Variety (Aug 1937)

Wednesday, August 25, 1937 PICTURES VARIETY 25 Advance Production Chart (Continued from page 21) original by Rex Beach; screen play by Bernard Schubert; additional dialog by Harrison Jacobs and Mordaunt Shairp; songs, Harry Tobias and Jack Stern; camera, George Barnes. Cast: Leo Carillo, Jean Parker, Jimmy Ellison, Otto Kruger, J. M. Kerrigan, Andy Clyde, Robert Barrat, Sally Martin, Sara Haden, Addison Richards. •WELLS FARGO/ produced and directed by Frank Lloyd; Howard Esta- brook, associate producer; original by Stuart N. Lake; screen play by Paul Schofield, Gerald Geraghty and Fred Jackson; camera, Theodore Sparkuhl. Cast: Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Bob Bums, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Nash, Ralph Morgan, Porter Hall,. Robeirt Cummings, Jane Dewey, Barlowe Borland. 'BLOSSOMS ON BROADWAY,' produced by B. P. Schulbe'rg; directed by Richard Wallace; original hy George Auerbach; camera, Leon Shamroy. Cast: Edward Arnold, Shirley Ross, John Trent, William Frawley, Weber and Fields, the Radio Rogues, Ruth Davis, Kitty Kelly. ♦LOVE ON TOAST,' produced by Emanuel Cohen; directed by E, A. Dupont; original screen play by Jane Storm, Richard Connell and Doris MaUoy; photographed by Charles Schoebaum. Cast: Stella Ardler, John Payne, Grant Richards, Katharine 'Sugar' Kane, Isabel Jewell, Luis Alberni. 'THE BUCCANEER,' produced and directed by C. B..De Mille; photo- graphed by Victor Milner; other credits not yet announced. Cast: Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Ian Keith, Walter Brennan, Douglas Dumbrille, Robert Barrat, Fred Kohler, Sr., Beulah Bondi, Margot Grahame, Spring Byington. 'THRILL OF A LIFETIME,' produced by Miss Fanchon; directed by George ArchainbaUd; no writing credits announced. Cast: Yacht Club Boys, Judy Canova, Ben Blue, Betty Grafole, Johnny Downs, Eleanore Whitney, Leif Erikson, Larry Crabbe. 'CITY HALL SCANDAL^' general office production, directed by Ralph Murphy; no writing credits announced. Cast: John Barrymore, Lyrme Overman, Charles Bickford, Louise Campbell, Harvey Stephens, J. Carrol Naish, Evelyn Brent, Elizabeth Patterson, Barlowe Borland. * 'BORN TO THE WEST,' general office production, directed by Charles Barton; other credits not announced. Cast: John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, John Mack Brown, Syd Baylor, Monte Blue, John Patterson, Nick Lukats, James Craig, Lucien Littlefleld. Readied for Production, with Tentative Credits 'TRUE CONFESSION/ scheduled to start (30); produced by Albert Lewin; directed by Wesley Ruggles; story, Claude Bingon. Cast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Porter H?ill. 'BIG BROADCAST OF 1938/ scheduled to start Sept. 9; produced by Harlan Thompson; directed by Mitchell Leisen; no other credits yet an- nounced. Cast:' W. C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Ben Blue, Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Leif Erikson, Kirsten Flagstad, Tito Guizar, Stanley Fields. 'HOLD 'EM NAVY/ scheduled to start (26); general office production; directed by Kurt Neumann. No other credits'-yet announced. Cast: Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Benny Baker, John Howard, Richard Denning, Eliza- beth Patterson. 'ACROSS THE RIVER/ general office production, set to start Sept. 20; directed by George Archainbaud; no other credits yet announced. Cast: Anna May Wong, Cecil Cunningham. 'BLUEBEARDS'S EIGHTH WIFE,' to be produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch, set to start Sept. 20. No other credits yet announced. Cast: Claudette Colbert. 