20th Century-Fox Dynamo (August 26, 1939)

14A STUDIO SPECIAL ===L THE WEEK'S ItraDDUCTIDNlDE) RELEASED OR DELIVERED TO NEW YORK ELSA MAXWELL’S HOTEL FOR WOMEN—With Elsa Maxwell, Linda Darnell, James Ellison, Ann Sothern, Kay Aldridge, Jean Rogers, Alan Dinehart, John Halliday and others. A Zanuck pro- duction. Directed by Gregory Ratoff. CHICKEN WAGON FAMILY—With Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Weaver, Spring Byington, Kane Richmond and others. A Wurtzel release. Directed by Herbert I. Leeds. STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE—With Spencer Tracy, Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Coburn, Henry Travers, Walter Brennan, Henry Hull and others. A Zanuck special. Directed by Henry King. JONES FAMILY IN QUICK MILLIONS—With Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, June Carlson, Ken Howell, Florence Roberts, Billy Mahan, Eddie Collins, Robert Shaw and others. A Wurtzel re- lease. Directed by Mai St. Clair. CHARLIE CHAN IN TREASURE ISLAND—With Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Sally Blane, Pauline Moore, Douglas Fowley, Wally Vernon and others. A Wurtzel release. Directed by Norman Foster. STOP, LOOK AND LOVE—With Jean Rogers, Robert Kellard, Wil- liam Frawley, Minna Gombell, Cora Sue Collins and others. A Wurtzel release. Directed by Otto Brower. ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES—With Basil Rathbone, Ida Lupino, Nigel Bruce, Alan Marshall, Mary Forbes, Terry Kil- burn and others. A Zanuck production. Directed by Alfred Werker. THE ESCAPE—With Kane Richmond, Amanda Duff, Henry Ar- metta, Edward Norris, June Gale, Marvin Stephens and others. A Wurtzel release. Directed by Ricardo Cortez. IN THE CUTTING DEPARTMENT THE RAINS CAME—With Tyrone Power, Myrna Loy, George Brent, Brenda Joyce, Maria Ouspenskaya, H. B. Warner, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers, Laura Hope Crews and others A Zanuck special. Directed by Clarence Brown. HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE—With Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Buster Keaton, Mtck Sennett, Alan Curtis, Stuart Erwin, Lynn Bari, Ben Turpin end many others. A Zanuck Technicolor super special. Directed by Irving Cummings. HERE I AM A STRANGER—With Richard Greene, Brenda Joyce, Richard Dix, Roland Young, Gladys George, John Arledge, Russell Gleason, Kay Aldridge and others. A Zanuck production. Di- rected by Roy Del Ruth. HEAVEN WITH A BARBED WIRE FENCE—With Jean Rogers, Glenn Ford, Raymond Walbum. Marjorie Rambeau, and others. A Wurtzel production. Directed by Ricardo Cortez. A CITY IN DARKNESS—Second Chan K-7 release, with Sidney Toler, Sen Yung, Lynn Bari, Pedro De Cordoba, Harold Huber, Noel Madison and others. A Wurtzel release. Directed by Herbert I. Leeds. PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES—Formerly titled “Roughnecks,” with Jane Withers, Ritz Brothers, Lynn Bari and others. A Wurtzel release. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. HIGH SCHOOL—Third of Jane Withers’ 1939-40 series, with Jane Withers, Marvin Stephens, Lillian Porter, Cliff Edwards, Lunn Roberts, Paul Harvey, Emma Dunn, and others. A Wurtzel re- lease. Directed by George Nichols. TOO BUSY TO WORK—Second in the Jones Family release, with the original members of the Jones Family, Joan Davis, Chick Chandler and others. A Wurtzel release. DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK—With Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert, Edna May Oliver, Dorris Bowden, Robert Lowery, Eddie Collins, Ward Bond, Big Tree, Francis Ford, Arthur Aylesworth, Si Jenkins, Kay Linaker, Jack Pennick, Arthur Shields, Bob Ford, Wayne Frank, Roger Imhof, Paul McVey and many others. A Zanuck Technicolor super special. Directed by John Ford. NOW IN PRODUCTION 20,000 MEN A YEAR—With Randolph Scott, Margaret Lindsay, Mary Healy, Robert Shaw, Preston Foster, Maxie Rosenbloom, George Ernest and others now being selected. A Wurtzel super special. Alfred Green, director. THE SIMPLE LIFE—With Marjorie Weaver, Stuart Erwin, Chick Chandler and others now being selected. A Wurtzel release. William Beaudine, director. IN PRODUCTION WITHIN NEXT TWO MONTHS MAETERLINCK’S “THE BLUE BIRD”—With Shirley Temple. Nancy Kelly, Sybil Jason, Gale Sondergaard, Eddie Collins, Spring Byington and others now being selected. A Zanuck Technicolor super special. Walter Wanger will direct. LITTLE OLD NEW YORK—With Alice Faye, Richard Greene, Fred MacMurray, Brenda Joyce, Andy Devine and others. A Zanuck special. Henry King will direct. SWANEE RIVER—With Don Ameche, A1 Jolson, Andrea Leeds and others now being selected. With Stephen Foster music. A Zanuck Technicolor super special. Directed by Sidney Lanfield. EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT—First of a series of two with Sonja Henie. With Miss Henie, Ray Milland and others now being selected. Irving Cummings will direct. A Zanuck special. SCOTLAND YARD—With Warner Baxter, Jane Baxter, Edmund Gwenn and others now being selected. A Zanuck special. Directed by Alfred