The Film Daily (1931)

THE £&>* OAILV Monday, January 12, 1931 Hundreds of requests from all over the world for the coming 1931 Film Daily Year Book are being received* A rather vital reflection of the universal recognition accorded this annual volume by the motion picture industry of the entire world. A LITTLE from "LOTS" By RALPH WILK HOLLYWOOD WILLIAM "Billy" BAKEWELL, who made his first cinema hit as one of the young German soldiers in "All Quiet on the Western Front," is to have another militaristic Teutonic role as Otto, a young Austrian officer, in "Daybreak," starring Ramon Novarro. * * * Virginia Kellogg, recently signed by Paramount, was formerly associated with Fred Niblo. She now has a long-term contract with the Adolph Zukor organization. * * * Mary Nolan is being mentioned for the starring role in "Waterloo Bridge," the Robert Sherwood story bought by Cari Laemmle, Jr., as a forthcoming Universal special. * * * Marjorie White has been borrowed from the Fox studios by First National to play the ingenue role opposite Joe E. Brown in "Broad Minded." Ona Munson is to be the leading woman in the picture. Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby wrote the story and Mervyn Leroy is to direct. * * * Dorothy Lee, Radio player, ha.c gone to Palm Springs to rest for a couple of weeks. Her doctor advised the vacation in the hope that it will avoid the necessity of an appendicitis operation. * * * Bert Roach and Slim Summerville will supply the main comedy in "Gambling Daughters," a Universal production. Conrad Nagel, Bettr Davis and Sidney Fox have the leading roles and, Hobart Henley will direct. * * * Three English actors, Reginald Sharland, Halliwell Hobbes and Bert Morehouse, have been signed bv RKO to appear in Betty Compson's new picture, as yet untitled. * * * Barbara Weeks is getting ready to appear with Dorothy Mackaill in "Party Husband" for Warner Bros * * * When Captain W. H. Fawcett. millionaire publisher of a string of magazines, sailed for the Antipodes to hunt marsupials, he was presented by Walt Disney, Mickey's Daddy with a mammoth "Mickey Mouse" doll to serve as his mascot. * * * Franklin Pangborn, who appears hi the Pathe comedies, "Next Door Neighbors," and "Over the Radio," studied architecture as a boy^ but his bent for the stage, which he evidently inherited from his grandmother, a well known actress, asserted itself before he graduated. Pangborn made his footlight bow with an amateur stock company in Newark, N. J., as Horatio in "Hamlet." On being advised to study dramatic art, Pangborn obtained a job as messenger boy to help defray the cost of his tuition. * * * Under a new contract just signed, Joe E. Brown will be featured by Warner Bros, for the next five years. Edmund Breese and "Vivi" have been added to the cast of Columbia's "The Last Parade." Our Passing Show: Fred LeRoy Granville, now of England but formerly of Hollywood, holding reunions with friends at Universal; J. L. Warner, Leon Schlesinger, Irving Thalberg, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Mauri Grashin at the opening of "Outward Bound." * * * Paul Lukas, Stanley Fields, Juliette Compton and Guy Kibbee have just been cast for leading roles in the underworld drama in which Clara Bow and Gary Cooper will appear for Paramount. The picture will be directed by Rouben Mamoulian. * * * Gertrude Astor is the latest addition to the cast of Tiffany's "Platinum," being produced by James Cruze. * * * Jack Hays, who wrote "Mr. Lemon of Orange," starring El Brendel, is now being represented by Alberi J. Cohen. * * * John S. Robertson is planning a jaunt to the Orient. He is negotiating with one of the major companies to take a company of actors and cameramen to China. Spain, Cuba and England have been visited by Robertson in his capacity as director. Josephine Lovett sold her first four out of five scenarios. This was back in the Biograph days. She has been writing originals and adaptations ever since, recently finishing "The Squaw Man," for Cecil B. De Mille. She is now writing a story for Chester Morris, which will be directed by Roland West. Journeys in Color Brown Nagel Productions has started work on "Honeymoon Land," the first of a series of "Romantic Journeys," which will be released by Educational. The subjects will embrace sound, music and dialogue and will be photographed in Multicolor. A unit is now on location in Panama, Mexico and South America. Claude Flemming, traveler, actor and raconteur, will be featured in the series. !