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POTENT BOX OFFICE STARPOWER! PICTURES GEARED TO SATISFY A MAXIMUM MOVIE AUDIENCE Tlie abnormal all-star casts reinforcing this quarter’s feature releases will be this com- pany’s norm for its Cinemascope specials scheduled for 1955 production and domestic availability. This is apparent by the makeup of casts already signed and assembled for 1955 Cinemascope pictures now before the cameras or slated to undergo filming within the next six months. Stars, featured players and principals under direct contract with the studio are not as numerous as in the pre-CinemaScope era, hut our stellar lineup never was remotely as for- midable nor as potent, boxoffice-wise, as it is now and will be in the months ahead. The star lineup has been further reinforced through loans from or barter with other studios or en- listments from the freelance ranks. Page 4A Scanning assignments already made, one is impressed by the prominent fact that virtually all of the stars in exhibitors’ lists (of the year’s proved top boxoffice personalities) will appear in Cinemascope pictures. These are in addition to those under regular contract to the studio. In the past several months the contract list has been augmented through deals with such popular personalities as Clark Gable, who will appear first in "Soldier Of Fortune” and then, also for 1955, "The Tall Men;” Guy Madison, Robert Stack, Richard Todd and others. Others who have been signed to appear in our 1955 Cinemascope productions include Jean Simmons, Tyrone Power, Brad Dexter, Spencer Rracy, Kirk Douglas, Raymond Massey, Olivia de Ilavilland, Marlon Brando, Ethel Mer- man, Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Gary Cooper, Jane Russell, Pearl Bailey, Ginger Rogers, Humphrey Bogart, Cornel Wilde, June Allyson, Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, Lauren Bacall, Eva LaGalliene, Sonny Tufts, Tom Ewell, James Stewart, Cary Grant, Eleanor Parker, Gregory Peck, Donald O’Connor, Frank Sinatra, Evelyn Keys, David Niven and others. Add to that list these additional feminine players of boxoffice potency: Marilyn Monroe, Susan Hayward, Gene Tierney, Jean Peters, Maggie McNamara, Merle Oberon, Sheree North, Katy Jurado, Bella Darvi, Agnes Moorehead, Judith Evelyn, Margola Gillmore, Debra Paget, Dorothy Dandridge, Peggy Ann Gamer, Vivien Leigh and others. In the masculine lineups noted in 1955 CinemaScope specials scheduled by Mr. Zan-