The Film Daily (1937)

THE Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1937 DAILV # "mW £*f>* Hollywood "£ots /• By RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD 'THREE sailors from the United States submarine base at San Diego may step out of their uniforms and into the combined fame of actors and writers. When Director Lloyd Bacon was shooting "Submarine D-l" for Warner Bros, at the San Diego base, he gave the three lads camera tests and they came through with such good performances that he has recommended them to the studio as possible contract players. But Bacon got a real surprise the other day when he received the script of an original story, "Three Wise Gobs," penned by the trio of sailors. Bacon hastily read the script and got plenty of laughs and then turned it over to Hal Wallis, executive producer at Warner Bros., for further consideration. T T T Our Passing Show: Darryl Zanuck, B. B. Kahane, David O. Selznick, William S. Holman, Jack Benny, Fredric March, Myron Selznick, Noll Gurney, Ned Marin, Cesar Romero, Zion Myers, Johnny Mercer, Sig Herzig, Sam Frey, Raymond Griffith, Lionel Atwill, Frank Tuttle, Constance Bennett, Janet Gaynor, Gilbert Roland, Andrew L. Stone, Manny Seff, Marion Marsh, Felix Young, Rupert Hughes, George Archainbaud, Groucho Marx, Norman Krasna, Gloria Stuart, Arthur Sheekman, Ted Von Eltz at the Pacific Southwest tennis matches. T T T Pete Smith started a national campaign for new specialties material with a full-page announcement in Liberty, titled Pete Smith M-G-M Whoppers contest. "Whoppers" are to be not more than 300 words in length, and if accepted by M-G-M, screen credit for the original story and a substantial cash award will go to the writer. T T T Maury Cohen will produce "Taking the Town," for RKO, with Edward Killy directing. Fred Stone will be starred, with Dorothy Moore playing the feminine lead. The story was written by Arthur T. Horman, who also collaborated with Franklin Coen on the screenplay. » T T Wanda Tuchok is working on the screenplay of the forthcoming Bobby Breen feature, "Stowaways in Paradise," which Sol Lesser puts Sarecky Supervising Serial ~West Coast Bui \ Hollywood — Louis ! Ise production of ""—serial, "The Mysterii THE FILM DAILY Sarecky, will superColumbia's second Mysterious Pilot," starring Frank Hawks, it was announced yesterday. Spencer Bennett, will direct. Production is slated to start early next month. Sarecky, prior to his association with Columbia Pictures, was an associate producer tor Walter Wanger, RKO-Radio and Paramount Pictures. WHO'S WHO IN HOLLYWOOD D • 9 Introducing Interesting Personalities: No. 149 • • • R. HERBERT T. KALMUS. President of Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation and described by associates as "being a complete research library in the realm of science as well as a contemporary business man to the great Ford." Product of Masachusetts, educated (chemical engineer) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Expert entertainer, gives steak breakfasts and grills them himself. Always in field of chemistry, having been professor, research director and operator of own firms. Started Technicolor's predecessor, Vanoscope, in 1912. Formed Technicolor in 1916 and has been directing force in its rise to eminence. Married to the former Natalie M. Dunfee. No children. Sports: Fair game of golf. Stands over 6 feet. Hair, grey. Eyes, grey. into work soon. Following this assignment, Miss Tuchock goes to Paramount to do the screenplay of "Lady of the Tropics," an original, which she recently sold Paramount. T T T More Passing Show: Robert Montgomery, Clark Gable, Gregory LaCava, Carole Lombard, Ralph Bellamy, Rufus LeMaire, Reginald Owen, Herbert Fields, Jerome Kern, B. G. DeSylva, Fritz Leiber, Walter Abel, Tom Reed, Richard Schayer, Robert Z. Leonard, Arthur S. Lyons, George Landy, Henry M. Hobart, Melville Brown, Jerry Horwin, Frank Partos, Sarah Y. Mason, Victor Heerman, Victor Orsatti, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Vreeland at the Pacific Southwest tennis matches. r T T John Nickolaus, head of the film laboratory at Metro, signed a new contract for five years. ▼ ▼ ▼ Ralph Byrd, Republic's "Dick Tracy," is the proud dad of a fivepound baby girl, named Carroll Diane. And John Auer, Republic director, and Mrs. Auer announce the birth of a 7'/2-pound daughter, Sidney Blair Auer. Baby was named in honor of Sidney Fox, who accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Auer to Yuma when they eloped. t r T Simone Simon, who co-stars with Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie in "Love and Hisses," new 20th Century-Fox musical comedy, will make her American debut as a singer in that picture. T T T Ann Miller, whose film debut in "New Faces of 1937" was a personal triumph and who scored again as Ginger Rogers' partner in the recently-completed screen version of "Stage Door," has been awarded the feminine lead in RKO Radio's forthcoming filmusical, "Radio City Revels." Jimmy Fidler, signed by Warners to a long-term contract providing for his appearance in one picture a year, will be headlined "Broadway Goes Hollywood," musical which will go into production about the first of the year. Four new screen properties have been acquired by M-G-M, three of them original stories, the other a magazine article. The original stories are "Something of a Hero," by Michael Sheridan, "One Minute Alone," by Dalton Trumbo, and "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow,' by Frank Whitbeck. The article is "Training of Movie Animals," by Larry Trimble. Sonya Levien, has been engaged by David 0. Selznick to write the screenplay for Helen Grace Carlisle's novel, "Merry, Merry Maidens." ▼ T T With Paramount's new Italian star, Isa Miranda, set for her American debut in "Lady of the Tropics," which producer Lucien Hubbard is readying for the cameras, discussion is under way whereby George Cukor may direct the actress in a future picture at Paramount. Producer Albert Lewin disclosed negotiations with Selznick International to borrow Cukor for a later Miranda picture, probably the classic, "Manon Lescaut." t ▼ » Direction of the Paramount production tentatively titled "They Knew What Happened," has been assigned to George Archainbaud. The picture, which Harold Hurley will produce, is scheduled to go before cameras early in October, with Lew Ayres and Louise Campbell in the leading roles. Porter Hall, currently working in "True Confession," and Elizabeth Patterson were added to the cast. John Tyrrell, Dick Curtis, Ed Fetherston and John Dilson have been signed by Columbia for "Forgotten Women," which will be directed by Lambert Hillyer. T T T Lana Turner has been borrowed from Mervyn Leroy by RKO Radio Pictures to play Rosalind in the screen version of Arthur Kober's comedy hit, "Having Wonderful Time." Richard "Red" Skelton will be seen as "Itchy," it is also announced. T T » Herman Bing, German comedian, has been added to the comedy cast supporting Mae West in her new musical production, "Every Day's a Holiday," now before the cameras at Major Pictures, with Edward Sutherland directing. Bing plays the role of a victim of Miss West's confidence activities, buying the Brooklyn Bridge from the star. T T T Gus Kahn, veteran song writer, has signed a new long term contract with Metro. His first assignment is working with Sigmund Romberg on "The Girl of the Golden West," and has previously done song numbers on "The Ugly Duckling." T T T Additions to casts: Frankie Darro to the cast of "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry." Charles Grapewin added to the cast of "Bad Man of Brimstone." William Demarest to "Rosalie." T t ▼ New York's Tin Pan Alley invaded Columbia lot in full force this week, as 19 composers, song writers, lyricists and arrangers went into action on three of Columbia's productions. Curiously, only one of them, "Freshman Follies," is a musical. The others, "I Married an Artist," is a romantic comedy and "The Old Wyoming Trail," a comedy drama, but they require songs and a special score. ▼ ▼ T Casting assignments: M-G-M — E. E. Clive, "Live, Love and Learn"; Paramount — Lynne Overman, "True Confession"; Muriel Hutchinson and Curt Bois, "The Yellow Nightingale"; Republic — James O'Gatty, Harry Depp, Snowflake, "The Duke Comes Back." T T T Aleen Wetstein, columnist for the Pittsburgh Press, has joined the Columbia scenario staff. Huston Signed by M-G-M West Coast Bur., THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Marking his first motion picture work since "Dodsworth," which brought him the New York Film Critics' Circe award for the best male performance of last year, Walter Huston has been signed by M-G-M to play the leading to. e in "Benefits Forgot," Honore Wil.sie Morrow's story of Civil War days. Hustcn recently has been appearing on the West Coast in "Miles of Heaven."