1937-38 international motion picture almanac (1938)

JEZEBEL, play, by Owen Davis, St., bought by Warners, to star Bette Davis. JOAN OF ARC, from an original script prepared by M. Litvak in France dealing with the story of the Maid of Orleans, bought by Warners. JOE AND ASBESTOS, newspaper cartoon script by Ken Kling. purchased by MGM. JOHN BARLEYCORN, book, by Jack London, purchased by Twentieth Century-Fox. JOHN HALIFAX— GENTLEMAN, purchased bv FitzPatrick Pictures. JOHNNY GETS HIS GUN, magazine story, bv Lucian Gary, purchased by Paramount, either for Bennie Bartlett or David Holt; production by A. M. Botsford; supervision by Sid Brod. JOY OF LIVING, THE, original story, by Herbert Fields, acquired by Radio to star Irene Dunne. JUMP FOR GLORY, from the novel of the same name, bought by Criterion Films in London. JUNIOR G MEN, original, by Martin Mooney, bought by Radio. JUST ANOTHER NIGHT, original story, by Ridgeway Callow, bought by Burroughs-Tarzan Pictures to star Donald Novis. KANGAROOS, THE, play, by Victor Mapes, bought by Radio for Wheeler and Woolsey. KATINKA, operetta, by Arthur Hammerstein, bouglit by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. KID GALAHAD, magazine story, by Francis Wallace, purchased by Warners. KILLER AT LARGE, comedy drama story, by Carl Clauson. acquired by Columbia to star Betty Compson, George McKay with Mary Brian and Russell Hardy. KILLER OF THE SEA, original story, by Frederick Wagner, bought by Grand National for production by Raymond Friedgen. KING AND THE CHORUS GIRL, THE, bought by Mervyn LeRoy as his first vehicle as an independent producer releasing through Warners. KING OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED, story by Zane Grey, acquired by Twentieth Century Fox. Robert Kent, star. KING OF SWING, magazine story, by Richard Macauley, published as "Special Arrangements," bought by Warner. KING SOLOMON'S MINES, book, by Sir H. Rider Haggard, purchased by GB Pictures, for Roland Young and Paul Robeson. KISS IN THE SUN, original, by Frank R. Adams, purchased by Paramount; direction by Leo McCarey; screen play by Frank Adams. KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR, story based on the novel by James Hilton, acquired by Alexander Korda to star Marlene Dietrich. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, original comedymelodrama, written by Ernest Vajda, bought by Mervyn LeRoy for release through Warner Brothers-First National. LADY AVERAGE, original story, by Tack Goodman and Albert Leventhall, purchased by RKO Radio to star Victor Moore and Helen Broderick. LADY BE CAREFUL, original, by Harry Ruskin. purchased by Paramount, as a possible starring vehicle for George Raft; production by Benjamin Glazer; screen play by Harry Ruskin. LADY OF LA PAZ, current London stage hit. purchased by Gaumont British to star Nova Pilbeam. LADY OF SONG, original by Houston Branch and Gene Markey, acquired by MGM. LAJDY WHO PLAYED FIDELE, original, by Gerald Beaumont, purchased by Warners. LARGER THAN LIFE, stage play, by Joseph Schrank and Ben Grauman Kohn, bought by Warner Brothers. LAST BAD MAN, original story, by Marion Jackson, acquired by Warner to star Dick Foran. LAST HAND, THE, original, by Richard Carlton, bought by Republic. LAST MINSTREL, based on the poem, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," by Sir Walter Scott, purchased by Criterion Films (United Artists), for production by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; screen play by Richard Fisher and Adela Rogers St. John. LAST TRAIN FROM MADRID, original, acMuired by Paramount. LAST YEAR'S KISSES, original story, by Gregory Ratoff, to Twentieth Century-Fox. LEGAL HOLIDAY, original, by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell, purchased by Paramount, for Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper. LEGION OF MISSING MEN, original story of the Foreign Legion, by Walter Bateman, bought by W. Ray Tohnston for Sterling Pictures. LET ME LIVE, original story, by William A. Wellman and Robert Carson, bought by David O. Selznick, of Selznick -International. LET'S ALL SING, based on the current community singing vogue in radio, acquired by General Pictures. LET'S PRETEND, original, purchased by Warners, for James Melton. LIFE AND LOVES OF VICTOR HERBERT, original story, hy (iilbert Gabriel, bought by Paramount. LIFE OF ALFRED NOBEL, novel, by Rolf Passer, Czechoslovakian writer, acquired by Universal. LIFE OF DR. WILLIAM GORGAS, book, by Marie Gorgas, purchased by Warners; screen play also by Marie Gorgas. LIFE OF JESSE JAMES, original treatment by Rosalind SchafFer, bought by Twentieth CenturyFox. LIFE OF WILD BILL HICKOK, original, purchased by Columbia. LIN McLEAN, first of the series of stories, by Owen Wister, acquired by Paramount Pictures. LION OF MAYFAIR, original, by Frederick Lonsdale, purchased by London Films (United Artists), for Charles Laughton; production by Alexander Korda. LIVE ALONE AND LIKE IT. novel by Marjorie Hillis concerning the story of an unmarried woman living in New York, purchased by UniversaL LIVES OF A TEXAS RANGER, by Bernard McConville, for Republic Pictures under the direction of Joseph Kane. LOAN SHARK, original, by Lionel Houser, purchased by Columbia. LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING, original story, by Mary and W, E. Flannery, bought by Universal. LORDS OF THE LAND, original story, by Anthony Coldeway. dealing with the plight of the sharecroppers of the South, acquired by Warners. LOSER'S END, novel, by Matt Taylor, bought by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. THE 19 3 7-3 MOTION C T U R E ALMANAC 1267