Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1941)

October 25, 1941 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW Page 27 HOLLYWOOD STUDIO ROVND-VP Shooting started this week on the following eleven new pictures: COLUMBIA DEVIL'S TRAIL— Principals: Bill Elliott, Tex Ritter. Director, Lambert Hillyer. METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER YOUNG AMERICANS SEQUEL— Principals: Ray McDonald, Virginia Weidler, Larry Nunn. Director, Edward Ludwig. MONOGRAM BORROWED HERO— Principals: Florence Rice, Alan Baxter, John Hamilton, Selmer Jackson. Director, Lewis Collins. PARAMOUNT R. BROADWAY — Principals: Macdonald arey, Jean Phillips. Director, Anton Mann. PRODUCERS LAW OF THE TIMBER — Principals: Marjorie Reynolds, J. Farrell MacDonald, Monte Blue. Producer-Director, Bernard B. Ray. RKO-RADIO MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS — Principals: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt, Ray Collins. Producer-Director, Orson Welles. REPUBLIC MR. DISTRICT ATTORNEY & THE CARTER CASE— Principals: James Ellison, Marjorie Weaver, Franklin Pangborn. Director, Bernard Vorhaus. 20TH CENTURY-FOX ON THE SUNNY SIDE— Principals: Roddy McDowall, Jane Darwell, Stanley Clements, Ann Todd. Director, Harold Schuster. SONG OF THE ISLANDS — Principals: Jack Oakie, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Thomas Mitchell. Director, Walter Lang. UNIVERSAL ROAD AGENT— Principals: Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne. Director, Charles Lamont. WARNER BROTHERS ARSENIC AND OLD LACE— Principals: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, Jack Carson. Assoc. Producer-Director, Frank Capra. Priscilla Lane Tops "Arsenic" Priscilla Lane will be co-starred with Cary Grant and Raymond Massey in Frank Capra's "Arsenic and Old Lace," which goes before the cameras at Warner Bros, in a few days. Frank Capra directs and will also act as associate producer. Script Conference Producer David Hempstead, stars Michele Morgan and Paul Henreid scan the script of RKORadio's "Joan Of Paris," which is the first Hollywood film for the two European players. "Range Busters" Titles Set With three of the "Range Busters" westerns for the 1941-42 program already completed, Producer George W. Weeks announced "Return to Paso Robles," "Thunder River Feud" and "Dead End Trail" as the titles of the last three of the series of eight. The Monogram features co-star Ray Corrigan, John King and Max Terhune. Secretary Plays Secretary Ella Boros, Paramount Publicity Department secretary, turned actress for the Bill PineBill Thomas epic, "Torpedo Boat." Miss Boros made her screen debut as a secretary in the picture. "Ambersons" Get Nod Orson Welles' "Magnificent Ambersons," with Welles as producer-director, is currently in production at the RKO-Pathe Studios in Culver City. The cast includes Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Tim Holt and Ray Collins. Welles is also responsible for the screenplay. "Shanghai Gesture" Winds Arnold Pressburger's first production for United Artists, "The Shanghai Gesture," wound up shooting last week under Josef von Sternberg's direction. Gene Tierney, Victor Mature, Ona Muson, and Eric Blore head the cast. Lee to Meg "Powder Town" Rowland V. Lee gets the directorial assignment on RKO's "Powder Town," which Cliff Reid will place in production early next month. Victor McLaglen and Edmond O'Brien are set for the leading roles in the Vicki Baum original. Texas Beauty Tested Bonnie Ruth Slauson, Texas State Fair beauty queen, was tested by MGM last week. Frank Starz of the Interstate Circuit brought her to Hollywood. Ticket Service! • Headquarters for machine and roll MOTION PICTURE TICKETS Highest Quality Right Prices KELLER-ANSELL TICKET CO. Suite 800, 723 7th Ave., N. Y. C. BRyant 9-7532 WANDERING AROUND HOLLYWOOD with the "QlcUune>i" Our idea of box office "meat" will be the combination of Jack Benny and Carole Lombard, under the direction of Ernst Lubitsch. And the story, a comedy about a vaudeville troupe stranded in Poland at the time of the German invasion, sounds very, very funny . . . even the title, "To Be Or Not To Be." Paramount's famous "road" workers, Director Victor Schertzinger, Producer Paul Jones, and Stars Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, the quartette responsible for "Road to Zanzibar" and "Road to Singapore," and getting ready to spring "Road to Morocco" on the waiting public. We bet they'll love it as much as the others. If, and when, Gypsy Rose Lee's "G-String Murders" is brought to the screen, we wonder how the art-work on the ads will be handled ... or are we thinking a little too fast. The whole town's talking about the box office success of Samuel Goldwyn's "The Little Foxes," the picture most critics predicted was for the "high-brow" trade. As usual, STR hit the nail on the head in its review which said — "One of the season's most powerful screen offerings." While on the subject of powerful screen offerings, our snooping reporter tells us Sam Wood's "Kings Row" is the greatest picture Warner Bros, has ever made . . . and this is backed up by the ravings of Hal Wallis. Gabbing with Tom Keene, Monogram's cowboy star, about his new series of outdoor action films. We discovered that in addition to being a swell actor, Tom has plenty on the ball when it comes to "gray-matter." Let's get together again, cowboy. Santell on Own Al Santell, who directed "Aloma of the South Seas" and "Malaya" for Paramount, has announced that he will free-lance in the future. Santell has several deals pending, one of which he will announce shortly. "Road Agent" Rolls Universal's "Road Agent," with a cast headed by Leo Carillo, Andy Devine, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne and Anne Nagel, got the "go" signal from Director Charles Lamont a few days ago. Ellison Tops "DA" Cast James Ellison goes back to Republic for the top role in "Mr. District Attorney and the Carter Case," with Marjorie Weaver in the feminine lead. Another Elliott-Ritter Opus "Devil's Trail," newest Columbia western costarring Bill Elliott and Tex Ritter, went before the cameras under the direction of Lambert Hillyer.