The Film Daily (1948)

hursday, August 26, 1948 -nffii 57 DAILY 1948-49 Production Mans Are Completed (Continued from Page 56) arly shooting. Others due to go ■efore the cameras shortly are 'Ny-^ Watch," a published modern tor~^jf Palestine; "The Life Of :.iley," based on the radio program, -nd "Gay Goddess," story of a ■T^oman gambler. In preparation at U-I, or slated 0 go into preparation soon, are Salem Frigate," "Harvey," "Bloomr Girl," "Adventures Of Sam Bass," ^Bagdad," "Tomahawk," "Sierra," Streets Of Cairo," "Come Be My •lOve," "Paradise Lost, 1948," "Homiide Squad," "Air Crash," "It Gives le Great Pleasure," "Ma And Pa Settle," "Shoplifter," "Illegal Entry" nd "The Fatal Step." ; DOS Sets Next . David 0. Selznick is preparing The Greatest Show On Earth," in /hich he will use the facilities of he Barnum and Bailey and Ringling ,!ros. circus. SRO now has "Duel In 'he Sun" in general release, as well •s "The Paradine Case" and "Mr. (landings Builds His Dream House." .The Portrait Of Jenny" was recently completed. UA Producers Lester Cowan is completing "Love lappy" for United Artists release, j'he cast is headed by the Marx Jros. Amusement Enterpi-ises, in jhich Jack Benny is interested, has inished "The Lucky Stiff" (Dorothy ^iamour, Brian Donlevy, Claire Tre;or) for UA release. ■ Hunt Stromberg will make "Too iate For Tears," while Sam Bischoff 5 producing "Outpost In Morocco," nth George Raft and Akim Tamioff. Edward Small is slated to start The Life of Rudolph Valentino" in October. Harry Popkin will start Impact" shortly, while James Nas'er has "Joe Macbeth" on his schedule. Harry Sherman will do "Tennessee's Partner" for Enterprise, but it nil be released through UA. Nasour Bros. will make "Africa icreams," starring Abbott and Cos3II0. Screen Plays will do "The !hampion" and George Pal "Tom -'humb." One Working At RKO RKO is shooting "Follow Me '•uietly," co-starring William Lunigan and Dorothy Patrick. Slated or Sept. 15 starting dates are "The ■et-Up," a prize fight story, to star lobert Ryan, and "Clay Pigeon," an riginal story by Carl Foreman. RKO has just completed "Intererence," with a cast headed by Vicor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Sonny 'ufts and Lloyd Nolan. Samuel loldwyn's "A Song Is Born" will e released in November and his Enchantment" in December. He will tart production on "Roseanna Mc!oy" in September. "Joan Of Arc," made by Sierra 'ictures, in which Walter Wanger, THE 1947-48 HOIOR ROLL (Continued from Page 55) LOUIS KING for "The Green Grass of Wyoming" (20thFox). NORMAN Z. McLEOD for "The Road to Rio" (Paramount) . OTTO PREMINGER for "Forever Amber" (20th-Fox) . DONN REISNER for "Bill and Coo" (Republic) . VINCENTE MINNELLI for "The Pirate" (M-G-M). JACQUES TOURNEUR for "Berlin Express" (RKO) . WILLIAM A. WELLMAN for "Magic Town" (RKO) . LLOYD BACON for "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" (20th-Fox). HENRY LEVIN for "The Mating of Millie" (Columbia) . ROBERT STEVENSON for "To The Ends of the Earth" (Columbia). Ingrid Bergman and Victor Fleming are partners, will be released by RKO-Radio. It was made at a cost of $4,600,000. Wanger Busy At E-L At Eagle Lion, Wanger has started "The Reign Of Terror," with a cast including Robert Cummings, Arlene Dahl, Richard Hart, Richard Basehart and Jess Barker. He has "The Blank Wall" in preparation and it will star Joan Bennett. Cavalier Prods., headed by Robert Young, the actor, and Eugene Rodney, will make "The World And Little Willie," an original story. Young, June Lockhart and Young's four daughters will be in the cast. Bryan Foy will produce "These Were My Orders," pertaining to tJie atom bomb and using the Government plant at Oakridge, Tenn., as a background. William Katzell, Broadway producer, will make "Border Patrol," a semi-documentary story. Wanger has just completed "Tulsa" in Technicolor, with Susan Hayward and Robert Preston co-starred. William Moss made "The Big Cat," also in Technicolor, with Preston Foster, Lon McCallister and Peggy Garner heading the cast. Eagle Lion will produce "It's My Life," the story of the birth of the Secret Service, and will star Scott Brady. E-L has just finished "The Red Stallion In The Rockies," in Cinecolor. Allied Artists Paul Short, in co-operation with the Variety Clubs International, will make "Bad Boy" for Allied Artists release, Audie Murphy, World War IPs most decorated soldier, will be starred. Roy Del Ruth Prods, will produce "Red Light," and Windsor Prods. (Julian Lesser and Frank Melford) Harold