Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1942)

Leading Productions These are the pictures theatremen gave votes in sufficient numbers to make them candidates for the top brackets as Leaders. There are twenty-five of these Leading candidates in the listing given on this and the following two pages. It will be recognized at once that there is exceptional value attaching to all of these outstanding productions by reason of star, story and production values. Combined with the twenty-five productions in the top section of the Leaders group, these feature pictures show that the studios have turned out a total of fifty films of exceptional merit, as gauged by box office performance, during the period covered by this poll. An interesting and highly informative point that will be observed in consulting these and the other pictures on the Leaders roll, is the wide variety of types of story and show appeal of the attractions which have registered at the box-offices. In all, however, there can be recognized, by those familiar with the pictures, that there is an element of broad appeal in some important department of the story material. THEY DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON Warner Brothers Executive Producer, Hal B. Wallis Associate Producer, Robert Fellows Directed by Raoul Walsh FLYING TIGERS Republic Associate Producer, Edmund Grainger Directed by David Miller HERE WE GO AGAIN RKO-Radio Producer-Director, Allan Dwan THE TALK OF THE TOWN Columbia Produced and Directed by George Stevens Associate Producer, Fred Guiol MY FAVORITE BLONDE Paramount Associate Producer, Paul Jones Directed by Sidney Lantield SHIP AHOY Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Directed by Edward Buzzell Produced by Jack Cummings TORTILLA FLAT Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Produced by Sam Zimbalist Directed by Victor Fleming Principal Players Errol Flynn Arthur Kennedy Olivia de Havilland Walter Hampden Gene Lockhart John Litel Regis Toomey Charlie Grapewin Stanley Ridges Sydney Greenstreet Principa John Carroll John Wayne Anna Lee Players Gordon Jones Mae Clarke Addison Richards Paul KeUy Edmund MacDonald Principal Players Edgar Bergen Mortimer Snerd Charlie McCarthy Harold Peary Jim Jordan Ginny Simms Marian Jordan Ray Noble Principal Players Cary Grant Glenda Farrell Jean Arthur Ronald Colman Edgar Buchanan Principal Bob Hope Madeleine Carroll Gale Sondergaard George Zucco Charles Dingle Emma Dunn Rex Ingram Players Victor Varconi Lionel Royce Crane Whitley Charles Cain Principal Players Eleanor Powell William Post. Jr. Red Skelton James Cross Bert Lahr Eddie Hartman Virginia O'Brien John Emery Tommy Dorsey & Orch. Bernard Nedell Production Credits Screenplay by Wally Klein and Aeneas MacKenzie Dialogue director Jo Graham Director of photography • Bert Glennon Art direction John Hughes Music by Max Steiner Production Credits Screenplay . . Kenneth Garnet and Barry Trivers Original Story by • Kenneth Garnet Photographed by Jack Morta Special Effects Howard Lydecker Production Credits Screenplay by Paul Gerard Smith and Joe Bigelow Story by Paul Gerard Smith Material for Fibber McGee and Molly by Don Quinn Photography Frank Redmon Production Credits Screenplay. .Irwin Shaw and Sidney Buchman Adaptation by Dale Van Every Director of photography. Ted Tetzlaff Montage effects Donald Starling Art dirsction Lionel Banks Musical direction M. W. Stolofi Production Credits Screenplay. . . .Don Hartman and Frank Butler Story by. .Melvin Frank and Norman Panama Director of photography. . . .William C. Mellor Art direction. . .Hans Dreier and Robert Usher Musical direction David Buttolph Production Credits Screenplay Harry Clork Based on a story by Bert Kalmar. Matt Brooks, and Bradford Ropes Music and Lyrics by. . • • Burton Lone, E. Y. Harburg, and Margery Cummings Dance direction Bobby Connolly Directors of photography Leonard Smith and Robert Planck Art director Cedric Gibbons Associate Harry McAfee Principal Spencer Tracy Hedy Lamarr John Garfield Frank Morgan Akim Tamiroff Players Sheldon Leonard Allen Jenkins Donald Meek John Qualen Connie Gilchrist Production Credits Screenplay John Lee Mahin and Benjamin Glaser From the book by John Steinbeck Photography Karl Freund Special effects ... .Warren Newcombe A Section of SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW 29