Showmen's Trade Review (Jul-Sep 1942)

August 1, 1942 ' S H O W M E N ' S T R A D E R E V I E W 23 STR West Coast Offices 10424 Bloomfield St. North Hollywood, Calif. Telephone, Sunset 1-6292 PROGRAM NOTES FROM THE STUDIOS Lucille Ball as Du Barry/ Rosalind Russell to Star in Sister Kenny /Boyer es Debut as Producer/ Gwenn With Benny He Knows His Steps Director Irving Cummings illustrates to John Payne and Carmen Miranda just what he expects them to do in a scene for "Springtime in the Rockies" at 20th Century-Fox studio. A former actor, Cummings gives a very able performance in situations like these. HOLLYWOOD STUDIO ROrXD-UP Six pictures were put before the camera this week: COLUMBIA LAW OF THE NORTHWEST — Principals: Charles Starrett, Shirley Patterson, Arthur Hunnicutt. Director, William Berke. SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT— Principals : Don Ameche. Janet Blair, William Gaxton, Cobina Wright, Jr. Producer-Director, Gregory Ratoff. UNDERGROUND AGENT — Principals: Bruce Bennett, Leslie Brooks. Director, Michael Gordon. MONOGRAM HOMICIDE SQUAD— Principals: Edith Fellows, John Miljan, Robert Lowery. Director, Jean Yarbrough. 20th CENTURY-FOX MEANEST MAN IN THE WORLD— Principals : Jack Benny. Priscilla Lane, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Edmund Gwenn. Director, Sidney Lanfield. UNIVERSAL MOONLIGHT IN HAVANA— Principals : Allan Jones, Jane Frazee. Director, Anthony Mann. TITLE CHANGES "Trail's End" (Col.) now A TORNADO IN THE SADDLE. "Lone Wolf in Scotland Yard" (Col.) now COUNTER ESPIONAGE, "Thev Flew Alone" (RKO) now -WINGS AND THE WOMAN." "Buried Alive" (Fox) now DR. RENNAULT'S SECRET. Bruce Signs on Dotted Line George Bruce has been given a long term contract by MGM as producer-director-writer. His first assignment will be announced shortly. ►Producer Harry Joe Brown and Director Charles Vidor have been adding steadily to the cast of Columbia's "Desperadoes," the Technicolor western featuring Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor and Evelyn Keyes. New names include Big Boy Williams, Porter Hall, Bernard Nadell, and Irving Bacon. ^Lucille Ball has been signed for the title role in MGM's "DuBarry Was a Lady" with Red Skelton, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien, Rags Ragland and Tommy Dorscy and his band. Arthur Freed is producing , rvitli Roy Del Ruth at the megaphone. ^Monogram's "Texas to Bataan," first of the new Range Buster series, was shot under the direction of Robert Tansey. As usual, John King, Davey Sharpe and Max Terhune feature, with Marjorie Manners in the feminine lead. ^Producer-Director Joe Kane is directing Republic's "Sunset Serenade" the nezv Roy Rogers film. George "Gabby" Hayes has a top assignment ill the picture, and Helen Parrish has been signed for the femme lead. ►Bert Gilroy's production, "Ladies' Day," for RKO which Leslie Goodwins is directing, has a full cast with Lupe Velez, Eddie Albert, Patsy Kelly, Max Baer, Joan Barclay, Jerome Cowan, Jack Briggs, Iris Adrian and Carmen Morales. ^Director Harold Schuster has his "My Friend Flicka" company at Cedar City, Utah, zvhere the major part of the Technicolor picture will be shot. Roddy McDoivall, Preston Foster and Rita Johnson carry the leads in this Ralph Dietrich production for 20th-Fox. ►Rosalind Russell has been announced for the starring role in "Sister Kenny," a picture that Benedict E. Bogeaus will produce for United Artists release. ^Charles Bayer's debut as a producer, jointly ivith Julicn Dnvivier, officially started ivhen the cameras began to roll on their Universal production, "Flesh and Fantasy." The picture will be in the form of three or four episodes and boasts a cast that includes Boyer, Edivard G. Robinson. Thomas Mitchell, Dame May Whitty, Anna Lee and others. ►Director William Seiter's carnival scenes in "You Were Never Lovelier" have evoked so much enthusiasm at Columbia that Lou Edel man, the producer, has scheduled an extra dance by Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth. t^FIoivard Bretherton has been assigned to direction of Monogram's latest "Rough Riders," ivith Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton as the "Riders." The picture will be titled "West of the Lazv." Scott R. Dunlap is producing. ►Hugh Bennett's Paramount direction of "Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour" has been rolling with Jimmy Lydon, Janet Beecher, Charles Smith, John Litel, Frances Gifford and Diana Lynn in the leading roles. ^Republic's Jane Wither' s starrer, "Johnny Doughboy," will be the first film to show actual camp appearances of players. ►Cliff Edwards and Frank Jenks have been added to RKO's "Seven Miles From Alcatraz" with James Craig and Bonita Granville in the romantic leads. Edward Dmytryk will direct the Herman Schlom production. ^The William Perlberg production of "The Meanest Man in the World" with Sidney Lanfield directing, has been augmented by casting Edmund Gwenn, borrowed by 20th-Fox, in support of Jack Benny. Priscilla Lane and Rochester play the other leads. ►"Fall In," the Hal Roach streamliner directed by Kurt Neumann and produced by Fred Guiol, had a real fall when Jean Porter landed a haymaker on the chin of Rebel Randall. She doesn't know her own strength. ^Jack Skirball's production, "Shadow of a Doubt" for Universal, zvcnt on location for a month to Santa Rosa, Calif. The Alfred Hitchcock direction boasts a story by Thornton Wilder and scripted by Sally Benson. Teresa Wright, Patricia Callings and Henry Travers are the players thus far signed. ►Director Ray Enright, Lieut. Ronald Reagan and Lieut. Burgess Meredith returned from location in Tucson, Arizona, where they were filming the Army Air Force picture, "Rear Gunner." ^Duke Ellington and his orchestra have been signed by MGM to appear in the screen version of "Cabin in the Sky." Others cast for the picture are Ethel Waters. Lena Home, Rex Ingram and Louis Armstn v.g. SAY 'HaTl and FAREWELL' AT STUDIO PARTY Hal Roach employes staged a surprise party, presented him with a wrist watch, when he took his leave of his studio after being sworn into the U. S. Army as a major. Here you see, I. to r.: William Bendix, Marjorie Woodworth, Fred Guiol, Major Roach, William Tracy, Hugh Huber, Sidney Van Keuren.