The Film Daily (1931)

DAILY Thursday, May 14. 193B Co-Starring Teams to be Highlight of Fox Program Proven Box-Office Names Will Be Paired in New Product Utilization of co-starring teani> of proven box-office value in 1931-32 product is a highlight of the Fox announcement of its new season program which calls for 48 features. The popular team of Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell heads this list with three pictures. Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen will make another Quirt and Flagg picture. Warner Baxter will co-star with Edmund Lowe for the first time since they made "In Old Arizona." A newly created team is Warner Baxter and Elissa Landi. They will appear in two pictures together, both co-directed by William Cameron Menzies and Kenneth MacKenna. Spencer Tracy and Warren Hymer, who were a hit in "Up The River," will be reunited in a picture. "Delicious," "Merely Alary Ann" and "Salomy Jane" are the three pictures that will co-star Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. In addition to these three Miss Gaynor will make a special production titled "Heart Free," based on an original storv by George DeSylva. Charles Farrell also will make other pictures, including "Sob Sister" with Linda Watkins and "Surrender" with Joan Bennett. Police Department Picture The Lowe-McLaglen picture will be a story of the New York police irtment, "Disorderly Conduct." Greta Nissen will be with them in the leading feminine role because of the public acclaim accorded her in the current Flagg and Quirt picture, "Women Of All Nations." At the head of his own cast Edmund Lowe will be in three .pictures, "Transatlantic," "Silver City" and "The Midnight Cruise." McLaglen is scheduled for four, "Wicked," "While Paris Sleeps," "Rogues Gallery" and "The Heir To The Hoorah." "Silver City" is the picture that will bring Warner Baxter and Edmund Lowe together again. They will be directed by Irving Cummings, who was one of the directors of their first success, as a team, "In Old Arizona." The new team of Warner Baxter and Klissa Landi will make "In Her Arms" and "Cheating." To complete his schedule. Baxter will make "A Ticket To Hell" with Sally Filers and "Alimony Queens" with Joan Bennett. Miss Landi, whose first American picture placed her in the ranks of the lars, will make an adaptation of the Recruited From Spain As a result of a study of the foreign situation by Clayton P. Sheehan, Fox general foreign manager, many of the players now appearing in the company's Spanish versions have been recruited from Spain. All foreign versions are being produce dat Fox Movietone City. It Looks Like Money "Over the Hill" will be the biggest money-maker on the Fox 1931-32 program, in the opinion of three major executives of the company. Each made a personal selection of the pictures they believed will gross the most dough and in all three instances they picked the Mae Marsh vehicle as the top-notcher. famous play, "The Yellow Ticket," which will also feature Hardie Albright, who was recruited from the stage to play in "Young Sinners" and made a great success. "Wicked" is the title of Miss Landi's fourth picture, in which she will play with Victor McLaglen. Spencer Tracy and Warren Hymer, who made the laugh riot, "Up The River," and now are making "Goldie", will be seen next season in "Price No Object," with Dixie Lee and Louise Huntington playing opposite them. Tracy, another new sensation in pictures, is on the schedule for three additional pictures, "Devil's Daughter," in which he will play with Myrna Loy: "Sugar Daddies," with Marguerite Churchill, and "Swindle," written for him by Charles Francis Coe. Rogers and O'Brien Will Rogers and George O'Brien will not share honors with other stars in their pictures. Rogers will be starred in three, "The Plutocrat," "Ambassador From U. S." and "Young As You Feel." O'Brien will make four, two adapted from the novels of Zane Grey, "Riders Of The Purple Sage" and "The Rainbow Trail." The other two are "The Great Air Robbery" and "The Royal Road To Romance." In preparing the program Winfield Sheehan, vice-president and general manager, took full advantage of the screen style indications obtained through close contacts with the sales department and Vice-President James R. Grainger, in charge of distribution. At the present time the Fox organization has 28 men plavers and 22 women under contract. The men are Warner Baxter, Charles Farrell, Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Will Rogers, John Arledge. Hardie Albright, Frank Albertson, El Brendel, Paul Cavanagh, William Collier, Sr.. Donald Dillaway, Allan Dinehart. Tesse DeVorska, William Holden. Warren Hymer. J. M. Kerrieran, lames Kirkwood, Thomas Meighan. George O'P.rien. Gavlord Pendleton, Howard Phillips. Torrance Ray, George E. Stone. Tames Todd James Dunn. William Pawlev and Spencer Tracv. The women are Janet Gaynor, Joan Bennett, Virginia Cherrill, Joan Castle, Marguerite Churchill. Roxanne Curtis. Fid Dor-av. Sallv