Variety (Aug 1937)

Wednesday, August 25, 1937 PICTURES VARIETY 21 Advance Production Chart Hollywood, Aug. 24. With the 1936-'37 production programs all tucked away into the past, Hollywood has hit a fast pace for the opening of the 1937-'38 season. Having a total of 588 films to deliver in '37-'8 under promise to exhibitors, the industry already has either delivered, sent tp the cutting rooms or placed before the cameras a total of 143 pix, and all in less than a month. This is a fast pace, but has resulted in practically every studio in Holly- wood getting into an early production swing, indications are that the pace will not be immediately slackened, since almost all plants have product scripted and in line for immediate work. Cohimbia Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories in of Plx Com- Shoot- Cutting: Before Prepiira- Promised pleted ing Rooms Cameras - tion Features 40 2 3 4 31 2 Westerns 22 1 1 1 19 Total 62 3 ' 4 5 50 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: THE GAME THAT KILLS/ produced by Harry L. Decker for Irving Brfskin unit; diriected by D. Ross Lederman; original by J. Benton Cheney; screen play by Fred Niblo, Jr. and Grace Neville. Cast: Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, J. Farrell MacDonald, John Gallaudet, Paul Fix, Arthur Loft. .'RIVER OF MISSING MEN,' produced by Larry Darmour; directed by Lewis Collins; original by Bernard McConnville; screen play by Tom Kil- patrick; photography by James S. Brown, Jr. Cast: Jack Holt, Wynne Gibson, Jack LaRue, C. Henry Gordon, William Pawley, Billy Bakewell, Arthur Hohl, 'PARK AVENUE DAME/ produced by Wallace MacDonald for Irving Briskin unit; directed by Al Rogell; original by Robert T, Shannon; screen play by Michael Simmons; photography by Henry Freulich. Cast: Richard Arlen, Fay Wiray, Mary Russell, Wyn Cahoon, Scott Colton, Raymond Wal- burn, Gene Morgan, Marc Lawrence, George McKay. 'WOMEN OF THE NIGHT/ produced by Ralph Cohn; directed by C. C. Coleman," Jr.; original by Leslie White; screen play by Robert Cohen; photographed by George Meehan. Cast: Don Terry, Jacqueline Wells, Ralph Byrd, Rita Hayworth, Arthur Loft, John Gallaudet, Louise Stanley, Paul Fix, Thurston HalL 'THE AWFUL TRUTH/ produced by Everett Riskin; directed ,by Leo McCarey; original story by Arthur Richman; screen play by Dwight Taylor and Vina Delmar; photographed by Joe Walker. Cast: Irene Dunne, Gary Grant, Ralph Bellamy, Joyce Compton, Wyn Cahoon, Robert Allen, Cecil Cunningham. • ' > ' . Columbia Pictures Now in Production 'I'LL TAKE ROMANCE/ produced by Everett Riskin; directed by Edward H. Griffith; photographed by Lucien Andriot; no writing credits announced as yet. Cast: Grace Moore, Melvyn Douglas, Stuart Erwin, Andre Beranger, Helen Westley. Richard Carle, Walter Kingsford. •I MARRIED AN ARTIST/ produced by Sydney Buchman; directed by Marion Gering. Magazine story by B. Avery Strakosh; screeh play by Gladys Lehman and Delmer Daves; photographed by Merritt Gerstad. Cast: John. Boles, Lull Deste, Helen Westley, Frances Drake, Thomas Mitchell, Patricia Facr. 'ALL AMERICAN SWEETHEART/ produced by Wallace MacDonald for Irving Briskin imit; directed by Lambert HlUyer; original by Robert E. Kent; screen play by Fred Niblo, Jr., Grace Neville and Michael L. Sim- mons; photographed by Benjamin Kline. Cast: Scott Colton, Patricia Farr, Gene Morgan, Ruth Hilliard, Joe Twerp, Allen Brook, Thurston Hall, Louis De Pron. 'SMOKING SIX GUNS/ produced by Harry L. Decker for Irving Briskin unit; directed by Folmer Blangsted; original by J. Benton Cheney; screen play by Ed Earl Repp; photographed by Al Zeigler. Cast: Charles Starrett, Barbara Weeks, Don Grayson, Dick Curtis, Ed Le Saint, Art Mix. Columbia Pictures Beins Readied to Start, with Tentative Credits 'CARNIVAL LADY/ set to start (30) with Wallace MaclDonald producing lor Irving Briskin unit. No other assignments. 