Production Encyclopedia 1948 (1948)

516 PRODUCTION ENCYCLOPEDIA for the screen by Arch Oboler from his original story, "Alter Ego." Photography, Charles Salerno, Jr. Musical score, Bronislau Kaper. Sound director, Douglas Shearer. Art direction, Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown. Set decorations, Edwin B. Willis, Mac Alper. Edited by Harry Komer. Assistant director, Julian Silberstein. CAST— Phyllis Thaxter, Edmund Gwenn, Henry H. Daniels, Jr., Horace McNally, Minor Watson, Addison Richards, Kathleen Lockhart, Francis Pierlot, Sharon McManus, Gladys Blake, Will Wright, Oscar O'Shea, Virginia Brissac. Reviewed 6-20-45. THE BIG BONANZA REP. Associate producer, Eddy White. Directed by George Archainbaud. Screenplay by Dorrell McGowan, Stuart McGowan, Paul Gangelin. Based on original by Robert Presnell, Sr., Leonard Praskins. Photographed by Reggie Lanning. Art director, Frank Hotaling. Musical director, Morton Scott. Dance director, Dave Gould. Edited by Tony Martinelli. Sound technician, Thomas A. Carman. Assistant director, Virgil Hart. CAST — Richard Arlen, Robert Livingston, Jane Frazee, George "Gabby" Hayes, Lynne Roberts, Bobby Driscoll, J. M. Kerrigan, Russell Simpson, Frank Reicher, Cordell Hickman, Hayward Soo Hoo, Roy Barcroft, Fred Kohler, Jr., Monte Hale. Reviewed 6-8-45. THE BIG SHOW-OFF REP. Producer, Sydney M. Williams. Associate producer, Claude S. Spence. Director, Howard Bretherton. Original screenplay, Leslie Vadnay, Richard Weil. Photography, Jack Greenhalgh. Art director, Frank Dexter. Set decorations, E. H. Reif. Musical director, David Chudnow. Songs, Dave Oppenheim, Roy Ingraham, Dale Evans. Sound technician, Percy Townsend. Assistant director, Mel DeLay. CAST — Arthur Lake, Dale Evans, Lional Stander, George Meeker, Paul Hurst, Marjorie Manners, Anson Weeks and his orchestra, Sammy Stein, Louis Adion, Dan Toby, Emmett Lynne, Douglas Wood. Reviewed 1-15-45. BILLY ROSE'S DIAMOND HORSESHOE 20th-FOX. (Technicolor). Producer, William Perlberg. Director-original screenplay, George Seaton. Suggested by a play produced by Charles L. Wagner and written by John Kenyon Nicholson. Songs, Mack Gordon and Harry Warren. Dances staged by Hermes Pan. Photography. Ernest Palmer. Technicolor direction, Natalie Kalmus, Richard Mueller. Musical direction, Alfred Newman and Charles Henderson. Orchestral arrangements, Herbert Spencer. Art direction, Lyie Wheeler and Joseph C. Wright. Set decoration, Thomas Little, Ernest Lansing. Edited by Robert Simpson. Special effects, Fred Sersen. Sound technicians, E. Clayton Ward, Roger Heman. Assistant director, Art Jacobson. CAST — Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Phil Silvers, William Caxton, Beatrice Kay, Carmen Cavallaro, Willie Solar, Margaret Dumont, Roy Benson, George Melford, Hal K. Dawson, Kenny Williams, Reed Hadley, Eddie Acuff, Edward Gargan, Ruth Rickaby. Reviewed 4-1 1 -45 . BLAZING FRONTIER Sig Neufeld-PRC. Producer, Sigmund Neufeld. Director, Sam Newfield. Original story and screenplay, Patricia Harper. Photography, Robert Cline. Edited by Holbrook N. Todd. Sound technician, Hans Weeren. Assistant director, Melville DeLay. CAST — Buster Crabbe, Al "Fuzzy" St. John, Marjorie Manners, Milton Kibbee, I. Stanford Jolley, Frank Hagney, Ken Maynard, George Chesebro, Frank Ellis. BLACK MARKET BABIES Jeffrey Bernerd-MONO. Director, William Beaudine. Screenplay, George Wallace Sayre. Original story, George Morris. Suggested by magazine article, "Black Market Babies," by Virginia Reid. Photography, Harry Neumann. Musical director, Edward J. Kay. Edited by William Austin. Sound technician, William Fox. Assistant director, Richard Harlan. CAST — Ralph Morgan, Kane