Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (1949)

PRODUC T I O N S 19 4 4 567 JUNGLE WOMAN UNIV. Associate producer, Will Cowan. Directed by Reginald LeBorg. Screenplay by Bernard Schubert, Henry Sucher, Edward Dein. Original by Henry Sucher. Photography by Jack MacKenzie. Dialog director, Emory Horger. Art direction by John B. Goodman, Abraham Grossman. Set decorations, Ray Robinson. Edited by Ray Snyder. Sound technician, Jess Moulin. Assistant director, Melville Shyer. CAST — Evelyn Ankers, J. Carroll Naish, Samuel S. Hinds, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille, Acquanetta, Richard David, Nana Bryant, Pierre Watkin, Christian Rub, Alex Craig, Edward M. Hyans, Jr., Richard Powers. KANSAS CITY KITTY COL. Producer, Ted Richmond. Director, Del Lord. Original screenplay, Manny Seff. Additional dialog, Monte Brice. Photography, Burnett Guffey. Art direction. Lionel Banks, Carl Anderson. Set decorations, Joseph Kish. Musical director, Marlin Skiles. Song, Walter Donaldson, Edgar Leslie. Edited by Gene Havlick. Sound technician, Phil Faulkner. Assistant director, Rex Bailey. CAST — Joan Davis, Bob Crosby, Jane Frazee, Erik Rolf, Tim Ryan, Robert Emmett Keane, the Williams Brothers, Matt Willis, John Bond, Charles Wilson, Lee Gotch, Charles Williams, William Newell. Reviewed 8-25-44. THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM 20th-FOX. Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Directed by John M. Stahl. Screenplay, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Nunnally Johnson. From novel by A. J. Cronin. Photography, Arthur Miller. Special photographic effects, Fred Sersen. Music score, Alfred Newman. Orchestral arrangements, Edward Powell. Art direction, James Basevi, William Darling. Set decorations, Thomas Little, Frank E. Hughes. Edited by James B. Clark. Sound technician, Eugene Grossman. Assistant director, F. E. Johnston. CAST — Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner, Roddy McDowell, Edmund Gwenn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Peggy Ann Garner, Jane Ball, James Gleason, Ann Revere, Ruth Nelson, Benson Fong, Leonard Strong, Philip Ahn, Arthur Shields, Edith Barrett, Sara Allgood, Richard Loo, Ruth Ford, Kevin O'Shea, H. T. Tsiang, Ai-Lan Chen, Eunice Soo-Hoo, Dennis Hoey, J. Anthony Hughes, Abner Biberman, George Nokes. Reviewed 12-1344. KISMET MCM. Producer, Everett Riskin. Director, William Dieterle. Screenplay, John Meehan. Based on play by Edward Knoblock. Photography, Charles Rosher. Music score, Herbert Stothart. Orchestral collaboration, Murray Cutter. Songs, Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg. Art direction, Cedric Gibbons, Daniel B. Catheart. Set decorations, Edwin B. Willis, Richard Pefferle. Special effects, Warren Newcombe. Edited by Ben Lewis. Sound technician, James Z. Flaster. Assistant director, Marvin Stuart. CAST — Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig, Hugh Herbert, Florence Bates, Edward Arnold, Joy Ann Page, Harry Davenport, Hobart Cavanaugh, Robert Warwick. Reviewed 8-22-44. KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY Producers Corp.-UA. Produced-directed by Harry Joe Brown. From stage play by Maxwell Anderson. Music by Kurt Weill. Adaptation, Thomas Lennon. Screenplay by David Boehm, Rowland Leigh and Harold Goldman. Songs by Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Forman Brown, Werner R. Heymann, Franz Steininger. Music direction by Jacques Samossoud. Photography, Phil Tannura. Production designed by Bernard Herzbrun. Music score by Werner R. Heymann. Music editor, Walter Hannemann. Set decorations, Julia Heron. Edited by John F. Link. Sound technician, Benjamin Winkler. Assistant director, Raoul Pagel. CAST — Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling. Ernest Cossart, Shelley Winter, Johnny "Scat" Davis, Otto Kruger, Richard Hale, Fritz Feld, Chester Conklin, Ferdinand Munier, Percy Kilbride, Charles Judels, Herbert Corthell, Carmen Amaya. Reviewed 2-22-44. LADIES COURAGEOUS Walter