Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1938)

OCTOBER 22, 1938 11 Story: Based on the famous children's story. This tells oi a little girl who dreams she is waited from her Kansas iarm to the mysterious land oi Oz. Judy Garland plays the young lady. In Oz she enlists the aid of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow for directions as to how to return to Kansas They tell her she must see the Wizard (Frank Morgan). The Wizard decrees that ii she can kill the old witch (Margaret Hamilton), he will see that she returns. In a scurry with the witch. ludy accidentally pours a pitcher oi water over her. The witch wilts away. But then. alas, the Wizard turns out not to be the Wizard, merely a balloonist who doesn't know how to get back himself. Judy is spared iurther harrowing adventures when with the Wizard she gets into his ballon, starts back to earth only to have a woodpecker make a hole in it and speed up their descent. Like all good dreams — this is where ludy wakes up and realizes that the odd citizens of Oz are actually her friends and workers on the farm. • « * NEW YORK CINDERELLA Shoting started — October 18 Drama Cast: SPENCER TRACY, Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Fannie Brice Directeed by Josef von Sternberg Produced by Lawrene Weingarten Story: By virtue of her position as secretary to an old dowager. Hedy Lamarr becomes a glamorous person in the New York social world. One of the many men who worships her is Walter Pidgeon. He is married and not in love with his wife. He persuades Hedy to go with him to Yucatan where he will get a divorce and marry her. Once there he receives word that his wife is to have a baby. He leaves her and she takes a ship back to New York. Aboard she meets Tracy, an idealistic surgeon. They fall in love and after various complications become happily married. * • * ICE FOLLIES Shooting started — October 15 Musical Cast: JOAN CRAWFORD, James Stewart, Lew Ay res, Bess Ehrhardt and the Follies troupe Directed by Rheinhold Schunzel Produced by Harry Rapf Story: Stewart and Ayres are a moderately successful team of ice skaters who take on Joan Crawford in the act. Joan later marries Stewart. She unwittingly causes them to lose their jobs, so goes to a casting director whom she has met before and lands a film contract. She is successful, but Stewart's drea^i of creating a magnificent ice spectacle is fraught with failure. Their marriage goes on the rocks, but is later straightened out when the ice follies finally makes a hit in Hollywood. SPRING DANCE Shooting started — October 4 Comedy Cast: Maureen O Sullivan, Lew Ayres, Ann Morris, Truman Bradley, Ruth Hussey, Joyce Compton, Jacqueline Wells, Marjorie Gateson, Sterling Holloway, Frank Albertson, Thurston Hall, Dick Baldwin, Renie Riano Directed by Sylvan Simon Produced by Edward Chodorov Story: From the play by Phillip Barry. This recounts the romance between two college students, Maureen O'Sullivan and Lew Ayres. They decide to marry after graduation, but suddenly Ayres is convinced he is unable to cope with the economic system of America, so decides to go to Russia. Maureen's school chums have other ideas and after making him the victim of many awkward situations, topped by a great surge of jealousy when Truman Bradley escorts Maureen to a dance, the girls find Ayres is quite agreeable to remaining. STAND UP AND FIGHT Shooting started — October 1 Drama Cast: ROBERT TAYLOR, WALLACE BEERY, Florence Rice Directed by W. S. Van Dyke Produced by Mervyn Le Roy Story: (Not available; see next issue.) IN PRODUCTION Release Date 12/9 Dramatic School 8/19 9/2 7/29 8/5 7/8 7/22 6/17 8/26 Details in Issue 9/24 RECENTLY Blockheads (Ong. Meet the Missus) 6/18 Boystown 6/18 Chaser, The 6/18 Crowd Roars, The (Ong. Give and Take) . 