Werker. GRAPES OF WRATH—Based on John Steinbeck’s current best- seller, with an all-star cast. Walter Brennan and Beulah Bondi already set in cast. A Zanuck super special. Directed by John Ford. BRIGHAM YOUNG—Screenplay by Louis Bromfield, author of “The Rains Came,” with an all-star cast now being selected. Further details later. A Zanuck super special. FIRST CISCO KID STORY—Starring Cesar Romero in the title LOVELY CLAUDETTE COLBERT An unusual pose by the co-star of Zanuck’s Technicolor j j super special, “Drums Along the Mohawk,” that John Ford j | has directed. Henry Fonda heads the cast of well-known male j j principals. role, first of a series of three stories. Binnie Barnes featured. Cast for first release now being selected. Further details later. A Wurtzel release. THE CITY—A new story based on screenplay by John Larkin. C. Aubrey Smith only one cast so far. A Wurtzel release. Directed by Ricardo Cortez. DAY-TIME WIFE—Co-starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell. Other roles now being filled. Production will start on Sept. 5. A Zanuck production. Gregory Ratoff will direct. A Zanuck special. JOHNNY APOLLO—Production will not start until some time in mid-Winter owing to the studio’s present difficulty in properly casting picture. Tyrone Power and Edward Arnold are already set in cast. Others will be announced later. Irving Cummings will direct. A Zanuck special. THREE BLIND DATES—An original comedy based on the profes- sional escort service. Written by M. Musselman. With cast headed by Ritz Brothers. To be directed by H. Bruce Humberstone. A Wurtzel release. LAW WEST OF PECOS—Based on famous story by Everett Lloyd. Will be one of Wurtzel’s major releases for new season, re-uniting featured hit players of “Frontier Marshal,” Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Binnie Barnes and Cesar Romero. EARTHBOUND—Based on one of the most sensational novels ever written. Originally made as a silent years ago by Samuel Gold- wyn. Will be one of Wurtzel’s big pictures, with Allan Dwan scheduled to direct. Cast now being selected. WRITERS FINISH 24 SCREENPLAYS DIRECTORS SET M ovietone city —The writing staff never has been as busy as it is at the mo- ment. Some two score of writ- ers are whipping originals and treatments of best sellers, mag- azine stories and stage plays into screen shape. In the past several weeks two important treatments were completed and approved. Louis Bromfield, whose “The Rains Came” will shortly be released domestically, completed the screenplay of “Brigham Young.” John Stein- beck, author of “The Grapes of Wrath,” approved Nunnally Johnson’s screenplay of that sensational story. • S CREENPLAYS for “Swanee River,” “Little Old New York,” Maeterlinck’s “The Blue Bird,” “Mark of Zorro,” “Scot- land Yard,” “Day-Time Wife,” “Johnny Apollo,” “Everything Happens at Night,” “Dance with the Devil” and several other important stories that Zanuck will make into specials for 1939-40 release, also have been completed. These stories are now being cast by the pro- duction chief. T HE writers on Wurtzel’s staff are equally active. They have completed a treat- ment for the tentatively titled “Jubilo” which will feature Jane Withers and the singing cow- boy, Gene Autrey; “Earth- bound,” “Law West of Pecos,” the first “Cisco Kid” story, which has not yet been titled; the third “Charlie Chan” mys- tery, and several others. Lou Breslou and Owen Francis com- pleted the screenplay of “20,000 Men a Year” which has already gone before the cameras. • A LL of the directors under contract have been given their next assignment. Henry King will make “Little Old New York,” Sidney Lanfield starts “Swanee River” on Monday. John Ford’s next will be “The Grapes of Wrath,” Irving Cum- mings will megaphone “Every- thing Happens at Night” with Sonja Henie and Ray Milland, Allan Dwan will make “Earth- bound,” Alfred E. Green is di- recting “20,000 Men a Year,” George Nichols is finishing Jane Withers’ “High School,” William Beaudine has “The Simple Life” under way, Otto Brower is busy with “Too Busy to Work” with the Jones Fam- ily and Joan Davis, Walter Lang is preparing to start “shooting” Shirley Temple’s “The Blue Bird” with Nancy Kelly. • I N addition, Alfred Worker, who megaphoned “The Ad- ventures of Sherlock Holmes,” is readying “Scotland Yard” with Warner Baxter and Jane Bax- ter, for the cameras. Gregory Ratoff, who made “Elsa Max- well’s Hotel for Women,” will direct “Day-Time Wife,” a so- phisticated farce comedy, with Tyrone Power and Linda Dar- nell. William A. Seiter is cut- ting “Here I Am a Stranger.” H. Bruce Humberstone will di- rect “Three Blind Dates.” Ri- cardo Cortez is down to start work shortly on “The City.” • F RIDAY announcement was made that Robert Shaw, the Dallas lad who is rapidly climb- ing up the ladder, and George Ernest, who plays the role of Roger in the Jones Family com- edies, have been added to the cast of “20,000 Men a Year.” C. Aubrey Smith has been cast for the part of the Judge in “The City,” which is based on an original screenplay by John Larkin.