Richmond, Jayne Hazard, Teala Loring, Marjorie Hoshelle, George Meeker, Dewey Robinson, Alan Foster, Selmer Jack son, Nana Bryant, Maris Wrixon, John Gallaudet. Reviewed 11-30-45. BLAZING THE WESTERN TRAIL COL. Producer, Colbert Clark. Director, Vernon Keays. Original screenplay, J. Benton Cheney. Photography, George Meehan. Edited by Henry Batista. Art director, Charles Clague, Set decorator, John W. Pascoe. Sound technician, Charles Althouse. Assistant director, Wilbur McGaugh. CAST — Charles Starret, Tex Harding, Dub Taylor, Carole Mathews, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Alan Bridge, Nolan Leary, Virginia Sale, Steve Clark, Mauritz Hugo, Ethan Laidlaw, Edmund Cobb, Frank LaRue. Reviewed 11-16-45. BLONDE FROM BROOKLYN COL. Producer, Ted Richmond. Director, Del Lord. Original screenplay, Erna Lazarus. Photography, Burnett Guffey. Edited by Jerome Thoms, Art director, Carl Anderson. Set decorations, George Montgomery. Sound technician, Lambert Day. Assistant director, Milton Feldman. CAST — Robert Stanton, Lynn Merrick, Thurston Hall, Mary Treen, Walter Soderling, Arthur Loft, Regina Wallace, Byron Foulger, Myrtle Ferguson, John Kelly, Matt Willis, Eddie Bartell. BLONDE RANSOM UNIV. Associate producer, Gene Lewis. Director, William Beaudine. Screenplay by M. Coates Webster. Original story by Robert T. Shannon. Photography, Maury Gertsman. Sound, Bernard B. Brown. Musical director, Frank Skinner. Art direction, John B. Goodman and Abraham Grossman. Set decorations, Russell A. Gausman and A. J. Gilmore. Dialog director, Monty Collins. Dance director, Louis DaPron. Edited by Paul Landres. Songs, Jack Brooks, Norman Berens, Al Sherman. Assistant director, Melville Shyer. CAST — Donald Cook, Virginia Grey, Pinky Lee, Collette Lyons, George Barbier, Jerome Cowan, George Meeker, Ian Wolfe, Joe Kirk, Charles DeLaney, Frank Reicher, Bill Davidson, Chester Clute, lanina FiDStova. Reviewed 5-31-45. BLOOD ON THE SUN William Cagney-UA. Producer, William Cagney. Director, Frank Lloyd. Screenplay by Lester Cole, with added scenes by Nathaniel Curtis, based on a story by Garrett Fort. Photography, Theodor Sparkuhl. Music, Miklos Rozsa. Assistant to producer, George Arthur. Production design, Wiard Ihnen. Set decoration, A. Roland Fields. Edited by Truman K. Wood and Walter Hanneman. Technical advisor, Alice Barlow. Sound technician, Richard De Wesse. Assistant director, Harvey Dwight. CAST — James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong, Wallace Ford, Rosemary De Camp. John Halloran, Rhys Williams. Leonard Strong. Frank Puglia, James Bell, Philip Ahn, Marvin Miller, Hugh Ho, Hugh Beaumont, Joe Kim, Grace Lem. Reviewed 4-26-45. THE BODY SNATCHER RKO. Executive producer. Jack Cross. Producer, Val Lewton. Director. Robert Wise. Screenplay, Philip MacDonald and Carlos Keith. Based on a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. Photography, Robert de Crasse. Art direction, Albert S. D'Agostino, Walter Keller. Set decoration, Darrell Silvera, John Sturtevant. Music by Roy Webb. Musical director. C. Bakaleinikoff. Edited by J. R. Whittredge. Sound technician, Bailey Fesler. Assistant director, Harry Scott. CAST— Boris Karloff, Bela LugosI, Henry Daniel!, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade, Rita Corday, Sharyn Moffett, Donna Lee. Reviewed 2-14-45. BORDER BADMEN Sig Neufeld-PRC. Producer, Sigmund Newfeld. Director, Sam Newfield. Original screenplay, George Milton. Photography, Jack Greenhalgh. Sound technician, Lyle Wiley. Musical director Frank Sanucci. Edited by Holbrook N. Todd. Assistant director, William O'Connor. CAST — Buster Crabbe, Al "Fuzzy" St. John. Lorraine Miller, Charles King, Raphael Bennett, Archie