene Borden, Jack LaRue, Maurice Cass, Peter DuRey. Producer: Hunt Stromberg. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. FIRST LADY (WB) — with Kay Francis, George Brent, Walter Connolly, Victor Jory, Veree Teasdale, Louis Fazenda, Anita Louise, Lucille Gleason. Marjorie Gateson, Harry Davenport. Director: Harry Davenport. Original: George S. Kaufman. Screenplay: Rowland Leign. LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID (Para) — with Gail Patrick, John Patterson, Anthony Quinn, Rollo Lloyd, Otto Hoffman, Libby Taylor, Maurice Cass. Producer: George Arthur. Director: A1 Santell. Original: Paul Hervey Fox. LET ME LIVE (UA-Selznlck) — with Fredric March, Fay Wray, Gene Lockhart, Lionel Stander. Producer: E. Lloyd Sheldon. Director: William A. Wellman. Original: Robert Carson. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, MAKE A WISH (RKO) — with Bobby Breen, Basil Rathbone, Henry Armetta, Lucy Ann McLean, Mary Etta Freese, Michael Breen, Ralph Forbes, Leon Errol, Leonid Kinsky. Producer: Sol Lesser. Director: Kurt Neumann. Aiakin^^ MR. DODD TAKES THE AIK (WB) — with Kenny Baker, Eleanore Whitney, John Eldredge, Paul Regan. Producer: Mervyn LeRoy. Director: Alfred E. Green. Original: Clarence Budington Kelland. PKOFESSIONAU JUROR (Col) — with Otto Kruger, Douglas Montgomery, Thurston Hall, Jacqueline Wells, Nana Bryant, Marc Lawrence, Guy Usher, Harvey Clarke, Edward Earle, Ted Oliver, Gene Morgan, Stanley Fields, D'ick Elliot, Marc Strong. Producer: Wallace MacDonald. Director: John Braham. Original: Harold Schumate. Screenplay: Fred Niblo jr., Grace Neville. RADIO JAMBOREE (WB)— with Dick Foran, Jane Wyman. Producer: Frank Mandell. Director: Bobby Connolly. Screenplay: George Bricker. Frank Mandell. RIGHT TO KIUU, THE (Crescent) — with Tom Keene, Robert Fiske, David Sharpe, John Merton, Lorraine Hayes. Screenplay: Bennett Cohen. RHYTHM IN THE CUOUDS (Rep) with Patricia Ellis, Warren Hull, David Carlyle, Richard Carle, Zeffe Tilbury, Betty Bronson, Ranny Weeks, Richard Beach, Charles Judels, Suzanne Kaaren, Esther Howard. Rolfe Sedan. Producer: A1 Levoy. Director; John Auer. SARATOGA (M-G-M) — ^with Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon, Barbara Bedford, Robert Keane, Joe Bernard, Jonathan Hale, Walt Robbins, Una Merkel, John Eldredge, Hattie McDaniel, Dickie Jones, Frank McGlynn, Howard Hickmann. Producer; Barnard Hyman. Director; Jack Conway. SUPER SLEUTH (RKO) — with Jack Oakie, Ann Sothern, James Gleason Edgar Kennedy, Richard Lane, Gordon Jones, Joan Woodbury, Frank Jenks, Bud Jamison, Eduardo Ciannelli, Alan Bruce. Producer; Edward Small. Director: Ben Stoloff. Original; Harry Segall. Screenplay: Bertram Milhauser. TAKE THE HEIR (RKO) — with Guy Kibbee, Cora Witherspoon, Gordon Jones, Barbara Pepper, Paul Guilfoyle, Richard Lane, Frank M. Thomas, Dorothy Moore, Dudley Clements, William Carson. Producer; Maury Cohen. Director: Ed Killy. Original: Thomas Ahern, Lawrence Pohle. Screenplay; Arthur Herman. THIS BUSINESS OF LOVE (Rep)— with Carol Hughes, David Carlyle, Pert Kelton, Warren Hymer, Andrew Tombes, Syd Saylor, Oscar and Elmer. Producer: Colbert Clarke. Director: Ralph Staub. THREE ROOMS IN HEAVEN (M-G-M)— with Joan Crawford. Spencer Tracy. Producer: Joseph Mankiewicz. Director: Frank Borzage. Original: Katherine Brush. Screenplay: Lawrence Hazzard. VARSITY SHOW (WB) — with Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians. Ted Healy, Walter Catlett. Director: William Keighley. YOU’LL BE MARRIED BY NOON (M-G-M) — with Robert Young, Florence Rice, Tom Kennedy, Warren Hymer, George Taylor, Jack Norton, Irene Franklin, Barnett Parker, June Clayworth, Jack Norton, Harry Tyler, Harry Burns. Producer: Sam Zimbalist. Director; Edwin L. Marin. Original: Harry Ruskin. COMPLETED FORLORN RIVER (Para) — with Larry Crabby. June Martel, John Patterson. Lucien Littlefield. Sid Saylor. Harvey Stephens, Chester Conklin. Barlowe Borland, Lew Kelly, Raphael Bennet. Director: Charles Barton. Origfinal: Zane Grey. 1 ('OVER THE WAR (Univ) — with John Wayne, Gwen Gase, Don Barclay. Sam Harris, Walter Byron, Charles Brokaw, James Bush, Arthur Aylesworth, Earl Hodgins, Olaf Hytton. Producer: Trem Carr. Director: Arthur Lubin. Screenplay: A1 Martin. LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (WB) — with Paul Muni. Josephine Hutchinson, Bonita Granville, Joseph Schildkraut, Barton MacLane, Gloria Holden, Harry Worth, Grant Mitchell. Montagu Love, Maurice Black, Robert Graves, Max Hoffman jr., Paul Everton, Gilbert Emery, Harry Davenport, Ralph Dunn, Irving Pichel, Ben Weldon, Walter Kingsford. Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: William Dieterle. LOVE UNDER FIRE (20th-Fox) — with Loretta Young, Don ,Ameche, John Carradine, Movita Castenada, Joseph Schildkraut, Katherine de Mille, Frances Drake, Walter Catlet, Sig RuMann, Borrah Minnevitch, Don Alvarado, Juan Du. Val. George Regas, Harold Huber. E. E. Clive, Warren Joan Torena. Producer: Nunnally •Tohnson. Director: George Marshall. Original: Walter Hackett. Screenplay: Gene Fowler, Erne.'^t Pascal. SWEETHEART OF THE NAVY (GN) — with Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Roger Imhoff, William V. Mong. Bernadine Hayes, Cully Richards, Benny Burt, Reed Howes. Harry Bradley, Henry Roquemore. Producer: B. F. Zeidman. Director: Duncan Mansfield. Original: Garrett Graham, Jay Strauss. Screenplay: Carroll Graham.