Variety (Oct 1937)

Wednesday, October 6, 1937 PICTURES VARIETY 21 Advance Production Chart (Continued from page 19) Eliison, Otto Kruger, J. 'M; Kerrigan, Aridy Clyde, Robert Barrat, SaUy Martin; Sara Haden, Addison Richards. • «<■, •LOVE o: TOAST/ produced by Emanuel Cohen; directed by E A Dupont; original screen play by Jane Storm, Richard Connell and Doris Malloy; phgtographed by Charles Schoebaum. Cast: Stella Ardler, John Payne, Graiit Richafcdb?, Katharme 'Sugar' Kane, Isabel Jewell, Luis Alberni 'BLOSSOMS ON BROADWAY/ produced by B. P. Schulbergf^rfected by Richard Wallace; original by George Auerbach; camera, Leon Shamroy. Cast: Edward Arnold, Shirley Ross, John Trent, William Frawley. Weber and Fields, the Radio Rogues, Ruth Davis, Kitty Kelly. . 'THBILL OP A LIFETIME/ produced by Miss Fanchon; directed by George Archainbaud; no writing credits announced. Cast: Yacht Club Boys Judy CanoVa; 'Ben Blue, Betty Grable, Johnny Downs, Eleanore Whitney' . Leif Ericson, Larry Crabbc; » <NIGUT CLUB 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. 'BOBN TO THE WEST/, general'office production, directed by Charles Barton; other credits not announced. C^st: John Wayne, Marsha Hunt. John Mack Brown, Syd Saylor, Monte Blue, John Patterson, Nick Lukats James Craig,, Lucien Littlefield. 'HOLD 'EM, NAYT/ 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 Pdttcrson* 'BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S REVENGE/ general office production; di- riBcted by Louis King; Screen play by Edward T. Lowe, based on original by H. C. *Sapper' MoNiel6; photographed by Harry Fischbeck. Cast: John .Barrymore, Louise Campbell, John Howard, E. E. Clive, Reginald Denny, Lucien Littlefield, Nydia Westman. 'WELLS FARGO/ produced and directed by Frank Lloyd; Howard Esta- brbok, associate producer; original by Stuart N. Lake; screen play by Paul Schofleld, Gerald Geraghty and Fred Jackson; camera, Theodore SparkuhL Cast: Joel McCrea, Frances Dee, Bob Burns, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Nash, Ralph Morgan, Porter Hall, Robert Cummings, Jane Dewey, Barlowe Borland. Paramount Plx Now in Production ' '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, Doug- las Dumbrille, Robert Barrat, Fred Kohler, Sr., Beulah Bondi, Margot Grahame, Spring Byington. , 'TRUE CONFESSION/ produced by Albert Lewin; directed by Wesley Buggies; photographed by Ted Tetzlaff; no writing credits. : Cast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Porter Hall, John Barrymore, Edgar Kennedy, Richard Carle, Una Merkel, Fritz Feld. •EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY/ Major Pictures production; produced by Emanuel Cohen; directed by Edward Sutherland-no writing credits. Cast: Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Charlie Butterworth, Walter Catlett. ■ 'BIG BROADCAST OF 1938/ produced by Harlan Thompson; directed by Mitchell Leisen; no other credits yet announced. Cast: W. C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Ben Blue, Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Leif Erikson, Kirsten Flagstad, Tito Guizar, Shep Fields. 'DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI/ general office production; directed by Robert Florey; no writing credits yet; photographed by Charles Schoen- baum. Cast: Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Larry Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish, Ching Wah 'THE YELLOW NIGHTINGALE/ produced by Harlan Thompson; di- rected by. H. C. Potter; no writing credits yet; photographed by William MfeUor. Cast: Gladys Swarthout, John Boles, John Barrymore, Clair Dodd, Fritz Feld. 'CASSIDY OF BAR 20/ produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Les Selander; screen play by Norman Houston; original by Clarence E. Mul- ford; photographed bv Russell Harlan. Cast: Frank Darien, Russell Hay- den, Nora Lane, Robert Fiske, John Elliott. RKO-Radio Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories In of Pix Com- Slioot- Cutting Before Prepara« Promised pleted ingr Rooms Cameras tion Studio 43 8 7 3 25 15 Condor 6 0 0 0 6 2 Sol Lesser 3 1 0 0 2 1 David Loew ft 2 0 0 0 0 Walt Disney 1 0 1 0 0 0 To,taI 55 11 8 3 33 18 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'BREAKFAST FOR TWO/ produced by Edward Kaufman; directed by Al Santell; Original by David Garth; screen play by Charles Kaufman; photographed by Roy Himt. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Herbert Marshall, Glenda Farrell, Eric Blore. Donald Meek. 