The Film Daily (1934)

-. 0SM; DAILY Thursday, Sept. 6, 1934 SIX FOX PICTURES START THIS MONTH West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Six new productions will be placed in work at Fox this month. Two have just started. They are "Man Lock", with Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and Marjorie Rambeau, being directed by Raoul Walsh, and "Bachelor of Arts", with Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall, Arline Judge and Frank Albertson, under direction of Louis King. Others to follow are "Heldorado", with Spencer Tracy, to be directed by Irving Cummings; "Bright Eyes", with Shirley Temple under David Butler's direction; "24 Hours a Day", with Rosemary Ames, Herbert Mundin and Harry Green, directed by Hamilton MacFadden and Sinclair Lewis' "Work of Art." A LITTLE from "LOTS ►// By RALPH WILK British Producers Offer U. S. Talent More Money Salaries paid players, writers and directors by British producers are being substantially increased in an effort to lure American talent, according to E. 0. Gurney of the coast agency of Schulberg, Feldman & Gurney. Gurney, who recently arrived in New York from England, left yesterday for the coast. While abroad he arranged several deals for Hollywood talent to work in England. 6 M-G-M Releases Set M-G-M has national release dates set on six coming features, bringing the schedule up to Oct. 5. They are: "Have a Heart," Sept. 7; "Death on the Diamond," Sept. 14; "The Barretts of Wimpole St.," Sept. 21; "Outcast Lady," Sept. 28; "Student Tour" Oct. 5. "The Merry Widow" will possibly be released the following week. R. A. McGuire Back on Job Out for seven weeks with a severe attack of tonsilitis, R. A. McGuire of the Warner home office has full} recovered and is back at his desk. McGuire is assistant to H. M Doherty, head of the branch auditing department. Frances Williams for Vitaphone Frances Williams has been signed to work in a Vitaphone short, the deal having been handled by the A. & S. Lyons office. Carter de Haven With Chaplin West Coast Bur., THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Carter de Haven has been signed by Charlie Chaplin as assistant director for his next production, now known as "Picture No. 5". De Haven also will play a role in the picture, which will be distributed by United Artists. HOLLYWOOD A LAN HALE has been signed for a prominent role with Katharine Hepburn in "The Little Minister.'' Effective immediately upon the completion of this role, Hale will start a long term contract just negotiated ▼ ▼ T William Thiele has been signed by Fox to direct "Lottery Lover," which will be his first American production. Thiele is a well-known European director having to his credit such outstanding productions as "Love Waltz," "The Private Sec retary," "Le Bal" ("The Ball") and "Le Fille et le Garcon." T T T Busby Berkeley will direct "Gold Diggers of 1935" for Warners. Warren and Dubin are preparing a series of songs for this picture. The story was written by Robert Lord and Peter Milne, with the latter and Manuel Seff credited with the screen-play. ▼ T T Sidney Buchman was assigned by Columbia Studios to do a screenplay of "Mills of the Gods," an original story by Melville Baker and Jack Kirkland. The adaptation was recently completed by Garrett Fort. Robert North will supervise. T T T Clements Ripley is at M-G-M doing the adaptation of his story, "A Lady Comes to Town," which ran in "Cosmopolitan." Richard Schayer is working with him. It is expected that Jeanette MacDonald and Clark Gable will be starred. Harry Segall is working on thscreen play of "She Takes the Wheel" under Edgar Selwyn's supervision at M-G-M. t ▼ T Edgar Allen Woolf and Franz Schultz have just completed tht screen-play for the new Hammer stein-Romberg operetta, "The Night is Young," which M-G-M will pro duce. T T T Berg, Stebbins, Allenberg an Blum have secured the release o' Bruce Cabot's contract from Radi< Cabot has been dissatisfied with t In parts that have been assigned him He will free lance. T T ▼ Joe May has added "Fuzzy" Knight to the cast of the KernHammerstein film, "Music In The Air," now in production at the Fox studios with Gloria Swanson, Johi Boles, Douglass Montgomery, June Lang and a large supporting cast of players. T ▼ T Richard Tucker and Edwin Maxwell have been signed for "The State Versus Elinor Norton," which Hamilton MacFadden now has in production at Fox with Claire Trevor, Norman Foster, Hugh