Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1946)

Thursday, November 14, 1946 Motion Picture daily 7 Production Is Off Again as 9 End Filming Hollywood, Nov. 10.— Production was off again, slightly, as work was r gteleted on nine pictures, and eight B before cameras. Shooting was resumed on "Vendetta," which had been temporarily suspended during reorganization of California Pictures. Stuart Heisler -has taken over both production and direction, replacing Preston Sturges. The shooting index stood at 40; the production scene follows : Columbia Finished: "Prairie Raiders," "Millie's Daughter." Started: "Blondie's Holiday," with Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms; "King of the Wild Horses," with Preston Foster, Gail Patrick, Big Boy Williams. Shooting: "The Lady from Shanghai." Enterprise Shooting: "The Other Love," "Arch of Triumph." M-G-M Finished: "It Happened in Brooklyn," "Unfinished Dance." Started: "A Love Story," with Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker; "The Birds and the Bees," with Jeannette MacDonald, Jose Iturbi, Jane Powell. Shooting : "Undercover Maisie," "The Personal Touch," "Green Dolphin Street," "To Kiss and to Keep," "Romance of Rosy Ridge." Monogram Started: "The Guilty" (Wrather), with Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Wally Tarsell, Regis Toomey. Shooting : "The Devil's Deputy." Paramount Finished: "The Big Haircut," "Unconquered" (DeMille) ; "Desert Fury" (Wallis). Shooting : "Blaze of Noon," "Variety Girl." PRC Shooting : "The Red Stallion." RKO Radio Finished: "Thunder Mountain." Shooting : "Build My Gallows High," "Dick Tracy vs. the Claw," "Magic Town" (Riskin), "The Long Night" (Hakim-Litvak) , "Tarzanand the Huntress" (Lesser). Republic Started: "Will Tomorrow Ever Come," with Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey; "Marshal of Cripple Creek," with Allan Lane, Bobby Blake, Martha Wentworth. Shooting : "Gallant Man." Screen Guild Productions Started: "Return of Buffalo Bill" (Schwarz), with Richard Aden, Jennifer Holt. 20th Century-Fox Shooting: "Forever Amber," "Mother Wore Tights," "Boomerang." United Artists Shooting: "Vendetta" (California); "Red River" (Monterey) ; "Personal Column" (Stromberg) ; "Who Killed 'Doc' Robin?" (Roach). Cliff Work (Continued from page 1) year pact is on a reduced compensation basis by comparison with the old contract. At present, Work is handling the studio labor assignment for Universal as his first under the pact calling for his services in an advisory capacity. Although it is understood that Universale recent acquisition of International Pictures, which placed William Goetz in charge of production at the studio, influenced the making of the new contract with Work, it is reliably reported that Work had expressed a disinclination to renew the contract which would expire at the end of next year, long before the International deal came into sight. It is said he was anxious to have more time for personal activities. The Universal-International deal, closed on Tuesday, will bring about no change of name in the parent comnanv Universal Pictures Co., Inc., as reported in Motion Picture Daily on Nov. 8. A new production subsidiary will be formed on the Coast with the Universal-International name and that name will be carried on the company product. Goetz and Leo Spitz are expected to become officers of the new subsidiary. No successor to Work has been named on the Universal board of directors. Goetz and Spitz have been invited to become members of the board, but have not accepted due to the fact that their duties on the Coast would prevent them from regularly attending board meetings, which are held in New York. Checkers Attacked By Iowa-Nebraska Minneapolis, Nov. 13. — Removal of the "red flag" flaunted by local checkers, "when it obviously is apparent that local checkers are definitely undesirable from an industrywide viewpoint," was urged at a regional meeting of Allied Independent Theatre Owners of Iowa-Nebraska, at Norfolk, Neb., attended by 23 independent exhibitors responding to a meeting call of Mel Kruse. Removal of the "red flag" would be a big step by the distributors in fulfilling their promises of cooperation with exhibitors, Kruse said. AITOA president Howard Brookings and assistant secretary Bick Downey attended the confab. Another meeting has been scheduled for Norfolk on Dec. 3, with Kruse as chairman. Meetings are also scheduled for Ord and Minden, Neb., on Nov. 19 and 26, respectively, with others slated throughout Iowa. $250,000 Theatre Fire Boston, Nov. 13. — Fire today destroyed the RKO Keith Theatre at Fairhaven, Mass., with damages estimated at $250,000. A boiler-room explosion is believed to have caused the flames, which gutted the house. Universal-International Shooting : "The Egg and I." Warners Shooting : "Dark Passage," "My Wild Irish Rose," "The Woman in Finished: "Love and Learn." New Allied Artists (Continued from page 1) forthcoming King brothers' films, and others in a similar budgetary category, with a special staff of salesmen in field selling these. Broidy said, "This new organization will not in any way affect the production and distribution plans of Monogram, which will continue along the same lines. Allied artists will enlist for its productions important producers, directors, actors, writers, many of whom have expressed a decided interest in becoming active participants in the new organization," Broidy declared. He emphasized that the pictures planned for Allied Artists will not conflict with the regular Monogram product announced for 1946-47. MPEA Newsreel (Continued from page 1) soon be distributing regular features and shorts. Additional potential markets for the MPEA newsreel are Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and the Netherlands East Indies, it is said. Universal in 16mm. (Continued from page 1) taken over that company's operatingpersonnel and branch offices in New York, Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles. Matthew Fox, Universal executive vice-president, will be, in addition, United World board chairman. Col. James M. Franey, a member of Gen. Eisenhower's staff during the war, will be president. Vice-presidents will be William F. Kruse, a Bell and Howell executive for the past 17 years ; Edward L. McEvoy, present head of Universal's short subjects department, and Edmund L. Dorfman, who has been president of the American Institute of Motion Pictures since 1938. The latter will be in charge of production. Affiliated With Rank Universal, already closely affiliated with the J. 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