Motion Picture Production Encyclopedia (1950)

PROD UCTIONS 1949 479 donald Carey, Mona Freeman, Stanley Ridges, Alfonso Bedoya, Ray Teal. Clem Bevans, James Bell, Dick Foote, )oe Dominguez, Crandon Rhodes, Perry Wins. SUMMARY — Trio, formerly crooks, break up with one continuing primrose path others joining Texas Rangers. To bring law and order to gratt-ridden town. Holden turns .against his old buddy, to bring him to lustice. Days in production, 40. Reviewed 2-7-49. STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO REP. Associate producer, Sidney Picker. Director. George Blair. Screenplay, )ohn K. Butler. Original, Cordon Kahn, Adele Buffington. Photography, John MacBurnie. Special effects, Howard & Theodore Lydecker. Operating cameraman, Enzo Martinelli. Art direction, Frank Hotaling. Set decorations, John McCarthy, Jr., Charles Thompson. Music score, Stanley Wilson. Edited by Harry Keller. Sound technician, Dick Tyler. Assistant director, Johnny Grubbs. Script supervisor, Larry Lund. Makeup, Howard Smit. Grip, C. B. Lawrence. Gaffer, Sid Swaney, Jr. Still man, Ira Hoke, CAST — Robert Armstrong, Mae Clark, Gary Gray, Wallv Cassell, Richard Benedict, John Harmon, J. Farrell MacDonald. Ian MacDonald, Charles Meredith, Eve March, Denver Pyle, Charles Cane, William A. Henry. Claire DuBrey. Martin Garralaga. SUMMARY — Father is lookout while mob robs. They take boy in getaway after caching briefcase with cash. Armstrong tracks them down, kills father and takes boy home with him. Boy won't squeal on mob until he is kidnapped to help pick up cash; Armstrong rescues boy, captures mob; adopts boy. Days in p'oduction. 11. Reviewed 4-25-49. SUSANNA PASS REP. (Trucolorl. Associate producer, Edward J. White. Director, William Witney. Original screenplay, Sloan Nibley, John K. Butler. Photography, Reggie Lanning. Special effects, Howard and Theodore Lydecker. Operating cameraman. Herb Kirkpatrick. Art direction, Frank Hotaling. Set decorations, John McCarthy, Jr., Charles Thompson. Orchestrations, Stanley Wilson. Musical director, Morton Scott. Songs, "Two-Gun Rita," "Susanna Pass" by Jack Elliott; "A Good, Good Mornin' " by Sid Robin, Foy Willing; "Brush Those Tears From Your Eyes," Oakley Haldeman, Clem Watts, Jimmy Lee. Sound technician, T. A. Carman. Assistant director, Jack Lacey. Script supervisor, Dorothy Yutzi. Hair stylist, Louise Landmier. Makeup, Bob Mark. Grip, Nelson Mathias. Gaffer, Sid Swaney. Still man, Mickey Marigold. CAST — Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Estelita Rodriguez, Martin Garralaga, Robert Emmett Keane, Lucien Littlefield, Douglas Fowley, David Sharpe. Robert Bice, Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, Trigger (horse). SUMMARY — Ranger Rogers comes across evidence of two escaped convicts, tries to track them down. Asks newspaper editor in town to help; says he will — but is actually in cahoots with dangerous escapee to sabotage fish hatchery near oil deposit. Plot discovered and participants killed. Days in production, 15. Reviewed 5-2-49. SWORD IN THE DESERT Ul. Producer-original screenplay, Robert Buckner. Director, George Sherman. Photography, Irving Glassberg. Special effects, Nick Carmona. Operating cameraman, Dick Towers. Art direction, Bernard Herzbrun, Alexander Gohtzen. Set decorations, Al Fields. Music score, Frank Skinner. Edited by Otto Ludwig. Sound technician, Glen Anderson. Production manager, Edward Dodds. Assistant director, Frank Shaw. Script supervisor, Pat Betz. Hair stylist. Ruby Felker. Makeup, Emile LaVigne. Grip, Everett Brown. Gaffer, Norton Kurland. Still man, Sherman Clark. CAST — Dana Andrews, Marta Toren, Stephen McNally, Jeff Chandler, Philip Friend, Hugh French, Liam Redmond, Lowell GMmore, Stanley Logan, Hayden Rorke, George Tyne, Peter Coe, Paul Marion, Marten Lamont, David Wolfe, Campbell Copelin, Art Foster, Gilchrist Stuart, Emil Rameau. SUMMARY — Refugees on Dana's boat land in Palestine. Chased by British, Dana must stay with refugees but, to save his ship, sends radio message that tells British where refugees are. Dana and Jewish leaders captured. Dana almost ready to tell who leader is to British, but reconsiders; stands