The Film Daily (1941)

Wednesday, April 2, 194W Coast Studios Send 14 More Into Work (Continued from Page 1) novel, with Charlie Ruggles, Phil Terry, Ellen Drew, Joseph Schildkraut and Porter Hall. William McGann directing; "Nothing But the Truth," comedy, with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, supporting cast including Edward Arnold, Helen Vinson and Lief Erickson. Elliott Nugent directing, and is an Arthur Hornblow, Jr., production; "World Premiere," comedy-mystery, starring John Barrymore, Frances Farmer, Ricardo Cortez and Fritz Feld. Director, Ted Tetzlaff. Sol C. Siegel production. At Columbia : Three shooting including "Blondie In Society," ninth in the series, Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms and Daisy again will be featured with Frank B. Strayer directing and Robert Sparks producing; "Betty Co-Ed." musical, with Ruby Keeler, Harriett Hilliard, Gordon Oliver and Ozzie Nelson and his Band, Charles Judels, Kathleen Howard, George Lessey, Byron Foulger and Don Beddoe. Edward Dmytryk directing under production supervision of Irving Briskin with Louis DaPron directing the dance routines; "Obituary," (temporary title) melodrama, with Eileen O'Hearn, Frank Craven and Edgar Buchanan. Charles Barton directing for Producer Jack Fier. At M-G-M: Seven shooting. At RKO-Radio: Seven shooting. At Republic : Four shooting, including "Thunder Over the Ozarks," western, Nick Grinde directing for producer Armand Schaefer. At 20th Century-Fox: Five shooting, including "Man With a Shovel," drama, with George Montgomery, Osa Massen and J. Carrol Naish. Ray McCarey directing, associate producers, Ralph Dietrich and Walter Morosco. Original by Dalton Trumbo. At Universal: Eight shooting including, "In the Navy," comedy, with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Director, Arthur Lubin ; associate producer, Alex Gottlieb ; "Too Many Blondes," musical, with Rudy Vallee, Helen Parrish, Jerry Cowan, Eddie Quillan, Iris Adrian and Lon Chaney, Jr. Director, Thornton Freeland ; "Beyond the Law," melodrama. Director, George Waggner. At Warners: Seven shooting. At Monogram: Four shooting, including Lindsley Parsons' "King of the Zombies," drama, with Henry Victor, Joan Woodbury, Dick Purcell, Leigh Whipper and Manton Moreland. Jean Yarborough directing; Edward Finney's "The Pioneers," James Fenimore Cooper novel, starring Tex Ritter, others in cast include Slim Andrews. Red Foley, Daya O'Dell, Wanda McKay. Al Herman directing. At Producers Releasing Corp.: Two shooting, including "The Lone Rider Gallops to Glory," western, Sig Neufeld producing and Sherman Scott directing. Boston Variety Club's Officers Are Installed Boston — First officers of the Boston Variety Club since the transition from the Friar's Club were installed here yesterday, the ceremonies at the Hotel Statler attracting John H. Harris of Pittsburgh, national chief barker; Bob O'Donnell of Dallas, his assistant, and James Balmer of Pittsburgh, national dough guy. Installed to head the local club were Martin Mullins, chief barker; Al Kane, assistant; Harold E. Stoneham, dough guy, and William H. Erbb, property master. Mullin paid warm tributes to Steve Broidy, former head of the Friars, and Maurice Wolf, also long identified with the Friars. Talent Loans Rise on Coast 58 Individual Deals by Studios in 3 Mos. (Continued from Page 1) things, among them a general producer desire to give product custom-tailored casts. While the vast majority of the player deals affect pictures on this season's program, what is transpiring in this connection is accepted as a forecast of what may be expected when the "Big Five" tackle the production of films to be sold next season on the five-block plan. Scarcely less significant, too, is what a breakdown of the 58 loan-outs discloses. Of the 50 individual deals, no less than 38 concerned actors, thus attesting once again to the serious shortage of male