Boxoffice barometer (1945)

concerns his involvement with escaping German war criminals. Big Town Cast: Philip Reed. Producers; William Pine, William Thomas. Director; William Thomas, Original Seraenplays Not set. One in a series of action-melodramas being produced by Pine and Thomas for Paramount release. Blaze of Noon Cast: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Capt. Ernest K. Gann. Screenplay: Not set. Written by an aviator between his flights, this deals with prewar civilian aviation before the government took over the mail service. The Blue Dahlia Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Tom Powers, Hugh Beaumont. Producer: John Houseman. Director: George E. Marshall. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Raymond Chandler. Alan Ladd, William Bendix and Hugh Beaumont return from navy duty overseas, to find Alan’s wife, Doris, running around with Howard Da Silva, owner of the Blue Dahlia night club. Doris is murdered. Dodgjing police, Alan becomes involved with various racketeers and suspects, among them Veronica Lake, with whom he falls in love, before the murder mystery is solved. Blue Skies Cast: Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Paul Draper, Billy De Wolfe, Olga San Juan, Frank Faylen, Roy Gordon. Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Stuart Heisler. Original: Irving Berlin. Screenplay: Allan Scott. On the melodious framework of Irving Berlin’s songs of the last quarter of a century, the love stories of Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield and Paul Draper are told in this musical. Crosby, happy-go-lucky singer, marries the girl, but a misunderstanding separates them. It is Draper, the Broadway dancing star, who has loved Joan with hopeless devotion, v/ho brings them together again years afterward. The Bride Wore Boots Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Cummings, Diana Lynn, Patric Knowles, Willie Best, Peggy Wood, Robert Bencliley. Producer: Seton I. Miller. Director: Irving Pichel. Original: Not set. Screenplay; Dwight Mitchell Wiley. No horse opera, yet this comedy is one of the horsiest pictures made in a long time. Barbara simply adores them; Robert abhors them, and the bridal path inevitably leads to divorce. Not content with this solution, they decide to remarry, and Barbara, rushing in from the stables to dress for her wedding and finding no one to help her off with her boots, appears for the ceremony attired in wedding dress and boots. By Reputation Cast: Not set. Producer; Not set. Director; Not set. Original: Novelette by Nelie G. White. Screenplay: Not set. The story of a prominent New York lawyer and a career woman who have never met, but because their friends have told them so many times that they ought to know one another they have grown to hate one another. Out of this state of affairs develops a romance between the two. Calcutta Cast: Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Gail Russell, June Duprez, Edith King, Lowell Gilmore, John Whitney. Producer: Seton I. Miller. Direeler: John Farrow. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Seton I. Miller. When a pal is murdered in Calcutta, Alan Ladd and William Bendix determine to find the killer. Alan falls for Gail Russell, but finds she is implicated with Lowell Gilmore in the murder and in smuggling jewels into China aboard the planes Ladd and Bendix fly over the “hump.” Gail is apprehended after shooting Gilmore, and when Ladd next takes off it is June Duprez, night club singer, who waits for him. California Cast: Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck. Producer: Seton I. Miller. Director: John Farrow. Original; Not set. Screenplay; Not set. Deals with the early Gold Rush days of 1849. Cross My Heart Cast: Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Michael Chekhov, Ruth Donnelly, Tom Dugan, Tom Fadden, Allan Bridge. Producer: Harry Tugend. Director: John Berry. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Harry Tugend. Betty, a chronic liar, pretends she murdered a showman in order that her boy friend. Sonny Tufts, a young lawyer with high moral beliefs, can defend her and win a reputation in court. Betty is acquitted but loses Sonny. They are reunited after she helps prove that Michael Chekhov committed the murder. Dear Ruth Cast: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Norman Krasna, Screenplay: Not set. Domestic comedy of marital difficulties, this is adapted from a stage success by Norman Krasna. Desert Town Cast: Betsy Drake. Producer: Hal Wallis. Director: Not set. Original: Ramona Stewart Screenplay: Ramona Stewart and A. I. Bezzeride : Backgrounded in Nevada, this is a tale of a 17-year-old heroine in an up-to-date western locale. Dream Girl Cast: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Elmer Rice (play). Screenplay: Nor set. Modern romantic comedy from play produced in New York by the Playwrights Co. No war background. Duffy's Tavern Cast: Bing Crosby, Ed Gardner, Betty Hutton, Paulette Goddard, Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour and the Dufty's Tavern cast. Producer: Joe Sistrom. Director: Hal Walker. Original Screenplay; Melvin Frank and Norman Panama. Based on the radio show of the same name, the film features virtually all of the studio’s list of ranking stars. Ed Gardner, in charge of Duffy’s Tavern while Duffy is on vacation, feeds 14 ex-service men on credit and then tries to find them jobs. He finally gets a group of Hollywood stars to appear at a block party benefit, but not before he gets himself in and out of various and sundry embarrassing situations. Finnegan's Folly Cast: Barry Fitzgerald. