Boxoffice barometer (1946)

The Forty-Niners Cast: Not set. Producer: Robert Buckner. Director: Not set. Original: Paul Wellman. Screenplay: Not set. Historical action drama, laid in the days of the gold rush to California. The Fountainhead Cast: Lauren Bacall (incomplete. Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: Not set. Original: Ayn Rand. Screenplay: Not set. The story of Howard Roark, an architectural genius whose unique abilities are not recognized by the more conservative architects of his day. How he finds happiness and understanding and how he at last attains deserved recognition, is depicted. The Glass Room Cast: Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart (incomplete). Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Edwin Rolle, Lester Fuller. A hard-boiled detective drama, patterned similarly to another Bogart-Bacall co-starrer, “The Big Sleep.” The Golden City Cast: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer (incomplete). Producer: Milton Sperling (United States Pictures). Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Ted Allan A romantic drama, this reunites the co-stars of the first United States Pictures production, “Cloak and Dagger” — Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer. The Hasty Heart Cast: Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark (incomplete). Producer: Charles Hotiman. Director: Not set. Original: John Patrick. Screenplay: Not set. Action for the film is laid in the CBI theatre of operations and concerns a philosophical Scotsman. It is based on a Broadway play. The House Cast: Not set. Producer: Jerry Wald. Director: Not set. Original: Louise Randall Pierson. Screenplay: Not set. This is described as the story of America as seen through the home, told through the eyes of a family — its wars, its industrial achievements, its disasters and triumphs. Howdy. Stranger Cast: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson (incomplete). Producer: Alex Gottlieb, Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: 1. A. L. Diamond. This comedy is the story of a night club entertainer who is stranded on a dude ranch, and who has an overpowering fear of animals. Humoresque Cast: Joan Crawford, John Garlield, Peggy Knudsen, Tom D'Andrea, Oscar Levant. Producer: Jerry Wald. Director: Jean Negulesco. Original; Fanny Hurst. Screenplay: Not set. In flashback, John Garfield, a famous violinist, recalls how his mother sacrificed for his career: how Joan Crawford, a married woman, did everything in her power so he could get ahead; and how Joan committed suicide when she realized that, if she married him, he would not be getting what he needed in life. The Iron Gate Cast: No! set. Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: Not set. Original: Margaret Millar. Screenplay: Margaret Millar. A woman kills her best friend and keeps the crime hidden until her husband discovers the truth 15 years later. In remorse and shame, she is driven to suicide, and the subsequent chain of circumstances forces her husband to commit murder. The Jazz Singer Cast: Dane Clark, Eleanor Parker (incomplete). Producer: Not set. Director: Michael Curtiz. Original: Sampson Raphaelson. Screenplay: Not set. A remake of the 1927 film starring A1 Jolson, the story concerns a cantor’s son who is put out of his home when he choose.s a Broadway career instead of following in his father’s footsteps. Eventually a successful vaudeville singer, he learns his par ents have lost their money, comes to their aid, and earns their forgiveness. Jealous House Cast: Eleanor Parker (incomplete). Producer: Jerry Wald. Director: Not set. Original: Clarence Budington Kelland. Screenplay; Not set. Taken from a novel which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, this is a story of the social and financial development of New York. Lady Windemere's Fan Cast; Not set. Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: Not set. Original: Oscar Wilde. Screenplay: Stephen Avery. Based on the famous novel by Oscar Wilde, and also a stage play, “Lady Windemere’s Fan” tells of high English society, the gossip, the intrigues and the loves of a fascinating woman, whose daughter is unaware that her mother is the third member of her triangular love affair. The Last Fling Cast: Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan (incomplete). Producer: Robert Buckner. Director: Not set. Original: Herbert Clyde Lewis. Screenplay: Not set. Comedy-drama of tangled marital relations. Life With Father Cast: Irene Dunne, William Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, ZaSu Pitts, Jimmy Lydon, Derek Scott. Producer: Robert Buckner. Director: Michael Curtiz. Original: Clarence Day. Screenplay: Howard Lindsay, Russell Crouse, Donald Cgden Stewart. William Powell, semi-tyrannical ruler of an 1880 household, refuses to buy his son Jimmy Lydon a suit. Jimmy sells patent medicines in an effort to raise the money and almost kills his mother, Irene Dunne, when she tries some of it. Father Powell eventually has to pay back the money they spent on the medicine, buy Jimmy the suit and reimburse the doctor for saving Mother Dunne’s