talent with box office potentialities. Most active loaning studio in the period covered by the survey was Metro, with 13 player deals; Paramount was second with 11, and Warners, third, with 10. Columbia, which loaned a single player to three other producers, itself was accommodated by other studios with 10 loans. The Columbia figures are given added interest by the fact that the company in its answer to the amended complaint in the New York equity suit, just filed, contends that it is forced to borrow and loan stars in order to survive. (Hollywood talent loans recently came in for attack via a TNEC monograph, which charged, among other things, that "competition between the major companies has been minimized since 1930 by the device of loaning talent") METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER Walter Pidgeon to 20th-Fox for "Man Hunt" ; John Carroll to RKO for "Sunny" ; James Stewart to James Roosevelt for "Pot O' Gold"; George Murphy to RKO for "A Girl, A Guy and a Gob" ; Edward Arnold to Universal for "The Lady From Cheyenne" and to Paramount for "Nothing But the Truth" ; Robert Montgomery to RKO for "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"; Universal for "Unfinished Business" and Columbia for "Heaven Can Wait"; Robert Young to 20th-Fox for "Western Union''; Chill Wills to 20th-Fox for "Western Union" ; Rosalind Russell (most recently) to Universal for "Hired Wife" ; Ruth Hussey to Columbia for "Our Wife." PARAMOUNT Fred MacMurray to Warners for "Dive Bomber" ; Frances Gifford to Republic for their serial "Jungle Girl" ; Virginia Dale to Republic for "The Singing Hills" ; William Holden to Columbia for "Texas"; Susan Hayward to Columbia for "Adam Had Four Sons," Robert Sherwood Prod. ; Richard Denning to Columbia for "Adam Had Four Sons," Robert Sherwood Prod. ; Robert Preston to Universal for the Frank Lloyd Production, "The Lady From Cheyenne," to RKO for "Parachute Battalion" and to Universal for "Unfinished Business" ; Jackie Cooper to Columbia for "Her First Beau"; Brian Donlevy to M-G-M for "Billy the Kid." WARNER BROS. Bette Davis to Samuel Goldwyn for "The Little Foxes" ; Anthony Quinn to 20th-Fox for "Blood and Sand"; Donald Crisp to M-G-M for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"; Mildred Coles to RKO for Jerrold Brandt's production "Scattergood Pulls the Strings" ; George Brent to Columbia for "They Dare Not Love" and Edward Small for "G-Man vs. Scotland Yard" ; Wayne Morris to Paramount for "I Wanted Wings" ; Olivia de Havilland to Paramount for "Hold Back the Dawn" ; Ronald Regan to M-G-M for "Bad Man." 20TH CENTURY-FOX Jane Withers to Columbia for "Her First Beau" ; Sheldon Leonard to Paramount for "Buy Me That Town"; Don Ameche to Paramount for "Kiss the Boys Good-Bye"; Henry Fonda to Paramount for "Lady Eve" ; George Sanders to M-G-M for "Rage in Heaven" ; George Reeves to Alexander Korda Prod. ; John Loder to Paramount for "One Night in Lisbon." DAVID O. SELZNICK PROD. Ingrid Bergman to Columbia for Robert Sherwood's production. "Adam Had Four Sons" and to M-G-M for "Rage in Heaven" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" ; Joan Fontaine to RKO for "Before the Fact.' UNIVERSAL Franchot Tone to Columbia for "She Knew All the Answers"; Anne Gwynne to M-G-M for "Washington Melodrama" ; Robert Cummings to RKO for "The Devil and Miss Jones" and to 20th-Fox for "Miami." COLUMBIA Rita Hayworth to Warners for "Strawberry Blonde" and "Affectionately Yours" and to 20th Century-Fox for "Blood and Sand." SAMUEL GOLDWYN Walter Brennan to Universal for "Nice Girl" ; Gary Cooper to Warners for Jesse L. Lasky's production "Sergeant York." RKO-RADIO Anne Shirley to Paramount for "West Point Widow" ; Charles Laughton to Universal for "Almost An Angel." ALEXANDER KORDA Merle Oberon to Warner Bros, for "Affectionately Yours." REPUBLIC John Wayne to Paramount for "Reap the Wild Wind." Sunshine Productions Signs Contract