Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (1949)

P R O D U C T I O N S 19 4 4 571 Miljan, Gavin Muir, Ian Wolfe, Robert Homans, Marion Martin, Lloyd Ingraham. MILLION DOLLAR KID MONO. Producer, Sam Katzman, Jack Dietz. Director, Wallace Fox. Associate producer, Barney Sarecky. Original-screenplay, Frank Young. Photography, Marcel Le Picard. Art dectorations, Ernest Hickson. Edited by Carl Pierson. Sound technician, Gilbert E. Melov. Assistant director. Art Hammond. CAST — Leo Corcey, Huntz Hall, Cabriel Dell, Billy Benedict, Louise Currie, Noah Beery, Sr., Iris Adrian, Herbert Heyes, Robert Greig, johnny Duncan, Stanley Brown, Patsy Moran, Mary Gordon, Al Stone, Dave Durand, Bud Gorman, Jimmy Strand, Pat Costello. Reviewed 8-18-44. MINISTRY OF FEAR PARA. Producer-screenplay, Seton I. Miller. Directed by Fritz Lang. Based on novel by Graham Greene. Photographed by Henry Sharp. Art direction, Hans Dreier, Hal Periera. Set decorations, Bert Granger. Music score, Victor Young. Edited by Archie Marshek. Sound technician, W. C. Smith. Assistant director, George Templeton. CAST — Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram, Dan Duryea, Alan Napier, Erskine Sanford, Thomas Louden. Aminta Dyne, Eustace Wyatt, Mary Field, Byron Foulger, Lester Mathews. Reviewed 10-18-44. MINSTREL MAN PRC. Producer, Leon Fromkess. Associate producer, Harry Revel. Director, Joseph H. Lewis. Photography, Marcel Le Picard. Screenplay, Irwin Franklyn, Pierre Gendron. Original, Martin Mooney, Raymond L. Schrock Art direction, Paul Palmentola. Dance director, Johnny Boyle. Music score, Ferde Crofe. Musical director, Leo Erdody. Songs by Harry Revel, Paul Webster. Edited by Carl Pierson. Sound technician, Wm. H. Lynch. Assistant director, Don Verk. CAST — Benny Fields, Gladys George, Alan Dinehart, Roscoe Karns, Judy Clark, Jerome Cowan, Molly Lamont, John Raitt, Lee White, Eddie Kane, The Ernestos. THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK PARA. Producer-director-original screenplay, Preston Sturges. Photography by John Seitz. Art direction by Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegte. Set decorations, Steve Seymour. Music score by Leo Shuken and Charles Bradshaw. Edited by Stuart Gilmore. Sound technicians, Hugo Grenzbach, Walter Oberst. Assistant director, Eddie Bernoudy. CAST — Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Porter Hall, Emory Parnell, Alan Bridge, Julius Tannen, Victor Potel, Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff. Reviewed 1-5-44. THE MISSING JUROR COL. Producer, Wallace MacDonald. Director, Oscar Boetticher, Jr. Screenplay, Charles O'Neal. Story, Leon Abrams, Richard Hill Wilkinson. Photography, L. W. O'Connell. Edited by Paul Borofsky. Art director, George Brooks. Set decorations, George Montgomery. Musical direction, Mischa Bakaleinikoff . Assistant director, Ivan Volkman. Sound technician, John Goodrich. CAST — Jim Bannon, Janis Carter, George Macready, Jean Stevens, Joseph Crehan, Carole Mathews, Cliff Clark, Edmund Cobb, Mike Mazurki, George Lloyd. Reviewed 12-26-44. THE MOJAVE FIREBRAND REP. Associate producer, Eddy White. Director, Spencer Bennett. Original screenplay, Norman S. Hall. Photography. Ernest Miller. Edited by Harry Keller. Sound, Fred Stahl. Art director, Fred Ritter. Set decorations, George Milo. Musical score, Mort Glickman. Assistant director, Joe Dill. CAST — Bill Elliott, Ceorge "Gabby" Hayes. Anne Jeffreys, LeRoy Mason, Jack Ingram, Harry McKim, Karl Hackett, Forrest Taylor, Hal Price, Marshall Reed, Kenne Duncan, Bud Geary, jack Kirk, Fred Graham, Tom London, Larry Steers. Reviewed 1 -21-44. THE