life. Love and Learn Cast: Robert Hutton, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Martha Vickers, Ctto Kruger, Barbara Brown, Tom D'Andrea, Iris Adrian, George Lloyd, Grady Sutton. Producer: William Jacobs. Director: Frederick de Cordova. Original: Eugene Conrad. Screenplay: Francis Swann. A musical comedy about Tin Pan Alley at its song-pluggingest best. Jack Carson and Robert Hutton keep events moving with their antics and their romancing with two lovelies, Janis Paige and Martha Vickers. The Man I Love Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King, Dolores Moran, Martha Vickers, John Ridgley, Don McGuire. Producer: Arnold Albert. Director: Raoul Walsh. Original Screenplay: Catherine Turney. Night club singer Ida Lupino goes to California to spend Christmas holidays with her sister, Andrea King, whose husband is in the hospital. Ida finds her family involved in countless problems. Her sister is being harassed by a racketeer; her young brother is mixed up in shady deals and she herself falls in love but is spurned. She straightens out all the problems and wins the love of the man who has spurned her. Man Without Friends Cast: Not set. Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: Not set. Original: Margaret Echard. Screenplay: Catherine Turney, A girl scenario writer goes to a dude ranch, where she meets and falls in love with a man who has been condemned by society for the murder of his wife, although acquitted by the courts. The young writer marries the outcast, solves the murder, and vindicates her husband. Moby Dick Cast: Not set. Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: Not set. Original: Herman Melville. Screenplay: John Huston. Herman Melville’s classic sea story about the adventures of the crew of a whaling ship will be remade by the company which originally filmed it. The first version had John Barrymore in the lead. My Wild Irish Rose Cast: Dennis Morgan, Alexis Smith, Andrea King, Arlene Dahl, William Frawley, Alan Hale, George O'Brien. Producer: William Jacobs. Director: David Butler. Original Screenplay: Peter Milne, Vincent Lawrence. Story is based on the life of Chauncey Olcott, the writer of such tunes as “Mother Machree” and “My Wild Irish Rose,” and a leading vaudeville artist of his day. Need for Each Other Cast: Errol Flynn, Joan Crawlord, Jane Wyman (incomplete). Producer: Jerry Wald. Director; Not set. Original: Louis Sobol, Ernest Lehman. Romantic drama, this teams Errol Flynn and Joan Crawford for the first time in their long careers. Never Say Goodbye Cast: Errol Flynn, Eleanor Parker, Patti Brady, Lucile Watson, Peggy Knudsen, S. Z. Sakall, Paula Drew. Producer: William Jacobs. Director: James Kern. Original: Ben and Norma Barzman. Screenplay: I. A. L. Diamond. Errol Flynn and Eleanor Parker, although divorced, still love each other, and their seven-year-old daughter divides her time between them, trying with her father’s help to effect a reconcilation. Each time Flynn sells Eleanor a bill of goods, some prank of his backfires, and the deal is off. Eventually Flynn manages to wheedle back into her good graces and all is well. Nobody Lives Forever Cast: John Garfield, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Walter Brennan, Faye Emerson, George Coulouris, George Tobias, Robert Shayne. Producer: Robert Buckner. Director: Jean Negulesco. Original: Screenplay: W. R. Burnett. Discharged from the army, John Garfield, former con man, salts away enough money to vacation in California. His old pals talk him into a plan to defraud a wealthy widow, Geraldine Fitzgerald. John falls in love with her, which causes the gang to become furious at his double cross. He tries to buy them off. Geraldine is kidnapped and Garfield rushes to the rescue. Night Unto Night Cast: Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary de Camp, Bruce Bennett, Osa Massen, Broderick Crawford. Producer: Owen Crump. Director: Don Seigel. Original: Philip Wylie. Screenplay: Kathryn Scola. Adapted from Philip Wylie’s novel, this is the story of the romance between a scientist (Ronald Reagan), who does not believe in a hereafter, and a widow (Viveca Lindfors), who does. Nora Prentiss Cast: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett, Wanda Hendryx, Rosemary DeCamp, Bob Arthur. Producer: William Jacobs. Director: Vincent Sherman. Original: Paul Webster. Screenplay: Richard Nash, Ranald MacDougall. In love with Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, a successful doctor, stages an auto accident in which a body — believed to be his — is burned. Then he leaves his wife and family and goes to New York with Ann, who thinks he is getting a divorce. By coincidence Smith is involved in another accident and is picked up for his own murder; to protect Ann and his family, he refuses to tell the true story and accepts the consequences. Possessed Cast; Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Lisa Golm, John Ridgely, Moroni Olson. Producer: Jerry Wald. Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Original: Rita Weiman, Screenplay; Barre Lyndon. Psychological drama about a woman who 218 BAROMETER Section