Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (1949)

578 P R ODUC T IONS 1944 Benjamin Kline. Edited by Al Clark. Art director, Carl Anderson. Set decorations, Louis Diage. Assistant director, ]ames Nicholson. Sound technician, Jack Goodrich. CAST — Jane Darwell, Jane Frazee, Larry Parks, Nina Foch, Ross Hunter, Jimmy Lloyd, Loren Tindall, Carole Mathews, Eddie Bruce, Pat Lane, Danny Desmond, Ruth Warren, Dave Willock. Rev. 12-8-44. SHINE ON HARVEST MOON WB. Produced by William Jacobs. Directed by David Butler. Screenplay, Sam Hellman, Richard Weil, Francis Swann and James Kern. Based on original by Richard Weil. Photography by Arthur Edeson. Dialog director, Hugh Cummings. Montages by James Leicester. Special effects by Edwin A. DuPar. Art direction, Charles Novi. Set decorations, Jack McConaghy. Musical numbers staged by LeRoy Prinz. Songs, M. K. Jerome, Kim Cannon, Cliff Friend, Charlie Tobias. Vocal arrangements by Dudley Chambers. Music adapted by Heinz Roemheld. Musical director, Leo F. Forbstein. Edited by Irene Morra. Sound technicians, Dolph Thomas, David Forrest. Assistant director, Jesse Hibbs. CAST — Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Irene Manning, S. Z. Sa kail, Marie Wilson, Robert Shayne, Bob Murphy, The Four Step Brothers, The Ashburns, William Davidson, Will Stanton, James Bush, Joseph Crehan, Betty Bryson, Don Kramer, George Rogers, Harry Charles Johnson, Walter Pietilla. SHOW BUSINESS RKO. Producer-star, Eddie Cantor. Director, Edwin Marin. Screenplay, Joseph Quillan, Dorothy Bennett. Additional dialog, Irving Elinson. Original, Bert Granet. Musical director, C. Bakaleinikof f . Orchestral arrangements, Gene Rose. Musical numbers created and staged by Nick Castle. Photography, Robert de Grasse. Montage, Harold Palmer. Art direction, Albert S. D Agostino, Jack Okey. Set decorations, Darrell Silvera, Al Fields. Song, George Jessell, Ben Oakland. Edited by Theron Warth. Sound technician, Jean L. Speak. Assistant director, Eddie Donahue. CAST — Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly, Constance Moore, Don Douglas. Reviewed 4-19-44. SILENT PARTNER REP. Associate producer-director, George Blair, log, Dane Lussier. Photography, William Bradford. Musical direction, Morton Scott. Edited by Ralph Dixon. Sound, Earl Crain, Sr. Art director, Russell Kimball. Set decorations, Charles Thompson. Assistant director, Kenneth Holmes. CAST — William Henry, Beverly Lloyd, Grant Withers, Ray Walker, Joan Blair, Roland Drew, George Meeker, Wally Vernon, John Harmon, Dick Elliott, Eddy Fields, Pat Knox. Reviewed 6-7-44. SILVER CITY KID REP. Producer, Stephen Auer. Director, John English. Screenplay, Taylor Craven. Original, Bennett Cohen. Photography, Reggie Lanning. Art direction, Fred A. Ritter. Set decorations, Perry Murdock. Music score, Joseph Dubin. Edited by Charles Craft. Sound technician, Vic Appel. Assistant director, Al Wood. CAST — Allen Lane, Peggy Stewart, Wally Vernon, Twinkle Watts, Lane Chandler, Harry Wood, Frank Jaquet, Tom London, Bud Geary. Reviewed 9-1-44. SINCE YOU WENT AWAY David 0. Selzniek-UA. Directed by John Cromwell. Producer-screenplay, David O. Selznick. Based on adaptation of her book by Margaret Buell Wilder. Production designed by William L. Pereira. Photography, Stanley Cortez and Lee Garmes. Music, Max Steiner. Associate music director, Louis Forbes. Art direction, Mark Lee Kirk. Special effects. Jack Cosgrove and Clarence Slifer. Production assistant, Barbara Keon. Supervising film editor, Hal C. Kern. Set decorations, Victor A. Gangelin. Sound technician, Percy Townsend. Assistant director, Lowell Farrell. CAST — Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Shirley Temple, Monty Woolley, Lionel