Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1944)

HE HOLLY WOOD SCENE. pleted •AB\A .new Her Apples im Arkansas <OUNT for Benny :ADIO in Hollywood ~ENTURY-FOX jrows in Brook UNITED ARTISTS Tomorrow the World (Cowan) Started COLUMBIA Phantom Outlaws MSM Autumn Fever The Clock Dr. Red Adams MONOGRAM They Shall Have Faith Frontier Frame-Up PRC Here We Go Again RKO RADIO PanAmericana REPUBLIC Faces in the Fog Lake Placid Serenade UNIVERSAL Mike Goes to a Party Renegades of the Rio Grande •Shooting COLUMBIA Dormant Account (Darmour) Tonight and Every Night Untitled Dunne-Boyer MGM Anchors Aweigh Airship Squadron 4 Music for Millions Son of Lassie Ziegfeld Follies Picture of Dorian Gray MONOGRAM Little Devils Ghost of Indian Springs Army Wives PRC I Accuse My Parents Town Went Wild PARAMOUNT Kitty Out of This World Here Come the Waves RKO RADIO Isle of the Dead Experiment Perilous Betrayal from the East It's a Pleasure (International) Wonder Man (Goldwyn) REPUBLIC Flame of Barbary Coast 20TH CENTURYFOX Nob Hill Sunday Dinner for a Soldier Winged Victory Thunderhead UNITED ARTISTS Great John L (Crosby) House of Dr. Edwardes (Vanguard) UNIVERSAL Queen of the Nile Can't Help Singing Mummy's Curse WARNERS Of Human Bondage Corn Is Green Roughly Speaking Objective Burma Hollywood Canteen 9 Features in Work with ICM Starting Three u ood Bureau ivity at the studios increased last week as iv features went before the cameras. Eight were completed, bringing the total numwork up to 49, as compared with a total the week preceding. ee were started at MGM, standout among is "The Clock," Judy Garland film, in Robert Walker and Hume Cronyn have tant parts. It's a love story about a girl soldier who cram the experiences which •r.ial times would encompass many months he soldier's 48-hour furlough. Fred Zinl is directing for Arthur Freed, producer, ler new films at MGM are "Autumn " and "Dr. Red Adams." The first is an ition of the Ferenc Molnar play, "Deliwith the locale changed from continental >e to Lake Tahoe. Philip Dorn, Mary , Gloria Grahame, Felix Gressart and lall Thompson are in the cast. It's RichVhorf's first directorial assignment, and m H. Wright is the producer. ymore and Johnson in "Gillespie" Film '. Red Adams" is another in the "Dr. W" series, with Lionel Barrymore, Van an, Marilyn Maxwell and Gloria DeHaven : cast. Carey Wilson is the producer, Goidbeck the director, '■ublic trained its cameras on two. The 3 ' Lake Placid Serenade," concerns a i Dslovakian girl who comes to the United and skates her way to fame and for| The cast includes Vera Hruba Ralston, Vague, William Frawley and Eugene ;e. Steve Sekely directs; Harry Grey tes. ublic's second venture is "Faces in the a delinquency picture, though this time fthe parents who are delinquent rather ne juveniles. Jane Withers heads a cast includes Paul Kelly, John Lytell, Lee <, Dorothy Peterson and Katherine Mi-. 1 John English is directing for Associate :er Herman Millakowsky and Executive :er Armand Schaefer. /ersal also started work on two films. Goes to a Party" is a comedy about two radio announcers, and presents Gloria Jean, Kirby Grant, Milburn Stone and Samuel Hinds. Harold Young is the director, Gene Lewis the associate producer. "Renegades of the Rio Grande" is a Western which Howard Bretherton is directing for Associate Producer Oliver Drake. Rod Cameron, Fuzzy Knight, Eddie Dew, Ray Whitley and Jennifer Holt have the principal parts. Monogram started two, "They Shall Have Faith" and "Frontier Frame-Up." The first is a story of a young girl stricken with infantile paralysis, and presents Gale Storm, Sir Aubrey Smith, Mary Boland, Conrad Nagel, Johnny Mack Brown, Frank Craven and Johnny Downs. William Nigh is directing, Jeffrey Bernerd producing. The second at Monogram is a Western with Hoot Gibson, Bob Steele, Beatrice Grey, Ralph Lewis, Ed Cassidy and George Morell. Vernon Keyes is directing for Lindsley Parsons, producer. Columbia, RKO Radio and PRC Pictures started work on one new feature apiece. "Pan-Americana," at RKO Radio, is a musical whose setting comprises several South American countries. John Auer is producing as well as directing, and Philip Terry, Audrey Long, Robert Benchley and Eve Arden have the principal parts. Columbia's new film is a Western titled "Phantom Outlaws," which Derwin Abrahams is directing for Colbert Clark, producer. The cast includes Charles Starrett, Jean Stephens, Tex Harding and Walter Taylor. Universal Plans to Start Five in August At PRC, work began on the American Productions feature, "Here We Go Again," with Donald McKean producing and Albert Herman directing. Among the players are Frank Jenks, Robin Raymond, Ray Walker and Jack LaRue. In addition to those mentioned, Universal plans to start five features during August. The first to go will be "Arsene Lupin," with George Korvin, J. Carroll Naish, Gale Sondergaard and George Dolenz. Ford Beebe will be the associate producer-director. Others coming up include "Musical Roundup," a period Western with music, "Swingaroo Sweethearts," in which Judy Clark will have the comedy lead, "Swing Out, Sister" and "Jungle Captive." Personnel Intelligence About Hollywood James B. Cassidy has returned from a sixweek tour of South America, during the course of which he arranged for cooperation from the governments of several Latin-American countries in the filming of his forthcoming production, "Green Mansions," an adaptation of the W. H. Hudson classic. . . . Damon Runyon has been signed to a new long term writer-producer contract at Twentieth Century-Fox. . . . Jerry Hoffman has resigned from Columbia's publicity department to join Sol Lesser's organization as director of advertising and publicity. Bernie Kamins, whom he replaces, will join Charles R. Rogers as publicity director. ... A tribute to General Lesley J. McNair, recently killed in action in France, will be included in a special sequence in Lester Cowan's production of "The Story of G. I. Joe." General McNair was responsible for the idea of the picture, and it was he who arranged a meeting between war correspondent Ernie Pyle and Mr. Cowan with the idea of instigating production of a film based on the activities of the infantry. Charles Barton Joins Universal As Producer-Director Herbert Marshall has been signed by RKO Radio to co-star with Dorothy McGuire and Alan Marshal in "The Enchanted Cottage," which is scheduled to go before the cameras the latter part of August under the direction of John Cromwell. . . . After two years on Broadway, Virginia Gilmore returns to the screen in Samuel Goldwyn's Technicolor comedy, "The Wonder Man," starring Danny Kaye. Universal has signed Charles T. Barton to a term deal as producer-director. . . . Henry Levin has been named by Columbia to direct "Tonight We Dance." . . „ Anita Loos has been signed to write an original screenplay titled "Merry, Merry Marriage" for Deanna Durbin at Universal. . . . Richard Fluornoy has been engaged by Hal Wallis to write the screenplay of "The Affairs of Susan." . . . James Craig is set for the leading masculine role in MGM's "Gentle Annie." . . . Patrick Michael Cunning Television Productions has completed "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," an 88-episode serial based upon the Mark Twain character. Columbia, RKO and PRC Each Start One Picture N PICTURE HERALD, AUGUST 12, 1944 31