Filers, Minna Gombell, Mvrna Loy. Elissa Landi, Mae Marsh. Una Merkel, Greta Nissen, Maureen O'Sullivan, Cecilia Parker. Yvonne Pelletier. Rosalie Pnv, Pesffv Ross. Linda Watkins, Marjorie White and Elda Yoelkel. Eighteen directors will nroduce the 48 pictures. Thev are T. G. Blvstone, Frank Borzage, Rowland Brown, David Butler, Irving Cummings, Seymour Felix, John Ford, William K. Howard, Henry King, Henry Lehrman, Hamilton MacFadden, Kenneth MacKenna, William Cameron Menzies, Alfred Santell, Benjamin Stoloff, Samuel Taylor, Raoul Walsh and Alfred Werker. The New Lineup The productions follow: "DELICIOUS" — Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in a romance with a musical background composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and story by Guy Bolton. El Brendel will be chief comic, and Director David Butler rounds out the quartet that made a success of "Sunny Side Up." "MERELY MARY ANN"— Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in an adaptation by Jules Furthman of Israel Zangwill's stage play and novel, to be directed by Henry King. "SALOMY JANE"— Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in Raoul Walsh's production of Paul Armstrong's play. "HEART FREE"— A Tanet Gaynor special co-directed by George De Svlva and David Butler. DeSylva, who is author, composer and showman, makes his bow as a director of this story which he wrote. "SURREXDER"— Charles Farrell heads a cast featuring Joan Bennett and Hardie Albright under the direction of William K. Howard. Adapted by S. N. Behrman from a novel by Pierre Benoit. "SOB SISTER"— Charles Farrell in a newspaper story by Mildred Oilman, adapted bv Bradley King with dialogue by Maurine Watkins. Farrell will be featured with Linda Watkins, Allan Dinehart, Una Merkel, Warren Hymer, William Collier, Sr.. and Marjorie White. Directed by Sidney Lanfield. "YOUNG AS YOU FEEL"— Will Rogers in a Frank Borzage production based on George Ade's play. With Rogers are Fifi Dorsav, Lucien Littlefield, Donald Dillaway, Rosalie Rov and Lucile Browne. Adapted by Edwin Burke. "THE PLUTOCRAT" — Will Rogers in Booth Tarkington's story adapted bv William Conselman and Greeted bv David Butler. " \MBASSADOR FROM U. S."— Will Rogers in a comedy by Guy Bolton, suggested bv Vincent Sheean's Saturdav Evening Post story, directed by Sam Taylor. Victor McLaglen's Schedule "DISORDERLY CONDUCT"— \ ictor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe continue the characters "Flagg" and "Quirt" created by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson in a story of the police force written by Barry Connors. Raoul Walsh will direct again and the leading woman will be Greta Nissen. "WICKED" — Victor McLaglen, Elissa Landi and Spencer Tracy will provide threefold attraction to this story by Gordon Rigby, adapted by Adela Rogers St. John, to be directed by Allan Dwan. "WHILE PARIS SLEEPS" — Victor McLaglen, Joan Bennett andFifi Dorsay in a story of Paris b] Basil Woon, for many years Pari correspondent for Universal Service! Rowland Brown will direct and in the cast will be Paul Cavanagh, Virginia Cherrill, Gaylord Pendleton, Terrance Ray, Joan Castle and Yvonne Pelletier. "ROGUES GALLERY"— Victor McLaglen in Peter B. Kyne's story directed by Rowland Brown. McLaglen's support will include twq newcomers who made reputations on Broadway: Linda Watkins and Al-I Ian Dinehart. "THE HEIR TO THE HOOJ RAH" — Victor McLaglen in Paul Armstrong's stage play, directed by John Ford, with Lois Moran as McLaglen's leading woman. "OVER THE HILL" — Mae Marsh will play the role of the] mother in this talking picture versio of Will Carleton's poem, adapted b Jules Furthman and directed b Henry King. The cast will includ Howard Phillips, Dixie Lee, Nor; Lane, Donald Dillaway, James Kirk wood, Lucien Littlefield, Cecilia Parker and Nat Pendleton. "BAD GIRL" — Vina Delmar^ best selling novel and stage play will be directed by Frank Borzage. Sally Eilers will play the title role, and the supporting cast will be all-star. "THE YELLOW TICKET" — Elissa Landi, who scored in "Body And Soul" and "Always Goodbye," will play the leading roles in this adaptation by Jules Furthman of Michael Morton's stage play. Di-, rected by Alfred Santell. Hardie Albright will have the juvenile role. What Some Will Do "TRANSATLANTIC" — Edmund Lowe, Greta Nissen, Lois Moran, Myrna Loy, John Halliday, Dixie Lee and George E. Stone have the principal parts in this story of sleuthing on an ocean liner. The story is by Guy Bolton and direction of William K. Howard. "SILVER CITY"— Edmund Lowe and Warner Baxter reunited in a story of a boom town written by Quinn Martin and directed by Irving Cummings, who co-directed "In Old Arizona" with these two players. Myrna Loy and Greta Nissen will play the feminine leads. "THE MIDNIGHT CRUISE"— Edmund Lowe, Virginia Cherrill and (Continued on Patjc 63) 10 To Bow In Ten newcomers to the talking screen will be introduced by Fox on its 1931-32 program. Most of them were recruited from the stage.