Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1939)

L6 ^dependent IXHIBIT0R5 FILM BULLETIN WARNER BROTHERS Sold 1938-39 Features (52) Completed (36) In Production (7) FAMILY REUNION Shooting started — February 9 Drama Cast: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Gale Page, Jeffrey Lynn, Fay Ba inter, Claude Rains, May Robson, Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane, Dick Foran, Frank McHugh, Donald Crisp Director — Michael Curtiz Producer — Henry Blanke Story: This reunites the "Four Daughters" company in another story which discloses Fay Bainter as the mother of the family whose husband, Claude Rains, deserted her after their last child was born. He returns and captivates his children with his rare charm and personality. Bainter who is about to marry Donald Crisp, postpones this because Rains wants her to remarry him. After the household threatens to go completely haywire, Bainter convinces him and herself that he must go. He represents only insecurity and irresponsibility. He goes, and with him takes John Garfield, a kindred spirit with whom Priscilla Lane had fancied herself in love. She restores her affections to the more reliable Jeffrey Lynn. EACH DAWN I DIE Shooting started — February 2 Drama Cast: JAMES CAGNEY, GEORGE RAFT, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Maxie Rosenbloom, Thurston Hall, Victor Jory, John Wray, Paul Hurst, Emma Dunn, Joe Downing, Lewis J. Heidt, Stanley Ridges Director — William Kieghley Producer — David Lewis Story: James Cagney plays a reporter who is railroaded to the penitentiary when he tracks down some graft in the District Attorney's office. Here he makes the acquaintance of George Raft, a notorious gangster. The criminal is instrumental in proving Cagney's innocence. GANTRY THE GREAT Shooting started — February 1 5 Drama Cast: Edith Fellowes, Jimmy McCallion, Granville Bates, Frankie Burke, DeWolf Hopper, Sam McDaniels, Bernice Pilot, Frankie Darro Director — William McGann Supervisor — Mark Hellinger Story: When James MeCallion's father dies he leaves him only a new born colt This McCallion gives to Edith Fellowes whose father trains it or at least tries too. Some time later McCallion returns, is befriended by Fellowes and succeeds in taming the animal to the extent that it is entered into many races and wins. The horse loses the Kentucky Derby because it has been stricken blind. McCallion overcomes this and trains it to become a jumper in which field it becomes a great success. WATERFRONT Shooting started — February 16 Drama Cast: Dennis Morgan, Gloria Dickson, Marie Wilson, Sheila Bromley, Arthur Gardner, Ward Bond, Aldrich Bowher Director — Terry Morse Producer — Mark Hellinger Story: Dennis Morgan is a longshoreman whose brother is killed and whose murder Morgan succeeds in avenging. Gloria Dickson plays his wife. IN PRODUCTION Release Details Date jn issue Confessions of Nazi Spy 2/11 Hell's Kitchen 1/28 Release Details Date in Issue Nancy Drew — Trouble Shooter 2/11 RECENTLY COMPLETED Adventures of Jane Arden 11/5 1/14 King of the Underworld 7/30 Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse 3/12 (Orig. Unlawfull 6/4 And It All Came True 0/4 Little Miss Thoroughbred 2/12 I Orig. Roaring Road, Thei 1/28 8/6 Mr. Chump 3/20 11/26 Angels With Dirty Faces 7/2 7/!) My Bill 4/29 Blackwell's Island 7/16 i Orig. In Every Woman's 9/3 Broadway Musketeers Life) 4/9 (Orig. Three Girls On 11/19 Nancy Drew, Detective 9/10 Broadway) 6/4 Nancy Drew, Reporter 11/5 10/29 Brother Rat 7/16 Naughty, But Nice Code of the Secret Service lOrig. Always Leave Them lOrig. Smashing the Laughing) 11/5 Money Ringi 12/17 1/21 Off the Records 12/1 Comet Over Broadway (Orig. Unfit to Print) 9/10 (Orig. Curtain Call! 7/30 3/11 Oklahoma Kid 11/5 6/18 Cowboy from Brooklyn 1/29 7/23 Penrod's Double Trouble 12/18 12/24 Dawn Patrol 8/13 Professor Steps Out 11/5 1/7 Devil's Island 7/2 7/16 Racket Busters 5/14 Dodge City 11/19 Secret Service of the Air 10/9 8/20 Four's A Crowd 3/26 10/15 Sisters, The 6/18 8/27 Four Daughters Sweepstakes Winner 12/31 (Orig. Sister Act) 5/14 1/28 They Made Me a Criminal 9/10 10/1 Garden of the Moon 4/23 Torchy Gets Her Man 7/30 1/1 Going Places 8/13 Torchy in Chinatown 8/27 6/11 Gold Diggers in Paris 1/29-2/26 Torchy Runs for Mayor 12/17 11/25 Hard to Get 6/18 When Were You Born? 3/12 (Orig. Head Over Heels) 6/18 3/12 Wings of the Navy 7/16-30 12/10 Heart of the North 7/15-8/13 Women in the Wind 9/24 Hero for a Day 1/14 3/25 Yes, My Darling Daughter 11/19 Juarez 11/19 You Can't Get Away with Kid from