Canadian Film Weekly (Aug 15, 1945)

Page 2 UA Sales Meet In Queen City 1 (Continued from Page 1) new season’s product. Chaplin, Canadian sales manager, who presided, outlined the company’s sales policy on pictures now ready for release. Schnitzer, home office repre-. sentative from New York, dis. cussed the $100,000 Grad Sears | drive, which began August’ 4th and will continue until December Ist. The drive in honor of the company’s top distribution executive, Schnitzer pointed out, will cause to be awarded the greatest amount of prize money ever offered by any motion picture company for a sales contest. Grierson, head of the National Film Board, spoke on the government studios’ commercial schedule for United Artists’ release, which involves the new group of “World in Action” short subjects. Chaplin and Schnitzer were hosts at a luncheon tendered the visiting representatives. Executives of exhibition circuits with home offices in Toronto were guests. While in Toronto the UA men saw screenings of “Paris—Underground,” “Guest Wife” and “The Story of G.I. Joe.” Following the meetings, Ed Schnitzer entrained for Ottawa, prior to his return to the home office. The following branch managers and salesmen attended the confab: Toronto—Douglas V. Rosen, branch manager; Harry Kohen, office manager; Al Iscove, salesman; Montreal—George Heiber, branch manager; Vancouver — Harry Woolfe, branch manager; Winnipeg—Abe Feinstein, branch manager; Alex Goldenberg, salesman; Calgary—Jack Reid, branch manager; Saint John—Sam Kunitsky, branch manager, Larry Stephens, publicity representative for Eastern Canada, was also in attendance. Productions on the UA release schedule include the following: “Blood on the Sun,” starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sydney; Ernie Pyle’s “Story of G.I. Joe,” starring Burgess Meredith; “Guest Wife,” starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche; “Captain Kidd,” starring Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton; “Spellbound,” starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck; “Young Widow,” starring Jane Russell and Louis Hayward; “Getting Gertie’s Garter,’ starring Dennis O'Keefe, Marie (The Body) McDonald and Binnie Barnes; and “The Outlaw,” starring Jane Russell and Walter Huston. August 15, 1945 Canadian FILM WEEKLY Upjohn Leaves RKO; Bernstein Succeeds Guy Upjohn, head booker of the Toronto branch of RKO, has resigned to join the head office booking staff of Famous Players Canadian Corporation. His resignation becomes effective on August 27th. Jack Bernstein, assistant to Upjohn, will succeed him. Upjohn succeeded Barney Fox to his present post at RKO when the latter left in 1941 to head the booking staff of 20th Century Theatres and Exhibitors Booking Association. Bernstein started as a head office contract clerk in 1937, was switched later to the Toronto branch as assistant booker. 20th-Fox Will Offer 27 Features im "46 (Continued from Page 1) ranking players such as Geraldine Fitzgerald, Charles Coburn, Thomas Mitchell. “Junior Miss,’ comedy, brilliant picturization of the Broadway stage hit, was directed by George Seaton and produced by William Perlberg with Peggy Ann Garner in her first starring vehicle. The cast includes Allyn Joslyn and Faye Marlowe. “Captain Eddie,” Eureka Pictures production, based on the lif of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, was directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced by Winfield R.. Sheehan. The cast includes Fred MacMurray, who portrays Rick enbacker, Lynn Bari, Charles Bickford, Thomas Mitchell and Lloyd Nolan. “Caribbean Mystery,’ adapted from the novel “Murder in Trinidad” by John» W. Vandercook, was directed by Robert Webb and produced by William Girard. Cast includes James Dunn, Sheila Ryan, Edward Ryan. “State Fair,’ a Technicolor musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, was directed by Walter Long and produced by William Perlberg. Costarring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Dick Haymes and Vivian Blaine, the cast also includes Charles Winninger, Fay Bainter, Donald Meek and Frank McHugh. “House On 92nd Street,” is a thrilling mystery, directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Louis de Rochemont. Cast includes William Eythe and Lloyd Nolan. “And Then There Were None,” a Popular Pictures production, produced and directed by Rene Clair, was based on Agatha Christie’s tremendously popular mystery novel. An all-star cast includes Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young, June Duprez, C. Aubrey Smith, Judith Anderson and Mischa Auer. “The Dolly Sisters,” a musical romance, in Techinicolor, is the fabulous history of the two dancing stars, Rosy and Jenny Dolly, who were the toast of Paris and New York. Irving Cummings directed and George Jessel produced. Starring Betty Grable and June Haver, and including John Payne, Reginald Gardiner and Trudy Marshall._ “Colonel Effingham’s Raid,’ is a comedy drama, based on the novel by Barry Fleming. Produced by Lamar Trotti and directed by Irving Pichel, the cast includes Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, William Eythe, Allyn Joslyn, Donald Meek and Frank Craven. “Dragonwyck,” romantic drama, based on the popular novel by Anya Seton, is an Ernst Lubitsch production, directed by Joseph Mankiewicz. Cast includes Gene Tierney, Vincent Price and Walter Huston. “Fallen Angel,” based on the murder mystery novel by Marty Holland, was produced and directed by Otto Preminger. Cast includes Alice Faye, Linda DarnelJ, Anne Revere, Charles Bickford and Bruce Cabot. “The Spider,” based on the well-known stage hit of the same (Continued on Page 7) Vol. 10, No.38 August 15, 1945 ee ee nia HYE BOSSIN, Managing Editor Address all communications—The Managing Editor, Canadian Film Weekly, 25 Dundas Square, Toronto, Canada. Published by Film Publications of Canada Ltd., 25 Dundas Square, Teronte, tario, Canada. Phone ADelaide 4317. Price 5 cents cake or $2.00 per wa tS Entered as Second Class Matter. Printed by Everesdy Printers Limited, 78 Wellington Street Weet, Torents, Oatario. To Manufacture 16 Mm. Equip t (Continued from Page 1) eral 16 mm. field is manufactured in the USA and imported. First sales will be to government agencies, although the requirements of industrial concerns and educational bodies will be met, it is expected, shortly after distribution plans are announced. 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