Boxoffice barometer (1947)

Paramount (November 22, 1946 thru August 29, 1947) Big Town. ...4622.. ..(60) May 23 Melodrama. An overly ambitious editor attempts to build up a dying newspaper and steps on a lot of toes in the process, but a press campaign for cleaning up the town wins him the people’s support. Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery, Veda Ann Borg. Director: William C. Thomas. Blaze of Noon....4611....(91) May 2 Drama. Story of the four McDonald brothers, trail blazers in the development of the U.S.’s first airmail routes in the 1930s. Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, William Bendix, Sterling Hayden, Howard da Silva. Director: John Farrow. il©Blue Skies....4602....(104) Dec. 27, ’46 Musical. The famous melodies of Irving Berlin furnish the background for a love story. Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield, Billy De Wolfe. Director: Stuart Heisler. Calcutta....4612....(83) May 30 Mystery Melodrama. Two transport pilots, in search of the murderer of their flying buddy in Calcutta, run onto a ruthless femme jewel thief and smuggler. Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez. Director: John Farrow. ©California . .4606 ... (97) Feb. 21 Outdoor Drama. The turbulent romance of a soldier of fortune and a woman gambler during the mad gold rush days of 1848. Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Fitzgerald, Albert Dekker. Director: John Farrow. Cross My Heart... .4603.... (83) Jan. 10 Comedy With Music. A chronic liar confesses to a murder she did not commit so that her lawyer fiance can become famous by defending her in court. She gets in a real jam when damaging evidence keeps mounting. Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Michael Chekhov, Rhys Williams, Ruth Donnelly. Director: John Berry. Danger Street....4623.... (66) .1 June 20 Melodrama. When their boss decides to sell his magazine, the staff members attempt to raise the money to buy it and become involved with gamblers, gangsters, and a pair of murders. Jane Withers, Robert Lowery, Elaine Riley, Lyle Talbot, Bill Edwards. Director: Lew Landers. Dear Ruth....4616.... (95) July 18 Comedy. Adapted from the play which ran two years on Broadway. A small-town teen-ager starts a mixup by writing love letters to a lieutenant and signing her sister’s name. Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Edward Arnold, Billy De Wolfe. Director: William D. Russell. ©Desert Fury....4617.... (95) Aug. 15 Drama. A hard gambler returns to a desert town where his wife died in a car crash. When guilt of murder points to him, a chase begins which ends with his death at the same spot. Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster, Mary Astor, Wendell Corey. Director: Lewis Allen. Easy Come, Easy Go....4607....(77) Mar. 7 Comedy. A lovable but irresponsible old rascal, who always tries to beat the horses but never does, is the despair of his young daughter in her efforts to make ends meet. Sonny Tufts, Diana Lynn, Barry Fitzgerald, Dick Foran. Director: John Farrow. Fear in the Night.. ..4621.... (72) Apr. 18 Mystery Drama. Under the hypnotic spell of the real culprit, a young man commits murder, then thinks he has dreamed the whole thing. Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Ann Doran, Kay Scott. Director: Maxwell Shane. I Cover Big Town... .4624.... (63) July 25 Drama. Another in the series based on the Big Town radio program. An ace newspaperwoman solves a murder arising out of a jail break. Philip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Robert Lowery, Robert Shayne, Mona Barrie. Director: William C. 'Thomas. Imperfect Lady, The... .4610 . ..(97) Apr. 25 Drama. Story of a woman who had to choose between saving an innocent man and jeopardizing Ihe love and career of her husband. Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn. Director: Lewis Allen. Jung’c Flight....4625....(67) Aug. 22 Melodrama. One of two commercial fliers is killed in a plane cash in the jungles, and the other gets mixed up with a blonde singer and her divorced husband just escaped from prison. Robert Lowery, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Robert Kent, Douglas Fowley. Director: Peter Stewart. Ladies’ Man . . 4605.... (91) Feb. 7 Comedy With Music. An Oklahoma farm lad s rikes oil and heads for New York with his fortune, at which point the gold diggers take over. Eddie Bracken, Cass Daley. Virginia Welles, Johnny Coy, Virginia Field, Spike Jones and His City Slickers. Director: William D. Russell. My Favorite Brunette. ...4609.. . (87) Apr. 4 Comedy. Hope, as an amateur detective, gets involved in kidnappings, secret maps, and a murder, and gets himself sent to the chair, but is saved before the fatal hour. Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney, Charles Dingle, Reginald Denny. Director: Elliott Nugent. Perfect Marriage, The. ...4604.... (87) June 24 Comedy. Their first quarrel in ten years of perfect wedded bliss leaves a couple possessed with the idea that romance has faded out of their lives. Loretta Young, David Niven, Eddie Albert, Rita Johnson, Virginia Field, ZaSu Pitts. Director: Lewis Allen. ©Perils of Pauline. ...4615.... (96) July 4 Comedy Drama. Based on the life of Pearl White, the original Pauline of the initial cliffhanger, stresses both comedy and nostalgia, with backstage boy-meets-girl twist added. Betty Hutton, John Lund, Constance Collier, Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest. Director: George Marshall. Seven Were Saved. ...4620.. ..(73) Mar. 28 Drama. The adventures of seven survivors of a plane crash, adrift in the Pacific, and their heroic rescue by the U.S. army’s airsea rescue service. Richard Denning, Catherine Craig, Russell Hayden, Ann Doran, Byron Barr, Richard Loo. Director: William H. Pine. Suddenly It’s Spring. ...4608.... (88) Mar. 21 Romantic Comedy. A WAC captain, who is an army marital relations expert, has to adopt her trained technique in salvaging her own marriage and winning back her husband from the other woman. Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, Macdonald Carey, Arleen Whelan, Frank Faylen. Director: Mitchell Leisen. Trouble With Women, The.. ..4614 (80) June 27 Comedy. Girl reporter, assigned to interview professional author of book teaching that women like men to order them about, enrolls in his psychology class and captures his interest. Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Brian Donlevy, Rose HolSiart, Rhys Williams. Director: Sidney Lanfield. Two Years Before the Mast. ...4601 (98) Nov. 22, ’46 Drama. From the familiar classic about the scapegrace son of a wealthy shipowner who is shanghaied aboard his own father’s “hellship.” Depicts the hardships endured by the crew at the hands of the sadistic skipper. Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Barry Fitzgerald, Howard da Silva. Director: John Farrow. Variety Girl. ...4618.... (93) Aug, 29 Musical. Takes its start from the founding of Variety clubs. Plot concerns Hollywood experiences of the original Variety baby, grown up and seeking a film career. Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, Billy De Wolfe, Patric Knowles, many Paramount stars. Director: George Marshall. ^Welcome Stranger.... 4613.... (107) Special Comedy Drama. Small town life and love in a New England village, with the Jovable team together again, this time as “sparring” medicos who become stanch friends. Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank Faylen. Director: Elliott Nugent. EKO Radio (September 1946 thru August 1947) Banjo. .725 ... (68) Group 5 — May Comedy Drama. A little orphan lass ahd her dog find it pretty rough going, living with an aunt who knows nothing about children and cares little for dogs, until the animal saves the child’s life and becomes a hero. Sharyn Moffett, Jacqueline White, Walter Reed, Una O’Connor, Louise Beavers. Director: Richard Fleischer. Beat the Band.. ..718 . ..(67) Group 4 — March Musical Drama. A small town girl goes to the city to study voice and gets herself involved with a band leader. Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Phillip Terry, Gene Krupa and His Band. Director: John H. Auer. Best Years of Our Lives, The.. ..751 (172) Special — Nov. 21, ’46 Drama. The postwar readjustment struggles and romances of three veterans, whose lives become intertwined. Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, Cathy O’Donnell, Hoagy Carmichael. Director: William Wyler. (Samuel Goldwyn.) Born to Kill.. ..722.... (92) Group 5 — May 16 Drama. A ruthless killer, fleeing from a double murder, marries a lovely girl for her money, then makes love to her worthless sister before the law catches up with him. Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Walter Slezak, Phillip Terry. Director: Robert Wise. Child of Divorce....708.. (62) ..Group 2— Nov. ’46 Drama. The psychological effects on the lives of children of divorced parents who have remarried. Sharyn Moffett, Regis Toomey, Madge Meredith, Walter Reed, Una O’Connor. Director: Richard O. Fleischer. Code of the West.. ..720 . ..(57).. ..Group 4 — April Western. Another of Zane Grey’s early west stories. A cowboy and his pal shoot it out with a greedy landgrabber who learns the railroad is coming through. James Warren, Debra Alden, John Laurenz, Steve Brodie, Rita Lynn. Director: William Berke. 152 BAROMETER Section