Barrymore, Robert Walker, Agnes Moorhead, Keenan Wynn, Albert Basserman, Nazimova, Gor don Oliver, Craig Stevens, Guy Madison, Hattie McDaniel, Lloyd Corrigan, Jane Devlin, Irving Bacon, Robert Anderson, Cindy Garner, Grady Sutton, Byron Foulger, George Chandler. Reviewed 7-19-44. THE SINGING SHERIFF UNIV. Associate producer, Bernard W. Burton. Director, Leslie Goodwins. Screenplay, Henry Blankfort and Eugene Conrad. Original, John Grey. Photography, Charles Van Enger. Musical director, Sam Freed, Jr. Art direction, John B. Goodman and Abraham Grossman. Edited by Edward Curtiss. Sound technician, Wm. Hedgcock. Assistant director, Wm. Holland. CAST — Bob Crosby, Fay McKenzie, Edward Norris, Fuzzy Knight, Samuel S. Hinds, Andrew Tombes, Joe Sawyer, Iris Adrian, Doodles Weaver, Pat Starling, Louis Da Pron, Spade Cooley and his orchestra. Reviewed 9-8-44. SING, NEIGHBOR, SING REP. Executive producer, Armand Schaefer. Associate producer, Don Brown. Director, Frank McDonald. Original screenplay, Dorrell and Stuart McGowan. Photographer, Reggie Lanning. Edited by Ralph Dixon. Sound technician. Earl Crain, Sr. Assistant director, Kenny Holmes. CAST — Roy Acuff and band, Ruth Terry, Brad Taylor, Scotty Wiseman, Lulubelle Wiseman, Joe Zinkan, Jesse Easterday, Jimmie Riddle, Beecher Kirby, Rachel Veach, Harry Cheshire, Virginia Brissac, Edward Milo, Edwin Milo, Maxine Doyle, Beverly Lloyd, Carolina Cotton, Florence Pepper, Mary Kenyon, Charles Irwin. SLICHTLY TERRIFIC UNIV. Associate producer, Alexis Thurn-Taxis. Directed by Edward F. Cline. Screenplay, Edward Dein, Stanley Davis. Original, Edith Watkins, Florence McEnany. Photography by Paul Ivano. Special photography by John P. Fulton. Art direction, John B. Goodman and Abraham Grossman. Songs by Milton Rosen and Everett Carter. Edited by Norman A. Cerf. Sound technician, Chas. Carroll. Assistant director. Seward Webb. CAST — Leon Errol, Anne Rooney, Eddie Quillan, Betty Kean, Ray Malone, Donald Novis, Lillian Cornell, Richard Lane, The Stardusters, Lorraine Krueger, 8 Rhythmeers, Jayne Forrest, Maritza Dancers. SMART GUY MONO. Producer, John T. Coyle. Director, Lambert Hillyer. Screenplay, John W. Kraft, Charles R. Marion. Story idea, Harrison Jacobs. Photography, Mack Stengler. Sound technician. Glen Glenn. Edited by Carl Pierson. Musical director, Edward Kay. Art director, Dave Milton. Assistant director, William Strohback. CAST — Rick Vallin, Bobby Larson. Veda Ann Borg, Wanda McKay, Jack La Rue. Mary Gordon, Paul McVey, Addison Richards, Roy Darmour, Jon Dawson. Reviewed 2-17-44. SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS 20th-FOX (Technicolor). Produced by Irving Starr. Director, Lewis Seiler. Screenplay, Robert Ellis, Helen Logan and Frank Gabrielson. Based on musical comedy by Herbert and Dorothy Fields. Songs, Cole Porter, Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson. Dances staged by Nick Castle. Photography, Ernest Palmer. Technicolor director, Natalie Kalmus. Musical settings designed by Joseph C. Wright. Art direction, Lyle Wheeler and Albert Hogsett. Set decorations. Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott. Special photo effects, Fred Sersen. Music direction, Emil Newman and Charles Henderson. Edited by Robert Simpson. Sound technician, W. D. Flick. Assistant director, Artie lacobson. CAST— Carmen Miranda, Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers, Sheila Ryan, Perrv Como, Glenn Langan, Roger Clark, Cara Williams, Thurston Hall, Clarence Kolb. Reviewed 10-31-44. SONC OF NEVADA REP. Producer, Armand Schaefer. Associate producer, Harry Grey. Director, Joseph Kane. Original screenplay, Gordon Kahn, Olive Cooper. Photography, Jack Marta. Art direction, Russell Kimball. Edited