Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1941)

ment a few months ago, has been okayed and will serve as a vehicle for Wallace Beery... Dore Schary, screen writer, has been named to the executive staff and is to join Harry Rapf in heading a new producing unit. Among the first productions being prepared for the group are "Mr. and Mrs. North" and "Joe Smith, American". . . Marta Eggerth, one of the brightest, most beautiful and talented of European stars, has been signed to a long term contract. Her husband is Jan Kiepura, whose misadventures at Paramount a few years ago had even Hollywood's most temperamental stars aghast. Having lost all his property in Poland and a poor man now, by his standards, perhaps he may have become sufflciently docile to encourage a second chance in Hollywood. In which case co-starring the husband and wife team would be a brilliant stroke — and that may be the diplomatic cunning Metro has up its sleeve in pacting Mrs. Kiepura now. IN PRODUCTION— "Untitled Garbo" (Garbo-Melvyn Douglas), "When Ladies Meet" (Joan Crawford-Robert Taylor-Greer Garson), "The New York Story" (Edward G. Robinson-Edward Arnold), "Untitled Tarzan" (Johnny Weissmuller-Maureen O'Sullivan), "Babes on Broadway" (Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland), "Panama Hattie" (Ann Sothern-Dan Dailey, Jr.), "H. M. Pulham, Esq." (Hedy Lamarr-Robert Young), "Kathleen" (Shirley Temple-Herbert Marshall). PREPARING— "Keeping Married" (Ann Rutherford), "Achilles" (Rosalind RussellWalter Pidgeon), "Shadow of the Thin Man" (William Powell-Myrna Loy). CA.STINO.S: Wallace Beery. Mar.1orie Main in •■Sir .Smith" lames Gleawrjii in "Babes on Broadway" ... Charles Coburn. Fay Holclen, Bonita Granyille in "H. M. Pulham, Esq." MONOGRAM In addition to his promising Buck Jones-Tim McCoy series of westerns, Scott Dunlap will produce two of Mono's high budget features for the coming season. First to face the cameras will be "Navy Bound." The other will be "Trail of the Wolf" by Jack London. Another producer assignment has A. W. Hackel to "Man with Many Paces" and "Riot Squad," both action films. IN PRODUCTION— "Let's Go Collegiate" (Frankie DarroJackie Moran). PREPARING— "Ghosts in the Night" and "Riding the Sunset PARAMOUNT Back from New York, Producer Harry Sherman announced that he has acquired the screen rights to Clarence Mulford's "Hopalong Cassidy" characters for an additional five years and that William Boyd has been signed to play Cassidy for the whole period. Planned for immediate production in the series is "Twilight on the Trail" in which for the first time Cassidy and his pals will not appear in cowboy togs. Inspired no doubt by the fact that "Parson of Panamint" has been called the finest pictui'e he has ever made, Sherman is formulating plans to produce an epic out-door dramatization of the story of the rugged colonizers of Utah. Ginger Rogers, who has already concluded a one picture contract with 20th Century, is negotiating with Paramount on a deal that will bring her into the fold for one picture annually for three years. . .There was a shake-up in Par's story department last week ...Robert Preston and Paulette Goddard are two stars who will join Cecil B. DeMille and Richard Dix in playing themselves in "Glamour Boy," the Jackie Cooper-Susanna Foster opus which has Hollywood for its background. IN PRODUCTION— "Bahama Passage" (Madeleine CarrollStirling Hayden), "Reap the Wild Wind" (Ray Milland-John Wayne), "The Remarkable Andrew" (William Holden-Brian Donlevy), "Sweater Girl" (Eddie BrackenJune Preisser), "Louisiana Purchase" (Bob Hope-Victor Moore-Zorina) , "Her Jungle Mate" (Dorothy Lamour-Richard Denning) and "Fly By Night" (Richard Carlson-Nancy Kelly). PREPARING— "The Morning After," "I'm Mrs. Aldrich's Boy" (Jimmy Lydon), "No Hands on the Clock," "Prison Widows," "Snowball in Hell." CASTIN<;S: U'lbei t Preston in "Ail Raid" ... Rod Canienm in "Xri H:iinl.s on the I 'I, ,<k" . . . A Ihert Basserman, Olto Kruger, Cy Kendall in -.\i,L;ht" ....Martini n'lJiLsooU in "The Remarkable .Andrew" ... Hedda llcpii.-i in "r-!e:i|i tile Wi'd Wind" ... Preston Foster. Albert Dekk^ r in "The .Morning After". . .DIRKCTOR .4SSI(;n:>IKXT.S: Ralph Murphy to ".Mr Raid". ..William Clemens to "The Morning After." REPUBLIC Al Pearce and his gang of radio entertainers will be the stars of one of Republic's most pretentious pictures on its 1941-42 schedule, "Marines on Parade." Fanchon and Marco will join Republic to be associate producers on the picture. NEW RELEASES (For details on These pictures see Release Charts on Following Pages) COLUMBIA Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime August 7 Tillie the Toiler August 14 Here Comes Mr. Jordan August 21 Our Wife August 28 METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER Whistling in the Dark August 8 Life Begins for Andy Hardy August 15 Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day August 22 When Ladies Meet August 29 MONOGRAM Deadly Game August 8 Dynamite Canyon August 8 Saddle Mountain Roundup August 29 PARAMOUNT Parson of Panamint August 8 Wide Open Town August 15 World Premiere August 22 Flying Blind August 29 Aloma of the South Seas August 29 PRODUCERS RELEASING Lone Rider in Frontier Fury August 8 Reg'lar Fellers August 15 Lone Rider Ambushed August 29 REPUBLIC Doctors Don't Tell August 18 Ice-Capades August 20 Under Fiesta Stars August 22 Bad Man of Deadwood August 27 RKO (1940-41) Six Gun Gold August 8 Scattergood Meets Broadway August 22 1941-42 The Little Foxes August 29 Citizen Kane Sept. 5 Parachute Battalion Sept. 12 Lady Scarf ace Sept. 26 Father Takes a Wife Oct. 3 20th CENTURY-FOX Dressed to Kill August 8 Wild Geese Calling August 15 Private Nurse August 22 Sun Valley Serenade August 29 UNITED ARTISTS (1941-42) New Wine Aug. 8 Lydia August 29 Major Barbara Sept. 12 UNIVERSAL Hold That Ghost Aug. 8 This Woman Is Mine Aug. 15 Dangerous Game Aug 22 1941-42 Badlands of Dakota Sept. 5 Man from Montana Sept. 5 Unfinished Business Sept. 12 Sing Another Chorus Sept. 19 Almost An Angel Sept. 26 WARNER BROS. Man Power Aug. 9 Highway West Aug. 23 Dive Bomber Aug. 30 10 FILM BULLETIN