pat. Days in production, 22. Reviewed 8-24-49. TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL CAME MCM (Technicolor). Producer, Arthur Freed. Direcector, Busby Berkeley. Screenplay, Harry Tugend, George Wells. Original, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. Photography. George Folsey. Technicolor direction, Natalie Kalmus, James Gooch. Special effects, Warren Newcombe. Montage, Peter Ballbusch. Operating cameraman, Robert Bronner. Art direction, Cedric Gibbons, Daniel B. Cathcart. Set decorations, Edwin B. Willis, Henry W. Grace. Vocal arrangements, Robert Tucker. Musical d i rectorscore, Adolph Deutsch. Songs, "Yes, Indeedy:" "O'Brien to Ryan to Goldberg," "It's Fate, Baby, It's Fate;" "The Right Girl For Me," Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Roger Edens. Edited by Blanche Sewell. Sound, Douglas Shearer, James K. Brock. Production manager, Sergei Petschnikof f . Assistant director, Dolf Zimmer. Script supervisor, Les Martinson. Hair stylist, Sidney Guilaroff. Makeup, Jack Dawn. Dance directors. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen. Grip, Howard Bradner. Costumes designed by Helen Rose, Valles. Still man, S. C. Manatt. CAST — Frank Sinatra, Esther Williams, Gene Kelly, Betty Garrett, Edward Arnold, Jules Munshin, Richard Lane. Tom Dugan. SUMMARY — Ballplayers who entertain in vaudeville run into trouble when Esther Williams starts club managementship. She falls tor Kelly, who can't see her — but Sinatra goes for her although Betty Garrett's for him. Days in production, 41. Reviewed 3-8-49. TAKE ONE FALSE STEP Ul. Producer-director, Chester Erskine. Associate producer. Jack Hively. Screenplay. Irwin Shaw, Chester Erskine. Original story, "Night Call," Irwin and David Shaw. Photography, Frank Planer. Operating cameraman. Dave Ragin. Art direction, Bernard Herzbrun, Emrich Nicholson. Set decorations. Ruby Levitt. Music score, Walter Scharf. Edited by Russell Schoengarth. Sound, Leslie I. Carey, Richard De Weese. Production manager, Lew Leary. Assistant director, John Sherwood. Script supervisor. Connie Earle. Hair stylists, Joan St. Oegger, Emmy Eckhardt. Makeup, Bud Westmore, Emile LaVigne. Grip, Roland Smith. Costumes designed by Orry Kelly. Gaffer. Warren Munroe. Still man, Sherman Clark. CAST — William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt, Dorothy Hart, James Gleason, Felix Bressart, Art Baker, Sheldon Leonard, Howard Freeman, Houseley Stevenson, Paul Harvey, Francis Pierlot, Jess Barker, Mikel Conrad. SUMMARY — Planning to found a new university but needing backing Powell becomes unwillingly involved with war-time sweetheart. She disappears and is thought dead; evidence points toward Prof., who, bitten by dog thought to have rabies, locates real murderer. Days in production, 40. Reviewed 6-1-49. TALE OF THE NAVAJOS MCM (Technicolor). Producer, John A. Haeseler. Production aides, Jane Haeseler, Curly Twiford. Original screenplay, (Harry Chandlee, John A. Hoeseler. Music score, Lan Adomian. Musical director, Jack Shaindlin. CAST — (Narrator) Edwin Jerome. SUMMARY — Authentic legends and lore ot Navajo Indians. Documentary. Reviewed 3-1-49. TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN Lesser-RKO. Producer, Sol Lesser. Director, Lee Sholem. Screenplay, Curt Siodmak, Harry Chandlee. Original character by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Photography, Karl Struss. Operating cameraman, Wm. Margulies. Production design, Phil Paradise. Art direction, McClure Capps. Set decorations. Otto Siege!. Musical director-score. Alex Laszlo. Edited by Merrill White, John Sheets. Sound technician, Franklyn Hansen. Production manager, Barnett Briskin. Assistant director, Bert Berskin. Script supervisor, Shirley Baron. Makeup, Norbert Miles. Grip, Morris Rosen. Gaffer, John Lee. Still man, Madison Lacey. CAST — Lex Barker, Brenda Joyce, Albert Dekker. Evelyn Ankers, Charles Drake, Alan Napier, Ted Hecht, Henry Brandon, Cheeta (chimp). SUMMARY — Magic fountain of youth guarded in jungle by perennially young people. Tarzan, outsider, knows where it is; also aviatnx who comes back from mystic land to save friend from prison.