20th Century-Fox Dynamo (April 1950)

1950-51 PRODUCT SUMMARY FOR SHOWMEN SEPTEMBER (1950) MY BLUE HEAVEN. Color by Technicolor. Romantic drama with music. An original story by S.K. Laurence titled “The Stork Doesn’t Bring Babies”. Two former vaudeville stars have attained great success as a singing pair on radio, but they have failed to satisfy their major ambition: to raise a family. A mishap prevents the girl from giving birth to a baby and, at the persuasion of friends, they seek to forget by invading television. On TV they are an even greater success than they were on radio and they decide to adopt a child, only to learn that “red-tape” burdens their task. After surviving a succession of disappointments, they give up — only to experience a surprise they had never dared dream would transpire. Co- starring the “Mother Wore Tights” and “When My Baby Smiles At Me” co-stars—Betty Grable and Dan Dailey, with David Wayne, Jane Wyatt and others. Produced by Sol C. Siegel. Directed by Henry Koster. PANIC IN THE STREETS. Semi-documentary drama. Screenplay by Richard Murphy and adaptation by Daniel Fuchs of a story by Edna and Edward Anhalt. Formerly titled: “Quarantine” and “Outcast”. The sen- sational story of a doctor’s search to locate a hoodlum who is infected with a dread disease threatening the health of an entire large city. The hood- lum has killed a gangster. Police discover the threat to the populace. News- papers are kept in ignorance of what may happen. Co-starring Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas and Barbara Bel Geddes, with Walter (Jack) Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss, Alexis Minotis, Guy Thomajan, Tommy Cook, Edward Kennedy, H.T. Tsiang, Lewis Charles, Ray Muller, Tommy Rettig, Lenka Peterson, Pat Walshe, Paul Hostetler, George Ehmig, Leo Zinser, Beverly C. Brown, William A. Dean, Val Winter, Ruth Moore Mathews and others. Entirely filmed in and around New Orleans, La. Produced by Sol. C. Siegel. Directed by Elia Kazan, who won an Academy Award for direction of last year’s “Gentleman’s Agreement.” OCTOBER (1950) STELLA. Based on the book, “Family Skeleton”. Comedy drama of a gooff family. At a picnic a drunken uncle is killed while trying to hit a nephew. Fearing the police will not believe them, the family buries tire uncle and then circulates the story that he is on another of his periodic “bats”. They stick to the story until they learn he had taken out a double indemnity insurance policy. They identify several bodies, only to be found wrong. In the end they are found out, but in a sidesplitting climax the entire mystery is solved by a young insurance man who had fallen in love with one of the uncle’s nieces. Co-starring Anne Sheridan in the title role, Leif Erickson, Marion Marshall, Hobart Cavanaugh and others. Pro- duced by Sol C. Siegel. ’Directed by Claude Binyon. OLD 880. Based on St. Clair McKelway’s article in the New Yorker magazine. Story of a counterfeiter who confines himself to the manufacture of a few one-dollar bills per month as he needed them. He becomes a thorn in the side of the Secret Service of the U.S. Treasury Department for 10 years. Then he meets a girl—and he has to counterfeit much larger bills to clothe her in the style in which she wants to live—and this, eventually, leads to his undoing. Co-starring Burt Lancaster and Dorothy McGuire, with Millard Mitchell. Rest of cast being selected. Julian Blaustein, producer. Edmund Goulding, director. NOVEMBER (1950) I’LL GET BY. Color by Technicolor. Romantic comedy, with nostalgic and new songs. How a “shoe-stringer” wormed his way into the heart of /■ £ a member of a headline sister-act to build a song-publishing business, in the 1930’s. A breezy, fast-moving story of the manipulations of “fly-by- nighters” in Tin Pan Alley. How songs are born—and popularized. This company’s most ambitious musical since “The Dolly Sisters”. Featuring an all-star cast of screen, musical comedy and radio stars. Co-starring June Haver, William Lundigan, Gloria de Haven, Dennis Day, singing star of his own network and Jack Benny’s radio program, and Harry James and his band, with Reginald Gardiner, Thelma Ritter, Danny Davenport, Steve Allen, Helene Stanley, Marion Marshall and others. Presenting specialities by Jeanne Crain, Dan Dailey and Clifton Webb. Produced by William Perlberg. Directed by Richard Sale. NO WAY OUT. A Darryl F. Zanuck special production. Written and directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, who has won two Academy Awards, one for the best screenplay and another best direction. Lesser Samuels col- laborated with Mr. Mankiewicz in writing the story which concerns a young Negro interne who is accused by the gangster of having deliberately murdered his wounded hoodlum-brother on whom he had been operating. The gangster, in revenge, plots a race riot that materializes with dire com- munity consequences. But, in the end, the young doctor is exonerated. Co- starring Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally and Sidney Poitier, with Mildred Joanne Smith, Harry Bellaver, Stanley Ridges, Dots Johnson, Amanda Randolph, Bill Walker, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Ken Christy, Frank Richards, George Tyne, Robert Sadler, Bert Freed, Maude Simmons, Jim Toney, Ray Teal, Will Wright, Ian Wolfe, Ruth Warren, J. Louis Johnson, Dick Paxton, Victor Kilian Sr., Doris Kemper and others. DECEMBER (1950) RAWHIDE. Outdoor drama. From a story by Dudley Nichols who wrote , “Stagecoach” and many other outstanding motion pictures. Drama of a j young easterner and a young widow who find themselves at the mercy of a bandit gang in the early days of the West. Co-starring Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward and Hugh Marlowe, and featuring Dean Jagger who won the 1950 Academy Award Award for the best performance by a supporting player (“12 O’clock High”), with Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam, George Tobias, Jeff Corey, James Mullican, Louis Jean Heydt, William Haade, Milton R. Corey, Sr., Ken Tobey, Dan White, Max Terhune, Robert Adler, Howard Negley, Judy Ann Dunn and others. Produced by Samuel C. Engel. Directed by Henry Hathaway. ALL ABOUT EVE. Drama. Screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz from Mary Orr’s Cosmopolitan story, “The Wisdom Of Eve”. Formerly titled “Best Performance”. The story of a scheming young, stage-struck, but tal- ented girl who preys on Broadway’s outstanding actress and, after winning her sympathy and entering her employ, steals her benefactor’s role, flirts with her husband, exposes herself when success is within her grip and then, again ingratiating herself, gets a film contract—and the playwright- husband of another who was instrumental in giving her a second chance. Featuring an all-star cast headed by Bette Davis, Anne Baxtei, Celeste Holm and George Sanders, with Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Barbara Bates, Craig Hill, Gregory Ratoff and others. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. JANUARY (1951) FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE. Comedy. Screenplay by George A. Seaton from a story entitled “May We Come In?”. A fantastic story of an angel who re-visits his friends on earth. Written and filmed in the same mood of “Miracle On 34th Street” and scripted, produced and directed by the same team that made the latter memorable success. Starring Clifton Webb in a role entirely unlike any other of his screen characterizations to date. Cast is now being completed. Produced by William Perlberg. Directed by Mr. Seaton. SENSE OF GUILT. A mystery drama based on a French story. Will feature an important cast and scheduled to be produced this Summer at locations in the province of Quebec in Canada and at the world-famous luxury resort. Sun Valley (Idaho). Written and directed by Maxwell Shane. Produced by Jules Buck. Cast now being selected. TRUMPET OF THE MORN. Color by Technicolor. Based on a novel by Frank Nugent and Curtis Kenyon. Drama of the West during the latter part of the War Of the States. For the purpose of quelling an uprising of the Apache Indians who are slaughtering the whites. Union and Confederate soldiers combine their forces, but differences arise with surprising conse- quences. Picture being filmed in Taos, New Mexico. Co-starring Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Joseph Colten and Jeff Chandler, with Dale Rob- ertson and others. Produced by Casey Robinson. Directed by Robert Wise. FEBRUARY (1951) AMERICAN GUERRILLA (In The Philippines). Color by Technicolor. Based on the best-selling novel by Ira Wolfert. Based on the true story of an American naval officer, Lieut. Iliff David Richardson who lived for four years behind Japanese lines with the Philippine guerrillas. Now being filmed in the exact locations in the story, in the Philippine Islands. Co-starring Tyrone Power and Micheline Prelie, with Robert Patten and hundreds of others. Adapted and produced by Lamar Trotti. Directed by Fritz Lang. MY MOTHER-IN-LAW, MIRIAM. A romantic comedy. Screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert, who adapted “Sitting Pretty”. The hilarious adventures of a young and pretty woman and her considerate daughter-in-law who seeks to act as matchmaker to get her married. Claudette Colbert, whom many critics, exhibitors and thousands of ticket-buyers already have nom- inated for the Academy Aw'ard for the best performance by a feminine star in a 1950 release, “Three Came Home”, has been announced for the part of the mother-in-law, Robert Bassler, producer. Additional details later. HALLS OF MONTEZUMA. Color by Technicolor. Drama. From an ori- ginal story by Harry Kleiner and Sy Bartlett (who co-authored “12 O’Clock High”). To be produced at Camp Pendleton. Story about a company of U.S. Marines and 80 U.S. Army nurses on Saipan in 1944. Produced with the co-operation of the U.S. Marine Corps. To feature an all-star cast including Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Richard Conte, Robert Conte, Reginald Gardiner and others to be announced. Produced by Robert Bassler. Directed by Lewis Milestone. MARCH (1951) HALF AN ANGEL. Comedy. Story about a split personality. An original story by Robert and Everett Riskin. Starring Loretta Young. Should be one of the top attractions of 1951, with the star of “Come To The Stable” and “Mother Is A Freshman” in her most fascinating role. To be produced by Julian Blaustein. Jules Dassin, director. CALL ME MISTER. Romantic comedy with music. Color by Techni- color. What happened to a troupe of actors and actresses who saw service on many fronts during the last war. Distinctly not a war picture. This is a combination of the music from the Broadway musical comedy hit, “Call Me Mister”, and “CATS”, the story about the civilian performers. Co- starring Betty Grable and Dan Dailey. To be produced by Fred Kohlmar. I D CLIMB THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN. Dramatic story about a city girl who marries a Methodist preacher who is sent to work with mountain people. The story takes place in the Ozark mountains in 1900. The young couple finds it tough going, but earn the faith and friendliness of their flock. Based on an original story by Lamar Trotti. Co-starring Jeanne Crain and William Lundigan who scored so well as a romantic team in “Pinky”. Henry King is scheduled to direct. Mr. Trotti, producer.