Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1952)

4 Motion Picture Daily Friday, May 9, 1952 Spain Is Prone to Remit Film Earnings Madrid, May 8. (By Cable)— Now that Spain has signed a film agreement with American motion picture distributors, Spanish officialdom reportedly "will do its best" to see that earnings under the agreement are unblocked as rapidly as possible. This does not mean, however, that the Spanish government has any inclination to conclude a remittance agreement with U. S. companies, it was pointed out. All U. S. earnings have been completely frozen in this country for some time. What the indicated attitude of the Spanish government does mean is that it will, at its own discretion from time to time, convert into dollars for remittance some of the American companies' earnings. Apart from this direct conversion, the Franco regime is said to be willing also to allow American distributors to achieve remittances through the kind of compensation deals they have succeeded in closing with commodity suppliers in other countries. M-G-M Lists 83 Titles (Continued from puge 1) U. A. Progress (Continued from page 1) quota law requiring that one domestic picture be shown in theatres for every eight imported pictures shown has been suspended pending a court test of the law's constitutionality. UA has closed a deal with C.-B. Films of Spain making that firm the exclusive outlet for the company's releases in that country, Picker said. Europe brings UA between 25 and 30 per cent of the company's earnings in all foreign countries, according to Picker. He cited "The River," "High Noon" and "Cyrano de Bergerac" as UA releases which have been doing exceptionally good business in European countries. Bordonaro Wins {Continued from page 1) run films from the Palace Theatre at Olean. Francis T. Anderson, of Philadel phia, the plaintiff's attorney, has not made any motion to appeal the amount of the award. He has 10 days in which to make such a motion. In a similar action four years ago, which took in the period from 1930 to 1946, the plaintiff won an award of $104,498 from the same defendants The present case covered the period from September 1946 to March 1948 UA to Release 'Moon Is Blue' United Artists in 1953 will distribute the film version of the Broad way play, "The Moon Is Blue," written by F. Hugh Herbert and produced and directed by Otto Preminger, it was disclosed here yesterday by Ar thur B. Krim, UA president. Herbert and Preminger will co produce the film. SPECIAL TRAILERS GOOD and FAST and pocked with SlU-MANSHIP it what you alwayt get from reliable CHICAGO 1327 S. Wabaih »n,'.m:f NEW YORK 630 Ninth Avenue Believing" product screenings and discussions on six new features, at the studio, where M-G-M is host to 100 top showmen from Coast-toCoast, representing some 10,000 theatres, and members of the trade press. Thirty-nine of the 83 productions listed will be in color, the majority in Technicolor, some others in the new Ansco color. "Such long-range plans offer powerful evidence of the faith of our company's officials in the future of the picture industry," Schary stated. "The investment in such a production program is obviously tremendous and I can think of no greater demonstration of confidence in the future of any business." Pays Tribute Schary paid tribute to the M-G-M executive production staff, citing E. J. Mannix, Ben Thau, L. K. Sidney, J. J. Cohn, Lawrence Weingarten, Kenneth MacKenna, Marvin Schenck and Charles Schnee. The latter, latest to join the studio's executive staff, was singled out for doing "a splendid ob with the young producers." The production vice-president listed the following features as having been completed, in work, or in preparation : The Naked Spur, Technicolor, starring James Stewart, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Ralph Meeker, produced by William H. Wright, directed by Anthony Mann; Never Let Me Go, Clark Gable, produced by Clarence Brown, directed by Delmer Daves; Young Bess, Technicolor, Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, produced by Sidney Franklin, directed by George Sidney; Julius Caesar, Technicolor, produced by Houseman; The Making of A Marine, Ansco, produced by Dore Schary; The Student Prince, Technicolor, Mario Lanza, produced by Joe Pasternak, directed by Curtis Bernhardt; Small Town Girl, Technicolor, Tane Powell, produced by Pasternak. Leslie Kardos directing; The Sobbin' Women, Technicolor, produced by Jack Cummings. Vaquero, Technicolor, produced by Stephen Ames; All the Brothers Were Valiant. Technicolor, Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, produced by Pandro S. Berman; Brigadoon, Technicolor, Gene Kelly Kathryn Grayson, produced by Arthur Freed 'Valiant' in Color Also, Prince Valiant, Technicolor; The Girl