Boxoffice barometer (1945)

Senorita From the West Cast: Allan Jones, Bonita Granville, Jess Barker, Oscar O'Shea, George Cleveland,® Benny McEvoy, Fuzzy Knight. Producer: Phil Cahn. Director: Frank Strayer. Original Screenplay: Howard Dimsdale. Stage-struck Bonita runs away from her “godfather guardians” who have struck it rich in their desert gold mine, unbeknownst to her. In New York she falls in love with Jess Barker, whose radio voice is ghosted by Allan Jones. When the guardians come to the city, Jess learns of their wealth and woos Bonita. Allan, in love with her also, warns the guardians and they rescue Jess and Bonita just before they say “I do.” Shady Lady Cast: Ginny Simms, Charles Coburn, Robert Paige, Martha O'Driscoll, Alan Curtis, Jess Barker, Joe Frisco, Thomas E. Jackson. Producer-Director: George Waggner. Original Screenplay: Curt Siodmak, Glerald Geraghty, M. M. Musselman. Additional Dialog: Monty Collins. Robert Paige, deputy state’s attorney, falls for Ginny Simms, singer at Chicago’s Bay Shore Club and niece of “Colonel” Charles Coburn, card shark. 'The club owner and racketeer, Jess Barker, uses a damaging photograph of Robert’s sister, Martha O’Driscoll, as a weapon against arrest. The colonel wins the photo from Jess at poker, the racketeer’s records are confiscated and happiness is assured for Ginny with Robert and for the colonel with Robert’s aunt. The Spider Woman Strikes Back Cast: Gale Sondergaard, Kirby Grant, Brenda Joyce, Rondo Hatton. Producer: Howard Welsch. Director: Arthur Lubin. Original: Eric Taylor. Screenplay: Not set. A girl’s blood is being drawn at night by her blind employer Zenobia to feed a carnivorous plant which yields a poison with which the Spider Woman destroys cattle belonging to farmers living on her former land. The girl at last discovers Zenobia is the Spider Woman and has pretended blindness. The malicious woman and her servant die in a fire which the young girl escapes. Strange Confession Cast: Lon Chaney, J. Carrol Naish, Brenda Joyce, Lloyd Bridges, Milburn Stone, Gregory Muradian; Wilton Graff. Director: John Hoffman. Original: Based on composition by Jean Bart. Screenplay: M. Coates Webster. Lon Chaney brings a bag containing the head of his former employer, J. Carrol Naish, to his attorney and tells the story why he killed Naish, a profit-mad medicine tycoon who sent him to South America to perfect a cure for influenza. Naish marketed the half-completed formula, only to have an epidemic sweep the country taking Chaney’s son’s wife. His employer then completely destroyed his happiness by wooing his wife. Sunny River Cast: Carmen Miranda. Producers: SkirballManning. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg. A musical in Technicolor which features the singing of Carmen Miranda in a story of Mississippi steamboating. Songa and musical scores for the film will be composed by Oscar Hammerstein II and Sigmund Romberg. Tangier Cast: Maria Montez, Robert Paige, Sabu, Louise Allbritton, Kent Taylor, Preston Foster, J. Edward Bromberg. Producer: Paul Malvern. Director: George Waggner. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. While pursuing Balizar, an unidentified man responsible for the slaying of thousands in the Spanish revolution. Dancer Maria Montez becomes involved with a gang of Nazis in North Africa. She and Robert Paige, a reporter, experience a series of adventures which lead to the downfall of the Nazis and the capture of Tangier’s military governor, Preston Foster, who is revealed to be Balizar. Terror by Night Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Geoffrey Steele, Dennis Hoey, Alan Mowbray, Martin Kosleck, Renee Godfrey. Producer-Director: Roy William Neill. Original: Based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Screenplay: Not Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), hired to guard a famous jewel, become involved in a murder after a brush with their old enemy. Col. Sebastian Moran (Alan Mowbray). Holmes manages to unmask Moran and save the jewel by the subterfuge of substituting a false gem in its place. That Night With You Cast: Franchot Tons', Susanna Foster, Louise Allbritton, David Bruce, Buster Keaton, Irene Ryan, Jacqueline de Wit. Producers: Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano. Director: William Seiter. Original Screenplay: Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano. Susanna Foster works in David Bruce’s diner and dreams of becoming a singing star. David dreams of marrying Susanna. Hoping to advance her dreams, Susanna pretends that she is Producer Franchot Tone’s daughter. He knows that she is an impostor but falls in love with her. Louise Allbritton has staked out Tone for herself and resents the intrusion. On Christmas Eve, Susanna is reunited with David, while Franchot and Louise make up. The producer then stars Susanna in his new show. That's My Baby Cast: Joan Davis. