Canadian Film Weekly (Nov 3, 1954)

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: a fies AT THE CANADIAN SALES MEETING OF TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX AT THE ROYAL YORK HOTEL, TORONTO, LAST WEEK OUR YEAR BOOK (Continued from Page 1) lications of Canada, 175 Bloor Street East, and is available at $2.25 per copy. Many letters of praise have been received following its distribution to subscribers. National Film Commissioner A. W. Trueman called it “a valuable and well edited source of information” and Harold Pfaff of Independent Theatres, Toronto said it was “wonderful” and the product of “tremendous efforts.” Ralph Ellis, USA NFB representative, wrote that it was “a terrific job’ that “gets better every year.’ The Year Book, according to S. A. Doane, chairman of the Nova Scotia Board of Censors, “has been the most used book on my desk during the past year” and he was looking forward to the same service from the new one. “It certainly contains all of the information required not only by Canadians in the Film Industry but also by our very good friends across the border,” states J. J. Chisholm, sales manager of Associated Screen News. Mark Plottel of Empire-Universal Films called the new Year Book “definitely your finest effort.” Among the others who took the trouble to write were Teet Carle, studio publicity manager for Paramount in Hollywood; Harry Brand of Twentieth Century-Fox in the same city; and W. J. Singleton, general manager of Associated Screen News, Montreal. Ken Johnson, Fun Fare columnist of The Telegram, Toronto, and Walter O’Hearn, drama editor of The Montreal Star, both drew on the 1954-55 Year Book recently. This year’s cover, gold on blue, is extremely attractive. Republic's ‘Santa Fe Passage’ John Payne, Faith Domergue and Rod Cameron drew the top starring assignments in Santa Fe Passage, Republic Pictures’ effort in Trucolor. ‘The Gun That Won The West’ Paula Raymond has the feminine lead opposite Dennis Morgan in Columbia’s Technicolor Western, The Gun That Won the West. Top supporting role has been given to Richard Denning. Front row, left to right: Gerry Chernoff, Montreal, branch manager; Arthur Silverstone, assistant general sales manager; W. C. Gehring, executive assistant sales manager; Peter S. Myers, Canadian division manager; Clarence A. Hill, manager branch operations; and Emily Barrett, Myers’ executive assistant. Back row, left to right: Sam Glasier, exploitation manager; Joe Huber, Winnipeg branch manager; A, Laubenstcin, Winnipeg salesman; Bud Stein, Montreal salesman; Jim Patterson, Vancouver, branch manager; Gerald Cass, Saint John salesman; Art Quintel, Montreal booker; Reg March, Saint John branch manager; Victor Beattie, Toronto branch manager; Dawson Exley, Toronto salesman; Gordon Lightstone, Jr., Toronto salesman; Harry Wiseman, James Powis, Bill Tyrrell, Toronto bookers; Bill Reid, adsales, Toronto; Bob Cringan, Calgary branch manager, and J. Gow, Calgary salesman. 20th-Fox Reviews Policy (Continued from Page 1) York, as did Clarence A. Hill, manager of branch operations. Canadian ‘branch managers present were Robert A. Cringan, Calgary; G. L. Chernoff, Montreal; R. G. March, Saint John, NB; V. J. Beattie, Toronto; J. E. Patterson, Vancouver; and J. H. Huber, Winnipeg. On hand also was Sam Glasier, advertising and publicity director for Canada. The films under _ discussion were Black Widow, Desiree, Carmen Jones and Irving Berlin’s There’s No Business Like Show Business, all in CinemaScope, and The Outlaw’s Daughter, Black 13, Devil’s Harbour and The Other Woman, all in 2-D. The company will also release 26 CinemaScope short subjects in 1955, six more than originally planned. Adding to its program of releases during the last quarter of this ‘year, 20th Century-Fox recently acquired four twodimensional films, one in Eastman color, bringing to 29 the number of films in both CinemaScope and 2-D being offered by the company during 1954. Of the total of 29 attractions, 17 are filmed in CinemaScope and color by De Luxe and Technicolor laboratories, and 12 are in 2-D, of which nine are lensed in color. New additions to the release program are The Outlaw’s Daughter, a W. Barry production in Eastman color, starring Bill Williams, Kelly Ryan and Jim Davis. The picture will be ‘ opened in November. Also that month, 20th Century-Fox will release Black 13, an FF. Proudlocks _ production directed by K. Hughes, starring Peter Reynolds, Rona Anderson, Patrick Barr and Lona Morris. To the December release ros ter have been added Devil's Harbor, a C. Dean production starring Richard Arlen, Greta Gynt, and Mary Germaine; and The Other Woman, a Hugo Haas .production starring Haas and Cleo Moore. CinemaScope pictures slotted for openings during the threemonth period are Woman's World, produced by Charles Brackett and directed by Jean Negulesco starring Clifton Webb, June Allyson, Van Heflin, Lauren Bacall, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl and Cornel Wilde, in October; : Walter -Wanger’s The Adventures of Hajji Baba, directed by Don Weis starring John Derek and Elaine Stewart, in October; Black Widow, produced. and directed by Nunnally Johnson starring Ginger Rogers, Gene Tierney, Van Heflin and Peggy Ann Garner, in November; Desiree, produced by Julian Blaustein and directed by Henry Koster starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie and Cameron Mitchell, in November; and Irving Berlin's There’s No Business Like Show Business, produced by Sol. C. Siegel and directed by Walter Lang star ring Marilyn Monroe, Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor and Johnnie Ray, in December. Columbia Disc Deal Mercury Records will issue LP discs of the score of Columbia’s CinemaScope Technicolor musical, Three for the Show, produced by Jonie Taps. The album, scheduled to hit the market in November, features songs by Betty Grable, Marge and Gower Champion and Jack Lemmon. DISNEY FEATURES (Continued from Page 1) ny’s policy of releasing its product in the foreign field only through the most important distribution organizations. It made the selection of Empire-Universal Films Limited for its long standing record of many years in the distribution of outstanding product. In the USA the pictures will be released by Beuna Vista and in the UK by the Beuna Vista subsidiary, Walt Disney Film Distributors, Limited. Alf Perry states that the first picture to be released in Canada by Empire-Universal Films will be The Vanishing Prairie, Disney’s newest true-life adventure film currently showing in the USA and ‘setting boxoffice records throughout. Perry advises this picture will be made available to theatres in Canada immediately. Walt Disney’s first live-action feature in CinemaScope with high fidelity stereophonic sound, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, will be released in Canada at Christmas and will be shown in the key centres throughout. Perry advises in his opinion this is one of the greatest boxoffice pictures that Walt Disney has ever produced. The film is based on the celebrated Jules Verne novel and was made at a cost of $5,000,000. It stars Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas and Peter Lorre. The third production set for Canadian release is The Littlest Outlaw, a live-action Technicolor Disney production filmed in Mexico, starring Pedro Armandariz. The: film has authentic backgrounds and locales and is of unusual interest with exceptional appeal. To Produce 'The Wire Tappers’ The Wire Tappers, modern crime thriller, has been purchased by Columbia Pictures and assigned for production to Arthur Gardner and Jules Levy. ‘The Young And Beautiful’ Jonie Taps will produce The Young and Beautiful for Columbia with William Bowers developing the screenplay from his own original.