Production Encyclopedia 1948 (1948)

538 PRODUCTION ENCYCLOPEDIA Roberts, Monte Brice. Music, Leigh Marline. Photography, Jack MacKenzie. Art direction, Albert S. D'Agostino and Lucius Croxton. Set decorations, Darrell Silvera, William Stevens. Sound, Frank McWhorter. Edited by Edward W. Williams. Assistant director, Harry D'Arcy. CAST — Leon Erroll, Elisabeth Risdon, Edwin Maxwell, Emory Parnell, Charles Halton, Paul Harvey, Charlotte Wynters, Ruth Lee, Lawrence Tierney. Reviewed 7-31 -45. MAN FROM OKLAHOMA REP. Associate producer, Louis Gray. Directed by Frank McDonald. Original screenplay, John K. Butler. Musical director, Morton Scott. Orchestrations, Dale Butts. Photography, William Bradford. Edited by Tony Martinelli. Dance director, Aida Broadbent. Sound technician, Ed Borschell. Art director, Fred A. Ritter. Set decorations. Earl B. Wooden. Special effects, Howard and Theodore Lydecker. Assistant director, Ed Stein. CAST — Roy Rogers, "Trigger," George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Roger Pryor, Arthur Loft, Maude Eburne, Sam Flint, Si )enks, June Bryde, Elaine Lange, Charles Soldani, Edmund Cobb, George Sherwood, Eddie Kane, Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers. Reviewed 7-30-45. THE MAN WHO WALKED ALONE PRC. Producer, Leon Fromkess. Associate producerdirector, Christy Cabanne. Screenplay by Robert Lee Johnson. Photgraphed by James Brown. Art director, Paul Palmentola. Music composed and conducted by Karl Hajos. Edited by W. Donn Hayes. Sound technician, Ferol Redd. Assistant director, William A. Caliban, Jr. CAST — David O'Brien. Kay Aldridge, Walter Catlett, Guinn Williams, Isabel Randolph, Smith Ballew, Nancy June Robinson, Ruth Lee, Chester Clute, Vivien Oakland, Vicki Saunders, Robert Hartzell, Charles Williams, Frank Melton, Donald Kerr, Eddy Wallace, Don Brodie, Tom Dugan, William B. Davidson, Dick Elliott, Jack Raymond, Jack Mulhall, Charles Jordan, Tom Kennedy, Paul Newlan, Lloyd Ingraham, Elmo Lincoln. Reviewed 1-29-45. MARSHAL OF LAREDO REP. Associate producer, Sidney Picker. Director, R. G. Springsteen. Original screenplay by Bob Williams, based on Fred Harman's comic strip, by special arrangement with Stephen Slesinger. Photography, Bud Thackery. Edited by Charles Craft. Sound technician, Earl Grain. Art director, Hilyard Brown. Set decorations, George Milo. Musical director, Richard Cherwin. Assistant director, Ed Stein. CAST — Bill Elliott, Bobby Blake, Alice Fleming, Peggy Stewart, Robert Grady, Roy Barcroft, Don Costello, Bud Geary, Sarah Padden, Tom London, Tom Chatterton, Wheaton Chambers, George Chesebro and George Carleton. Reviewed 1 1 -9-45. MASQUERADE IN MEXICO PARA. Producer-screenplay, Karl Tunberg. Director, Mitchell Leisen. Based on original by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Spencer. Photography, Lionel Lindon. Process photography, Farciot Edouart. Music •direction, Victor Young. Vocal arrangements, Joseph J. Lilley. Music associate, Arthur Franklin. Art direction, Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson. Set decorations, Ray Moyer. Special photographic effects. Cordon Jennings. Dances staged by Billy Daniels. Edited by Alma Macrorie. Sound technician, Donald S. McKay. Assistant director, John Coonan. CAST— Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Cordova, Patric Knowles, Ann Dvorak, George Rigaud, Mikhail Rasumny, Billy Daniels, Natalie Schafer, Martin Carralaga, Guadalajara Trio. Reviewed 11-28-45. A MEDAL FOR BENNY PARA. Associate producer, Paul Jones. Director, Irving Pichel. Screenplay, Frank Butler, with additional dialog by Jack Wagner, based on a story by John Steinbeck and Jack Wagner. Photography. Lionel Lindon. Art direction, Hans Dreier and Hal Pereira. Special photographic effects. Cordon Jennings. Process photography, Farciot Edouart. Set decorations, Steve Seymour. Music, Victor Young. Edited