Hollywood Filmograph (Jan-Jul 1930)

16 CLANCY IN WALL STREET Ted Wilde, Director. Rollie Asher, Production Manager. Edward Small, Producer and Supervisor. Ralph Bell and Jack Wagnor, Story. William Francis Dugan, Dialogue. Cast Charles Murray Michael Clancy Aggie Herring Mrs. Clancy Lucian Littlefield-.Andrew Macintosh Marion Seegar Katie Clancy Edward Nugent.. ..Donald Macintosh Reed Howse Freddie Saunders Charlie Murray easily proves himself a real box office attraction in this one. This is the first talkie that we have seen and heard him in, and it is a natural. Edward Small produced and handled the production and really made it look like real money had been spent on the picture. A new team was born with this picture, Charlie Murray and Lucian Littlefield, the latter as a Scotchman, helped to hold up his end of the picture and gained many a laugh. He and Charlie Murray worked well February 22, 1930 together and worked up the funny situations. The late Ted Wilde directed, and it surely was a pity that he couldn't live to give us some more fun-making comedy dramas of this type. Marion Seegar, the leading lady, deserves watching for future reference, she is good to look at and troupes like a real artiste. Aggie Herring as Mrs. Clancy was fine, Edward Nugent and Reed Howse served in their roles for what they had to do. William Dugan wrote the dialogue which was instrumental in putting the story, Ralph Bell and Jack Wagner over the top. We haven't the photographer's name, but he naturally was like the main foundation of any building, the mainstay. Without him, well, there wouldn't have been any "Clancy in Wall Street." HARRY BURNS. 111 George Fawcett has just been signed for the role of the circus owner in Joe Santley's "Swing High" at Pathe. AL HILL This Week RKO Theatre The Racketeer," Starring Robert Armstrong, Carol Lombard Recent Productions: "Dressed to Kill," "Me, Gangster," "Broadway Babies," "Side Streets," "Alibi," "Road House," "Dark Streets." International Concern Starts Preparing at Metropolitan Alfredo Verrico recently resigned general manager of Italotone Film Productions, has associated himself with the newly organized "Excelsior Film Productions" sponsored by the Marquis Cesare Manfredo Origo, internationally known member of Italian nobility who has been interested in the motion picture field for some years past. Verrico points out that for best results in the productions of foreign talking pictures to be made in Hollywood, there is a need of a strong, well built organization, limited not only to one language and one country, but extended to all of the most important foreign markets. "The quality of productions," Verrico says, "has to be of the highest standard and in perfect accord with the taste, psychology, traditions and the pride of each country. "For this," he adds, "it is necessary that real competent persons, who have lived in each of those countries and know all about them and the languages spoken there, take charge of the productions in foreign tongues. "Europeans, and Latins in particular, are much more critical than Americans and more inclined to consider the value of pictures from different angles. The first impressions are always the ones that have the most lasting effect and the foreign market should be supplied from the start with first class talking pictures." A well planned program of productions, which includes good talking dramatic features as well has singing pictures of a operatic nature is what the new Excelsior Film Productions is planning to produce. The Excelsior Film Productions has established luxurious offices at Metropolitan Sound Studios in Hollywood and will also produce features in English of which the release will be assured by one of the major organizatons. 111 BUSY Among those screen actresses who have profited from the arrival of talking pictures and technicolor is June Collyer. Her next two pictures will be done in color. They are "Mademoiselle Modiste," First National production and "Sweet Kitty Bellairs," Warner Brothers picture. 111 SOME FLYER Hoot Gibson makes real use of his title, "the flying cowboy," and his privately owned aeroplanes. Although he is on location with his company at Castle Rock, several hundred miles from Hollywood, he has his plane there and can return to the local studio in less than three hours. 111 HABIT Writing original stories is fast becoming a habit with Howard Estabrook, prominent author-scenarist. Following his assignment with Fox, Estabrook joined the First National forces, writing an original opus called "Under Western Skies." He is now working on the screen version and dialogue. "THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY" By CHAS. SAXTON My dear Mr. Saxton: I understand you are going to write a weekly column for The Filmograph. Having placed an ad. in that paper I was wondering if I could arrange with Mr. Burns to have my cpoy placed en a different page. From what I have seen of other columns, I am of the humble opinion that you are up against a tough proposition. However, the grief is all yours —so GO TO IT. But remember, real comedy is priceless — and writing good humor is a darn hard job. Good Luck. ALBERT DE MOND. Ah, me! Playful Al! I know him well. He sez: Real comedy is PRICELESS. That's right. I know several real comics who are walking around without the price. So writing good humor is a hard job, eh? Well, from my experiences, a darn hard job never puts ANYONE in good humor. So there! 111 The heading of this column is only temporary. We may call it something else in a couple of issues. Mebbe you're calling it something else already. 1 < 1 Thoughts while strolling: — oh, I beg your pardon! Mebbe I'd better not start off that way . . . Folks might get me confused with that other fellow. Let's see. What's his name? Oh, yes! I know. Bugs Mcintosh. Or is it Ted Baer? Anyway, he chews gum. 11* At a Hollywood gathering not so long ago, a playful chap threw a cigarette into the air and caught it in his mouth the very first try. That started something. In five minutes, every man in the room was trying it. And three women. It got to be a game, and one fellow, more proficient than the rest, wagered he could do it more times in a certain number of tries than anyone else. Just then, in walked Joe E. Brown! 111 Speaking of Joe E. Brown: While in the East, he sent a post card to the mute newsboy, who stands in front of Henry's. It was merely addressed—THE DUMMY, HOLLYWOOD. They say he received it promptly. After looking into the matter, I learn that, before the newsy got it, no less than thirty-four actors, seven directors, twenty-two writers, three agents, two supervisors, and a traffic cop received it by mistake! 111 I see where Primo Camera is going into a picture, after he gets through barnstorming. Possibly that's the reason for the GRANDEUR film revolution. They want to be able to get the vast Venetian in the picture. And have George Bancroft and Charles Bickford play Babes in the Wood. 111 Come on, Hal! Let's merge and get a cup of coffee.