'LOVE IN A BASEMENT/ produced by Maury Cohen; directed by Lew Landers; original by John Wells; screen play by Franklin Coen; photo- graphed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: James Dunn, Whitney Bourne, Joan Woodbury, Solly Ward, Franklin Pangborn, Tom Kennedy. '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 Velei, Marjorie Ford, Jack Carson; Charles Judels, Frank M. Thomas, George Irving, Margaret Dumont, Herbert Clifton. RKO-Radio Pictures Now in Production 'A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS/ produced by Pandro S. Berman; directed by George Stevens; original by P. G. Wodehouse; screen play by P. G, Wodehouse, 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 Carson. 'HITTING A NEW HIGH,' formerly titled IT NEVER HAPPENED BE- FORE/ produced by Jesse L. Lasky; directed by Raoul Walsh; original by Robert Harari and Maxwell Shane; screen play by Gertrude Purcell and John Twist; photographed by Roy Hunt. Cast: Lily Pons. John Howard, Jack Oakie, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, Billy Gilbert, Eduardo Ciannelli. 'WOMEN HAVE A WAY/ formerly titled 'THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES/ piroduced by Edward Kaufman; directed by Leigh Jason; orig- inal by Allan Scott and Charles Norman; screen play by Scott; photo- graphed by Peverell Marlay. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland, Walter Abel, Henry Stephenson, Alec Craig. Guinn Williams. 'HIGHWAY TO HELL/ produced by Maury Cohen; directed by Lew Landers; original by Helen Vreeland and Hilda Vincent; screen play by Sy Bartlett and J. Robert Bren: photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: John Real, Sally Filers, Harry Carey, Frank M. Thomas, Lee Patrick, Ed Gargan. Paul Guilfoyle. .'SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS/ feature length cartoon now being readied by Walt Disney studios for December release. _ 'SHE'S GOT THAT SWING/ produced by Albert Lewis; directed by Joseph Santley; original by Joseph Hoffman and Monroe Shaff; photo- . graphed by Jack MacKenzie. Cast: Gene Raymond, Ann Sothern, Victor Moore.. Helen Broderick, Billy Gilbert. William Brisbane. Alan Bruce. 'BRINGING UP BABY/ produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Howard Hawks; original by Hagar Wilde; photographed by RusseU Metty. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Gary Grant, Leona Roberts, George Irving, Wesley Barry. 'HAVING WONDERFUL TIME,'produced by Pandro S. Berman; directed by Al Santell; play and Screen play by Arthur Kober; photographed by Robert De Grasse.. Cast: Gin.ijer Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Richard Red' Skelton, Peggy Conklin, Eve Arden, Lucille Ball. Number Number of Pix Com- . . Promised pleted Total 52 r. Now Balance to Now in Be Placed Stories in Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- ing Rooms Cameras tion 1 4 i't 6 Pictures now in the cutting room.s awaiting preview are: PORTIA ON TRIAL,' produced by Al Levoy; directed by George Nich- oiis, Jr.; original story by Faith Baldwin; sci-ccii play by Sam Ornite and E. E. Paramore, Jr.; photographed by Harry Wild. Cast: Walter Abel, Frieda Inescort, Neil Hamilton. Ruth DonnoUy, Heather Angel. 'MANHATTAN MERRY-GO-ROUNP/ prOdUcied by Harry Saucer; directed by Chuck Reisner; original screen play by Harry Sauber; photo- graphed by Jack Marta. Cast: Phil Regan, Leo CarriUo, Ann Dvorak, James Gleason, Tamara Geva, Kay Thompson* Ted Lewis, Cab Calloway, Joe Henry Armetta, Dorothy Paige, Selmer Jackson, Gene Autry. •THE DUKE COMES BACK/ produced by Herman Schlom; directed by 4fving Pichel; Satevepost story by Lucien Carey; screen play by Adele Buffington. Cast: Allan Lane, Heather Angel, Genevieve Tobin, Joseph Crehan, John Russell, Chick Chandler, Selmer Jackson. 'SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES/ produced by Sol Siegel; directed by Joe Kane; origiriar by Gilbert Wright; screen play by. Jack Natteford and Betty Burbridge. Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnett, Polly Rowles. Republic Pictures Now in Production ♦ZORRO RIDES AGAIN' (Serial), produced by Sol Siegel; directed by William Witney and Jack English; original screen play by Johnson Mc- Caufley. Cast: Duncan Renaldo, John Carroll, Elsa Christian, Richard Alexander, Roger William, Reed Howes. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sol Lesser. Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ins 52 9 3 6 1 0 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories In Cutting Before Prepuira- Rooms Cameras tion 6 '34 7 0 5 5 39 12 Total 58 10 3 6 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are 'LOOK OUT, MR. MOTO/ Sol M. Wu'rtzel, 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 Black- mer, Mady Christians, Marcia Mae Jones, Delmar Watson. •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. 'ALI BABA GOES TO TOWN/ Laurence Schwab, associate producer; directed by David Butler; screen play by Harry Tugend ^nd Jack Yellen, based on story by Gene Towne, Graham Baiter and G6he Fowler; photo- graphed by Ernest Palmer.. Cast: Eddie Cantor, June Lang, Roland Young, Louise Hovick'(Gypsy Rose Lee), Tony Martin, John Carradine, Alan Dineharf, Douglas Dumbrille, Virginia Field, Maurice Cass, 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 Deahe, Thomas Beck, Louise Henry, Richard Carle, Joe and Flo McCoy. • •BORROWING 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, Spring Byington, Shirley Deane; Russell Gleason, June Carlson, Billy Manan, George Ernest, Douglas Fowley. • SOth-Fox Pictures NOw In Production 'SECOND HONEYMOON.' produced by Raymond Griffith; directed by Walter Lang; no writing credits; photographed by Ernest Palmer.' Cast: Tyrone Power, Loretta Youngf Stuart Erwm, Claire Trevor, Lyle Talbot, J. Edward Bromberg, Jayne Regan. 'LOVE AND HISSES,' produced by Kenneth Macgowan; directed by Sid- ney Lanfleld; original screen play by Arthur Arthur and Curtis Kenyon,.Jr. Cast: Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Simone Simon, Joan Davis, Dick Bald- win, Wally Vernon, Bert Lahr. 'CHARLIE CHAN AT MONTE CARLO/ produced by John Stone; di- rected by Eugene Foide; original by Robert I311is and Helen Logan; screen play by Jerry Cady and Charles Belden. Cast: Warner Oland, Virginia Field, Robert Kent, Keye Luke, Harold Huber, Sidney Blackmer, Kay Linaker. United Artists Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories in of Plx Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- Promised pleted ing Rooms Cameras tion Samuel Goldwyn. 6 - 2 1 2 1 1 Alexander Korda. 6 0 0 0 6 6 Selznick 5 1 1 . 1 2 2 Walter Wanger... 8 0 0 3 5 5 Chaplin ..... 1 0 0 0 1 1 London Films.... 8,0 0 0 - • 8 8 Total 34 3 2 6' ' 23 • 23., 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- rillo, Pat Paterson, Ella Logan, Sid Silvers, ZaSu Pitts, Maria Shelton, Dorothy Peterson, Colette Lyons, Kenny Baker. 'STAND-IN/ produced by Walter Wanger; directed by Tay , Garnett; screen play by Gene Towne and Graham Baker, based on Satevepost story by Clarence Budington Kelland; photographed by Charles Clarke. Cast: Leslie Howard, Joan Blondell, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Mowbray, Maria Shelton, C. Henry Gordon, Jack Carson, J. C. Nugent, Tully Marshall, Wil- liam V. Mong. 'I MET MY L6VE AGAIN/ produced by Walter Wanger; directed by Arthur Ripley and Joshua Logan; screen play by David Hertz from novel by Allene Corliss; photographed by Hal Mohr. Cast: Joan Bennett, Hfinry Fonda, Dame May Whitty. Alan Marshall, Louise Piatt, Alan Baxter, Tim Holt, Dorothy Stickney, Florence Lake, Genee Hall, Alice Cavenna. •NOTHING SACRED/ produced by David O. Selznick; directed by Wil- liam A. Wellman; original by James H. Street; screen play by Ben Hecht; photographed by Howard Greene. Cast: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly, Sig Rumann, Frank Fay. Margaret Hamilton, Maxie Rosenbloom, Art Lasky, Hedda Hopper, John Qualen. 'HURRICANE/ produced by Samuel Goldwyn; directed by John Ford: screen play by Dudley Nichols; based on original story by Charles Norhoff and James Norman Hall; photographed by Bert Blennon. Cast:-Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Jerome Cowan. Movita, MamO Clark, Kuleii De Clercq. 'THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO/ produced by Samuel Goldwyn; directed by Archie Mayo; screen play by Robert Emmett Sherwood; photo- graphed by. Rudolf Mate and Archie Stout. Cast: Gary Cooper; Sigrid Gurie, Ernest Truex, Binnie Barnes, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier, Lotus Liu, Ferdinand Gottschalk. United Artists Picture's Now in Production •THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER/ nroduced by David O. Selz- nick; directed by Norman TaOrog; screen play "by John V. A. Weaver, from story by Mark Twain; photographed by James Wong Howe and Wilfred Cline. Cast: Tommy Kelly. Jackie Moran, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Ann Gillis, Victor Jory, Mickey Rentcshler, Cora Sue Collins, Charles Rich- man, Spring Byington, David Holt, Marcia Mae Jones, Margaret Hamilton, Philip Hurtic, Erville Alderson, Donald Meek, Nan?i