'FRESHMAN FOLLIES/ set to start Sept. 7, Nat Perrin, producing; Al Rogell, directing; original story by Corey Ford, no other writing credits yet announced. Cast: Charles Starrett, Joan Perry, Jimmy Durante; Gertrude Niesen, Romo Vincent, Chas. Chase, Hal LeRoy, Johnny Green. Grand National Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories in of Pix Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- „ Promised pleted ing Rooms Cameras tion Features 49 0 0 5 44 5 Westerns , 16 0 0 0 16 2 Total 65 0 0 5 60 ~7 Pictures now in the cutting room or awaiting previews are: 'SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT,' co-produced by Victor Schertzinger and Zion Myers, direction and original story by Schertzinger; screen play by Austin Parker; camera^ John Stumar. Cast: James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart, James Newill, Harry Barris, Cully Richards, Candy Candido, William Davidson, Richard Tucker, Marek Wmdheim, Dwight Frye, John Arthur. Philip Ahn, Kathleen Lockhart, Kenneth Harlan, Herbert Rawlinson, Eddie Kane. 'HERE'S FLASH CASEY/ produced by Max and Arthur Alexander; directed by Lynn Shores; original by George Harmon Coxe; screen play, John Kraftt; camera, Marcel Pickard. Cast: Eric Linden, Boots Mallory, Joseph Crehan, Cully Richards, Howard Halg, Harry Harvey, Holmes Herbert, Victor Adams, Matty Kemp, Suzanne Kaaren, Dorothy Vaughn. Bryant Washburn, Jr., Maynard Holmes. , 'KING OF THE SIERRAS,' Condor picture featuring three horses. Rex. Sheik and Thunder: Frank Gayass, associate producer; directed by Arthur Rosson; original screen play by Scott Darling; photographed bv Tom Gal- hgan. Cast: Frank Campeau, Wally Albright, Morgan Brown, Edward Peil, Billy Van Every. •RENFREW OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED,' produced and directed by Al u^?^*"' oj^iginal by Laurie York Erskine; screen play by Charles Logue; photographed by Francis Corley. Cast: James Newell, Carol Hughes, Wil- ham Royle, Donald Reid, David Barclay. William Austin, Herbert Corthel, Robert Terry, Kenneth Harlan. William Gould, . WALLABY JIM OF THE ISLANDS,' produced by Bud Barsky; directed °y Charles Lamont; screen play by Bennett R. Cohen; from original by Albert Richard Wetjen. Cast: George Houston. Ruth Coleman, William von Brincken, Douglas Walton, Mamo Clark. Colin Campbell, Syd Saylor. Juan Toreno, Nick Thompson, Warner Richmond, Ed Gargan, William Benge. Chi-is Martin. GN Pix Readied to Start, with Tentative Credits TtX RIDES WITH THE BOY SCOUTS/ set to start (30); Edward *inney production, supervised by Lindsav Parsons; directed by Ray iayior; original screen play by Edward Kelson. Cast: Tex Ritter only assignment to date. ♦RETURN OF THE" SHADOW/ set to start (30); produced by Max and Arthur Alexander; original screen play by John Krafft. Cast: Rod La 4o3L"*" '^^^^^ assignments as yet. S>0 THIS IS HOLLYWOOD/ to be produced by Bennie F. Zeidman; no °'Ilf,'^ credits available; no definite starting date. h iR !^ B '''^ ™^ SOUTH SEAS,' .set to start Sept. 15; produced Au ^"^-Barslcy; screen play by Raymond Schrock, ba.sed on original by «r1i"^v?^'^^^^^ Wetien. Cast: George Houston; no other assignments. FRONTIER TOWN/ starting date indefinite; Edward Finney production, supervised by Lindsay Par.sons; directed bv Ray Taylor; original screen fiiif^J.?^'"^^^ Kelso. Cast: Tex Ritter. no other assignments. , R .J" PLEASURE MADAME,' to be produced by Eugen Frenke: no oenmte starting date: original screen play by Albert Cohen and Hans •I ftvi?^^^** ■'^""^ a«s<ifi»mcnts as yet. „ .*^"y*' ME AGAIN/ to be produced and directed bv Victor Schertzinger; QyiJ,'mal by Schertzinger; screen pliw 'v ^ —' ■ t •• Annn No other assignments as vot. Metro Features .. Hal Roach. Number Number Now of Pix Com- ShQot- Promised pleted ing 48 1 6 4 0 0 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 4 37 5 0 4 0 Total 52 l" 6 4 * 41 5 Pictures now irt the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'MADAME X/ produced by James K. McGuinness; directed by Sam Wood; original by Alexander Bisson; screen play by John Meehan; photo- graphed by John Seitz. Cast: Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal, Henry Daniell, Emma Dunn, Lynne Carver, Philip Reid, William Henry, Ruth Hussey. 'THE WOMEN MEN MARRY/ produced by Michael Fessier; directed by Errol Taggart; original. by Matt Taylor; screen play by Harry Ruskin, Donald Henderson Clarke and James Edward Grant; photographed by Les White. Cast: George Murphy, Josephine Hutchinson, Suzanne, Cliff Edwards, Sidney Blackmer, Toby Wing, Gertrfide Michael, Leonard Penn, John Wray, Helen Jerome Eddy. 