5/14 Fast Company 6/4 Great Waltz, The 5/21 Listen Darling 7,16 Love Finds Andy Hardy 6/4 Lord Jeff 3/26 Marie Antoinette 1/15 Details Details 10 Release Release 12/2 Out West with the Hardys COMPLETED 8/12 Rich Man, Poor Girl (Ong. It's Now or Nover) 7/2 11/25 Shining Hour, The 8 27 7/15 Shopworn Angel 4 9 8/9 Stablemates 7 16 10/28 Sweethearts 7/2 10/14 Three Loves Has Nancy 7/16 10/26 Too Hot To Handle 6/10 Toy Wife, The 10/13 Vacation From Love 6/24 Woman Against Woman (Orig. Enemy Territory) Young Dr. Kildaire 5 14 3 26 8 13 4 23 9 24 STORY BUYS "Hoi Piano," Collier magazine story by Richard English. CONTRACTS Writer Kay Van Ripper to new contract. Jack Carleton to term contract. Player Douglas MacPhail to term deal. Moppet Jane Chamberes optioned. CASTING James Stewart, Lew Ayres, Joan Crawford to "Ice Follies." Walter Connolly to "Catharine the Last." Nelson Eddy starring spot in "Let Freedom Ring." MONOGRAM Sold 1937-38 Sold 1938-39 Features (26) Westerns (16) Features (26) Westerns (16) Completed (26) Completed (16) Completed (6) Completed (4) In Production (0) In Production (0) In Production (0) In Production (0) GANG BULLETS (Completed) Shooting started — October 10 Drama Cast: Ann Nagel, Robert Kent, J. Farrell MacDonald, Morgan Wallace, Charles Trowbridge, Joseph Crehan, John Merton, Benny Bartlett Directed by Lambert Hillyer Produced by E. B. Derr Story: This concerns a small town which becomes the center of the activities of a notorious gang. The district attorney, in order to secure evidence against them, appears to be in league with the criminals. Robert Kent, his assistant, brings proceedings against the D. A. which breaks up his engagement to the man's daughter, Ann Nagel. When the gang is apprehended the truth is revealed and all ends happily. RECENTLY COMPLETED Release Details Release Details Date in Issue Date in Issue 8/2 Barefoot Boy 6/18 6/22 Romance of the 11 2 Gangster's Boy 9/24 Limberlost 5/14 11 9 Gun Packer 10/8 9/14 Starlight Over Texas 7/30 7/6 Man's Country 6/4 8/24 Under the Big Top 6/3 Marines Are Here, The 4 23 (Orig Circus Comes to 9 14 Mexicali Kid 8/13 Town) 7/16 10 5 Mr. Wong. Detective 9/10 9/21 Wanted By the Police 8/13 10/12 Where the Buffalo Roam 9/10 PARAMOUNT Sold 1937-38 Features (53) Completed (51) In Production (0) Westerns (6) Completed (6) In Production (0) Sold 1938-39 Features (52) Completed (22) In Production (3) Westerns (6) Completed (5) In Production (0) PERSONS IN HIDING Shooting started — October 18 Drama Cast: Lynne Overman, William Henry, Patricia Morrision, Anthony Quinn, Elisabeth Risdon, Richard Carle, Judith Barret Directed by Louis King Produced by General Office Story: This deals with the story of the G-men's pursuit of headline gangsters. CAFE SOCIETY Shooting started — October 15 Comedy Cast: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Shirley Ross, Allyn Joslyn, Jessie Ralph, Claude Gillingwater Directed by Edward H. Griffith Produced by Jeff Lazarus Story: Madeleine Carroll is a prominent society girl, who, upon her arrival from Europe, is told by society columnist Alan Joslyn that she is no longer news. She bets him $1,000 that she makes his column legitimately within a week. To accomplish this, she marries newspaper reporter Fred MacMurray. She then tries to get out of it, but MacMurray tames her and they eventually decide to stick it out together to the unconcealed delight of her grandfather, Claude Gillingwater. IN PRODUCTION Release Details Release Details Date in Issue Date in Issue Ambush 10/8 RECENTLY COMPLETED 9 23 Arkansas Traveler 7 16 10 30 Men With Wings 5 14 11 25 Arrest Bulldog Drummond 10 28 Mysterious Rider. The 7 2 (Ong. Scotland Yard vs. 1 12 Paris Honeymoon 6/4 Bulldog Drumond 8 27 7 8 Pride of the West 12 30 Artists and Models Abroad 5/21 (Orig. Beneath Western 7/24 Bar 20 Justice 12 18 Stars) 5 14 7/2 Booloo 6 18 6 17 Prison Farm 2 26 8 19 Bulldog Drummond in 7 29 Professor Beware Africa 6 4 Riders of the Range 10 8 9 30 Campus Confessions 7 16 9 17 Sons of the Legion 7 16 1 20 Disbarred 8 27 9 2 Sing You Sinners 4 9 Frontiersmen. The 8 27-9 10 8 26 Spawn of the North 3 26 8 5 Give Me a Sailor 4 23 Say It In French 8 27 10 14 If I Were King 5 21 St. Louis Blues 8 13 11 4 Illegal Traffic 8 13 12 9 Sunset Trail 9/9 In Old Mexico (Orig. Silver Trail Patrol! 7 30 (Ong. Return of the Fox) 5 21 8 12 Texans. The 2 36-3 26 10 21 King of Alcatraz 7 30 11 18 Thanks for the Memory 8 13 1/6 King of Chinatown 9 24 Tom Sawyer, Detective 9 24 10 28 Last Ride. The 7 1 Tropic Holiday 2 26 (Orig. Escape from 10 7 Touchdown. Army 7/2 Yesterday) 7 30 6 3 You and Me 1 29 Little Orphan Annie 10 8 1 27 Zaia 7 2