Boxoffice barometer (1941)

wno IS married to a beautiful girl, Ingrid Bergman. Montgomery’s insane and unjustified jealousy of a friend, George Sanders, drives him to attempt the perfect crime — for which he is caught. Reunion Cast: Not Set. Producer: Joseph Mankiewicz. Director: Not Set. Origrinal: Ladislaus Bus-Fekete. .Screenijla.v : No Credits. When Yvonne de Lacoste returns to Paris from Biarritz after the German conquest, she is shocked to find her wealth has been taken by the invaders. Her lover, Robert Croisset, has become friendly with the Germans, so Yvonne befriends an English aviator living in hiding and determines to help him escape. She tricks Robert out of the necessary papers and when she leaves, Robert sends two of his friends with her. They, too, are escaped English officers, and Yvonne learns Robert, while pretending friendship for the Germans, is playing a dangerous game for Fb^’ance. Sage of Emporia Cast: Spencer Tracy (Incomplete). Producer: Not Set. Director: Not Set. Original: William Rankin. Screenplay: No credits. The life story of William Allen White, famous small-town editor, political crusader and friend of presidents. It will be filmed with White’s permission and cooperation, with Spencer Tracy in the title role. She Takes the Wheel Cast: Not Set. Producer: Edgar Selwyn. Director: Not Set. Original: L. DuRocher Macpherson. Screenplay: Marion Parsonnet. Romantic comedy, with a newspaper background. Smilin' Through Cast: Jeanette MacDonald (Incomplete). Producer: Victor Saville. Director: Not Set. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: John Balderston. From the famous stage musical, brought to the screen twice before; once as a silent starring Norma Talmadge, once as a talking picture with Norma Shearer. Step This Way Cast: Groucho, Chico and Harno Marx fincomplete). Producer: Louis K. Sidney. Director: Charles Riesner. Original: Nat Perrin. Screeni)Iay: Not Set. In which the Freres Marx portray department store executives with radical ideas on merchandising. The Trial of Mary Dugan Cast: Laraine Day, Robert Young, Marsha Hunt, Tom Conway, Virginia Grey. Director: Norman Z. McLeod. Producer: Edwin Knopf. Original: Bayard Veiller. Dramatic courtroom story of a woman on trial for her life; facing almost undeniable evidence to the contrary, her lawyer-sweetheart successfully proves her innocence. Laraine Day portrays Mary Dugan, Robert Young her fiance. The Uniform Cast: Not Set. Producer: Hunt Stromherg. Director: Not Set. Original: Hans Kafka. Screenplay: No credits. story of international intrigue, its locales Burma and Hongkong. It deals with the adventures of an officer who is discharged from the British army as a card sharp, and who then becomes a crook, traveling with a former show girl and dividing the spoils with her. He finally proves his mettle in Hongkong by taking the place of a wounded officer in order to carry out an important secret mission. The World We Make Cast: Norma Shearer (Incomplete). Producer: Hunt Stromberg. Direetor: Not Set. Original: Sidney Kingsley. Screenplay: No Credits. Adapted from the Broadway play. Miss Shearer portrays a young woman mentally unbalanced, who escapes from an asylum and flees to New York. There she obtains work in a laundry and is befriended by a young man. When he becomes seriously ill her grief and her efforts to help him restore her to sanity. Ziegfeld Girl Cast: Judy Garland. James Stewart. Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner. Producer: Not Set. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Original: No Credits. .Screenplay: No Credits. Susan Gallagher (Judy Garland), Sheila Regan (Lana Turner) and Sandra Kolter (Hedy Lamarr) , are glorified Ziegfeld girls. Sheila becomes a drunk, loses her job, and returns to Brooklyn, only to find that her old boy friend served a jail term for driving a bootleggers’ truck to be able to give her luxuries. Sandra quits and returns to her husband. Susan climbs to stardom. Sheila attends the opening of the new Ziegfeld show. Watching Susan sing and perform as she, Sheila, used to, is more than Sheila can stand. She rushes out, collapses and dies. The