'THE YELLOW NIGHTINGALE,' to be produced by Harlan Thompson, set to start Sept 20; no other credits yet announced. Cast: Gladys Swarth- out, John Boles. , , . ^ ^ 'SAPPHIRE SAL/ to be produced by Emanuel Cohen, scheduled to start Sept. 6. Eddie Sutherland, directing; no other credits yet announced. Cast: Mae West. . RKO-Radio Landers; oi'iginal by John Wells; screen play by if'ranklin Coen; photo- graphed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: James Dunn, Whitney Bourne, Joan Woodbury, Solly Ward, Franklin Pangborn, Tom Kennedy. Readied for Production, with Tentative Credits THE SEEING EYE/ produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Richard Rosson; original story by W. J. Cowan. No other credits; no castings. 'BRINGING UP BABY/ produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Howard Hawks; story by Hagar Wilde. No other credits; Cast: Katharine Hepburn. 'FEMALE OF THE SPECIES,' produced by P: J, Wolfson; directed by Leigh Jason; original story by Allan Scott; no other assignments as yet. Cast: Miriam Hopkins. 'THE JOY OF LOVING/ produced by Felix Young; directed by Mark Sandrich; screen play by Herbert and Dorothy Fields; songs, Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields. No other a.ssignments as yet. Cast: Irene Dunne and John Barrymore. Repablic Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting Before Prepara- Booms Cameras tion 1 . 45 4 Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot Promised pleted ing Total 52 3 3 Picture now in. the cutting rooms awaiting preview is: 'TROUBLE FOR TWO,' produced and directed by Phil Rosen. No other credits announced; photographed by Ed Snyder. Cast: Marian Marsh, Gordon Oliver, Margaret Dumont, Peggy Shannon, Joe Caits, Milburn Stone, Theodore Von Eltz, Wade Bot eler, Sarah Padden. Republic Pictures Now in Production 'PORTIA ON TRIAL/ produced by Al Levoy; directed by George Nicholls, Jr.; original story by Faith Baldwin; screen play by Sam Ornitz and E. E. Paramore, Jr., photographed by Harry Wild. Cast. Walter Abel. Frieda Inescort, Neil Hamilton, Ruth Donnolly, Heather Angel. /MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-ROUND/ produced by Harry Sauber; directed by Chuck Reisner: original screen play by Harry Sauber; photo- graphed by Jack Marta. Cast: Phil R^gan. Leo CarriUo, Ann Dvorak, James Gleason, Tamara Geva, Kay Thompson,- Ted Lewis, Cab Calloway, Jf>e DiMaggio, Henry Armetta, Dorothy Paige, Selmer Jackson. 'TRIGGER TRIO/ produced by Sol Siegel; directed by William Witney; photographed by Ernest Miller; no other credits announced. Cast: Ralph Byrd, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Sandra Corday, Cornelius Keith, Hal Taliaferro. Republic pictures being readied for production, but as yet without any credits: "THE LADY MlSB£nAVES,' 'FIRST PRIZE,' 'LOVE IS A FABLE,' 'THE DUKE COMES BACK/ 20th Ceaiury-Fox studio .... Sol Lesser. Total Now Balance to ^ in Be Placed Stories in Cilttins: Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 5 37 9 15 6 6 42 15 DUALING SPREADING SOMEWHAT IN THE N.W. I Minneapolis, Aug. 24. Double featuring, stationary as far as the Twin Cities are concerned, is starting to spread Ea.st in the terri- tory outside of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Many spots now are using the dual bills at least once a week; others, twice. In a competitive situation,' Baer Bros.' Bern id ji theatre, Bcmtdji, Minn., is double-featuring twice a week, for 1.5c admission. The Ber- ger circuit has two houses in Bemidji using single features and charging 25c night admission. The same chain, however, Is using dou- ble features once or twice a week at Brainerd, Minn. Publix continues to double-feature at two houses each in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Independents, however, are still laying off the dual bills un- less the Saturday midnight bargain show, which most houses are offer- ing and which includes the regular Saturday night and the Sunday fea- tures for the one ,)rice. , The 15c Palace and the dime lower loop sub- sequent run houses here stlU double feature, but are not regarded as an important