Bell Wright's "When A Man's A Man." King Bros, will do "Gun Crazy," with its author, MacKinlay Kantor as associate producer. Monogram plans to place 10 pictures in production before the end of the year. Republic's Backlog Republic is finishing "The Wake Of The Red Witch" (John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young) and has started "The Missourians," vdth William Elliott, Adrian Booth, Forrest Tucker and Andy Devine. Among pictures is Republic's backlog are "The Red Pony," made in Technicolor; "Macbeth," an Orson Welles production, and "Moonrise," a Marshall Grant production. "The Red Pony" is a Lewis Milestone production, co-starring Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum and Louis Calhern. Dane Clark and Gail Russell are costarred in "Moonrise," which was directed by Frank Borzage. Cinecolor For SG Albert Jay Cohen has completed "Unknown Island," in Cinecolor, for release by Screen Classics, while MRS Pictures has finished "Inner Sanctum." Sigmund Neufeld will make "File 649, State Department," in Cinecolor, and Martin Mooney will do "Daughter Of Ramona," also in Cinecolor. "A Date With Murder" will be the next subject in the Falcon series, with John Calvert starred. Arpi Prods. (Robert Presnell, Sr., and John Reinhardt) recently produced "Sofia," in Cinecolor, in Mexico. Robert Lippert is producing "Last Of The Wild Horses" for Screen Guild release. "Screen Guild will also handle "The Mozart Story," produced by A. Haimson and directed by Frank Wisbar. Lippert also will do "I Shot Jesse James,'" based on an American Weekly story. Screen Guild will place "Harpoon" in release in September. It was made in Alaska by the Danches Bros., with Ewing Scott directing. George Hirliman is producing "Police Force" in New York. Glenn McCarthy Prods., financed by McCarthy, Texas oil man, has just started production on "The Green Promise," with releasing plans due to be announced shortly. Disney Releases Set Walt Disney's two 1948 releases are "Melody Time" and "So Dear To My Heart," made in Technicolor, with a cast including Burl Ives, Beulah Bondi, Harry Carey, Bobby Driscoll and Luan^ Patten. Would Have Directors Mal(e Up Dual Bills Detroit — A proposal to revamp present double bill booking practices by shifting selections from local exhibitors to a direct responsibiliity of picture directors is being launched here by Frank Sullivan, operator of the Senate Theater, wlio has been in the picture business here for 37 years. Sullivan's proposal is made in the interest of better programming and better box office receipts. Outlining his program, Sullivan told Film Daily, "The directors who made the pictures should g&t together and decide what films will go well together on a combination. By having the men who made the pictures do the actual programming, the industry can take a big step upward. "The local booker, whether he works for an independent house or for a circuit, is not the best expert on what is best in films. If you want to buy something under the best conditions, it usually pays to go to the man who makes them for expert knowledge — in this case, the director." He cited as an example of poor programming the booking of a "B" Technicolor film which played a neighborhood house firsit run, under the accidents of the booking setup — and was wasted on a Saturday afternoon audience. With the right kind of exploitation, he said, this would have done excellent business in its own right under those conditions, but no special alttempt to exploit it was made. The proposed direct booking would be exploited as a "program booked direct from Hollywood" — and the use of the film capital name would mean an assurance of better box office for the houses using such combinations, because of the extra sales value which goes with anything having the name of "Hollywood," before the general public. Para. Sets Two Features For January Production West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Henry Ginsberg, Paramount Studio head, yesterday announced that "Under The Gun" and "Dear Wife," latter a sequel to "Dear Ruth," will go into production in January. Announcement of four other films going before the cameras early in 1949 will be made shortly. Para, will make six before the year ends. Peterson Succeeds Winter West Co<!st Bureau of THE FILM DAIL7 Hollywood— Les Peterson of MGM was selected chairman of the Radio and Television subcommittee of the Studio Publicity Directors Committee. He succeeds Bill Winter of 20thFox, who has served for the past year.