With SAG Hollywood — Sunshine Productions, Inc., of New York, has signed a contract with the Screen Actors Guild. The Guild on Monday halted production work by this company on a newsreel version of a radio program in which Jimmie Fidler was announcer, which was being shot at a Hollywood radio studio. The Guild withdrew all actors from the production because of failure of company to sign a contract. Under the contract just signed, Sunshine will respect the Guild-producer contract minimums and other conditions of the basic agreement which covers all motion picture production. No Sunday Legit, in U. K. London (By Cable) — Sunday legit, program of the Government was killed in Commons, 144-136, yesterday. Celebs and Emcees Galore To Attend Ampa's Jubilee Attendance at Ampa's silver jubilee ball at the Hotel Edison Friday night is expected to be the biggest in the history of the organization's affairs. At least 40 celebrities of the entertainment world will be guests and six or seven masters of ceremonies will be on hand to introduce the galaxy of stars. Among those who will attend the party are Graham McNamee, Andre Baruch, Bill Slater, from the newsreels; Ed Sullivan, James Dunn, Lucy Monroe, who will sing the national anthem; Louis Prima and his orchestra, with Lily-Ann-Carol, Connie Klaff, Jack Powers, Frank Federico and "The Original Six"; Raymond Massey, Danny Kaye, Willie Howard, Ezra Stone, Arthur Treacher, Lyle Talbot, Carol Bruce, Leon Kairoff and others. "Little Three" Mum On Uniformity (Continued from Page 1) "big five" when the latter are sdP directed by an arbitration decision. Executives of the three companies not affected by the consent decree ird the New York equity suit — (V ' Tibia, United Artists and Univel, #;. apparently are awaiting until they? come face-to-face with the situation^ before taking a formal stand. Ad-| justment of clearance through arbi-T tration is binding only on the five* consenting companies, and only voluntary co-operation by the othei three majors can make clearances changes uniform. While Columbia and Universal] could make a quick decision on suchaction, United Artists would have tci get the permission of each of its producers to change clearance con-U tracts. So an attitude of "no com1 ment until the situation arises" hasl been taken by those outside the de-J cree. Julius London Arbitration Case to be Heard April 19 :; Detroit — Julius London's arbitra j tion case involving his Midtown The , ater and the alleged unreasonable clearance granted to the Coliseum Theater will be heard April 19. RKO.f Paramount, Warner Bros. and =: Loew's were named in the complaint, R After opening arguments at their week-end it appeared that the cast J rested largely on the plaintiff's con ' tention that the Midtown and Coli :' seum were not in competition because they drew different classes oi clientele although only two blocks apart. Defendant companies claimed that an arbitrator has no jurisdic-J tion in the case because the plaintiff was seeking determination of a particular run and clearance, which should be sought under Section 10, of the consent decree which does, not become effective until Aug. 31,, Therefore, it is claimed, that the, case should be thrown out because bringing it under Sections 6 and 8 is subterfuge for inapplicable Section 10. Both sides will present briefs or question of jurisdiction by April 12 Goodstein Arbitration Hearing Resuming in Denver Tomorrow Denver — The Goodstein arbitratiof case hearing will be resumed here tomorrow. Goodstein claims inability to get sufficient product for his Longmont, Colo., Theater. Give Plane In Para. Tie-up Through a tie-up concluded between Paramount and the Piper Aircraft Corp., a Piper Cub plane, and $80,000 worth of flying lessons will be given away in a national defense letter-writing contest based on twe Paramount aviation pictures, "] Wanted Wings," and the forthcoming "Power Dive." 5 e> h 11 '