factor In the situation. Reeky ML and Other Pix Showmen Conv. Next Wk. studio Condor Sol Lesser... David Loew. Walt Disney. Total Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ing: 43 0 4 6 0 0 3 0 0 Z 1 0 1 0 1 55 1 5 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting: Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras 7 0 1 1 0 9 32 6 2 0 0 u tion 20 2 1 6 0 23 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: *DONT FORGET TO REMEMBER/ produced by Al Lewis; directed by Joseph Santley; original by David Garth; photographed by Milton Krasner. Cast: Burgess Meredith, Ann Sothern, Onslow Stevens, Mary Boland, Louise Henry, William Brisbane, George Irving, Leona Roberts, Frances Gifford. 'FIGHT FOR YOUR LADY/ produced by Al Lewis; directed by Ben Stoloff; original by Jean Negulesco and Isabel Leighton; screen play by Gertrude Purcell, Ernest Pagano and Harry Segall; photographed by Jack MacKenzie. Cast: John Boles, Jack OakLe, Ida Lupino, Margot Grahame, Erik Rhodes. Paul Guilfoyle, Gordon Jones, Billy Gilbert, Georges Renavent. , , . 'BREAKFAST FOR TWO/ produced by Edward Kaufman; directed by Al Santell; original by David Garth; screen play by. Charles Kaufman; photo- graphed by Roy Hunt, Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore, Donald Meek. , , , ^ t 'STAGE DOOR/ produced by Pandro S. Berman; directed by Gregory La Cava; play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber; screen play by Anthony Veiller and William Slavens McNutt; photographed by Robert de Grasse. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn. Gail Patrick, Adolphe Menjcfu, Leona Roberts, Marjorie Lord, Andrea Leeds, Lucille Ball, Con- stance Collier, Jean Rouverol. Eve Arden. . ^ j ^ t u 'MUSIC FOR MADAME/ produced by Jesse L. Lasky; directed by John Blystone; original by Robert Harair: songs, Rudolf Friml and Gus K^hn; photographed by Joe August. Cast: Nino Martini. Joan Fontaine, Eric Rhodes. Barbara Pepper, Alan Mowbray, Frank M. Thomas, Billy Gilbert, Mira McKinney. Fred Santley. , , , _, , 'SATURDAY'iS HEROES/ produced by Robert Sisk; directed by Edward Killy; original by George Templeton; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Van Heflin, Marian Marsh, Richard Lane, Frank Jenks, Minor Watson, Walter Miller, Alan Bruce. ^ ^ , _ , '40 NAUGHTY GIRLS,' produced by William Sistrom; directed by Eddie CUne; original by Stuart Palmer; photographed by Russell Metty. Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Lord, Joan Woodbury. George Shelley, Frank M. Thomas, Tom Kennedy, Ada Leonard, Barbara Pepper. 'FIT FOR A KING/ David L. Loew production; directed by Edward Sedgwick; screen play by Richard Flournoy; photographed by Paul yogel. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Helen Mack, Paul Kelly, Harry Davenport, Halliwell Hobbes, Russell Hicks, Frank Reicher. ^ , ^ 'MAKE A WISH/ Principal Productions picture produced by Sol Lesser; directed by Kurt Neumann; original by Gertrude Berg; screen play by Gertrude Berg and Bernard Schubert: photographed by John Mescall. Cast: Bobby Breen, Marion Claire, Basil Rathbone. Ralph Forbes, Henry Armetta, Leon Errol, Leonid Kinskey, Herbert Rawlinson, Philip McMahon, Billy Lee. 'SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS,' feature length cartoon now being readied by Walt Disney studios for December release. RKO-Radio Pictures Now in Production 'HIGH FLYERS/ produced by Lee Marcus; directed by Eddie Cline: f-i-orn play. 'The Kangaroos,' by Victor Mapes: screen play by Benny Rubin and Bert Granet; photographed by Jack MacKenzie, Cast: Bert Wheeler. Robert Woolsey, Lupe Velez, Marjorie Ford, Jack Carson. Charles Judels, Frank M, Thomas. George Irving, Margaret Dumont. Herbert Clifton. •A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS/ produced by Pandro S. Berman: directed by George Stevens; original by P. G. Wodehouse: screen play by P. G. Wode- . house, Ernest Pagano and S. K. Laurel; photographed by Joe August. Cast: Fred Astaire. Joan Fontaine. Gracie Allen and George Burns. Ray Noble. Reginald Gardiner, Constance Collier, Montagu Love, Harry Watson, Jack Larson. 