Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1951)

300 HOLLYWOOD TALENT LEADERS HIT THE ROAD Get Behind Big Movietime Drive by Appearances CTADC fWfKO II C A in Exchange Areas ^ T W* The official list of the Hollyivood personalities ivho ivill go on tour October 8 in behalf of Movietime U.S.A., and the areas they are slated to visit was announced this iveek. Exhibitors are advised to determine from their regional chairmen the exact times for star appearances in their own towns. The list: Close to 200 prominent Hollywood personalities including actors and actresses, directors, producers and writers, were this week busy packing their bags as they prepared to launch the third important kick-off phase of Movietime U.S.A., personal appearances in every exchange area of the country. Generally, the plans call for 131 players, 33 writers, 16 directors and 14 producers to be divided into squads, as it were, with each squad visiting the respective governors in the 48 states October 8, opening day of the personality tours. After that, the arrangements are in the hands of the regional committees who will arrange for subsequent meetings with the press and public (not in theatres), appearances before various groups and the like. Additional Stars Are Expected to Participate Word from Hollywood indicates manv more of the goodwill ambassadors are expected to be “signed up’’ by the time the project gets under way. Meanwhile, special publicity kits have been sent from Hollywood to the regional committees to assist them in exploiting the appearances. This material includes still shots, stories and feature articles. Two of the most important areas in the U. S. — New York and Washington — will be the scene of particularly concentrated activities with a visit to President Truman from the star contingent arranged in Washington, and a motorcade to City Hall, Times Square, Harlem, the Bronx, New Rochelle, Yonkers, Brooklyn and Long Island set for New York October 11 and 12, in addition to a huge luncheon October 9, attended by 1,000 prominent persons, at the WaldorfAstoria Hotel. The personality tour follows closely on the heels of the gigantic advertising campaign whose feature is full and half-page ads in behalf of the Council of Motion Picture Organizations’ project in hundreds of newspapers. The ad campaign emphasizes the general advantages of film-going and the individual ads include stills from current and forthcoming releases. Wide Attention to Films By Leading Magazines The news and editorial side of the newspaper business, as well as a number of magazines, have come through with flying colors in support of Movietime. Besides features in magazines like Look, Collier’s, Business Week, Coronet and others, there have been editorials, stories and columnists’ comments. NEW YORK-BUFFALO-ALBANY: Gordon MacRae, John Carroll, Teresa Wright, William Bendix, Dana Andrews, Vanessa Brown, Ray Milland, Charlton Heston; Writers Leonard Spiegelgass, Karl Tunberg, Allen Rivkin; Directors Fred DeCordova, Henry Potter. INDIANAPOLIS: Debra Paget, Hoagy Carmichael, Forrest Tucker, Rocky Lane; Writer Phil Epstein; Director Norman Foster. CINCINNATI (INCLUDING FRANKFORT, KY.) : Keefe Brasselle, Dean Jagger, Edmund O’Brien, Barbara Bates; Writers William Lively, Wells Root. ATLANTA : Joan Bennett, James Craig, Kay Brown; Producer Walter Wanger; Writer Lam.ar Trotti; Director Robert Pirosh. NEW HAVEN : Wendell Corey, Raymond Massey, Frank McHugh, Joyce McKenzie; Writer Albert Brodney; Director Albert Lewin. PHILADELPHIA: Zero Mostel, Claude Rains, Richard Arlen, Wayne Morris, Beverly Tyler, Paula Raymond; Writer F. Hugh Herbert; Producer Carey Wilson. WASHINGTON, D. C. (INCLUDING RICHMOND, VA., and ANNAPOLIS, MD.) : Jane Greer, Debbie Reynolds, Randolph Scott and Mrs. Scott, Preston Foster, Myrna Dell, Jane Nigh; Writer Virginia Kellogg; Director John Ford. CHARLOTTE: Nancy Davis, Craig Hill, Penny Edwards; Writer Douglas Morrow; Producer Irving Asher. BOSTON : Dorothy Lamour, Jeanne Crain, George Murphy, Billy DeWolfe, James Whitmore; Writers Emmet Lavery, Oliver H. P. Garrett. PORTLAND, ORE., and SEATTLE: Victor Jory, Bruce Bennett, Julie Bishop, Joseph Calleia; Writers Henry Ephron, Sloan Nibley; Director Edward Berns. ST. LOUIS: Faith Domergue, Lew Ayres, Craig Stevens, Monica Lewis ; Writers Edmund Hartman, Frank Nugent; Producer Sol Seigel. MILWAUKEE: Pat O’Brien, Catherine McLeod, William Demarest, Viveca Lindfors, Harry Carey Jr.; Writer Richard Breen; Director George Marshall. KANSAS CITY: Dennis O’Keefe, Sheila Ryan; Gordon MacRae (from New York for one day); Writer Adele Buffington; Producers George Sidney, Harry Tugend. DENVER: Anne Baxter, Doris Day, George O’Brien, Spring Byington, Raymond Walburn, Richard Widmark; Writers Nathaniel Curtis, Dorothy Hughes; Producer Bryan Foy. OMAHA; Marjorie Main, Regis Toomey, John Derek, Doris Day (from Denver for one day); Writer John Larkin; Director Roy Rowland. MINNEAPOLIS: Robert Young, Marta Toren, Dorothy Patrick, Ann Doran ; Writers Irving Fielgund, Don McGuire ; Producer Robert Bassler. DES MOINES: Donna Reed, Macdonald Carey, Seven Members of Paramount’s Golden Circle; Writer Alex Gottlieb; Director John Sturgis; Producer Robert Sisk. DETROIT : Walter Pidgeon, Sally Forrest, Gale Storm; Writer Valentine Davies ; Director Lewis Allen ; Producer Sam Zimbalist. CLEVELAND: Jeff Chandler, Geraldine Brooks, Roddy McDowell; Writers Jesse Lasky Jr., Harry Ruskin; Director Fletcher Markle. JACKSONVILLE: Brian Donlevy, Michael O’Shea, Mala Powers, Dale Robertson, Michael Rennie, Constance Smith; Director Alfred Hitchcock. MEMPHIS: Ricardo Montalban, Ward Bond, Julie Adams, Eileen Christy, Smiley Burnette, John Derek (from Omaha for one day) ; Producer Anthony Veiller. NEW ORLEANS: William Lundigan, Peggy Dow, Benay Venuta, Fred Clark; Writer Borden (3hase; Director John Farrow. OKLAHOMA CITY : Jean Peters, Tim Holt, Martha Vickers, Charles Starrett, RoscoeAtes; Writer M. Coates Webster; Director A1 Rogell. PITTSBURGH (INCLUDING HARRISBURG and CHARLESTON, W. VA.) : Broderick Crawford, Dan Duryea, Vera-Ellen, Ann Francis, Phil Reed; Writer Ernest Pascal; Producer Sol Lesser. CHICAGO : Danny Kaye, Barbara Hale, Bill Williams, Paul Harvey, Otto Kruger, Joan Hagen; Writer Sy Bartlett; Producers William Perlberg, George Seaton. DALLAS : Dan Dailey, Keenan Wynn, Chill Wills, John Wayne, Greer Garson, Seven Members of Paramount’s Golden Circle; Director King Vidor; Producer Jesse Lasky, Sr. SALT LAKE CITY : Doris Day (from Denver and Omaha for one day), Lucille Norman, Bob Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter; Writer Robert D. Andrews. \9 MOTION PICTURE HERALD. OCTOBER 6, 1951