Canadian Film Weekly (Jul 22, 1942)

July 22nd, 1942 RKO Will Make Nazi Expose KRO Radio, in a deal involving one of the most timely story properties of the year, announces that it will distribute Edward A. Golden’s production based on Gregor Ziemer’s best seller “Education for Death.” The work is based on Ziemer’s research and experiences during twelve years spent inside Nazi Germany in the study of Hitler’s methods of indoctrinating the youth of his country with his grim ideology. Golden has been prominent in motion pictures since 1914 as an independent producer and distributor. He will finance and produce the screen adaptation of ‘Educa tion for Death” at RKO Radio’s Hollywood studio. The production is scheduled to start about August 19th, with an important cast soon to be announced. * * * Marion Martin has been engaged by Samuel Goldwyn for an important role in “They Got Me Covered.’”’ Miss Martin, who is known as the most beautiful show girl in New York, will play the role of Gloria, a burlesque strip-teaser. Miss Martin is under contract to RKO Radio Pictures. “They Got Me Covered” is Mr. Goldwyn’s next production to be released after ‘‘The Pride of the Yankees.” It will star Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. > + = Bonita Granville, one of Hollywood's top ’teen aged stars will play the feminine lead in ‘Seven Miles From Alcatraz.” Bonita, who played a young lady for the @yst time during the closing sequences of “Syncopation,” has a grown-up role throughout “Seven Miles From Alcatraz,” thriller of saboteurs who besiege a lighthouse off the Golden Gate. * Ba = Jacques Tourneur, noted for his deft handling of suspenseful screen themes, has been signed to direct “The Cat People,” De Witt Bodeen’s eerie mystery story which Val Lewton will produce. + * a Cliff Edwards, known to millions of record, radio and movie fans as ‘Ukelele Ike,” has been added to the cast of the big outdoor spectacle, ‘‘Grand Canyon.” The comedian joins a cast headed by James Craig, Richard Dix and Ginny Simms. “Grand Can yon” will be filmed entirely in technicolor in and around the canyon. Canadian FILM WEEKLY aw. FWTBT, Hemingway, Toronto Every day now the piles of press releases that reach a screen scribbler’s desk are peppered with notes on Paramount’s forthcoming production of Ernest Hemingway’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls,’ that masterful piece of writing about the Spanish prelude to the second World War. This is not about that. The man behind the book is what engages us here. One of the most famed of living authors, Ernest Hemingway was for a short time after the last war a reporter with the Toronto Daily Star. He served in Italy and his experiences then caused him to write one of the greatest stories of that conflict, ‘Farewell to Arms,” which became an outstanding screen drama featuring Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Having delivered himself of two great documents dealing with the leading events of his lifetime, it is not unlikely that Hemingway will make a notable contribution to the literature of the current war. Hemingway is the blood-and-thunder boy of modern letters. This bellicose belletrist has known every form of strife from typewriter tiffing to hand-to-hand combat. Posterity, taking note of his universal conscience, may yet call him its own. A Beautiful Friendship A while back several veterans of the native newshawk flock were talking about Hemingway’s Queen City sojourn. A soft side of the hard-boiled chronicler came to light. One afternoon the future author of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and other famed tales of this generation showed up in the editorial room attired in his customary army greatcoat. If you remember, many ex-soldiers wore them. Out of one pocket a kitten’s head protruded perkily. As if unaware of its presence, he hung up his coat and sat down to knock out a story for the final edition. The kitten, its heart in its eyes, never looked away from its great friend of the two-legged breed. A while later they both left for the day. That scene became a daily feature. No one joshed Hemingway about it. No one dared. He took the kitten everywhere. It was his partner on all assignments. Here, truly, was devotion. A Minor Tragedy The kitten disappeared one day. A frantic Hemingway turned the town upside down in his search for it. But vainly. They were never to meet again. You could carve your initials into the thick gloom that laid siege to the human end of the inseparable duo. His moodiness was an accepted thing but this example of it was record. A long time went by before he seemed reconciled to the loss of his little pal. It’s sort of nice to think of the tall and burly Hemingway sitting in the midst of some battlefield, with Death doing its ugly dance all about him, giving an occasional thought to a kitten he knew on King street, Toronto, Canada. And perhaps, in some lonely alley, an aged cat dreams too. * = They're All In It H. I. Phillips, the famed paragrapher, got off this rood one recently: The Kellys and the Bulkeleys, the Caseys and McTighes —have writ their names in glory—across the blazing skies. The Butch O’Hares and Dugans have made a gallant crew—but don't forget the Epsteins, Levines and Cohens, too! . The Murphys and O’Briens—the Kellys and the Sheas—have shone in epic battles with Dooleys and O’Deas. McGann’s a fighting demon —and Toohey gives ’em hell—but Seligman at Midway did more than pretty well! .. . Fitzgerald gives no quarter, McFeeley packs a sock; a Jap when hit by Dooley thinks someone threw a rock. A Casey shone at Midway—Gilhooley did his share. But I see by the papers—the Goldstein boys were there! ... The Pats and Mikes are bearcats in any sort of scrap. And they are plenty potent against the wily Jap. But there among the heroes—who’ve got the stuff it takes, I notice Moes and Sammies and also Abes and Jakes! es Kom SAINTS aS PD BE : Page 7 20th-Century-Fox At Top Production Practically all available production space at Twentieth CenturyFox studio will be utilized this month when the peak of July filming will reach eight features currently in work. Scheduled to start between now and the end of July are “Buried Alive,” “My Friend Flicka,” ‘‘The Meanest Man in the World,” “One Man Army,” “Light of Heart,” “Seventh Column,” “Corregidor” and ‘“Undying Monster.” Six productions are now before the cameras and nine other features are in the cutting rooms in various stages of editing and scoring. The pictures now shooting are: “China Girl,” ‘Manila Calling,” “Springtime in the Rockies,” “He Hired thd Boss,” ‘“‘That Other Woman” and ‘“Ox-Bow Incident.” Those features now in the cutting rooms are: “The Black Swan,” “Orchestra Wives,” “Thunder Birds,” “Iceland,” “Girl Trouble,” “Just Off Broadway,” “Careful, Soft Shoulders,” “Berlin Corres pondent” and “Man in the Trunk.” + a = Five of America’s name artists are now working on illustrations which will be incorporated in the campaign on “Footlight Serenade” for Twentieth Century-Fox. In addition to being an integral part of the national newspaper campaign, the illustrations of such top figures in the art world as McClelland Barclay, Bradshaw Crandall, Earl Moran, Varga and Petty, will also be available for numerous publicity purposes, displays, lobby blow-ups, fronts and many other uses. Photographic reproductions of the originals are now being made and complete sets will be shipped to each exchange within a very few days. > * ~ Glenn Miller and his band will act and play only in Twentieth Century-Fox musicals, according to an exclusive long-term contract signed this week following the completion of “Orchestra Wives." After a transcontinental tour Jasting until late Fall, Glenn Miller and his boys return to make “Blind Date" which William LeBaron will produce. No writers have been assigned to develop the screen treatments of this original story as yet. oo s Re W. J. Kupper, executive assistant to 20th Century-Fox Vicepresident Tom J. Connors, and A. W. Smith, Jr., Eastern Sales Manager, are in their offices following a trip to the Boston exchange and conferences with Tom Bailey, Northeast district manager, and exchange manager E. X. Callahan.