by Arthur Schmidt. Sound technician, Stan ley Cooley and Joel Moss. Assistant director, Oscar Rudolph. CAST — Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Cordova, J. Carrol Naish, Mikhail Rasumny, Fernando Alvarado. Frank McHugh, Rosita Moreno, Grant Mitchell, Douglass Dumbrille. Reviewed 4-9-45. MEN IN HER DIARY UNIV. Executive producer, Howard Welsch. Associate producer and director, Charles Barton. Assistant director, Charles S. Could. Screenplay by F. Hugh Herbert and Elwood Ullman. Original story by Kerry Shaw. Adaptation by Lester Cole. Musical score and direction, Milton Rosen. Photography, Paul Ivano. Sound, Bernard B. Brown. Art direction, John B. Goodman and Richard H. Riedel. Set decorations, Russell A. Gausman and E. R. Robinson. Dialog director, Escha Bledsoe. Dance director, Carlos Romero. Edited by Paul Landers. CAST — Peggy Ryan, Louise Allbritton, Ernest Truex, Virginia Grey, William W. Terry, Alan Mowbray, Eric Blore, Samuel S. Hinds, Jacqueline de Wit, Maxie Rosenbloom, Sig Ruman, Addison Richards, Lorraine Miller. Robin Raymond. Minerva Urecal. Arthur Loft, Vivian Austin, Lorin Raker. Reviewed 9-12-45. MEXICANA REP. Producer-director, Alfred Santell. Original screenplay. Frank Gill, Jr. Photography, Jack Marta. Special effects, Howard and Theodore Lydecker. Art direction, Russell Kimball and James Sullivan. Set decorations, John McCarthy, Jr. Music Arranger (Orchestral), Joseph Dubin. ML'sical director, Walter Scharf. Songs, Gabriel Ruiz. Ned Washington. Dance director, Nick Castle. Edited by Arthur Roberts. Sound technicians, Ed Borschell and Howard Wilson. Assistant director, John Grubbs. CAST — Tito Cuizar, Constance Moore, Leo Carrillo, Estelita Rodriguez, Howard Freeman, Steven Geray, Jean Stevens, St. Luke's Choristers. Peter Meremblun Junior orchestra. Reviewed 11-19-45. MILDRED PIERCE WB. Producer, Jerry Wald. Director, Michael Curtiz. Assistant director. Frank Heath. Screenplay by Ranald MacDougall. From novel by James M. Cain. Photography, Ernest Haller. Montages by James Leicester. Art director. Anton Grot. Sound, Oliver S. Garretson. Special effects, Willard Van Enger. Set decorations, George James Hopkins. Dialog director, Herschel Daugherty. Music by Max Steiner. Musical director, Leo F. Forbstein. Orchestral arrangements, Hugo Friedhofer. Edited by David Weisbart. CAST — Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann BIyth, Bruce Bennett, Lee Patrick, Moroni Olsen, Veda Ann Borg, Jo Ann Marlowe, Barbara Brown, Charles Trowbridge, Butterfly McQueen, Chester Clute, Manart Kippen, John Compton. Reviewed 9-28-45. THE MISSING CORPSE PRC. Producer, Martin Mooney. Director, Albert Herman. Screenplay, Raymond L. Schrock. From story by Harry O. Hoyt. Photography, James Brown. Set decorations, Harry Reif. Music score, Karl Hajos. Edited by W. Donn Hayes. Sound technician, Wm. Fox. Assistant director, Wm. A. Caliban, Jr. CAST — J. Edward Bromberg, Isabel Randolph, Frank Jenks, Paul Cuilfoyle, Ben Welden, Charles Coleman, Eddy Waller, Eric Sinclair, John Shay, Lorell Sheldon, Michael Branden, Elayne Adams, Mary Arden, Charles Jordan, Anne O'Neal, jean Ransome, Ken Terrell, Isabel Withers. Reviewed 4-23-45. MOLLY AND ME 20th-FOX. Producer, Robert Bassler. Director, Lewis Seller. Screenplay, Leonard Praskins. Adaptation, Roger Burford. From a novel by Frances Marion. Music, Cyril J. Mockridge. Musical direction, Emil Newman. Orchestral arrangements, Maurice de Packh. Photography. Charles Clarke. Art direction, Lyie Wheeler, Albert Hogsett. Set decorations, Thomas Little. Al Orenbach. Edited by John McCafferty. Special photographic effects, Fred Sersen. Sound, Bernard Freericks, Roger Heman. Assistant director, Eli Dunn. CAST — Gracie Fields, Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Reginald Gardiner, Natalie Schafer, Edith Barrett, Clifford Brooke, Aminta Dyne, Queenie Leon