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THE HOLLYWOOD SCENE
Production Holds Pace; 39 Pictures Shooting As Six Are Begun
Hollyivood Bureau
A post-Easter period of inactivity set in at Hollywood studios last week, and the shooting index continued to show a total of 39 pictures in work. During the week, six films were completed, and six started.
At Columbia, cameras turned on "Destiny,'' a psychological mystery, which Rudolph Flothow is producing and D. Ross Lederman directing. Heading the cast" are John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Barbara Read, Helen Mowery and Jimmy Lloyd.
The fourth of the studio's "Rusty" series, titled "Son of Rusty," also got under way, with Ted Donaldson, Tom Powers, Ann Doran and Stephen Dunne in top roles. Flame, the great-grandson of the famous dog star, Strongheart, has the chief animal role in the picture. Wallace MacDonald produces ; Lew Landers directs.
Republic Musical Western To Star Gene Autry
Republic launched "Robin Hood of Texas,'' a musical Western starring Gene Autry. Sidney Picker is the producer; Leslie Selander the director. Lynne Roberts, Sterling Holloway and Adele Mara have important supporting roles.
PRC trained cameras on two: "Bury Me Dead," and "Ghost Town Renegades.'' The cast of the latter includes Lash Larue, Fuzzy St. John and Jennifer Holt. Jerry Thomas is producing, and Ray Taylor is directing.
Bernhard Vorhaus is directing "Bury Me Dead" for producer Charles Reisner, and the cast includes Cathy O'Donnell, Greg McClure, June Lockhart and Mark Daniels.
The first Fortune Production for Screen Guild release, "Dark Bullet," went into work with Maurice Conn producing and Leslie Goodwins directing. Mary Bryan, Douglas Blackley, Henry Wilcoxon and Virginia Dale head the cast.
Recent Story Purchases By Studios Listed
Twentieth Century-Fox has purchased Henry Helseth's novel, "The Chair for Martin Rome,'' and assigned it to Sol Siegel for production. Ben Hecht will write the screenplay. . . . Two I. A. R. Wylie stories have been acquired by MGM. The first, "Quarter from an Angel,'' is a short story dealing with the romance and problems of an ambitious war veteran attending college. The second is a novel, as yet unwritten, tentatively titled "Children's Village." It tells the story of the unique hamlet in Switzerland where war orphans of several nationalities are being afforded the comforts of family life. Miss Wylie will live in the village while writing her story.
Paramount has purchased "Web of Days,'' a first novel by Edna Lee, to serve as a starring vehicle for Paulette Goddard. . . . Hal Wallas has obtained screen rights to the radio classic, "Sorry, Wrong Number," which was first presented on the CBS radio program, "Suspense." Anatole Litvak will be director and co-producer. . . . Producers William Pine and William Thomas have bought 'Waterfront at Midnight," an original story by Bernard Gerard.
"Sunburst," an original by Dietrich V. Hanneken and Aleck Black, has been pur
chased by Warners, and will co-star Ronald Reagan and Alexis Smith. . . . "The Miracle of Charlie Dakin," a recent Republic purchase, has been assigned to Alfred Santell for production. . . . RKO Radio has acquired "Mr. Whiskers," by Erwin Galsey. Leopold Atalst is preparing the script for early production by Theron Warth of the Sid Rogell unit.
Frank Capra has engaged Claudette Colbert for the role of the wife opposite Spencer Tracy in "State of the Union," to be produced by Liberty Films and released by MGM. . . . Alex Gottlieb will produce "Romance in High C" for Michael Curtiz Productions at Warners. Curtiz will direct the film, a musical comedy with a South American background. . . . Producer Seymour Nebenzal has signed Jean Pierre Aumont to a three-year contract calling for one picture annually.
McCrea To Star in Film on Life of Grandfather
Arrangements have been completed for Joel McCrea to star in a Flarry Sherman production for Enterprise based on the life of McCrea's grandfather, the late Albert Whipple. As yet untitled, the story will be laid in San Francisco, where Whipple operated the city's leading hotel and restaurant during the gold rush days. McCrea is preparing a synopsis from family records, prior to the assignment of a writer to do the screenplay.
"Born Bad," a dramatization of today's juvenile delinquency problem, will be produced at MGM by Robert Lord from an original story by Sid Boehm. . . . Vladimir Horowitz, the world-famed pianist, will make his screen debut in Herman Minkowsky's next production, based on the Stefan Zweig novel, "Fear." . . . Tom D'Andrea is set for an important part in Errol Flynn's next starring vehicle for Warner, "Silver River."
Roy Del Ruth Productions has acquired the rights to Cornell Woolrich's story, "Manhattan Love Song." Elliott Gibbons and Forrest Judd will do the screenplay.
COMPLETED
EAGLE-LION
Out of the Blue MONOGRAM
Kilroy Was Here High Tide (Wrather) PRC
Pioneer Justice REPUBLIC Complex (Wilder) SELZNICK
Paradine Case
STARTED
COLUMBIA
Destiny
Son of Rusty PRC
Bury Me Dead Ghost Town Renegades
REPUBLIC
Robin Hood of Texas
SCREEN GUILD
Dark Bullet (Fortune)
SHOOTING
COLUMBIA
Sweet Genevieve Blondie in the Dough
Man from Colorado Assigned to Treasury ( Kennedy-Buchman)
EAGLE-LION
Love from a Stranger
MGM
The Pirate Good News
MONOGRAM
The Hunted Song of the Wasteland
PARAMOUNT
Big Clock
PRC
Gas House Kids Go West
RKO RADIO
Memory of Love Dick Tracy vs. the
Gruesome Gang Mourning Becomes
Electra Fighting Father
Dunne Tycoon
REPUBLIC
Along the Oregon
Trail The Outcast
SELZNICK
Portrait of Jennie
20TH CENTURY. FOX
Kiss of Death Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay
Captain from Castile
UNITED ARTISTS
Atlantis (Nero)
UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL
Something in the Wind (formerly "For the Love of Mary")
Singapore
Secret Beyond the
Door (Diana) Brute Force
(Hellinger) Lost Moment (Wan
ger) (formerly
"Lost Love")
WARNERS
Treasure of the
Sierra Madre Whiplash
Voice of the Turtle Two Guys from
Texas Wallflower
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MOTION PICTURE HERALD, APRIL 19, 1947