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original Screenplav: Not set. Musical comedy to topline the radio and screen comedienne, Joan Davis. This Love of Ours Cast: Merle Oberon, Charles Korvin, Claude Rains, Jess Barker, Ralph Morgan, Doris Merrick. Producer: Not set. Director: William Dieterle. Original: Luigi Pirandello. Screenplay: Not set. Charles Korvin meets and marries Merle Oberon in Paris. On their wedding anniversary, Korvin suspects that his wife is untrue; actually, she is innocent. He leaves her, taking their child with him to America, where he becomes a success. Oberon and Korvin meet again. The child believes that her mother is dead and resents Oberon’s intrusion in her father’s life. Korvin finds out he was wrong, the child likes her supposedly new mother a little better and everyone is reasonably happy at the end of the story. Trail to Vengeance Cast: Kirby Grant, Fuzzy Knight, Poni Adams, Tom Fadden, Frank Jaquet, John Kelly, Walter Baldwin. Producer-Director: Wallace Fox. Original Screenplay: Bob Williams. An undertaker and a banker murder a rancher. About to bury their victim, a brother of the slain man appears in town. He finds a neighbor of his slain brother under arrest for the crime and the banker about to foreclose on his brother’s estate. Attempting to salvage the estate he learns the identity of the criminals. WARNER BROS, The Adventures of Don Juan Cast: Errol Flynn. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Herbert Dalmas. Screenplay: Not set. Errol Flynn portrays the dashing 16th century cavalier who woos many European women and breaks many hearts. Back Home for Keeps Cast: Not set. Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Di rector: Not set. Original Screenplay: Jo Pagdno. The story of a war veteran who returns to his home in the south and hasn’t the ambition to go back to work. The Big Sleep Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Patricia Clark, Regis Toomey. Producer: Howard Hawks. Director: Howard Hawks. Original: Raymond Chandler. Screenplay: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman. Blackmailed by a bookdealer with whom she has had an affair, Martha Vickers is aided by Detective Humphrey Bogart, who in turn is aided by Martha’s sister Lauren Bacall. Martha attempts to murder the bookdealer in order to get back the pictures with which he is blackmailing her. Bogart disarms her and they find that the man has already been murdered. A racketeer, John Ridgely, involved with Lauren, plans to kill Bogart but meets death in his own trap. Cinderella Jones Cast: Joan Leslie, Robert Alda, Julie Bishop, William Prince, S. Z. Sakall, Edward Everett Horton, Ruth Donnelly. Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Director: Busby Berkeley. Original: Philip Wylie. Screenplay: Charles Hoffman. A comedy involving the plight of a girl who learns she will inherit ten million dollars if she marries a man whose I. Q. is 150. She feels her band-leading boy friend doesn’t measure up to the requirements, and that a college professor she meets, does. After a series of amusing events the young girl learns her musician has an I. Q. of 200, so her problem is solved. Cloak and Dagger Cast: Not set. Producer: Joseph Bernhard, Milton Sperling. Director: Not set. Original: Lieut. Col. (iorey Ford, Maj. Alastair MacMain. Screenplay: Not set. The dramatic story of the office of strategic services which pays tribute to the unsung heroes who risked their lives in daring undercover work of conducting the military Intelligence and espionage operations for the United States during World War II. Confidential Agent Cast: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Don Seymour, Peter Lorre, Katina Paxinou, George Coulouris, Victor Francen. Producer: Robert Buckner. Director: Herman Shumlin. Original: Graham Greene. Screenplay: Robert Buckner. The story centers around the Spanish revolution in the year 1937. Charles Boyer, a concert pianist turned soldier, is commissioned by the I^oyalists to buy coal in England to prevent it from getting into the hands of the Fascists. On his journey Boyer meets Bacall, daughter of an English coal magnate. She is aloof and believes Boyer is putting on an act with all his intrigues. However after a couple of murders, deliberately pinned on Boyer by the Fascists and various attempts on his life, she becomes sympathetic and dreamy-eyed. Cry Wolf Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Marjorie Carleton. Screenplay: Catherine Turney. Barbara Stanwyck, a student, receives an offer of $10,000 from a man if she will marry him. The offer is made so that he may claim his estate. The story is a modern mystery which takes place in New England. Danger Signal Cast: Faye Emerson, Zachary Scott, Dick Erdman, Rosemary DeCamp, Bruce Bennett, Mona Freeman. Producer: William Jacobs. Director: Robert Florey. Original: Phyllis Bottome. Screenplav: Not set. Psychological study of a young woman caught in the web of love, leading up to her decision to kill the man who wooed her. Faye Emerson, deeply in love with BOXOFFICE BAROMETER 135