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: George Millburn. Screenplay: Not set. Comedy to star Barry Fitzgerald, Academy Award winner last year for his work in “Going My Way.” Follow That Woman Cast: William Gargan, Nancy Kelly, Ed Gorgon, Regis Toomey, Byron Barr, Don Costello, Pierre Watkin. Producers: William Pine and V/iliiam Thomas. Director; Lew Landers. Original Screenplay: Winston Miller. This is a rapid-fire murder mystery with a comic touch. When Bill Gargan, private detective, is drafted his vivacious young wife, Nancy Kelly, attempts to carry on his practice and promptly gets dangerously involved in a night club murder. Bill is forced to get a furlough so that he can return home and solve the crime. Hot Cargo Cast: William Gargan, Jean Rogers, Philip Reed, Harry Cording, Larry Young, David Holi, Will Wright. Producers; William Pine and William Thomas. Director: Lew Landers. Original: Geoffrey Homes. Screenplay: Geoffrey Homes. Action drama concerning two ex-service men who return to do a few things for the families of their dead pals, and run into trouble before they end the activities of a heavy who is trying to steal the trucking business belonging to one of the families. I Take This Woman Cast: Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Anthony Quinn, Russell Owen, Virginia Field, Arturo de Cordova, Joan Caulfield. Producer: Karl Tunberg. Director: Lewis Allen. Original: Ladislas Fodor. Screenplay: Karl Tunberg. The story deals with the romance of a young and famous London music hall actress who marries a peer, despite the opposition of his family. Jungle Flight Cast: Robert Lowery. Producers: William Pine, William Thomas. Director: Not set. Original: David Lang. Screenplay: David Lang. Aviation melodrama. 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, Screenplay: Karl Tunberg and Darrell Ware. A romantic drama in the setting of London in the 1780s, it is the story of a waif, Paulette, who rises to riches and top social position as a result of having been elected as a model for a painting by Sir Thomas Gainsborough. She goes through two marriages many intrigues, aided by an attractive scoundrel, to achieve her ends. The Lost Weekend Cast: Ray Milland, Phil Terry, Jane Wyman, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling, Frank Faylen, Anita Bolster. Producer: Charles Brackett. Director: Billy Wilder. Original: Charles R. Jackson. Screenplay: Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. This is the melancholy story of five days out of the life of Ray Milland, who loses the girl he loves, his self-respect and finally his freedom because of his helpless addiction to drink. It is the story, too, of the sacrificial efforts of the girl and of the man’s devoted brother to save him from final tragedy. Love Letters Cast: Joseph Cotten, Robert Sully, Jennifer Jones, Anita Louise, Gladys Cooper, Byron Barr, Ann Richards. Producer: Idal B, Wallis. Director: William Dieterle. Original: Chris Massie novel. Screenplay: Ayn Rand. The drama of two buddies in the British army, one of whom meets a girl at a canteen. The girl writes him and, as a lark, he has his friend, who writes beautifully, answer for him. The girl falls in love with the letters, but marries the boy who she thinks has written them. Her life with him is very unhappy, and, ultimately, she winds up witii the real author, finding happiness at last. Love Lies Bleeding Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott, Van Heflin, Kirk Douglas. Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Director: Louis Milestone. Original: Jack Patrick. Screenplay: Not set. The story is of a murder committed in a small town and of the sinister spell cast upon all those who share the secret. Manhattan at Midnight Cast: Eddie Bracken, Virginia Field, Cass Daley, Johnny Cov. Spike Jones and his band. Producer: Danny Dare. Director: William Russell. Original: Based on radio series of the same name. Screenplay: Not set. Light comedy about a young Texas oil millionaire’s adventures in New York. Masquerade in Mexico Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Cordova, Patric Knowles, Ann Dvorak, George Rigaud, Mikhail Rasumny, Martin Garralaga. Producer: Karl Tunberg. Director: Mitchell Leison. Original: Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Spencer. Screenplay: Karl Tunberg. A story of international romance and BOXOFFICE BAROMETER 107