Who Had Everything, Elizabeth Taylor, William Powell, produced by Ar mand Deutsch; Jumbo, Technicolor, Red Skelton, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, produced by Roger Edens; Latin Lovers, Technicolor, Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas; produced by Pasternak. The Lonesome Gai. produced by Nicholas Nayfack; Sombrero Ansco, Pier Angeli, Ricardo Montalban. Vittorio Gassman, Cyd Charisse, produced by Cummings, directed by Norman Foster; Dancerous When Wet, Techni color, Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas Marjorie Main, Carleton Carpenter, produced by George Wells, Charles Walters directing; Apache Trail, Gilbert Roland, produced by Hayes Goetz, directed by Harold Kress; Remains to be Seen, Debbie Reynolds produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.; Jeffer son Selleck, Spencer Tracy, produced and directed by Joseph Mankiewicz; Years Ago, Spencer Tracy, Debbie Reynolds, directed by George Cukor, produced by Lawrence Weingarten. Also, Rose Marie, Technicolor, produced by Hornblow, directed by Mervyn LeRoy Battle Circus, produced by Pandro S Herman, Richard Brooks directing; My Mother and Mr. McChesney, Greer G son, produced by Edwin H. Knopf. Captain Quicksilver, produced by Deutsch; I'm from Missouri, Technicolor, Gene Kelley, Danny Kaye, produced by Freed; House of Seven Flies, produced by Wright; Beau Brum mel, Technicolor, starring Stewart Granger produced by Sam Zimbalist; Crest OF TH Wave, Van Johnson, produced and directed by John and Roy Boulting; The Last World, produced by Carey Wilson; Moon fleet, produced by Wright; O, Promis Me, Technicolor, produced by Cummings Also, Wind from the East, produced by Deutsch; Robinson Crusoe, Technicolor Stewart Granger, produced by Zimbalist The Romberg Story, Kurt Kasznar, Tech nicolor, produced by Freed; The Sherif of Siskiyou, produced by Ames; A Steak for Connie, produced by Ames; I Love Louisa, Technicolor, Fred Astaire, produced by Freed; Interrupted Melody, Technicolor, Lana Turner, produced by Cummings; Invitation to the Dance, Technicolor, Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, produced by Freed, Kelly directing; MogambO', Technicolor, Clark Gable, produced by Zimbalist; Montes, the Matador, Technicolor, Ava Gardner, Fernando Lamas, Ricardo Montalban, produced by Cummings; Dream Wife, produced by Sidney Sheldon. Gardner in 'Flesh' Also, Flesh and the Devil, Ava Gardner, Fernando Lamas, Ricardo Montalban, produced and directed by Brown; Give A Girl A Break, Technicolor, Marge, Gower Champion, produced by Cummings; The Desperate Search, produced by Matthew Rapf; Men Don't Cry, produced by William Grady, Jr.; Fast Company, produced by Henry Berman; Riptide, produced by Sol Fielding; See How They Run, prouced by Fielding; Code Three, produced by Grady; The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, produced by Arthur Loew, Jr.; Singin' in the Rain; Scaramouche, Technicolor, Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker, Janet Leigh, Mel Ferrer, produced by Carey Wilson, directed by Sidney. Also, Ivan hoe, Technicolor, Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, produced by Berman, directed by Richard Thorpe; Skirts Ahoy!, Techniolor, Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine, Barry Sullivan, produced by Joe Pasternak, directed by Sidney Lanfield; The Merry Widow, Technicolor, Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, produced by Pasternak, directed by Curtis Bernhardt; Lovely to Look At, Technicolor, Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge, Gower Champion, Ann Miller, produced by Cummings, directed by Mervyn LeRoy; Because You're Mine, Mario Lanza, Doretta Morrow, James Whitmore, produced by Pasternak, directed by Alexander Hall; Carbine Williams, James Stewart, Jean Hagen, Wendell Corey, produced by Deutsch, directed by Thorpe; Pat and Mike, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, produced by Weingarten, directed by Cukor; The Girl in White, June Allyson, Arthur Kennedy, Gary Merrill, produced by Deutsch, directed by John Sturges; Above and Beyond, Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, produced and directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama; The One Piece Bathing Suit, Technicolor, Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian, produced by Hornblow, directed by LeRoy; Mr. Congressman, Van Johnson, Patricia Neal, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, produced by Schary, directed by Robert Pirosh. Right of Paper to Refuse Ads Upheld Urbana, O., May 8. — The legality of a newspaper refusing to accept advertising at its discretion was upheld by Judge David S. Porter in Common Pleas Court here in the case of the Skyhigh Drive-in vs. the Urbana Daily