Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (1949)

PRODUCT IONS 1944 555 BELLE OF THE YUKON International Pictures-RKO. (Technicolor). Produced and directed by William A. Seiter. Story by Houston Branch. Screenplay, James Edward Grant. Songs by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen. Photographed by Ray Rennahan. Technicolor direction, Natalie Kalmus. Art direction, Perry Ferguson. Set decorations, Julia Heron. Music score direction, Arthur Lange. Edited by Ernest Nims. Assistant director, Milton Carter. CAST — Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore, Bob Burns, Charles Winninger, William Marshall, Guinn Williams, Robert Armstrong, Florence Bates, Victor Kilian, Edward Fielding, Wanda McKay, Charles Soldani. Reviewed 11-29-44. BENEATH WESTERN SKIES REP. Associate producer, Lou Gray. Director, Spencer Bennett. Original, Albert de Mond. Screenplay, Albert de Mond, Robert Williams. Photography, Ernest Miller. Assistant director, H. Knight. Edited by Charles Craft. Sound technician, Richard Tyler. CAST — Bob Livingston, Smiley Burnette, Effie Laird, Tom London, Charles Miller, Frank (aquet, LeRoy Mason, Joe Strauch, Jr., Kenne Duncan, Jack Kirk, Bud Geary, Charles Dorety, Maxine Doyle. Reviewed 21 1 -44. BERMUDA MYSTERY 20th-FOX. Producer, William Girard. Director. Benjamin Stoloff. Screenplay W. Scott Darling. From a story by John Larkin. Photography, Joseph LaShelle. Art direction, James Basevi, Russell Spencer. Set decorations, Thomas Little ,AI Orenbach. Edited by Norman Colbert. Special effects, Fred Sersen. Sound, George Leverett, Harry M. Leonard. Music, Arthur Lange. Musical direction, Emil Newman. Assistant director, Tom Dudley. CAST — Preston Foster, Ann Rutherford, Charles Butterworth, Helene Reynolds, Jean Howard, Richard Lane, Roland Drew, John Eldredge, Theodore Von Eltz, Pierre Watkin, Jason Robards, Kane Richmond, Emmett Vogan, Edward Keane, Chester Clute, Holmes Herbert, Jack Chefe, Harry Seymour, Eddie Dunn, Olin Howlin, Tom Dugan, James Flavin. Reviewed 4-19-44. BETWEEN TWO WOMEN MCM. Producer, Carey Wilson. Director, Willis Goldbeck. Original screenplay, Harry Ruskin. Baced upon characters created by Max Brand. Photography, Harold Rosson. Musical score, David Snell. Dance direction, Jeannette Bate. Art direction, Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno. Set decorations, Edwin B. Willis, Ralph S. Hurst. Edited by Adrienne Fazan. Sound, Douglas Shearer. Assistant director, Alfred Raboch. CAST — Van Johnson, Lionel Barrymore, Gloria De Haven, Keenan Wynn, Marilyn Maxwell, Alma Kruger, Keye Luke, Marie Blake, Nell Craig, Edna Holland, Lorraine Miller, Walter Kingsford, Tom Trout, Shirley Patterson. Reviewed 12-20-44. BETWEEN TWO WORLDS WB. Producer, Mark Hellinger. Director, Edward A. Blatt. Screenplay, Daniel Fuchs. Based on a play by Sutton Vane. Photography, Carl Guthrie. Art direction, Hugh Reticker. Set decorations, lack McConaghy. Music score, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Music director, Leo F. Forbstein. Edited by Rudi Fehr. Sound technician, C. A. Riggs. Assistant director, Elmer Decker. CAST — John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet. Eleanor Parker, Edmund Gwenn, George Tobias, George Coulouris, Faye Emerson, Sara Allgood, Dennis King, Isobel Elsom, Gilbert Emery, Lester Matthews, Pat O'Moore. Reviewed 5-8-44. THE BIG NOISE Sol M. Wurtzel-20th-FOX. Producer, Sol M. Wurtzel. Directed by Mai St. Clair. Screenplay, W. Scott Darling. Photography, Joe MacDonald. Art direction, Lyle Wheeler, John Ewing. Set decorations, Al Orenbach. Special effects, Fred Sersen. Music score, Cyril J. Mockridge. Musical direction, Emil Newman. Edited by Norman Colbert. Sound technician, Bernard Freericks. Assistant director, Gaston