'MY DEAR MISS ALDRICH/ no producer credit; directed by George Seitz; original. screen play by Herman J. Mankiewicz; photographed by Charles Lawton. Cast: Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan, Janet Beecher, Arthur Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Lya Lys, Charley Grapewln, Brent Sargent, Walter Kingsford. •THE BRIDE WORE RED/ produced by Joe Mankiewicz; directed by Dorothy Arznier; dance direction by Val Raset; original, adapted from 'The Girl from Trieste,' by Ferenc Molnar; screen play by Tess Slesinger and Bradbury Foote; photographed by George Folsey. Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Young, Franchot Tone. Billy Burrud, Lynne Carver, Reginald Owen, George Zucco, Dickie Moore, Paul Porcasi. Metro Pictures Now in Production ♦CONQUEST/ formerly titled 'MADAME WALEWSKA/ produced by Bernard Hyman; directed by Clarence Brown; novel by GasioroWski; screen play by S. N. Behrman, Salka Viertel, Zoe Akins, Sam Hoffenstelh and Talbot Jennings; dance direction by Val Raset; photographed by Karl Freurid. Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Henry Stephenson, C. HenrV Gordon, Maria Ouspenskaya, Alan Marshall, George Houston, Shepard Strudwick, Ivan Lebedeft, Bodil Rosing, Claude Gillmg- water. Noble Johnson, Roland Varno. • TLft NEVER FORGET/ no producer credit; directed by Charles Dorian; oirigmll screen play by John Bright and Robert Tasker. Cast: John Beal, Ruth ^arch, Jean Hersholt, Mary Phillips, Charley Grapewin, Alfred Jansen, Juanita Guigley, Scotty Beckett. , „ „ i, j- j i... 'LIVE, LOVE AND LEARN/ produced by Harry Rapf; directed by George Fitzmaurice; original by Helen Grace Carlyle; screen play by Marion Parsonnet, Charles Brackett and Vincent Lawrence; camera, Ray June. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Robert Benchley, Helen Vinson, Rita Johnson. ij-,.T.-i.j 'DOUBLE WEDDING,' produced by Joe Mankiewicz; directed by Richard Thorpe; original by Ferenc Molnar; screen play by Jo Swerling; photo- graphed by Hal Rosson. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, John Beal, Florence Rice. Barnett Parker, Jessie Ralph, Sidney Toler, Mary Gordon, Edgar Kennedy. , , , , . j •THE LAST GANGSTER/ directed by Edward • Ludwig; no producer credit; original screen play by Robert Carson and William Wellman. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Stander, James Stewart, Douglas Scott, Louise . 'THE BAD MAN OF BRIMSTONE/ produced by Harry Rapf; directed by J. Walter Rubin; original by Rubin. Cast: Wallace Beery Raymond Hatton, Virginia Bruce, Lewis Stone, Bruce Cabot, Larry Doj^e, Joseph Calleia, Guy Kibbee, Warren Hymer, Cliff Edwards, Noah Berry, Sr., Arthur Hohl, Robert Gleckler, Olin Howard, Mitchell Lewis, John Qualen. Being readied to start, with tentative credits: ; Q„„„ppr 'MANNEQUIN/ no credits yet announced. Cast: Joan Crawford, Spencer '"^^♦THOROUcThbREDS DON'T CRY/ produced by Harry Rapf; directed by Alfred E. Green; original by J. Walter Rubin and Eleanore Griffin; screen play by Lawrence Hazard. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Douglas Scott, Sophie ^"unDe'r'thiI^FLAG/ produced by James K. McGuinness; directed by Eddie Buzzell; no other credits yet announced. Cast: Robert Montgomery, ^ T?EST WifoT/ produced by Louis Lighton; directed by Victor Fleming; no other credits yet announced. Cast: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy. Monogram Number Number Now Features Westerns ■Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 1 15 6 0 13 1 Total 42 12 i 1 28 7 '^'brIde rSB^llEl^RYrproduced by Dorothy Reid; directed by Wil- liam Nieh- original by Josephine Bentham; screen play by Manon Orth. phSographed by Gilbert Warrenton. Cast: Warren ifull, Ann Nagel, Henry Mollison. SkR^^rRIZONA SKIES/ Produced and directed by R. N Bradbury; original screen play by Robert Emmett, Cast: Jack Randall, Kathleen Eliot, Warner Richmond. Earl Dwyer. Tom Hei-foert Readied ttt Start, with Tentative Credits 'TELEPHONE OPERATOR/ produced by Lon Young; onginal screen niav hv Scott Darling. No other assignments as yet. . . -, •^RT OF MISSING GIRLS/ produced by Lon Young; origmal screen nlav bv Paul Perez: no other assignments. . . , ^ Federal bullets/ produced by Lon Young; original .screen play by Karl Brown, who will also direct; no other assignments as yet viVir roUNTRY beyond/ produced and directed by K. iN. BraoDury. sta™ Tom KeJie: original ?creen play by Robert Emmett. No