Variety (Sep 1937)

Wednesday, September 8!, 193T PICTURES VARIETY 23 ^idmo^n^ Production Chart " "■'■'••'-■'.i^V'': v';:?-^Vr..i!itMi' ij „ if (Continued froi^. pagre 22) son and Lloyd Osbourne; photographed by, Leo Tover. Cast: Oscar Homolka, Frances Farmer, Ray Milland, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Fitzgerald. 'THIS WAT PLEASE,' produced by Mel Shauer; directed by Robert Florey: original by Bill Thomas and Maxwell Shane; screen play by Howard J, Green, Seena Owen and Grant Garrett; photographed by Harry Fischbeck. Cast: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Betty Grable, Ned Sparks, Porter Hall, James and Marian Jordan, Lee Bowman, Cecil Cunningham, Wally Vernon, Romo Vincent, Jerry Bergen, Mary Livingstone. ^THE TEXAS TRAIL,' produced by Harry Sherman; supervised by Ralph Bavenscroft; directed by Dave Sellman; original by Clarence E. Mulford; screen play by Jack O'Dohnell; additional dialog by Harrison Jacobs. Cast: William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Haydeh, Judith Allen. 'THE BARRIER,' produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Les Selander; original by Rex Beach; screen play by Bernard Schubert; additional dialog by Harrison Jacobs and Mordatmt Shairp; songs, Harry Tobias and Jack Stern; camera, George Barnes. Cast: Leo Carillo, Jean Parker, Jimmy Ellison, Otto Kruger, J. M. Kerrigan, Andy Clyde, Robi&rt Barrat, Sally Martin, Sara Haden, Addison Richards. "LOVE ON TOAST,' produced by Emanuel Cohen; directed by E, A. Dupont; original screen play by Jane Storm, Richard Connell and Doris Malloy; photographed by Charles Schoebaum. Cast: Stella Ardler, John Payne, Grant Richards, Katharine 'Sugar' Kane, Isabel Jewell, Luis Alberni. Paramount Pictures Now In Production 'WELLS FARGO,' produced and directed by Frank Lloyd; Howard Esta- brook, associate producer; original by Stuart N. Lake; screen play by Paul ScKofleld, Gerald Geraghty. and Fred Jackspn; camera, Theodore SparkuhL Cast: Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Bob Burns, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Nash, Ralph Morgan, Porter Hall, Robert. Cummings, Jane Dewey, Barlowe Borland. ' . 'BLOSSOMS ON BROADWAY,' produced by B. P. SchiUberg; directed by Richard Wallace; original by Geprge Auerbach; camera, Leon Shamroy. Cast: Edward Arnold, Shirley Ross, John Trent, William Frawley, Weber and Fields, the Radio Rogues, Ruth Davis, Kitty Kelly. '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 Tamiroflf, Ian Keith, Walter Brennan, Douglai Dumbrille, Robert Barrat, Fred Kohler, Sr., Beulah Bondi, Margot Grahame, Spring Byington. 'THRILL OF A LIFETIME,' produced by Miss Fanchon; directed by George Archambaud; no writing credits announced. Cast: Yacht Club Boys, Judy Canova, Ben Blue, Betty Grable, 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, Lynne 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 Saylor, Monte Blue, John Patterson, Nick Lukats, James Craig, Lucien Littlefield. 'HOLD 'EM NAVY,' general, office production; directed by Kurt Neu- mann; photographed by Henry Sharp; no writer credits. Cast: Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Benny Baker, John Howard, Richard Denning, Elizabeth Patterson. Readied for Production, with Tentative Credits 'TRUE CONFESSION,' jkroduced by Albert Lewin; directed by Wesley Haggles; story, Claude Bingon. Cast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Porter Hall, John Barrymore. '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. 'EAST OF SHANGHAI,' general office production; 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 HarUn Thompson, set to start Sept. 20; no other credits yet announced. Cast: Gladys Swarth- out, John Bolejg. 'EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY,' to be produced by Emanuel Cohfin; Eddie Sutherland, directing; no other credits yet announced. Cast: Mae West. No.w Balance to Numjber Number Now in "St Placed Stories' In olt Fix Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- Promised pleted ing: Room^ Cameras tion Studio , 4^3 3 4 7 2? IS Condor 6 0 0 0 6 2 Sol Lesser 3 10 0 2 1 David Loew 2 10 1^0 Walt Disney....... 1 0 1 6 0 0 Total 55 5 5 8 37 2*1 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'DON'T 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 PurceU, Ernest Pagano and Harry Segall; photographed by Jack MacKenzie. Cast: John Boles, Jack Oakie, 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. '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 Menjou, LeOna Roberts, Marjorie Lord, Andrea Leeds, Lucille Ball, Con- stance Collier, Jean Rouverol, Eve Arden. 'MUSIC FOR MADAME,' produced by Jesse L. Lasky; directed by John Blystone; original by Robeirt Harair;-songs, Rudolf Friml and Gus Kahn; 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'S 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. 'FIT FOR A KING,' David L, Loiew production; directed by Edward Sedgwick; screen play by Richard Flournoy; photographed by Paul Vogel. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Helen Mack, Paul Kelly, Harry Davenport, Halliwell Hobbes. Russell Hicks, Frank Reichier. 'SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS,' feature length cartoon now being readied by Walt Disney studios for December release. 'LOVE IN A BASEMENT,' produced by Maurey Cohen; directed by Lew Landers; original by John Wells; screen play by Franklin Coen; photo- graphed by Nick. Musuraca. Ca.st: James Dunn, Whitney Bourne, Joan Woodbury, Solly Ward, Franklin Pangborn, Tom Kennedy. RKO-Radio Pictures Now in Production 'HIGH FLYERS,' produced by Lee Marcus: directed by Eddie Cline; from 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 bv Pandro S. Herman; directed by peoige Stevens; original by P. G. Wodehouse; screen play by P. G. Wode- house, Ernest Pagano and S. K. Laurel; photographed by Joe Augu.st. Cast: Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, Gracie Allen and George Bums, Ray Noble, Reginald Gardiner, Constance Collier, Montagu Love, Harry Watson, Jack Carson. 'IT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE,' produced by Jesse L, Lasky; directed by Raoul Walsh; original by Robert Harari and Maxwell Shane; screen play by Gertrude PurceU and John Twist; photographed by J. Roy Hunt. Cast: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, Gene Raymond, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, Eduardo Cianelli, 'HAPPY FELLOW,' formerly titled 'THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES,' produced by P. J. Wolfson; directed by Leigh Jason; original by Allan Scott; no other credits as yet announced.. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland, Walter Abel, Alec Craig, Guinn Williams; 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 ^ilde. No other credits. Cast: Katharine Hepburn. '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 assignment as yet. Cast: Irene Dunne and John Barrymore. Repnbfic Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories iii Cutting- Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 3 45 4 Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot Promised pleted ing Total 52 3 1 . Pictures now in the cutting rooms awaiting preview are: 'TROUBLE FOB TWO,' produced and directed by Phil Rosen. No other credits announced; photographed by Ed Snyder. Cast:,.Marian Marsh, Gordon Oliver, Margaret Diunont, Peggy Shannon, Joe Caits, Milburn Stone, Theodore Von Eltz, WadeBoteler, Sarah Padden. 'PORTIA ON TRIAL,' produced by Al Levoy; directed by George Nicholls. Jr.; original story by Faith Baldwin; screen play by Sam Ornltz and E. E. Paramore, Jr.; photographed by Harry Wild. Cast: Walter Abel, Frieda Inescort, Neil Hamilton, Ruth Donnolly, Heather Angel. '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 Now in Production . ' 'MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-BOUND,' produced ,by Harry Sauber; directed by Chuck Reisner; original screen play by Harry Sauber; photo- graphed by Jack Marta; Cast: Phil Regan, Leo Carrillo, Ann Dvorak, James Gleason, Tamara Geva, Kay Thompson, Ted Lewis, Cab. Caljoway, Joe DiMaggio, Henry Armetta, Dorothy Paige, Selmer Jackson. 20th Century-Fox Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories In of Fix Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- Promised pleted Ing Rooms Cameras tion Studio ........ 52 5 6 5 36 9 Sol Lesser 6 1 0 0 5 6 Total 58 6 6 * 5 41 15 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: '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 Chandler, George Regas, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg. '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 produced; 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 Kmg, '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. '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, 20th-Fox Pictures Now in Production 'IN OLD CHICAGO,' Kenneth Macgowan, associate producer; directed by Henry King; i'eteen play by Lamar Trotti and Sonya Levien, based on story by Niveh 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, E^isha Cook, Jr., Brewster Twins, Marjorie Weaver, J, C. Nugent. „ . , . ^ j 'ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN,' Laurence Schwab, associate producer, directed by David Butler; screen play by Harry Tugend and Jack Yellen, based on story by Gene Towne, Graham Baker and Gene Fowler; photo- graphed by Ernest Palmer. Cast: Eddie Cantor, June Lang, Roland Young, Louise Hovick (Gypsy Rose Lee), Tony Martin, John Carradine, Alan Dinehart. Douglas Dumbrille, Virginia Field, Maurice Cass, George Regas, Douglas Wood, Sidney Fields. Warren Hymer, Stanley Fields. •45 FATHERS,' John Stone, associate producer; difected 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 ^"borrowed' trouble,' produced by Max Golden; directed by Frank Strayer; original screen play by Robert Chapin and Karen De Wolf; photo- graphed by Edward Snyder. Cast: Jed Prouty, Spnng Bymgton, Shirley Deane, Russell Gleason, June Carlson. Billy Mahan. George Ernest, Douglas ^''SECOND HONEYMOON,' produced by Raymond Griffith; directed