Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (1949)

580 PRODUCTIONS 1944 STRANGE AFFAIR COL. Producer, Burt Kelly. Director, Alfred E. Creen. Original, Oscar Saul. Screenplay, Oscar Saul, Eve Greene, Jerome Odium. Additional dialog, Jack Henley. Photography. Franz F. Planer. Art direction, Lionel Banks, Walter Holscher. Set decorations, George Montgomery. Musical score, Marlin Skiles. Musical director, M. W. Stoloff. Edited by Richard Fantl. Sound technician, Jack Goodrich. Assistant director, William Mull. CAST — Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Marguerite Chapman, Edgar Buchanan, Nina Foch, Hugo Haas, Shemp Howard, Frank Jenks, Erwin Kaiser, Tonio Selwart, John Wengraf . Reviewed 1 1 -8-44. THE SULLIVANS 20th-FOX. Producer, Sam Jaffe. Associate producer, Robert T. Kane. Director, Lloyd Bacon. Screenplay, Mary C. McCall, Jr. Original, Edward Doherty, Jules Schermer. Photography, Lucien Andriot. Special photographic effects, Fred Sersen. Art direction, James Basevi, Leland Fuller. Set decorations, Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode. Musical direction, Alfred Newman. Music, Cyril J. Mockridge. Edited by Louis Loeffler. Sound technician, George Leverett. Assistant director, Percy Ikerd. CAST — Thomas Mitchell, Anne Baxter, Selena Royle, Edward Ryan, Trudy Marshall, John Campbell, James Cardwell, John Alvin, George Offerman, Jr., Roy Roberts, Ward Bond, Mary McCarty, Bobby Driscoll, Nancy June Robinson. Marvin Davis, Buddy Swan, Billy Cummings, John Calkins, John Nesbitt, Selmer Jackson, Harry Shannon, Barbara Brown, Larry Thompson, Addison Richards. Reviewed 23-44. SUMMER STORM Angelus Pictures-UA. Producer, Seymour Nebenzal. Associate producer, Rudolph Joseph. Director, Douglas Sirk. From Anton Chekov's "The Shooting Party." Adaptation, Michael O'Hara and Douglas Sirk. Screenplay, Rowland Leigh. Added dialog, Robert Thoeren. Photography, Archie Stout. Art direction, Rudi Feld. Set decorations, Emile Kuri. Music score-musical direction, Karl Hajos. Edited by Gregg Tallas. Sound technician, Fred Lau. Assistant director, Bill McGarry. CAST — George Sanders, Linda Darnell, Anna Lee, Lori Lahner, Hugo Haas, Sig Ruman, John Phil liber, John Abbott, Edward Everett Horton, Andre Chariot, Mary Servoss, John Abbott, Robert Greig, Nina Koschetz, Paul Hurst, Charles Trowbridge, Byron Foulger, Charles Wagenheim, Frank Orth, Elizabeth Russell, Ann Staunton, Jimmy Conlin, Kate MacKenna, Fred Nurney, Sarah Padden, Sharon McManus, Gabriel Lionoff, Mike Mazurki, Woody Charles, Rex Evans, Kenneth Jones, Anita Venge, Frances Morris, Constance Purdy, Don Brodie, Joyce Gates. Reviewed 5-18-44. SUNDAY DINNER FOR A SOLDIER 20th-FOX. Produced by Walter Morosco. Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Screenplay, Wanda Tuchok and Melvin Levy. Based on stoty by Martha Cheavens. Music score, Alfred Newman. Orchestral arrangements, Edward Powell. Photography, Joe MacDonald. Art direction, Lyle Wheeler, Russell Spencer. Set decorations, Thomas Little and Fred J. Rode. Special photographic effects, Fred Sersen. Edited by J. Watson Webb. Sound technician, Alfred Bruzlin, Assistant director, Eli Dunn. CAST — Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Charles Winninger, Anne Revere, Connie Marshall, Chill Wills, Robert Bailey, Bobby Driscoll, Jane Darwell, Billy Cummings, Marietta Canty, Barbara Sears, Larry Thompson, Bernie Sell, Chester Conklin. Reviewed 12-6-44. SUNDOWN VALLEY COL. Producer, Jack Fier. Director, Benjamin Kline. Story and screenplay, Luci Ward. Photography, George Meehan. Edited by Aaron Stell. Art direction, Lionel Banks, Gano Chittenden. Set decorations, Jack W. Pascoe. Sound technician, Jack Goodrich. Assistant director. Ray Nazarro. CAST — Charles Starrett, Dub Taylor, Jeanne Bates, the Tennessee Ramblers, Jimmy Wakely and His Saddle Pals, Jessie Arnold, Clancy Cooper, Jack