other ^'SIncIVf the LIMBE^LOST/ produced by Ken Goldsmith; screen play^ Madon Orth, based on story by Gene Stratton-Porter. No other ' MAMnIs are here/ produced by Ken Goldsmith; original ^'^^ri;yil^RE^,^.5oi^^ ?y Arthur Collins. Orfg^fc^oen ?fay by Scott Darling and Erna Lazarus. No other ass.gn- ments as yet. Paramount studio ITarry Sherman. . —,,,,..1 r^hen. B. P. Schulberg. Number Number olf Pix Com- promised pleted 36 5 « 1 H « 8 0 Total .58 Pictures m Production aro 6 Now Shoot- ing 5 1 1 1 8 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras lion 4 22 fi 1 3 1 0 7 2 0 7 0 MORE OPS' SIT-INS TO FORCE HIGHER WAGES Coincident with the drive of Local 306, Moving Picture Machine Oper- ators of. r{ew York, to unionize smaller independents" in the Greater New York area, operators in the Katncy, at, 180th street and Third avenue, not involved in the cam-' paign, have declared a sit-in and forced the closing of the theatre. The' projectionists, non-union men, took the initiative of locking themselves in the booth of the house Friday night f20) and it was forced to close. On top of this action, the ops, Bernard Satensberg and Robert Hin- son, have authorized Local 300 to act as their bargaining agent. Kamey is operated by Sam Bouders. The theatre is not one that had felt the approach of 306 in its recent- ly instituted drive to bring in non- union theatres' that had been unmo- lested up to now. In this campaign to make Greater New York 100% union, 300 signed up 17 theatres during the past month and is at work on the remaining appr'oximafe 15 that are still non-union. One of the latest houses brought In is Ihe 55th St. Playhouse, N. Y., where the increase in wages amount- ed to 100%. Raises have ranged to as high as 250%, ops in some cases having been very poorly paid. 'A typical instance was increasing men, in three theatres, all controlled by one indie, from $21 weekly to $51. Bert Popkin and Charles Kilhurn, 306 busi,ness agents, are directing the clean-u^, campaign. Academy Pix Sues Lab To Halt Foreclosure Academy Pictures • Corp., through Its president, Victor Halperln, will ask N. Y. Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora today (Wednes- day) for an injunction to stop Pro- ducers' Laboratories, '• Inc., from bringing foreclosure proceeding.^ against Academy and auctioning off the latter's motion picture prop- erties. Producers' Lab alleges it holds liens on several of Academy'a pictures, both negatives and prints. Thfe tw9 outfits have been battling in the courts for over a year. Hal- perln claims he entered an agree- ment with Producers in 1935 under which the latteij would advance loans to flnahce the production oC Acad's pictures. In return Pro- ducers was to receive a Hen on each . picture and also do the lab work. It was agreed that the loans were to be paid from the profits on each picture. Halperln says the loans ad- vanced amounted to $45,740 and that these were met. Producers insist the full amount was never paid and in- sists on going through with fore- closure proceedings. "The pictures involved are "I Conquer the Sea" and "Revolt of the Demons/' Lionel Houser's 'Mexico* Hollywood,' Aug: 247" Lionel Houser has been assigned to write the screenplay of his original,, 'The Girl frOm Mexico,' at, RKO. Scrivener also was handed an op- tion-lifting. Robert Sisk will produce. Schrank's 'Murder* Hollywoo3, Aug. 24. Having completed his writing as- signment on 'Swing Your Lady' at Warner.s, Joseph Schrank has drawn the .script of 'A Slight Case of Mur- der.' Film will be made .from Damon Runyon's original mag yarn. F. Hugh Herbert's Job Hollywood, Au?. 24. Having completed his writing a.s- signment at Metro, F. Hugh Herbert ha.s returned to the Universal lot. He's working on 'Youth Marche,-! On,' which Joe Pasternak will pro- duce. (!) S'l^vnraE^' M^rlu^edi^y Harry Sherman: directed by Le. * (Continued on page 25) s Sol-jnder; PLOWBRIGHT'S BEEAK Hollywood, Aug. 24. Harry Sherman has spotted Gwen Gar.e as the femme lead of his next Hopalong Cassidy film, 'Men Must Fi'Jtht; Hilda Plowbright, from the New York stage, also gets a break in thiri one. Col Teams Iloffman-Parkcr Hollywood, Aug. 24. Columbia has signed Joseph H;j(T, mnn and Jefferson Parker to writa tl\>j adaptation of 'Murderers Wel- come." novel by Philip R. Wyiio. J'\i:k Holt will star.