Motion Picture Herald (1954)

2 Oth-FOX SETS SIGHTS ON BIG YEAR AHEAD "DESIREE," above, has Marlon Brando starring as Napoleon and Jean Simmons in the title role of the girl he loves and leaves. Below, "Carmen Jones," the musical drama based on Bizet's opera, starring Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge as the lovers. producer-director Otto Preminger's "Carmen Jones," musical drama in color by DuLuxe, starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge and Pearl Bailey, with music by Georges Bizet and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. There will be two releases in November: "Black Widow," produced and directed by Nunnally Johnson, starring Ginger Rogers, Gene Tierney, Van Heflin, George Raft and Peggy Ann Garner, and "Desiree," the screen adapatation of the best-selling novel, starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie and Cameron Mitchell, produced by Julian Blaustein and directed by Henry Kosfer. Irving Berlin's "There's No Business Like Show Business," starring Marilyn Monroe, Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Dan Dailey and Mitzi Gaynor, will have its premiere in late December and be released nationally in January. The picture was produced by Sol C. Siegel and directed by Walter Lang. For January release there also will be "Prince of Players," starring Richard Burton, Maggie MacNamara and John Derek, produced by Philip Dunne and directed by Henry Koster. Pictures now set for release through June include: "The Racers," starring Kirk Douglas and Gilbert Roland, produced by Julian Blaustein and directed by Henry Koster, February; "White Feather," starring Robert Wagner and Terry Moore, February; "That Lady," starring Olivia DeHavilland, Gilbert Roland and Paul Scofield, produced by Sy Bartlett and directed by Terrence Young, March; "Untamed," starring Susan Hayward and Tyrone Power, produced by Bert Friedlob and William Bacher and directed by Henry King, March; "A Man Called Peter," starring Richard Todd and Jean Peters, produced by Samuel Engel and directed by Henry Koster, April; "Soldier of Fortune," starring Clark Gable, April; "Daddy Long Legs," starring Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron, produced by Sol C. Siegel, May, and "Lord Vanity," for June. Another 1955 release will be Billy Wilder's screen adaptation of the New York stage hit, "The Seven Year Itch," starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell. Properties out of which the remainder of the year's productions will be chosen include such promising items "The King and I," "The Girl in The Red Velvet Swing" which is to star Marilyn Monroe, "Jewell of the Bengal," starring Jimmy Stewart, "Sir Walter Raleigh" and "The Greatest Story Ever Told." "THERE'S No Business Like Show Business," above, sets out to prove just that with an all-star cast headed by Marilyn Monroe, Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey and Donald O'Connor. Below another of 20tl i-Fox's star lineups, with Ginger Rogers, Gene Tierney, Van Heflin and Peggy Ann Garner in Nunnally Johnson's "Black Widow." Twentieth century-fox will produce at least 24 films in CinemaScope and color in 1955, Spyros Skouras, president, revealed last week in New York on his return from Hollywood and conferences with Darryl Zanuck, vice-president in charge of production. The 24 films, eight of which will be made in England, said Mr. Skouras, will contribute to an over-all total of approximately 100 films in CinemaScope from all studios in the next 12 months. The role CinemaScope has played in the "THE RACERS," above, stars Kirk Douglas in an action drama about the guys who fly on four-wheels. Gilbert Roland also is featured in the film for which footage was shot on location abroad. generally recognized upturn in all motion picture grosses was specifically dramatized by 20th-Fox earlier with the announcement that the company's third quarter earnings this year reached an all-time high. Now that it has a constant flow of CinemaScope product coming out of its studios — there will be an average of at least two a month in 1955 — and there are upwards of I 1,000 theatres equipped to handle the process, 20th-Fox confidently expects its phenomenal earnings to be maintained. The company's lineup for the rest of the year includes the October release of 26 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, OCTOBER 16, 1954