by Walter Lang. Cast; Lorelta Young, Tyrone Power, Lyle Talbot, Stuart Erwin. UDked Artists RAMISH BUILDING TWO MORE HOUSES IN 'LULU Samuel Goldwyn. Alexander Korda. Selznick Walter Wanger... Chaplin • • London Films Number Number of Pix Com- promised pleted 6 2 6 0 5 i 8 0 1 0 8 0 Now Shoot- ing i 0 I 0 0 0 Now Balance to in 3e Placed Stories in Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 0 0 1 A 0 0 1 6 2 5 1 8 1 6 2 5 1 8 23 . Hollywood, Sept. 7, Adolph Ramish sailed for Hono- lulu last Saturday (4) with plans for two new 1,000-seat theatres for the Hawaiian metropolis, construc- tion of which will bring the Ramish holdings (Franklin Theatres, Inc) to six houses. ' ' Franklin theatres chain will change its corporate name to Royal Amusements, Inc. Total 34 3 4 4 23 Pictures now in the cuUing room.s awaiting previews are. •FIFTY SECOND STREET.' produced , by Waller Wanger; directed by Harold Young- screen play bv Gi'over Jones. Cast: Ian Hunter. Leo Car- "llo kt Sterson^^E^ Logan, Sid Silvers, ZaSu Pitls. Maria Shelton, Dorothy Peterson. Colottc. Lyons. Kenny Baker. .j, „ ^ ... 'STAND-IN,' produced by Walter Wander: direclod by Tay Garnett; •icreen nlav by Gene Towne and Graham Baker, based on.Satevcnost story bv Clarence Budiniilon Kclland; phnto^^raphod by Charles Clarke. C.a.st; Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell. Humphrey Bo«art, Alan Mowbray. MarJa ( Continued on paijc 31) Commercial Biz (Continued from page 5) rell were among the first to capital- ize on the popularity of Palm Springs as a winter spot for Holly- wood folk. Their Racquet Club is a highly profitable enterprise and next season will be expanded. Bert Wheeler and Charles Hill, the latter an ex-vaudevillianv are in partner- ship in a big apartment project at Palm Springs. "~ The Crosby Midas Touch Many Hollywood people go in for sports of various kinds, but few drag out heavy profits. This does not apply to Bing Crosby, Al Jol- son and Victor McLaglen, Crosby does all right from his interests in Rancho Santa Fe, in the Del Mar race track, and in the various fight- ers he owns. Jolson is reputedly cleaning up through ownership of Henry Armstrong, battling negro. McLaglen's sports center in a literal gold mine, being used for polo, mid- get auto races, softball games and other pastimes where the customers pay so much a head to get in. Nbrnian Foster Is a silent partner in a book shop In Beverly Hills. Charles Bickford, one of the first to have a commercial sideline, gets a good revenue out of his string of gas stations and the South Seas pearling ^vessel he financed. George O'Brien combines business with :. pleasure in operating the Iron Horse Stables at Culver City. He gives work to a flock of cowboys and gets a good profit renting horses to studios and individuals. Charles Ruggles operates the spif- flest dog kennels this ^de of Long Island and despite the fact that his prices are plenty stiff, he always has a waiting list of well rec- ommended pooches who want a place to bed and board while their masters are away. Chick Chandler, on the other hand, has put his dough into a beehive enterprise and seems to be doing okay peddlihg the honey. Reginald Denny was one of the pio- neer aviators in the film biz and when acting jobs got scarce a few years ago he went into the business of building model planes. Since that time he has made something of a screen comeback and at the same time his business also expanded. Kurt Neumann went trout fishing with a couple of pals one day about two years ago, the first time in his life that he had ever felt the nibble of a fish on his line. He got so enthused that he started the Log Cabin Ashing tackle store on Ca- huenga boulevard and now it's do- ing well. Chi^ck Reisner spends his houi-S off the set running his sport- ing goods store. Time Out From Ribbing Vince Barnett has an Interest in a Pasadena auto agency and spends his spare time selling cars. Mitchell Leisen owns a Wilshire boulevard haberdashery. Conrad Nagel owns a big market and Robert Cummings is interested in a Kansas City air- plane factory. Alan Hale, who is quite some pumpkins as an inventor, is interested in several concerns manufacturing his brain children. The latest is a new type theatre seat which gives a theatre 18% more capacity. The seats are being manufactured in nearby Inglewood. Of course the biggest single com- mercial enterprise in Hollywood is Shirley Temple, whose Interest in concerns making dolls, books, clothes, food and a flock of other items is rapidly plunging her into the millionaire class. Little Jane Withers is another who gets heavy loyalties from endorsements. There are plenty of ex-picture people in all kinds of businesses in Hollywood and Los Angeles. To list them would take as much .space as a portion of the phone book. It all started when William Haines re- alized the value of a film name and went into the interior decorating biz. Now everybody's doing il: The latest addition to the list is Mary Miles Mintcr. who has n new in- terior dcconitinti slirjp out Beverly way.