'IT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE,' produced by Jesse L, Lasky; directed by Raoul Walsh; no story credits as yet. Cast: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, Eric Blore. E. E. Horton, Billy Gilbert. LOVE IN A BASEMENT/ produced by Maurey Cohen: directed by Lew Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: . 'WESTERN GOLD/ Principal picture produced by Sol Lesser; directed by Howard Bretherton; original by Harold Bell Wright; screen play by Earle SneU and Forrest Barnes; photographed by Harry Newman. Cast: Smith Ballew, Heather Angel, LeRoy Mason, Howard Hickman, Otis Harlan, Vic Potel, Lew Kelly, Ben Corbett, Wesley Girard, Bud Osborne, Horace Murphy. 'LOOK OUT, MR. MOTO,' Sol M. Wurtzel, executive producer; directed by Norman Foster; original screen play by Lou Breslow and John Patrick; photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Chick Ch andl er, George Regas, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg. •WIFE DOCTOR AND NURSE,' Raymond Griffith, associate producer; directed by Walter Lang; screen play by Kathryn Scola, Darrell Ware and Lamar Trotti; photographed by Edward Cronjager. Cast: Loretta Young, Warner Baxter, Virginia Bruce, Allan Lane, Alan Dinehart, Minna Gombell, Jane Darwell, Margaret Irving. 'HEIDI/ Raymond Griffith,'associate producer; directed by Allan Dwan; screen play by Walter Ferris and Julien Josephson; photographed by Arthur Miller. Cast: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt,- Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley, Pauline Moore, Thomas Beck, Mary Nash, Sidney Blackmer, Mady Christians, Marcia Mae Jones, Delmar Watson. 'LANCER SPY/ Samuel G. Engel, associate producer; directed by Gregory .Ratoff; novel by Marthe McKenna; screen play by Philip Dunne; photographed by Albert Hogsett. Cast: Dolores del Rio, George Sanders, Peter Lorre, Virginia Field, Sig Rumann, Joseph Schildkraut, Maurice Moscovich, Lionel Atwill, Luther Adler, Fritz Feld, Holmes Herbert, Lester Matthews, Carlos De Valdez, Gregory Gaye, Joan Carol, Claude King. 'DANGER—LOVE AT WORK/ Harold Wilson, associate producer; directed by Otto L. Preminger; screen play by James Edward Grant and Ben Markson, based on story by Grant; photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Mary Boland, Edward Everett Horton, John Carradine, Walter Catlett, Bennie Bartlett, Maurice Cass, Etienne Girardot, E. E. Clive, Margaret McWade, Margaret Seddon. 20th-Fox Pictures Now in Production IN OLD CHICAGO/ Kenneth Macgowan, associate producer; directed by Henry King; screen play by Lamar Trotti and Sonya Levien, based on story by Niven Busch; photographed by Peverell Marley. Cast: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Don- levy, Tom Brown, Phyllis Brooks, Berton Churchill, June Storey, Paul Hurst, Tyler Brooke, J. Anthony Hughes, Gene Reynolds. •LIFE BEGINS IN COLLEGE/ Harold Wilson, associate producer; directed by William A. Seiter; screen play by Karl Tunberg and Don Ettlinger, based on stories by Darrell Ware; photographed by Robert Planck. Cast: Ritz Bros., Gloria Stuart, Fred Stone, Dick Baldwin, Nat Pendleton, Joan David, Tony Martin, Joan Marsh, Dixie Dunbar, Jed Prouty, Maurice Cass, Elisha Cook, Jr., Brewster Twins, Marjorie Weaver, J. C. Nugent, 'ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN,' Laurence Schwab, as.sociate producer; directed by David Butler; screen play by Harry Tugend and Jack Yellen, based on story by Gene Towne Graham Bak^r and Gene Fowler; photo- graphed by Ernest Palmer. Cast: Eddie Cantor, June Lang, Roland Young, Louise Hovick (Gypsy Ro.se Lee). Tony Martin, John Carradine, Alan Dinehart, Douglas Dumbrille, Virginia Field. Maurice Cas-s, George Regas, Douglas Wood, Sidney Fields, Warren Hymer, Stanley Fields. '45 FATHERS/ John Stone, associate producer; directed by James Tin- ling; screen play by Frances Hyland and Albert Ray, based on story by Mary Sickel and Ethel Spark, photographed by Albert Hogsett, Cast: Jane Withers, Shirley Deane, Thomas Beck, Louise Henry, Richard Carle, Joe and Flo McCoy. 