Boxoffice barometer (1944)

Musical Roundup Cast; Martha O'Driscoll, Noah Beery jr., Leon Errol, Leo Carrillo, Irving Bacon, Earl Hodgins. Producer: Warren Wilson. Director: Jean Yarbrough. Original: No credits set. Screenplay; No credits set. In the days of stage coaches and guntotin’, a traveling variety show gets mixed up with desperadoes. Not only do they succeed in breaking up the gang, but the leading lady softens up the ringleader till he wants to go straight. Naughty Nineties Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello. ProducerDirector: Edmund Hartmann. Original Screenplay: Edmund Hartmann. Abbott and Costello in a musical film set during the Gay Nineties period. Not for Children Cast: Not set. Producer: Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano. The Old Texas Trail Cost: Rod Cameron, Eddie Dev/, Fuzzy Knight, Ray Whitely, Virginia Christine, Joseph J. Green. Producer: Oliver Drake. Director: Lewis Collins. Original Screenplay: William Lizely. The young heroine in this story is endeavoring to get her stagecoach line through Texas before the option rights expire. She is thwarted at every turn by a bandit and his henchmen who pull all sorts of unscrupulous tricks to stop her. But three fighting cowboys come to the rescue with fists and guns and the stagecoach line is completed in record time. Penthouse Serenade Cast: Kirby Grant, Lois Collier, Judy Clark, Edward Norris, Marion Martin, Edward S. Brophy. Producer: Frank Gross. Director: Edward Cline. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. A family of three brothers and their sister, jobless but aspiring to a stage career, pool their resources to put up a front and meet the right people. It lands them a job in a night club but not before they become involved with the law. The Queen of the Nile Cast: Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Turban Bey, Andy Devine, George Zucco, Philip Van Zandt. Producer: Paul Malvern. Director: Jack Rawlins. Original Screenplay: Edmund L. Hartmann. An ancient kingdom by the Nile backgrounds this tale of a princess who donned a disguise and ventured out to seek her father’s murderer. Captured and sold into slavery, she narrowly escapes death, but the villain who plotted to seize her throne is brought to justice and the royal lady is reunited with her lover. Reckless Age Cost: Gloria Jean, Henry Stephenson, Kathleen Howard, Chester Clute, Andrew Tombes. Producer-Director: Felix Feist. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. A young heiress to a chain-store fortune, leaves home to become a working girl. She gets a job in one of her father’s stores, promotes exploitation schemes to increase business, and is erroneously accused of being a shoplifter because of jewelry in her possession. Her father rescues her from jail, proves the jewelry is her own and she marries the young store manager responsible for her arrest. Romance Incorporated Cast Not set. Producer: Bernard Burton. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Ellwood Ullmon. A romantic comedy with music. Salome — Where She Danced Cast: Rod Cameron, Yvonne De Carlo, Albert Dekker, David Bruce, Walter Slezak, Mary Lou Campbell, Barbara Bates. Producer: Walter Wonger. Director: Charles Lament. Original Screenplay: Lawrence Stallings. Yvorme De Carlo, a Viennese dancer, is brought to America by Rod Cameron. While traveling through Arizona their stagecoach is held up by David Bruce, bandit leader, Salome does her dance, which is so sensational the townsfolk change the town’s name to Salome— Where She Danced, by which it is still known. Following a sequence of events leading to San Francisco, Salome creates havoc with many men but eventually falls in love with Bruce. San Diego, I Love You Cost: Jon Hall, Louise Allbritton, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Rudy Wissler, Florence Lake, Fern Emmett. Producer: Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano. Director: Reginald Le Borg. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. The story of a small-town school teacher who invented a collapsible life raft. He and his family move to San Diego where he hopes to sell it. The raft turns out to be a failure but everyone is amazed when a new explosive powder, another brainchild of the teacher, is sold and makes the family wealthy. She Gets Her Man Cast: Joan Davis, Leon Errol, Warren Gargan, Vivian Austin. Producer: Warren Wilson. Director: Erie Kenton. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Roy Chanslor. A comedy with music, starring Joan Davis, in heart trouble again. The Singing Sheriff Cast; Bob Crosby, Fay McKenzie, Edward Norris, Samuel S. Hinds, Fuzzy Knight, Iris Adrian. Producer: Bernard Burton. Director: Leslie Goodwins. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. In a tough little western town, Its sheriff is wounded while questioning a bad character. The dying arm of the law sends for his son whom he hasn’t seen since babyhood. Since the boy is sick and can’t make the trip, his employer, an actor, substitutes for him to make the languishing father happy. The “son” mixes with bandits, gamblers and gunplay, but finally wins the girl who thought she was his “sister.” Song of a Sarong Cast: Not set. Producer: Gene Lewis. