Boxoffice barometer (1944)

meets a man who transforms her into a glamour girl. She becomes a famous actress and has romances with a quartet of men, finally winding up the bride of a famous theatrical producer. And Now Tomorrow Cast: Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, Susan Hayward, Barry Sullivan, Beulah Bondi, Grant Mitchell, Cecil Kellaway. Producer: Fred Kohlmar. Director: Irving Pichel. Original: Novel by Rachel Field. Screenplay: Frank Partos and Raymond Chandler. Emily Blair (Loretta Young), wealthy New England girl, becomes afflicted with deafness. Alan Ladd, a young doctor “from the other side of the tracks” in Blairstown, effects a cure when all others diagnose the case as hopeless. Emily falls in love with him, which makes it easier to take the discovery that her sister has been carrying on a secret romance with Emily’s fiance. Bring On the Girls Cast: Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds, Johnny Coy, Peter Whitney, Alan Mowbray. Producer: Fred Kohlmar. Director: Sidney Lanfield. Original: Pierre Wolf. Screenplay: Karl Tunberg and Dorrell Ware. This is a Technicolor musical about the world’s richest young man (Bracken) who can never be sure people aren’t nice to him just for his money. When he enlists in the navy, his lawyers send a junior member of the firm (Tufts) along to protect him. He keeps his wealth hidden from the boys but almost falls for a scheming cigaret girl, until Cupid sets his course in the right direction. California Cost: Not set Producer: Harry Tugend. Director: Not set. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: Emmett Lavery. A drama in Technicolor, backgrounded against the California gold rush of 1849. Dangerous Passage Cast: Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Charles Arnt, Jack LaRue, Victor Kilian, William Edmunds, Alex Craig. Producer: William Pine and William Thomas. Director: William Berke. Original Screenplay: Goettrey Homes. Adventurer Robert Lowery and Entertainer Phyllis Brooks meet first in a South American night club, later on a freighter bound for San Francisco and home. Home means a large inheritance for Robert, a happier life for Phyllis. But during the passage they are beset by intrigue, murder and a deliberate shipwreck before they reach safety and home. Dark Mountain Cast: Robert Lowery, Ellen Drew, Regis Toomey, Eddie Quillan, Elisha Cook jr., Raloh Dunn, Walter Baldwin. Producer: William H. Pine and William C. Thomas. Director: William Berke. Original: Paul Franklin and Charles Royal. Screenplay: Maxwell Shane. A cops and robbers story in which the hero is a forest ranger. He undertakes to hide his former sweetheart, innocently married to a racketeer, who has become involved in a murder charge. The husband invades the mountain hideout and she is forced to befriend him to save her life. How the hero outwits the slayer and saves the girl furnishes the plot structure. Don't Ever Grieve Me Cast: Not set. Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Director: Not set. Original: Robert M. Smith. Screenplay: Robert Russell. This concerns itself with the romantic and gay adventures of a trio of returned American flyers who fall for the same girl. Double Exposure Cast: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Phillip Terry, Jane Farrar, Richard Gaines, Charley Arnt, Claire Rochelle. Producers: William Pine and William Thomas. Director: William Berke. Original Screenplay: Winston Miller and Maxwell Shone. A comedy-mystery with a New York picture magazine background, this concerns an editor who hires a girl photographer from a country paper, falls in love with her, then inadvertently gets her accused of a cafe society murder. It takes all his ingenuity and photographic talent to finally solve the crime and free her. Duffy's Tavern Cast: Ed Gardner, Charlie Cantor, Barry Sullivan, Victor Moore, Marjorie Reynolds, Ann Thomas and a number of guest stars. Producer: Joseph Sistrom. Director: Hal Walker. Original Screenplay: Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. Based on the radio show of the same name, this concerns Archie’s (Ed Gardner’s) problem when he feeds 14 ex-service men at Duffy’s Tavern on credit and gets himself into a jam. He finally lures r group of Hollywood stars, in New York on a bond tour, into appearing at a benefit to raise the necessary funds to help the soldiers and get him out of trouble. El Dorado Cast: Not set. Producer: Kenneth Macgowon. Director: Not set. Original: Harold Shumate. Screenplay: Harold Shumate. A story of the west in 1880, this centers around the exciting things that happen in a hotei situated at the end of the stagecoach line and the beginning of the Pony Express run. My Favorite Brunette Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard. Producer: Paul Jones. Director: George Marshall. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: Walter De Leon and Dwight Mitchell Wiley. A comedy with contemporary America as a background. The Flame Cast: Arturo de Cordova. Producer-Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Original: Borden Chase. Screenplay: No credits set. An epic story of Mexico, to be filmed in Technicolor. Follow That Woman Cast: William Gargan. Producer: Maxwell Shane for William Pine and William Thomas. Director: Not set. Original: No credits set Screenplav: Winston Miller. When Private Detective William Gargan enters the army, his wife attempts to carry on his business and gets involved in a blackmail and murder plot. Gargan has to negotiate a furlough from the army to extricate his wife from the police— and the crooks. Frenchman's Creek Cast: Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Cordova, Basil Rathbone, Cecil Kellaway, Ralph Forbes, Nigel Bruce, Harold Ramond. Producer: David Lewis. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Orginal: Novel by Daphne du Maurier. Screenplay: Talbot Jenninas. Filmed in Technicolor, this 17th Century adventure romance is based on the Daphne du Maurier best-seller of the same title about a beautiful and imperious young aristocrat (Joan Fontaine), married and the mother of two chiidren, who runs away with a pirate (Arturo de Cordova) with whom she falis madly in love. The Golden Years Cast: Sonny Tufts. Veronica Lake, Lillian Gish, Joan Caulfield, Billy DeWolfe, Pat Phelan, Lloyd Bridges. Producer: John Houseman. Director: John Berry. Original: Augusta Tucker novel. Screenplay: Hugo Butler, Theodore Strauss and Anne Froelich. A dramatic story of a group of medical students residing at a boarding house which is as much an institution as the school itself. Central character is a student (Sonny Tufts) who is determined to become a doctor despite a fear of death he developed as a boy. Following the death of one of his patients, he redeems himself, performs a brilliant operation, then graduates. Her Heart in Her Throat Cast: Gail Russell, Joel McCrea, Richard Lyon, Nona Griffith, Herbert Marshall, Isobel Elsom, Phyllis Brooks. Producer: John Houseman. Director: Lewis Allen. Original: Ethel Lina White novel. Screenplay: Hagar Wilde and Raymond Chandler. Gail Russell takes a job as governess to the two children of widowed shipbuilder, Joel McCrea, and becomes involved in a double murder mystery tied in with the shipbuilder’s house and the house next door, supposedly long untenanted. With the solution of the crimes, romance comes to Gail and Joel. Here Come the WAVES Cost: Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Ann Doran, Gwynn (Crawford, Guy Zanett, Harry Barris, Noel Neill. Producer-Director: Mark Sandrich. Original Screenplay: Alan Scott. Blonde Susie and redheaded Rosemary twins (both Betty Hutton), are divided in their opinion of Johnny Cabot (Bing Crosby) idol of the bobby-socksers. He joins the navy. They join the WAVES. Susie gets Johnny assigned to WAVE recruiting. Meanwhile Johnny’s pal. Windy, (Sonny Tufts) falls for Rosemary and they make it a double wedding. High Man Cast: Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Mary Treen, Roger Pryor, Ed Gargan, Joe Sawyer, William Haade, Dewey Robinson. Producers: William Pine and William Thomas. Director: William Berke. Original: Milton Raison. Screenplay: Maxwell Shane. 'Told against the background of a huge California cracking plant where high octane gasoline is made, this is a drama about the work of construction riggers who risk their lives high in the air on building jobs, and the rivalry of two of them for a beautiful waitress. Incenciiary Blontde Cast: Betty Hutton, Arturo de Cordova, Barry Fitzgerald, Mary Philips, Charles Ruggles, Albert Dekxer, Patricia Prest, Producer: Joseph Sistrom. Director: George Marshall. Original Screenplay: Claude Binyon and Frank Butler. A story based on the life of Texas Guinan (Betty Hutton). It tells of her poverty-stricken childhood in Texas, how she becomes a rodeo performer and later the “Female William S. Hart” of eariy Hollywood westerns and finally the queen of New York’s night clubs. Kitty Cast: Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland, Constance Collier, Patric Knowles, Sara Allgood, Cecil Kellaway, Reginald Owen. Producer: Karl Tunberg. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Original: Rosamond Marshall novel. Screenplay: Karl Tunberg and Darrell Ware. A romantic drama set in London of the 1870s, this concerns a waif, who rises to riches and top social position as a result of being selected as a model for a painting of Sir Thomas Gainsborough. She goes through two marriages and many intrigues to achieve those ends. The Lady and the Landlubber Cast: Not set. Producer: E. D. Leshin. Director: Not set. Original: Paul Francis Webster and Fred Saidy. Screenplay: No credits set. Comedy about a girl office worker who inherits an expensive yacht and then cleverly contrives to support it. The Lost Weekend Cast: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phil Terry, Howard da Silva, Doris Dowling. Producer: Charles Brackett. Director: Billy Wilder. Original: Charles Jackson novel. Screenplay: No credits set. A comedy-drama about a chronic drunkard (Ray Milland) and the strange things that happen to him following a weekend on a binge. He meets a girl and her faith in him eventually leads him to give up liquor. The Love Letters Cast: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Derek Cooper, Cecil Kellaway. Producer: 96 BOXOFFICE BAROMETER