'DANGEROUSLY YOURS/ formerly titled 'THE GREAT DIAMOND ROBBERY/ Sol M. Wurtzel, executive producer; directed by Malcolm St. Clair; screen play by Lou Breslow and John Patrick; photographed by Harry Davis. Cast: Cesar Romero. Phyllis Brooks, Jane Darwell, Alan Dinehart, Natalie Garson. John Harrington Douglas Woods. Denver, Aug. 24. Second annual convention of the Theatre Owners and Managers of the Rocky Mountain Region will be held in Denver, Aug. 30-31, the board of directors announced the past week. The opening day will be given over to business sessions at the Cosmo- politan hotel, Denver, and the second day will be taken up by the Screen Club picnic at Cherry Hills coun- try club, south of the city, scene ot last year's outing. A. P. Archer, president, will pre- side at the convention. In addition to officers' reports, Rick Rlcketson, Louis Finske, B. P. McCormlck, Howard C. Federer, Charles Gil- mour. Harry Huffman, Dave Cock- rill and Cy Pennie will talk. The Fox Intermountain regional annual convention will be at the Park Lane hotel, Denver, Aug. 31-. Sept. 2. The opening day will be ad- journed early for the Screen Club picnic, with two days given over to intensive business sessions. Ricket- son, division manager, will preside at the sessions. The annual convention of the Gi- braltar Enterprises Is being held in Denver this week. An outing in the mountains will be held later in the week. Chas. R. Gilmour, president of the group, called the meeting and will preside. Klan Suit Hdps Atlanta 'Legion* Exhib; Some Duck Atlanta, Aug. 24, Cashing in on publicity engen- dered by Ku Klux Klan's suit for $113,500 against Warner Bros, for al- leged use of KKK insignia in 'Black Legion;' Cameo theatre, downtown second-run indie, booked and showed film last week. Other subsequent run houses have given the pic the runaround, because Kluxers still wield potent influence in these parts and nabe theatre man- agers don't want to hurt anybody's feelings if they can help it. United Artists Now Balance to Number Numl>er Now in Be Placed Stories in of Pix Com- Shoot- Cutting: Before Prepara- i*romised pleted ing: Rooms Cameras tion Samuel Goldwyn.. 6 'I 2 0 2 2 Alexander Korda.. 6 0 0 0 6 6 Selznick 5 0 I 2 2 2 Walter Wang:er.... 8 0 0 3 5 5 Chaplin 1 'i 0 0 1 1 London Films 8 0 0 0 8 8 Total 34 2 3 5 24 24 Pictures now in the cutting rooms awaiting previews are: 'FIFTY SECOND STREET/ produced by Walter Wanger; directed by Harold Young; screen play by Grover Jones. Cast: Ian Hunter. Leo .Car- riUo, Pat Paterson, Ella Logan, Sid Silvers, ZaSu Pitts, Maria Shelton, Dorothy Peterson, Collette Lyons, Kenny Baker. 'STAND-IN/ produced by Walter Wanger; directed by Tay Gartiett; screen play by Gene Towne and Graham Baker, ba.sed on Satevepost story (Continued on page 27) 'Booloo^ Initials Hollywood, Aug. 24. Cabled advices have been re- ceived at Paramount from Clyde Elliott, producing and directing 'Booloo' at Singapore, that he has completed the initial scene for the film. Company will be absent another six months. Maynard's Circus Pic Hollywood, Aug. 24. Grand National will produce a circus picture featuring Ken May- nard. now on tour with Cole Bros, circus. M. H. Hoffman will produce. Jack Holt's 'Murderers' Hollywood, Aug. 24. 'Murderers Welcome,' Larry Dar- mour's next Jack Holt thriller for Columbia, will be directed by Lew Collin.s. Film will be made from Philip Wylie's orii;inat yarn.