Ingram. Wheeler Oakman, Joel Friedman, Grace Leonard, Eddie Laughton, Forrest Taylor. THE SUSPECT UNIV. Producer, Islin Auster. Director, Robert Siodmak. Screenplay, Bertram Millhauser. Adaptation, Arthur T, Horman. From novel by James Donald. Photography, Paul Ivano. Music score-direction, Frank Skinner. Art direction, John B. Goodman, Martin Obzina. Set decorations, Russell A. Gausman, E. R. Robinson. Edited by Arthur Hilton. Sound technician, Charles Carroll. Assistant director, Wm. Tummel. CAST — Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens, Stanley C. Ridges, Henry Daniell, Rosalind Ivan, Molly Lamont, Raymond Severn, Eve Amber, Maude Eburne, Clifford Brooke. Reviewed 12-22-44. SWEET AND LOW-DOWN 20th-FOX. Producer, William Le Baron. Director, Archie Mayo. Screenplay, Richard English. Original, Richard English, Edward Haldeman. Photography, Lucien Ballard. Art direction, Lyle Wheeler, Maurice Ransford. Set decorations, Thomas Little, Walter M. Scott. Special photographic effects, Fred Sersen. Musical direction, Emil Newman and Charles Henderson. Edited by Dorothy Spencer. Sound technician, W. D. Flick. Assistant director, Saul Wurtzel. CAST — Benny Goodman and his band, Linda Darnell, Lynn Bari, Jack Oakie, James Cardwell, Allyn Joslyn, John Campbell, Roy Benson, Dickie Moore, Buddy Swan, Beverly Hudson, Dorothy Vaughan, George Lessey, Ray Mayer, Billy Dawson, Harry McKim, Robert Emmett Keane, Hope Landin, William Colby. Reviewed 8-3-44. SWEETHEARTS OF THE U.S.A. MONO. Producer, Lester Cutler. Associate producer, George M. Merrick. Assistant producer, Max Kravetz. Director, Lee Collins. Screenplay, Arthur St. Claire, Sherman Lowe, Mary Sheldon. Original, Mary Sheldon. Photography, Ira Morgan. Art direction, Paul Palmentola. Musical director, David Chudnow. Songs, Lew Pollack and Charles Newman. Edited by George M. Merrick. Sound technician, Corson Jowett. Assistant director, William L. Nolte. CAST — Una Merkel, Donald Novis Lillian Cornell, Joel Friend, Harry "Parkyakarkus" Einstein, Ralph Sanford, Cobina Wright, Sr., Judith Gibson, Vince Barnett, Marion Martin, Joseph Kirk, Phil Ohman, Jan Garber, Henry King and orchestra. Reviewed 43-44. SWINC HOSTESS Sig Neufeld-PRC. Producer, Sigmund Neufeld. Director, Sam Newfield. Original screenplay, Louise Rousseau, Gail Davenport. Photography, Jack Greenhalgh. Art direction, Paul Palmentola. Set decorations, Elias H. Reif. Musical director, David Chudnow. Songs, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans, Lewis Belin. Edited by Holbrook N. Todd. Sound technician, Max Hutchinson. Assistant director, Melville DeLay. CAST — Martha Tilton, Iris Adrian, Charles Collins, Cliff Nazarro, Harry Holman, Emmett Lynn, Betty Brodel, Clare Rochelle, Paul Porcali, Terry Frost, Philip Van Zandt, Earle Bruce. Reviewed 1 1-3-44. SWINC IN THE SADDLE COL. Producer, Jack Fier. Director, Lew Landers. Assistant director James Nicholson. Story by Maurice Leo. Screenplay by Elizabeth Beecher, Morton Grant and Bradford Ropes. Photography, George Meehan and Glen Gano. Art direction, Lionel Banks and Charles Clague. Set decorations, John W. Pascoe. Sound technician, Ed Bernds. Edited by Aaron Stell. CAST — Jane Frazee, Guinn Williams, Slim Summerville, Sally Bliss, Mary Treen, Red River Dave, Carole Mathews, Byron Foulger, the Hoosier Hotshots. King Cole Trio, Jimmy Wakely and his Oklahoma Cowboys and Cousin Emmy. SWINCTIME JOHNNY UNIV. Producer, Warren Wilson. Director, Edward F. Cline. Screenplay, Clyde Bruckman. Original, Warren Wilson. Photography, Jerome Ash. Musical director and arranger, Vic Schoen. Art direction, John B. Goodman, Abraham Grossman. Set decorations, R. A. Gausman, A. J. Gilmore. Musical numbers staged by Charlie O'Curran. Edited by Edward Curtiss. Sound technician, Jess Moulin. Assistant director. Charles Gould. CAST — Patti Andrews, Maxine Andrews, LaVerne