Bryant, Victor Kilian, Frank McGlynn, Sr. •THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES/ produced by Samuel Goldwyn; directed by George Marshall: photography by Gregg Toland; original screen play by Ben Hecht. Cast: Kenny Baker. Virginia Verrill, Adolphe Men]ou, the Ritz Brothers, Helen Jepson, Charles Kullmann, Phil Baker, Edgar Bargen and Charlie McCarthy. Zorina, Bobby Clark, Ella Logan, William Dollar, George Balanchine's American Ballet, Andrea Leeds. Universal Number Number Now of Plx Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ing Total 51) 6 3 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: (Continued on page 23) Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories In Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 10 31 4 Small Pix Trading During August, SEC Revedls in Wash. Washington, Oct. 5. Transactions in six picture stocks by corporate insiders during August were revealed by the Securities & Exchange Commission Friday (1). No hiajor deals were contained, how- ever, in the semi-monthly resume. Following are the details: Columbia Pictures: Jack Cohn bought 12 shares of common, raising holdings to 7450, and bought 973 and sold 200 voting trust certificates, making net gain of 773 and bringing holdings to 39,707. Educational Pictures: Norman C. Nicholson, making investments from scratch, acquired 250 shares of com- mon and 557 common warrants. International Cinema: Preparatory to pending refinancing program, H. T. James "of Los Angeles unloaded his interest in Regan Day, Inc., through which he indirectly held 200,000 shares of common. Belated report showed 40,000 common tickets held in same fashion had been dis- posed of by. transfer in July, 1930. Loew's; David Bernstein, in two transactions, sold 600 shares of com- mon, slicing his stake of 8,680, while J. Robert Rubin gave away 25 shares, leaving him with 16,955. Pathe: J. Henry Briggs sold 700 shares of common in three batches, retaining only 100 shares. 20th Century-Fox: Further small sales of block held by Chase Na- tional Bank under escrow agreement cut the Rockefeller Interes't by 379 shares of common and 758 shares of preferred; Bank still holds 345,732 common and 601,664 preferred. Electrics Move to Kill $6,000,000 Pacent Suit Attorneys for A T & T, Western Electric and Electrical Research Products yriU move In Federal dis- trict court, N. Y., this week for the dismissal of the $6,000,000 triple damage anti-trust suit brought by Stanley K. Olden, as assignee of creditors of the Pacent Electrical Co., Inc. The defendants on Friday (1) filed a general denial to the plaintiff's claim that they had formed a monopoly to control contracts^ leases and agreements relating to jnotion picture sound equipment In violation of the Clayton Act. TRmmNa THE sails Hollywood, Oct. 5. Script of 'Easy Sailing,' next Grace Moore starring vehicle for Columbia, is being prepared by Paul Jerrico for production by Nat Perrin. Jerrico has just completed writ- ing "Twas the Night Before Chris t- nias.*^ CoVs Legit Plans (Continued from page 3) was drawn up by the Guild at the end of the 1935:36 legit season and signed by the producers after a lengthy scrap. Was aimed to cor- rect 'abuses' existing undeir the old contract, by which fllm companies bought Broadway successes from the producers without the playwrights having any say in the terms of the sale. Guild claimed that Hollywood money in a production kept out competitive bidding and prevented the playwright from realizing all the potential profit on such sales. Added clause in the new pact upped the author's share in the sale price from 50% to 60%. Before and after th6 signing of the contract by the League of New York Theatres, Hollywood claimed it could not profitably back legit production un- der the new terms. It threatened to withdraw its financing and ulti- mately carried out its ulti.matum. While argument pro and con about the new contract has continued end- lessly in all quarters, it has gen- erally been observed that the actual number of Broadway productions dropped very little as a result of Hollywood's boycott—a trend that had been noticeablfe for ssvcral years before the new contract. Sale prices, ■ on the other -hand, rose sharply to several sccessive new highs—also a continuation of a steady trend. During its boycott, Hollywood ha.? continued to back Broadway produc- tions of foreign plays, since those do not come under the provisions of tha Dramatists Guild pact. Has also openly invested in several plays by American authors not members of the Guild.