Boxoffice (Jul-Sep 1962)

. ■ By CHRIS DUTRA Roger Corman to Produce Another Auto Race Film Roger Corman has announced “Glory Trail" as forthcoming production for the Filmgroup. Feature is based on the life of Norman Garrad. dean of European race competition managers. The producer-director is negotiating with Jack Hawkins to portray Garrad in the film. Corman, currrently in Europe winding up final stages of "The Young Racers” for AFP release, met Garrad at Rootes Motors factory in England when taking delivery of a Sunbeam Alpine sports car for use in "Racers.” Corman has signed Hume Whitley to write the Garrad film biography. Another sports car story, “Pass On, Regardless,” has been announced by Joe Steinberg for production in 1963. Story is a comedy by Anne Taylor and Feme Mosk and was published by Simon & Schuster in 1956. 'Psyche '59' Scheduled First by Troy-Schenck Francois Lignoris’ novel, “Psyche ’59,” has been announced as the first of a threepicture deal between Troy-Schenck and Columbia Pictures, according to Phil Hazelton, producer, and Alex Singer, director, partners in Troy in association with Bernard Schwartz. The property will be lensed in France, calling for interiors to be shot in England on a budget of $750,000. Embassy Pictures will make “The Sands of Kalahari,” a novel by William Mulvihill in association with Troy-Schenck. Schwartz will be executive producer and Hazelton and Singer continuing in their present production capacity. Screenplay is being written by Irene and Louis Kamp. Shooting is set for next year in South Africa. Gina Lollobrigida to Star In Three-Nation Film Gina Lollobrigida will star in one of the first pictures to be made as a coproduction between Russian and western producers. She is set for the title role of the Tolstoi classic, “Anna Karenina.” Joseph E. Levine’s Embassy Pictures, the Soviet’s Mosfilm Studios, and Italy’s Galatea Films are joined in the three-way deal to produce the property. An as yet unnamed American male actor will costar with Miss Lollobrigida. The picture is scheduled to shoot in Russia, utilizing cast and crew from Russia, Italy and the United States. Jack Rose Now in France For Production Plans Writer-producer Jack Rose, who recently completed filming on "Papa’s Delicate Condition” for Paramount release, left August 8 for France, where he will huddle with the French-Gaumont picture company anent financing for a film he and director Danny Mann will make next year titled “Purpose — Pleasure.” Rose, whose Amro company has already produced two Paramount films this year, “Who’s Got the Action?” starring Lana Turner and Dean Martin, and the above mentioned "Papa’s Delicate Condition,” toplining Jackie Gleason and Glynis Johns, will next make “Every Wednesday Night” for the Marathon St. studio. Reversing the “runaway actor” situation. Rose said he will find “a sexy French actress and a young English actor” for roles in his new production, slated to go before the cameras after the first of the year. Rose and Mann’s present plans are for shooting “Purpose — Pleasure,” for which Rose will write the script, next summer on the French Riviera. George Nader Unit to Make 'Invitation to Insanity' Garfield Artistic Productions, independent company headed by actor George Nader, has pm-chased Ned W. Miller’s original story, “Invitation to Insanity,” and assigned Miller to also pen the screenplay. Nader will star himself in the major role. The actor-producer is finalizing financing arrangements for the production of an additional Miller original, “Walk by the Sea,” which he plans to shoot on European locations in the fall . . . Following completion of “Billy Rose’s Jumbo,” producer Joe Pasternak has been given the go-ahead by MGM to prepare his original comedy idea, “Say It With Flowers,” as a Doris Day starring vehicle. John T. Kelley has been assigned to write the screenplay . . . Philip Yordan’s Security Pictures has purchased James Jones’ latest novel, “Thin Red Line,” for feature production later this year . . . Jack Sher and Russell Beggs have been set by Warner Bros, to prepare a script for “Sex and the Single Girl,” best seller by Helen Gurley Brown, which the studio has ENCOURAGING NEW TALENT — Bill Amberg, left, watches as producer Ross Hunter, center, goes over set sketches for Hunter’s U-I picture, “Tammy and the Doctor,” with art director George Webb, right. Amberg, a University of Southern California cinema student, is now at U-I because producer Hunter, a strong advocate of the industry’s responsibility to develop and encourage creative talent, offered to let the USC cinema department select a student to serve with him as a “production observer.” just purchased for feature production. Saul David has been inked as producer . . . Following conferences with Peter Levathes, 20thFox production head, and other studio executives, Clair Huffaker has been granted a three-month extension of the last screenplay commitment he owes the studio on a multiple picture deal. Directorial Assignments, Miscellaneous Castings Universal-International has set R. G. Springsteen to direct “The Iron Collar,” feature rolling next month with Audie Murphy starred. Gordon Kay produces from a script by Ric Hardman . . . Charles Walters has been set by MGM studio head Robert Weitman to direct the filmization of Meredith Willson’s musical, “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.” Lawrence Weingarten is producing and Roger Edens is associate producer. Helen Deutsch is writing the screenplay . . . Producer Ross Hunter has just finalized negotiations for Norman Jewison to direct his next U-I production, “The Thrill of It All,” railing September 24, with Doris Day and James Garner starring in the color production. Jewison recently completed megging the Tony Curtis starrer, “40 Pounds of Trouble” on the valley lot . . . Producerdirector Stanley Kramer signed Buster Keaton for a featured role in his currently filming “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.” The UA release toplines Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams and Dorothy Provine ... Jim Stacy has been signed by Walt Disney for a top role in “Summer Magic,” Technicolor feature starring Hayley Mills, Burl Ives, Dorothy McGuire, Deborah Walley, Una Merkel and Eddie Hodges. James Neilson directs for executive producer Walt Disney. Manulis Signs Deborah Kerr For 'The Out-of-Towners' Deborah Kerr has been signed by producer Martin Manulis to star in “The Outof-Towners,” present day, romantic comedy, which is an original screenplay by Tad Mosel. Robert Mulligan has been set to direct the film, which is slated to go before the cameras early next year in Hollywood and New York. “The Out-of-Towners” marks the filmwriting debut for playwright Tad Mosel, whose Broadway play, “All the Way Home,” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize last year. Director Robert Mulligan has just completed megging “To Kill a Mockingbird” at U-I. Boris Karloff to Costar In 'Raven' for AIP Boris Karloff has been signed to costar with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in American International’s “The Raven,” based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem. Film is slated to go before the color cameras in September in Hollywood with Roger Corman producing and directing. Karloff has also been signed to star in a second, as-yet-untitled AIP film, possibly again with Price and Lorre, who also have been signed to multi-picture contracts with the filmmaking organization. 16 BOXOFFICE :: August 13, 1962