Williams, Gilbert Roland and Henrietta Crosman prominently cast. T Y T Illness of Henrietta Crosman is delaying production to some extent on Paramount's "Menace." Miss Crosman, featured with Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh and John Lodge in the picture, became ill suddenly when the company workec late Saturday night. She has been unable to return to work yet, anc Director Ralph Murphy has been forced to change his shooting schedule. T T ▼ George Raft will be featured ii "Hold 'Em Yale," one of severa Damon Runyon stories recently purchased by Paramount. Negotiations to borrow Bette Davis and Francis Dee from their home studios have been opened, the leading feminine parts to be offered them. ▼ T T Richard Wallace, who will direct Katharine Hepburn in RKO's "The Little Minister," has a parrot whon he has trained to say, "Cut! That was lousy!" Wallace considers this much more distinctive, as well as much more practical, than the customary, "Polly-wants-a-cracker." T T T Casey Robinson, Warner scenarist now adapting Sinclair Lewis' "Mair Street," has rejected an offer tc teach a course in "The Mechanics of Film Writing," at a large mid-Western university. ▼ T T Forrester Harvey has become Hollywood's triple-threat actor with an assignment in Paramount's "Limehouse Nights," which features George Raft and Anna May Wong. Harvey already is working in "Menace" at the same studio, and appearing nightly in the local stage revival of "Journey's End." T T w Arthur Lake, Creighton Chaney and Tommy Dugan are additions to the cast of Monogram's "Girl ol My Dreams." Others in it are Mary Carlisle, Eddie Nugent, Sterling Holloway and GiGi Parrish. ▼ T ▼ Vin Moore, formerly Universal director, has been signed by Trem Carr to direct Monogram's "Flirting With Danger," starring Robert Armstrong, with Edgar Kennedy; William Cagney and Irene Ware in featured roles. Albert E. DeMond adapted the story, an original by George Bertholon, who will super vise. t ▼ ▼ Clarence Brown, prominent M-GM director, and his wife, the former Alice Joyce, have arrived in England and will soon commence their aerial tour of Europe. Brown hopes to touch all important European film centers during this vacation trip, after which he will return tc 7 M-G-M PRODUCTIONS NEARING COMPLETION West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAIL Hollywood — Seven M-G-M pro, ductions are nearing completion a the studios and it is expected tha , four new features will be startef: within the next three weeks. 1 work are "Biography of a Bachelo Girl," "David Copperfield," "Evely Prentice," "Forsaking All Others^ "Painted Veil," "Sequoia" am "What Every Woman Knows^ Ready for production are "Vanessaj "Wicked Woman," "The Night I Young" and "Mutiny on the Bour ty." Code Auth'y Members Attending NRA Mee Members of the Code Authorit| will attend a meeting of more tha 400 code authorities at Carnegi Hall Sept. 14 when General Hugi S. Johnson will explain the futu* of the NRA. Next meeting of tB Authority is scheduled for Thur< day, next week. Hollywood under a new M-G-M coi tract, signed just before his dc parture ffo Addie McPhail, widow of Roscc4» "Fatty" Arbuckle, appears in RKO to "By Your Leave," with Frank Mo: gan, Genevieve Tobin, Neil Hami ton and Marian Nixon. Dianna Lewis, tiny specialty dam er whom Paramount signed to a acting contract recently, will mal her screen debut in "Enter Madam* with Elissa Landi, Cary Grant ai Lynne Overman, who have the leati ing parts. Elliott Nugent directs), T T T Donald Meek has been added i the cast of M-G-M's "Biography a Bachelor Girl," the film adapt tion of the Theater Guild S. ! Behrman comedy, "Biography." Ai Harding and Robert Montgome: have leading roles in this new p: duction. Lambert Hillyer's next directori J assignment for Columbia will I it "Police Ambulance," first of a serif of fast action dramas in whi< Johnny Mack Brown will be starre Sally Blane has the feminine lea The story is by Harold Shumate. ei ,K Liberty Program Finished West Coast Bur., THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — Completion ot shooting on "Without Children" this week marks the finish of the Liberty Pictures program for 1934-35. Marguerite Churchill, Bruce Cabot, Evelyn Brent, Dickie Moore, Reginald Denny, Dorothy Lee, Cora Sue Collins and William Janney head the cast of the final production in the group of eight turned out by the M. H. Hoffman organization. fetOl He' u h