Boxoffice barometer (1947)

wishes to withdraw from public life. However, he encounters Viveca Lindfors, a war widow who is convinced that the spirit of her dead husband is constantly watching over her. Despite themselves, Reagan and Miss Lindfors fall in love and through sympathetic understanding manage to solve each other’s problems. Old Enough to Know Better Cast: Not set. troducer: William Jacobs. Di‘ rector: Not set. Original: Peter Milne. Screenplay: Peter Milne, Peter Cardozo. A postwar aviation story, this concerns the civilian adventures of two men who were flyers during World War II. One Last Fling Cast: Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan (tentative, incomplete). Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Director: David Butler. Original: Herbert Clyde Lewis. Screenplay: Richard Flournoy. Domestic comedy about a married couple, in business together, and of their failure to get along because they see each other 24 hours a day. La Otra Cast; Not set. Producer: Michael Curtiz. Director: Michael Curtiz. Original: Rian James. Screenplay: Not set. English version of a Mexican film which starred Dolores Del Rio, made by Mercurio Productions. It is a dramatic story of the rivalry and jealousy between twin sisters, who will both be portrayed by one actress. The Patriots Cast: Not set. Producer: Jerry Wold. Director: Breloigne Windust. Original: Sidney Kingsley Screenplay: Not set Historical drama, this involves the careers of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, and the parts those great statesmen played in building the U.S. It is based upon a prize-winning stage play by Sidney Kingsley. The Persian Cat Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren BOcall (tentative, incomplete). Producer: William Jacobs, Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: John Larkin, Jerry Horwin. Mystery melodrama, this shifts in locale from Teheran, Persia, to New York and San Francisco, then back to New York for the climax. It is destined tentatively as a co-starring vehicle for Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Rainbow Mountain Cast: Not set. Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Stephen Longstreet. A musical western in Technicolor, this concerns gold mining in California at the time of the Spanish-American War. Romance in High C Cast: Jack Carson, Doris Day, Don DeFore, Janis Paige, Oscar Levant, S. Z. Sakall, William Bakewell, Franklyn Pangborn, Eric Blore. Producer: Alex Gottlieb (Michael Curtiz Productions). Director: Michael Curtiz. Original: S. Pondal Rios, Carlos A. Olivari. Screenplay: Philip and Julius Epstein. Janis Paige, jealous of her husband, Don DeFore, tells him she is taking a cruise to South America. It is a ruse to keep her eye on him, so instead of going on the ship herself, she hires Doris Day, singer in a cheap night club, to make the trip, posing as Janis, while Janis remains in New York to spy on DeFore. Meantime DeFore, unknown to Janis, hires Jack Carson, a detective, to keep an eye on her. Carson mistakes Doris for Janis and the resulting complications make up the plot. It is filmed in Technicolor. Serenade Cast: Not set. Producer: George Amy (Michael Curtiz Productions). Director: Michael Curtiz. Original: James M. Cam. Screenplay: Not set Film version of the novel by James M. Cain, this is the story of a down-and-out singer in Mexico, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful native girl. Much of the picture is to be filmed on location in Mexico. Shadow of Fear Cast; Not set. Producer: George Amy (Michael Curtiz Productions). Director: Michael Curtiz, Original: Frances Marion. Screenplay: Not set. Romantic drama, its locale is the Napa valley wine country of northern California in the period from 1880 to 1910. The film is one of several on the schedule for the independent unit headed by Producer-Director Michael Curtiz. Silver River Cast: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Tom D'Andrea, Barton MacLane, Alan Hale. Producer: Owen Crump. Director: Raoul Walsh. Original Screenplay: Stephen Longstreet. Historical action drama, this Errol Flynn starrer relates the story of the colossal silver-mining boom which struck Nevada in the days shortly after the end of the Civil War. The Story of Eddie Cantor Cast: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set, Eddie Cantor has given the company rights to film the story of his long and successful career as an entertainer on stage, screen and radio. The picture will carry through from his first engagement as a member of Gus Edwards’ “School Days” troupe to the present. The Story of Seabiscuit Cast: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay: Joh’n Taintor Foote. Film version of the career of Seabiscuit, one of the top money earners in horseracing history. Sunburst Cast: Ronald Reagan, Alexis Smith (incomplete), Producer: Ranald MacDougall. Director: Frederick de Cordova. Original: Dietrich V. Hanneken, Aleck Block. Screenplay: Ruth Brooks. This romantic drama finds Ronald Reagan portraying an ex-GI, now driving a taxicab, who meets and falls in love with Alexis Smith, a girl who has only three months to live. They decide to crowd as much romance, adventure and comedy as they possibly can into the short period during which she will be alive. That Hagen Girl Cast: Shirley Temple, Ronald Reagan, Geraldine Brooks, Charles Kemper, Lois Maxwell, Jean Porter, Penny Edwards, Douglas Kennedy. Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Director: Peter Godfrey. Original: Edith Roberts. Screenplay: Charles Hoffman. This depicts the effects of malicious .'^mall-town gossip on two innocent people. One of the victims is Shirley Temple, who lives under the cloud of a charge that she is illegitimate. The community is a small town in Ohio and the period is from 1930 to the present. The gossips are confounded and Shirley’s character is saved when developments prove that she was an adopted child. To the Victor Cast: Dennis Morgan, Viveca Lindfors, Tom D'Andrea, Zachary Scott, Bruce Bennett, Eduardo Ciannelli. Producer; Jerry Wald. Director: Delmer Daves. Original: Richofrd Brooks. Screenplay: Richard Brooks. This melodrama of postwar Europe attempts to trace the effects of World War II on a number of individuals actively associated with that conflict. Considerable of the footage was shot on actual locations in Paris and other European areas. Treasure of the Sierra Madre Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston, Barton MacLane, Bobby Blake, Carmen D'Antonio, Florita Romero. Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: John Huston. Original: Bruno Traven Screenplay: John Huston. Three derelicts, adrift in Mexico and willing to do anything but work, stumble onto a map telling them the location of a rich, lost mine in the interior. They discover the mine, draw a fortune in gold out of it, and then succumb to their own lust and greed when, because none will trust the others, they fight among themrelves. Two are killed and the third, barely alive, staggers back to civilization, broke and bitter. Two Guys From Texas Cast: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Forrest Tucker, Fred Clark. Producer: Alex Gottlieb. Director: David Butler. Original Screenploy; I. A. L. Diamond, Allen Boretz. Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson portray the two members of a male vaudeville team, who become stranded in Texas and wind up on a dude ranch owned and operated by a pretty girl. The Two Worlds of Johnny Truro Cast: Not set. Producer: Henry Blanke. Director: Not set. Original: George Sklar. Screenplay: Stephen Morehouse Avery. Adapted from a novel, this has a small New England town as its locale and is the story of a young man who falls in love with a middle-aged woman. The Unsuspected Cast: Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Hurd Hatfield, Constance Bennett, Audrey Totter, Michael North, Producer: Charles Hoffman (Michael Curtiz Productions). Director: Michael Curtiz. Original: Charlotte Armstrong. Screenplay: Ranald MacDougall. Claude Rains, radio commentator on real-life mysteries, murders his secretary to conceal his thefts from the estate of his ward, Joan Caulfield. Events develop which force him to murder his ward’s stepsister, Audrey Totter, and cause the death of her weakling husband, Hurd Hatfield. Michael North, posing as Joan’s husband in order to solve the crimes, uncovers evidence against Rains and succeeds in bringing him to justice. Until Proven Guilty Cast: Joan Crawford (incomplete). Producer: Jerry Wald. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: George Oppenheimer. A love story, set against the background of a spectacular murder trial, it will serve as a starring vehicle for Joan Crawford. The Voice of the Turtle Cast: Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden. Dick Bartell, John Emery, Wayne Morris, Ernest Anderson. Producer: Charles Hoffman. Director: Irving Rapper. Original: John Van Druten. Screenplay: Not set. Ronald Reagan, a soldier on leave, comes to Eve Arden’s apartment to keep a date with her, but Eve stands him up in favor of a wealthier suitor. Eve’s roommate, Eleanor Parker, is attracted to Reagan and they go on the date instead. Despite various complications, including the fact that Eleanor is carrying the torch for a theatrical producer who spurned her. she and Reagan fall in love. Wall Flower Cast: Joyce Reynolds, Robert Hutton, Janis Paige, Edward Arnold, Barbara Brown, Jerome Cowan. Producer: Alex Gottlieb, Director: Frederick de Cordova. Original: Mary Orr, Reginald Denham. Screenplay: Phoebe and Henry Ephron. This romantic comedy, laid in a typical small town, concerns Joyce Reynolds, a shrinking violet, and her childhood friend, Robert Hutton, who has suddenly decided he loves her. The romance hits some rough spots when Joyce’s uninhibited sister. Janis BOXOFFICE 137