music of the show and of Susan singing swell into a glorious finale. MONOGRAM Air Devils Cast: Leo Gorcey, David Gorcey, Sunshine Sammy, Donald Haines (The East Side Kids). Producer: Sam Katzman. Director: Not Set. Original Screenplay: A1 Martin. All the East Side Kids are working in an airplane factory, except Muggs (Leo Gorcey) who refuses employment until he stumbles into a sabotage plot and overhears Dr. Nagel (George Pembrooke) planning to take blue prints across the Mexican border. Muggs and the gang hide in Nagel’s plane to find out where it goes. Nagel wires his confederates in Mexico to kidnap the boys. Algie (Eugene Francis) gets another pilot to fly down to the landing field in time to prevent the confederates from doing away with the kids. The spies are captured. Muggs takes a job at the factory. Guns A-Roarin' Cast: John King, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune (The Range Busters). Producer: George W. Weeks. Director: S. Roy Luby. Original: Earle Snell. Screenplay: No Credits. Another in the series of western action dramas featuring “The Range Busters”— John King, Ray Corrigan and Max Terhune. King of the Zombies Cast: Bela LUgosi, Mantan Moreland (Incomplete). Producer: Lindsley Parsons. Director: Howard Bretherton. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: No Credits. Melodrama with a horror motif. Million Dollar Mystery Cast: Keye Luke (Incomplete). Producer: Paul Malvern. Director: Not Set. Original: Based on stories by Hugh Wiley. Screenplay: No Credits. Second in a detective series in which Keye Luke portrays Jimmy Wong, young Oriental sleuth. Navy Bound Cast: Not Set. Producer: Lindsley Parsons. Director: Not Set. Original: Talbert Josselyn. Screenplay: No Credits. Service comedy dealing with the navy as an arm of U. S. national defense. Ridin' the Cherokee Trail Cast: Tex Ritter, Slim Andrews, Forrest Taylor, Betty Miles, Jack Roper, Fred Burns. Producer: Edward Finney. Director: Spencer G. Bennett. Orig-inal Screenplay: Edmund Kelso. The ranchers of the historic Cherokee strip between Texas and Oklahoma are powerless against Craven (Forrest Taylor) and his gang. The rangers persuade Tex (Tex Ritter) that since he is unknown in their territory, he could stop the outlaws. He fails in his plan to trap Craven into going across the border where he may be arrested. Finally, he gets Craven and his gang to chase him across the frontier into Texas and there they are arrested by a trick since Tex has moved the sign which marks the border back half a mile. Sign of the Wolf Cast: Grace Bradley, Louise Beavers, Mantan Moreland, Darryl Hickman. Producer: Paul Malvern. Director: Not Set. Oiiginal: Jack London. Screenplay: Edmund Kelso, Berne Giler. Melodrama, its locale the Alaskan snows during the time of the gold rush. South American Tour Cast: Ray Corrigan, John King, Max Terhune (the Range Busters). Producer: George W. Weeks. Director: Not Set. Original: Berne Giler, Bill Waters. Screenplay: No Credits. In which the Range Busters hit the trail south of the border. Trail of the Yukon Cast: Not Set. Producer: Paul Malvern. Director: Not Set. Original: Jack London. Screenplay: No Credits. Taken from one of Jack London’s famous short stories, this concerns goldrush days in Alaska. Tumbledown Ranch in Arizona Cast: Ray Corrigan. John King. Max Terhune (the Range Busters). Producer: George W. Weeks. Director: Not Set. Original: No Credits. Screenplay: No Credits. In which the three Range Busters hop into their saddles to right wrong and bring justice to the rangelands. Widows of the Press Cast: Not Set. Producer: Scott R. Dunlap. Director: Phil Rosen Original: AI Bloch. Screenplay: Albert Duffy. Comedy drama with a newspaper background. PARAMOUNT The American Vagabond Cast: Brian Donlevy (Incomplete). Producer: Boris Morros, Robert Stillman (National Pictures). Director: H. C. Potter. Original: Ralph Spence, Mrs. William Sidney Porter. Screenplay: Harold Lamb, Emily Barrye. Biography of William Sidney Porter, known to millions as O. Henry, master short-story writer, adventurer and world traveler. Brian Donlevy will have the title role. 120 BOXOFFICE BAROMETER