Kokomo Murder lOrig. Broadway Cavalier 1 12/1 7 (Orig. Crime is a Racket) 9/24 Studio Size-Hps {Continued from Page 11) reports to this office. Cooper has never been better and Batholomew is a revelation in a comedy part — so they say . . . Andy Devine and Richard Arlen are talked of as a team in a series of outdoor action pictures. Looks like a good combination. This would eliminate Arlen from the Western scene. It is worth noting that every money-making outdoor star in motion picture history has been a real cowboy at one time. If U really wishes to continue in the Western field next season, it should survey this field first . . . Harry Edington has set "Atlantic Cable" as his first Universal release. It will start in May. Script is now being written for the film budgeted at $750,000. He will follow this with "Paris Streets". Set as his third offering is a yarn with a South Sea background . . . Ken Goldsmith has been handed a remake of "Broadway" . . . Charlie McCarthy and W. C. Fields will be separated in their next pictures. Fields will start one almost immediately; Bergen and McCarthy won't begin for some months from now. Unfortunately their duet in "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man" was slightly off-key. CASTINGS: Dorothy Arnold, Mary Treen to "Three Smart Girls Grow Up" . . . Mary Forbes, Frederick Burton to "Risky Business" . . . Eddie Quillan, Ruth Donnelly, Benny Bartlett, Hugh Herbert, Joy Hodges, Juanita Quigley in "The Family Next Door" . . . Tom Brown, Barton MacLane, Preston Foster in "Big Town Czar" . . . Robert Kent in "East Side of Heaven" DIRECTOR ASSIGNMENTS: Arthur Lubin to "Big Town Czar" . . . Frank Strayer to "The Family Next Door" CONTRACTS: Writer Felix Jackson renewed . . . Players Joy Hodges and Dorothy Arnold renewed . . . WARNERS Seven films are working — four of which were recently begun. They include "Waterfront", "Family Reunion", "Each Dawn I Die" 'Cagney-Raft) and "Gantry the Great" . . . More patriotic films in preparation by WB are "The Man Who Walked With God", "Concentration Camp", "American Cavalcade", "Panama Canal" and "The Story of the Wright Brothers" . . . Another Atlantic cable will be "laid" by WB. Studio plans a featurette based on the historical occurrence. We seem to recollect Paramount planning a cable and now Universal . . . WB has definitely committed itself to a no-participation policy for radio. Humphrey Bogart is the first player to be lifted from an air assignment . . . Craze for remakes seems unending. Two more are skedded by this outfit — , "Disraeli" with Claude Rains and "Burning Daylight" for Errol Flynn . . . "Lincoln in the White House", short, has replaced the secondary feature in quite a number of theatres . . . "The Life of John Paul Jones" has been frequently discussed as a vehicle for James Cagney. Finally WB's able historian, Crane Wilbur, has been assigned the scripting job. It will make an ideal vehicle for the dynamic Cogney . . . Eddie Albert will go into the leading role of "Stuff of Heroes" upon the close of his Broadway play. He is the fine prospect who scored heavily in "Brother Rat" . . . What should be another "final" spark to the gangster cycle is a contemplated story based on the life of John Dillinger, with Raft in the leading role . . . They are planning a remake of "20,000 Years In Sing Sing" to star Garfield. CASTINGS: John Garfield, Ann Sheridan in "Dust Be My Destiny" . . . Dead End Kids, Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, Creighton Hale, Jane Wyman, Ronald Regan, Eduardo Ciannelli in "Battle of City Hall" . . . Fred MacMurray, Pat O'Brien, Jane Bryan in "You Can't Beat the Irish" . . . George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald in "You Can't Escape Forever" . . . James McCallion, Edith Fellowes, Frankie Darro, De Wolf Hopper, Frankie Burke in "Gantry the Great" . . . Emma Dunn in "Each Dawn I Die" . . . Dennis Morgan, Marie Wilson, Gloria Dickson, Frank Faylen in "Waterfront" . . . Roland Young, Fay Bainter in "The American Family" . . . Margaret Lindsay in "Enemy Agent" . . . Wayne Morris, John Payne, Eddie Albert, Jane Bryan in "Two Weeks Off" . . . George Brent, Bette Davis, David Niven in "The Old Maid" . . . DIRECTOR ASSIGNMENTS: William Kieghley to "You Can't Escape Forever" . . . Edmund Goulding to "All This and Heaven Too" CONTRACTS: Dennis Morgan (formerly Stanley Morneri termed . . . Creighton Hale signed . . . Director William Kieghley renewed . . . Writer Lawrence Kimble extended . . . Players Jane Bryan and Maxie Rosenbloom renewed . . .