Glass. CAST — Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Doris Merrick, Arthur Space, Veda Ann Borg, Bobby Blake, Frank Fenton, James Bush, Phil Van Zandt, Esther Howard, Robert Dudley, Edgar Dearing, Selmer Jackson, Harry Hayden, Francis Ford, Jack Norton, Charles Wilson, Ken Christy, Beal Wong, Louis Arco. BLACK MAGIC MONO. Producer, Philip N. Krasne, James S. Burkett. Director, Phil Rosen. Original screenplay, George Callahan. Original based upon characters created by Earl Derr Biggers. Photography, Arthur Martinelli. Art direction, Dave Milton. Music score, Alexander Laszlo. Musical director, David Chudnow. Edited by John Link. Sound technician, Max Hutchinson. Assistant director, Richard L'Estrange. CAST — Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Frances Chan, Joseph Crehan, Jacqueline de Wit, Helen Beverley, Ralph Peters, Geraldine Wall, Frank Jaquet, Edward Earle, Claudia Dell, Harry Depp, Charles Jordan, Richard Gordon. Reviewed 8-31-44. THE BLACK PARACHUTE COL. Producer, Jack Fier. Director, Lew Landers. Screenplay, Clarence Upson Young. Story, Paul Gangelin. Photography, George Meehan. Edited by Otto Meyer. Art direction, Lionel Banks, Carl Anderson. Set decorations, William Kiernan. Assistant director, Robert Saunders. Sound, Jack Goodrich. CAST — John Carradine, Osa Massen, Larry Parks, Jeanne Bates, Jonathan Hale, Ivan Triesault, Trevor Bardette, Art Smith, Robert Lowell, Charles Wagenheirti, Charles Waldron, Ernie Adams. Rev. 6-7-44. BLOCK BUSTERS MONO. Producers, Sam Katzman, Jack Dietz. Associate producer, Barney Sarecky. Director, Wallace Fox Original screenplay, Houston Branch. Photography, Marcel Le Picard. Edited by Carl Pierson. Sound technician, Harold McNiff. Assistant director, Arthur Hammond. . ' „ _., CAST — Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Billy Benedict, Jimmy Strand, Bill Chaney, Minerva Urecal, Roberta Smith, Noah Beery, Sr., Harry Langdon, Fred Pressel, Jack Oilman, Kay Marvis, Charles Murray, Jr. Reviewed 9-27-44. BLONDE FEVER MCM. Producer, William H. Wright. Director, Richard Whorf. Screenplay, Patricia Coleman. Based on play by Ferenc Molnar. Photography. Lester White. Music score, Nathaniel Shilkret. Art direction Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames. Set decorations, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle. Edited by George Hively. Sound technician, John F. Dullam. Assistant director, Raleigh Asher. . CAST — Philip Dorn, Mary Astor, Gloria Grahame, Marshall Thompson, Felix Bressart, Curt Bois, Elisabeth Risdon, Arthur Walsh. Reviewed 11-22-44. BLUEBEARD PRC. Producer, Leon Fromkess. Associate, Martin Mooney. Director, Edgar Ulmer. Original story, Arnold Phillips, Werner H. Furst. Screenplay, Pierre Gendron. Photography, Jockey A. Feindel. Art direction, Paul Palmentola. Musical director, Leo Erdody. Edited by Carl Pierson. Sound technician, John Carter. Assistant director, Raoul Pagel. CAST — John Carradine, lean Parker, Nils Asther, Ludwig Stossel, George Pembroke, Teala Lormg, Sonia Sorel, Iris Adrian, Henry Kolker, Emmett Lynn, Patti McCarty, Carrie Deven, Anne Sterling. Reviewed 10-9-44. BORDERTOWN TRAILS REP. Producer, Lou Gray. Director, Lesley Selander. Original screenplay, Bob Williams, Jesse Duffy. Photography, Ernie Miller. Edited by Charles Craft. Sound technician, Earl Crain, Sr. Assistant director, Joseph Dill. CAST — Smiley Burnette, Sunset Carson, Weldon Heyburn, Ellen Lowe. Reviewed 8-25-44. BOSS OF RAWHIDE PRC. Producer, Alfred Stern. Director-original screenplay, Elmer Clifton. Photography, Robert Cline. Musical director, Lee Zahler. Sound technician, Lyle E. Willey. Set decorations, Harry Reif. Edited by Charles Henkel, Jr. Assistant director, Clark Paylow. CAST — Dave "Tex" O'Brien, Jim Newill, Cuv