MONSTER MAKER Sig Neufeld-PRC. Producer, Sigmund Neufeld. Director, Sam Newfield. Screenplay, Pierre Gendron, Martin Mooney. Original, Lawrence Williams. Photography, Robert Cline. Art direction, Paul Palmentola. Set direction, Elias H. Reif. Music score, Albert Glasser. Musical supervision, David Chudnow. Edited by H. Todd. Sound technician, Ferol Redd. Assistant director, Mel DeLay. CAST — j. Carroll Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Wanda McKay, Terry Frost, Glenn Strange, Alexander Pollard, Sam Flint, Ace (dog). Reviewed 3-6-44. MOONLIGHT AND CACTUS UNIV. Associate producer, Frank Gross. Director, Eddie Cline. Original screenplay, Eugene Conrad, Paul Gerard Smith. Photography, Jerome Ash. Art direction John B. Goodman, Martin Obzina. Set decorations, R. A. Gausman, Leigh Smith. Musical arrangements, Vic Schoen. Dances staged by Charles Curran. Edited by Ray Snyder. Sound technician, Charles Carroll. Assistant director, Seward Webb. CAST — Patti Andrews, Maxine Andrews, Laverne Andrews, Leo Carrillo, Elyse Knox, Tom Seidel, Shemp Howard, Eddie Quillan, Murray Alper, Tom Kennedy, Frank Lackteen, Minerva Urecal, Mitch Ayres and his orchestra. MOON OVER LAS VEGAS UNIV. Producer-director, Jean Yarbrough. Screenplay by George Jeske and Clyde Bruckman. Original by George Jeske. Photographed by Jerome Ash. Art direction, John B. Goodman, Abraham Grossman. Set decorations, R. A. Gausman. Edited by Milton Carruth. Sound technician, Wm. Fox. Assistant director, Wm. Tummel. CAST — Anne Cwynne, David Bruce, Vera Vague, Vivian Austin, Alan Dinehart, Lee Patrick, Joe Sawyer, Milburn Stone, Addison Richards, Mantan Moreland, Eddie Dunn, Tom Dugan. Pat West, Muni Seroff Gene Austin, Sherrell Sisters, Connie Haines, Cappella & Patricia, Lillian Cornell, Ann Triola, Jimmy Dodd, The Sportsmen. MR. SKEFFINCTON WB. Producers-screenplay, Philip G. and Julius J. Epstein. Director. Vincent Sherman. From story by "Elizabeth." Photography by Ernest Haller. Montages by James Leicester. Art direction, Robert Haas. Set decorations, Fred M. MacLean. Music score, Franz Waxman. Orchestral arrangements by Leonid Raab. Musical director, Leo F. Forbstein. Edited by Ralph Dawson. Sound technician, Robert B. Lee. Assistant director, William Kissel. CAST — Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Richard Waring, Marjorie Riordan, Robert Shayne, John Alexander, Jerome Cowan, Johnny Mitchell, Dorothy Peterson, Peter Whitney, Bill Kennedy, Tom Stevenson, Halliwell Hobbes, Sylvia Arslan, Bunny Sunshine. Gigi Perreau, Dolores Gray, Walter Kingsford, Molly Lamont. MRS. PARKINCTON MCM. Produced by Leon Gordon. Directed by Tay Garnett. Screenplay by Robert Thoeren, Polly James. Based on novel by Louis Bromfield. Photography, Joseph Ruttenberg. Special effects, A. Arnold Gillespie, Warren Newcombe, Danny Hall. Art direction, Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell Set decorations, Edwin R. Willis, McLean Nisbet. Musical score, Bronislau Kaper. Edited by George Boemler. Sound technician, Newell Sparks. Assistant director, Marvin Stuart. CAST — Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper, Frances Rafferty, Tom Drake, Peter Lawford, Dan Duryea, Hugh Marlowe, Selena Royle, Fortunio Bonanova, Lee Patrick, Harry Cording, Celia Travers, Mary Servoss, Rod Cameron, Helen Freeman, Tala Birell, Hans Conried, Gerald Oliver North and the Saint Luke's Choristers. Reviewed 9-14-44. MR. WINKLE GOES TO WAR COL. Producer, jack Moss. Assistant to producer, Norman Deming. Director, Alfred E. Green. Screenplay, Waldo Salt, George Corey, Louis Solomon. From novel by Theodore Pratt. Photography, Joseph