Citizen, based on the newspaper's having turned down advertising offered by the theatre. "A newspaper is not a business affected with the public interest in a manner similar to a utility organization," the court held, adding that the refusal was not predicated on the nature of the advertising text, but rather because it would injure the business of other theatres operating within the county. The theatre company contends that the advertising was refused because its operation is in competition with the two regular theatres here and a drive-in in the area, and that the newspaper's action constitutes "an unlawful restraint of trade." The case, believed without precedent, will be appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court, if necessary, the plaintiffs said. German Leaves (Continued from page 1) Johnson in 'Rome' Also, When in Rome, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, produced and directed by Brown; Letter from the President, Shelley Winters, Ricardo Montalban, Wendell Corey, Claire Trevor, produced by Stephen Ames, directed by William A. Wellman; The Devil Makes Three, Gene Kelly, Pier Angeli, produced in Germany by Richard Goldstone, directed by Andrew Marton; Glory Alley, Ralph Meeker, Leslie Caron, Kurt Kasznar, Gilbert Roland, Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong, produced by Nayfack, directed by Raoul Walsh; Fearless Fagan. Janet Leigh, Carleton Carpenter, Keenan Wynn, produced by Edwin H. Knopf with Sidney Franklin, Jr., as associate, directed by Stanley Dcnen; Holiday for Sinners, Gig Young, Keenan Wynn, Janice Rule, produced by John Houseman, directed by Gerald Mayer; Talk About A Stranger George Murphy, Nancy Davis, Billy Gray, Lewis Stone, Kurt Kasznar, produced by Richard Goldstone, directed by David Bradley; Plymouth Adventure, Technicolor, Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, Leo Genn, Dawn Addams, produced by Schary, directed by Brown; Prisoner of Zenda, Technicolor, Stewart Granger, Deb orah Kerr, James Mason, Louis Calhern, Jane Greer, produced by Berman, directed by Thorpe; The Story of Three Loves Technicolor, Leslie Caron, Farley Granger, Ethel Barrymore, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Paula Raymond, Ricky Nelson in Mademoiselle, produced by Franklin, directed by Minnelli ; Moira Shearer, James Mason, Agnes Moorehead in The Jealous Lover, produced by Franklin, directed by Gottfried Reinhardt; and Pier Angeli and Ricardo Montalban in Equilibrium, produced by Franklin, directed by Reinhardt. Also, Tribute to a Bad Man, Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Gloria Grahame, Gilbert Roland, produced by John Houseman, directed by Minnelli; Lili, Technicolor, Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean Pierre Aumont, Kurt Kasznar, Zsa Zsa Gabor, produced by Knopf, directed by German distributes Eastman Kodak motion picture raw stock. A company spokesman declined to comment on the progress, if any, of the proposed merger plan between Universal and Decca Records, which holds the principal stock interest in the film company. Awaiting Daff's Return It appeared likely that company officials are awaiting the return of Alfred Daff, vice-president in charge of world sales. Daff is due to return from Britain Monday, when he is expected to brief company officials on the meetings in London between Milton R. Rackmil, Decca president, and J. Arthur Rank, who owns 134,375 shares of Universal stock. It is understood that Raskmil may have attempted to revive efforts to purchase Rank's stock. Theatre Building* (Continued from page 1) would stand a better chance of getting NPA priority for larger amounts of materials. At present, commercial builders can write their own priorities for up to five tons of carbon steel and up to 200 pounds of copper or 100 pounds of aluminum per project per quarter. Moreover, there is talk that these amounts may be increased. The effective date of the change is not yet known. The most common guess is July 1, but some officials indicate that the new policy might be made effective even sooner. Charles Walters; I Love Melvin, Technicolor, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, produced by George Wells, directed by Don Weis; Time Bomb, Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, produced by Richard Goldstone, Ted Tetzlaff directing; Rogues' March, Peter Lawford, Richard Greene, Janice Rule, Leo G. Carroll, produced by Leon Gordon, directed by Allan Davis; Sky Full of Moon, Carleton Carpenter, Jan Sterling, produced by Franklin; Everything I Have Is Yours, Technicolor, Marge and Gower Champion, Dennis O'Keefe, Monica Lewis, produced by George Wells, directed by Robert Z. Leonard; You for Me, Peter Lawford, Jane Greer, Gig Young, produced by Henry Berman, directed by Don Weis.