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Elaine Ryan. A musical comedy with a South Sea island background. The Suspect Cost: Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens, Henry Daniell, Rosalind Ivan, Mollie Lamont, Stanley Ridges. Producer: Islin Auster. Director: Robert Siodmak. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. Charles Laughton, as a London tobacconist, is goaded into murdering his nagging wife who threatens to expose his friendship with a more understanding woman. He then is forced to kill again to silence a blackmailer. His plans of escape with his sweetheart are thwarted by his own sense of decency which forces him to surrender to the police when he learns an innocent person will die for his crimes. Swing Out, Sister Cast: Frances Raeburn, Jacqueline De Wit, Rod Cameron, Arthur Treacher, Fuzzy Knight, Milburn Stone, Billie Burke. Producer: Bernard Burton. Director: Edward Lilley. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. Two young “long-haired” musicians with a secret love for “hot” music, meet a duet of female swing singers. The four become involved in a series of happenings and ultimately wind up in close harmony. WARNER BROS. Arsenic and Old Lace Cast: Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Priscilla Lane, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason. Producer-Director: Frank Capra. Original: Joseph Kesselring. Screenplay: Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein. This screen adaptation of the stage success tells of two sweet but completely crazy old ladies who live in a secluded old house and consider it their duty to put lonely old gentlemen out of their misery, so then give the gentlemen wine, spiked with arsenic. Several corpses and odd situations turn up before the two are finally put away and their nephew, who really isn’t related to them at all, is free to marry the girl he loves. The Big Sleep Cost: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Recall, Martha Vickers, John Ridgely, Regis Toomey. Producer-Director: Howard Hawks. Original: Raymond Chandler. Screenplay: Not set. A retired army officer and his two daughters are being blackmailed by members of a gang who know one of the girls has killed a man. The father hires a detective, Humphrey Bogart, to clean up the mess and still protect the young murderess who, being a psychopathic case, was not responsible for her act. Calamity Jane Cast: Not set. Producer: Jerry Wald. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Alan LeMay. Based on the life of Martha Jane Canary, the famous western cowgirl. Chicken Every Sunday Cast: Not set. Producer: Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein. The tale of a struggling young couple who, in their own original manner, work out their economic problems as well as their romantic ones. Christmas in Connecticut Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, S. Z. Sakall, Reginald Gardiner, Joyce Compton, Robert Shayne. Producer: William Jacobs. Director: Peter Godfrey. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. This humorous tale concerns a magazine feature writer who plugs culinary delights and the home beautiful but who’s more at home in a bar than a kitchen. She gets very involved when her publisher, for publicity purposes, invites a young couple to spend the Christmas holidays at the Connecticut farmhouse she’s been describing for months. Cinderella Jones Cast: Joan Leslie, Robert Alda, Julie Bishop, William Prince, S. Z. Sakall, Edward Everett Horton, Ruth Donnelly, Charles Dingle. Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Director: Busby Berkeley. Original: Philip Wylie. Screenplay: Charles Hoffman. This comedy involves the plight of a girl who learns she’ll inherit ten million dollars if she marries a man whose I.Q. is 150. Her band-leading boy friend apparently won’t make the mental grade, while a college professor she meets seems to be the mental genius she requires. Following a series of amusing events, the young lady learns her musician has an I.Q. of 200, which makes everything perfect. Conflict Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith. Producer: William Jacobs. Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Original: Robert Siodmak and Alfred Neumann. Screenplay: Arthur Herman and Dwight Taylor. An action story of France just at the beginning of the war. It deals with espionage and the underground movement that worked to defy the Nazis. Connecticut Yankee Cast: Not set. Producer: Arthur Schwartz. Director: Not set. Original: Mark Twain. Screenplay: Jack Moffitt. Adapted from the Mark Twain novel, this is a tale about a modern young man who lapses into imconsciousness from a tap on the head. While knocked out, he dreams he is back in the day of the 132 BOXOFFICE BAROMETER