Wanger-UA. Directed by John Rawlins. Original screenplay, Norman Reilly Raine and Dorris Gilbert. Suggested by book, "Looking For Trouble," by Virginia Spencer Cowles. Photography, Hal Mohr. Musical score direction, Dimitri Tiomkin. Art direction, John B. Goodman. Set decorations, R. A. Gausman, A. J. Gilmore. Special photography, John P. Fulton. Music by Lambilotte. Edited by Philip Cahn. Sound technician, William Fox. Assistant director, William Tummel. CAST — Loretta Young, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Diana Barrymore, Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers, Phillip Terry, David Bruce, Lois Collier, June Vincent, Samuel S. Hinds, Richard Fraser, Frank Jenks, Janet Shaw, Kane Richmond. Reviewed 3-16-44. LADIES OF WASHINGTON 20th-FOX. Produced by William Cirard. Directed by Louis King. Original screenplay, Wanda Tuchock. Photography, Charles Clarke. Art direction, James Basevi, Leland Fuller. Set decorations, Thomas Little, Ernest Lansing. Special photographic effects, Fred Sersen. Music score, Cyril J. Mockridge. Music direction, Emil Newman. Edited by Nick De Maggio. Sound technician, Jesse Bastian. Assistant director, Sam Schneider. CAST — Trudy Marshall, Ronald Graham, Anthony Quinn, Sheila Ryan, Robert Bailey, Beverly Whitney, Jackie Paley, Carleton Young, John Philliber, Robin Raymond, Doris Merrick, Barbara Booth, Jo-Carroll Dennison, Lillian Porter, Harry Shannon, Ruby Dandridge, Charles D. Brown, Pierre Watkin, Nella Walker, Ina Gest, Rosalind Keith, Edna Mae Jones. Reviewed 5-17-44. THE LADY AND THE MONSTER REP. Associate producer-director, George Sherman. Screenplay by Dane Lussier, Frederick Kohner. Based on novel, "Donovan's Brain," by Curt Siodmak. Photographed by John Alton. Music score, Walter Scharf. Art direction, Russell Kimball. Set decorations, Otto Siegel. Edited by Arthur Roberts. Sound technician, Earl Crain, Sr. Assistant director, Bud Springsteen. CAST — Vera Hruba Ralston, Richard Arlen, Erich Von Stroheim, Helen Vinson, Mary Nash, Sidney Blackmer, Janet Martin, Bill Henry, Charles Cane, Juanita Quigley, Josephine Dillon, Antonio Triana, Lola Montes. LADY IN THE DARK PARA. (Technicolor). Executive producer, B. G. DeSylva. Associate producer, Richard Blumenthal. Director, Mitchell Leisen. Screenplay, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett. Original play, Moss Hart. Photography, Ray Rennahan. Technicolor direction, Natalie Kalmus. Special photographic effects, Gordon Jennings, Paul Lerpae. Process photography, Farciot Edouart. Art direction, Hans Dreier. Settings, Raoul Pene du Bois. Set decorations, Ray Moyer. Music score-direction, Robert Emmett Dolan. Music arrangers (vocal), Joseph J. Lilley; (orchestral), Robert Russell Bennett. Musical associate, Arthur Franklin. Songs, Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen, Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin. Edited by Alma Macrorie. Sound technicians, Earl Hayman, Walter Oberst. Assistant directors, Chico Alonso, Richard McWhorter. CAST — Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Warner Baxter, Jon Hall, Mischa Auer, Barry Sullivan, Phyllis Brooks, Mary Philips, Edward Fielding, Don Loper, Mary Parker, Catherine Craig, Marietta Canty, Virginia Farmer, Fay Helm, Gail Russell, Marian Hall, Kay Linaker, Harvey Stephens, Billy Daniels, Georgia Backus, Rand Brooks. Pepito Perez, Charles Smith. Mary MacLaren, Paul McVey, Paul Pierce, George Mayon. Reviewed 2-10-44. LADY IN THE DEATH HOUSE PRC. Producer, Jack Schwarz. Associate producer, Harry D. Edwards. Director, Steve Sekely. Screenplay, Harry O. Hoyt. Original, Frederick C. Davis. Photography, Gus Peterson. Assistant director, Edward Davis. Original music, Jan Gray. Musical supervision, David Chudnow. Art direction, Frank Sylos. Set decorations, Harry Reif, George Bahr. Sound technician, Frank Webster. Edited by Robert O. Crandall. CAST — Jean Parker, Lionel Atwill, Douglas Fowley, Marcia Mae Jones, Cy Kendall. John Maxwell, Robert Middlemass, George Irving, Forrest Taylor.