Boxoffice barometer (1944)

Gocxl Thief inside the state prison walls at Dannemora, N. Y. The Clock Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Ruthe Brady, Marshall Thompson. Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Original: Novel by Paul and Pauline Gallico. Screenplay: Robert Nathan and Joseph Schrank. A story of youth in wartime, with a New York background, this tells of 48 hours in the life of a soldier and a girl. During that brief time, they meet, fall in love, marry and part when he leaves for overseas duty. Death in the Doll's House Cast: Not set. Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: Not set. Original: Saturday Evening Post serial by Lawrence P. Bachmann and Hannah Lees. Screenplay: No credits set. Drama concerning a young girl who witnesses the murder of her mother and then must be brought out of a condition of serious shock so she can reveal the killer and the circumstances surrounding the murder and free her father, who is held for the crime. Diamond Rock Cast: Not set. Producer: Edwin Knopf. Director: Not set. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: Richard Aldington. A love story with international aspects, backgrounded against an unnamed Caribbean island. The Distaff Side Cast: Not set. Producer: Edwin Knopf. Director: Not set. Original: John Van Druten play. Screenplay; Ann Morrison Chapin. A drawing room comedy with most of the humor revolving around the fair sex. Dr. Red Adams Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Marilyn Maxwell, Gloria DeHaven, Keye Luke, Keenan Wynn, Alma Kruger. Producer: Carey Wilson, Director: Willis Goldbeck. Original Screenplay: Harry Ruskin. Continuing the adventures of Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) and the rivalry of his two assistants. Van Johnson and Keye Luke, this concerns their joint efforts to restore to health a neurotic young chorine, Gloria De Haven, who refuses to eat. As in others of the series, the romantic pursuit of Johnson by Marilyn Maxwell continues. Gentle Annie Cast: James Craig, Donna Reed, Marjorie Main, Paul Langton, Henry Morgan, Barton MacLane, John Philliber. Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: Andrew Marton. Original: Novel by MacKinlay Kantor. Screenplay: Lawrence Hazard. Laid in the Oklahoma Territory in the 1900s, this is a western drama revolving around an upstanding woman whose two sons become notorious gunmen. Green Dolphin Street Cast: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Metro's $175,000 novel-of-theyear by Elizabeth Goudge. Screenplay: No credits set. Located in a channel island of New Zealand in the Nineteenth Century, this is a drama about two sisters and the man they both love. Their lives are twisted by a mischance which forces the man to marry the sister whom he does not love. Ultimately, the course of true love finds a way and he winds up with the right girl. The Green Years Cast: Not set. Producer: Sam Zimbalist. Direc(or: Not set. Original: Novel by A. J. Cronin. Screenplay: Paul Green. An Irish boy, orphaned at seven, goes to live with his mother’s indigent parents. Through the inspiration of his greatgrandfather, he rises above his surroundings and becomes a promising medical student. The Harvey Girls Cast: Not set. Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: Not set. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. A musical concerning the waitresses in the restaurants along the Santa Fe railroad line in the early days of the Harvey system. Her Highness and the Bellboy Cast: Hedy Lamarr, June Allyson, Robert Walker. Producer: Joseph Pasternak. Director: Richard Thorpe. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. A romantic comedy in which Hedy Lamarr portrays a grand duchess who flees from Europe to New York where she meets Robert Walker, hotel bellboy, who becomes enamored of her. June Allyson, Walker’s sweetheart, enlists Hedy’s help in her romance after Robert, who, fascinated by Hedy’s continental charm, apparently forgets June. Hippodrome Cast: Not set. Producer: Jack Cummings. Director: Not set. Original: Samuel Hoffenstein. Screenplay: No credits set. Backgrounded against Coney Island and New York City between 1913 and 1919, the story tells the adventures of two former carnival men, who envision the world’s greatest theatre, and their rivalry for the attentions of Bonnie Baker, comedy trapeze artist. The History of Rome Honks Cast: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Novel by Joseph Stanley Pennell. Screenplay: No credits set. Starting out as a modern story, through flashback technique this becomes a costume drama of the old south, unfolded through the eyes of a young male descendant of Dixie aristocracy. Tracing his lineage he discovers romances, scandals, courage and cowardice— a pattern of life as it might be through the generations of any family. Hold High the Torch Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, "Lassie," Frank Morgan, Edmund Gvirenn, Selena Royle, George Cleveland, Catherine’ .McLeod, Paul Langton. Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: Fred Wilcox. Original: Novel by Lionel Houser. Screenplay: No credits set. Filmed in Technicolor, this concerns the rehabilitation of a dog, trained for war, who returns to his young mistress in a shell-shocked condition. In the dog’s adjustment to civilization life is reflected something of the problem of rehabilitation of returned service men. The Homecoming of Ulysses Cast: Not set. Producer: Sidney Franklin. Director: Not set. Original: Sidney Kingsley. Screenplay: No credits set. Built around a returning young medical officer, this drama will concern the readjustments of soldiers’ womenfolk to their returning men. If Winter Comes Cast: Not set. Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Not set. Original: A. S. M. Hutchinson novel. Screenplay: No credits set. A dramatic story of an English idealist married to a misunderstanding, unimaginative woman, who blames her husband’s unhappiness on his shortcomings, rather than searching herself for the cause of it. Kismet Cast: Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig, Ed-ward Arnold, Joy Ann Page, Florence Bates, Harry Davenport, Producer: Everett Riskin. Director: William Dieterle. Original: Ed'ward Knoblock play. Screenplay: John Meehan. This film version of the famous stage play is in Technicolor. It tells how, in ancient Bagdad, a scheming but lovable magician-beggar promises his beautiful daughter she will wed a prince, and lives to see Fate and his craftiness turn his promise into reality. The Last Express Cast: Edward Arnold. Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: Not set. Original: Bayarci Kendrick novel. Screenplay: George H. Cox. A blind detective, with the help of his Seeing Eye dog, undertakes to solve a murder mystery and becomes involved in a plot which concerns the mismanagement of an estate, a bribery scandal and a group of gangsters. Lost in a Harem Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marilyn Maxwell, John Conte, Douglas Dumbrille, Lottie Harrison, J. Lockard Martin. Producer: George Haight. Director: Charles Riesner. Original Screenplay: Harry Ruskin, John Grant and Harry Crane, When the “International Revue” folds in the bizarre town of Port Inferno in the Mystic East, Prop Men Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are stranded. They fake a magician act, wind up in jail and soon are embarked on all manner of crazy experiences— ranging from facing a headsman to being hypnotized. Lucky Baldwin Cast: Not set. Producer: Everett Riskin. Director: Not set. Original: Novel by C. B. Glasscock. Screenplay: Horace McCoy and Melville Levy. The life story of the famed Californian, his loves and the emotional complications they brought him, this concerns the realization of Lucky Baldwin’s three ambitions • — to have a million dollars, to own the fastest race horse in the country, and to marry a finely bred woman. Maisie Goes to Reno Cast: Ann Sothern, John Hodiak, Tom Drake, Marta Linden, Paul Cavanagh, Bernard Nedell, Ava Gardner. Producer: George Haight. Director: Harry Beaumont. Original: Harry Ruby and James O'Hanlon. Screenplay: Mary C. McCall jr. Eighth in the Maisie series, this finds the Brooklyn blonde in Reno on a twoweek vacation from her defense plant job and neck deep in a mystery and blackmail plot surrounding a soldier and his heiress bride. She helps the pair outwit the crooks and also finds romance for herself. Marriage Is a Private Affair Cast: Lana Turner, James Craig, John Hodiak, Frances Gifford, Hugh Marlowe, Natalie Schafer, Keenan Wynn. Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Original: Novel by Judith Kelly. Screenplay: David Hertz and Lenore Coffee. A melodrama of a modern bride’s search for happiness, this stars Lana Turner as a frivolous society girl who finds herself suddenly forced to settle down and make a home for her wartime husband. Left alone much of the time, she is tempted to try her attractiveness on other men, almost wrecks her marriage. Meet Me in St. Louis Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main, Leon Ames. Producer: Arthur Freed. Director: Vincente Minnelli. Original: Sally Benson. Screenplay: Irving M. Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoff, Adapted from Sally Benson’s “Kensington Avenue” series of sketches which appeared in the New Yorker, this is a comedy-drama about the Smiths of St. Louis, a lively middle class family of eight, during the years 1903-04. Included in the story of their family circle are many of the minor sorrows and much of the laughter identifiable with average American life. Mrs. Parkington Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pi(dgeon, Edward Arnold, Agnes Moorehead, Frances Rafferty, Gladys Cooper, Tom Drake. Producer: Leon Gordon, Director: Tay Garnett. Original: Louis 84 BOXOFFICE BAROMETER