Variety (Oct 1937)

"Wednesday, October 20, 1937 PICTURES VARIETY 21 Advance Production Chart Hollywood, Oct. 19, Production in Hollywood studios is at near a normal level, with 41 pic- tures currently in the works. Output is keeping to a steady flow, with 116 pix completed against a, season's promise of 598. Protection for releases is seen ir^. the fact that 73 pix are now in the cutting rooms and that a normal number are being readied for the cameras. Cohtmbia Features . Westerns Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted inr 40 4 Z 22 3 1 Now Balanooto jn Be Placed Stories in Cuttinr Before Prepara- Booms Cameras lion 7 27 5 2 18 1 Total 62 .7 3 9 ,43 6 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: •MUBDEB IN GBEENWICH VILLAGE,' formerly titled 'PABK AVE- NUE DAME,' produced by Wallace MacDonald for Irving Briskin unit; directed, by Al Rogell; original by Robert T. Shannon; screen pl^y by Michael Simmons; photography by Henry Freulich. Cast: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Mary Russell, Wyn Gaboon, Scott Colton, Raymond Walburn, Gene Morgan, Marc Lawrence, George McKay. 'PAID TO DANCE,' formerly titled 'WOMEN QF 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 Hay worth. Arthur Loft, John Gallaudet, Louise Stanley, Paul Fix, Thurston Hall. TLL TAKE BOMANCE,* produced by Everett Riskin; directed by Edward H. Griffith; photographed by Lucien Ahdriot; no writing credits announced as yet. Cast: Grace Moore, Melvyn Douglas, Stuart Erwin, Andre Beranger, Helen Westley, Richard Carle, Walter Kingsford. •ALL AMEBICAN SWEETHEABT,' produced by Wallace MacDonald for Irving Briskin unit; directed by Lambert Hillyer; 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. ♦THE OLD WYOMING TBAIL,' formerly titled 'SMOKING SIX GUNS,' §reduced by Harry L. Decker for Irving Briskin unit; directed by Folmer ilangsted; original by J. Benton Cheney; screen play by Ed Earl Repp; Shotographed by Al Zeigler. Cast: Charles Starrett, Barbara Weeks, Don [rayson, Dick Curtis, Ed Le Saint, Art Mix. 'CABNIVAL LADT.'jproduced by Wallace MacDonald for Irving Briskin unit; directed by C. C. Coleman, Jr.; original by Milton RaisOn; screen play by Lambert Hillyer and Arthur T. Horman; photographed by Lucien Ballard. Cast: Charles Quigley, Rita Hay worth. Marc Lawrence, Donald Kirk, Dwight Frye and Arthuf Loft. 'SHE MABBIED AN ABTIST/ produced by Sydney Buchman; directed by Marion Gering. Magazine story by B. Avery Strakosh; screen play by Gladys Lehman and Delmar Daves; photographed by Merritt Gerstad, Cast: John Boles, Luli Deste, Helen Westley, Frances Drake, Thomas Mitchell, Patricia farr. 'FOBGOTTEN WOMEN,'"produced by Wallace MacDonald for Irving Briskin unit* directed by Lambert Hillyer; original by Mortimer Braus; screen play by Saul Elkms; photographed by Benjamin Kline. Cast: Sara Padden, Wyn Cahoon, Scott Colton, Mayo Methot, Barbara Weeks, Arthur Loft, Bess Flowers. Columbia Pictures Now in Production •MUBDEBEBS WELCOME,' produced by Larry Darmour; directed by Lewis D. Collins; magazine story by Philip Wylie. Cast: Jack Holt, Katherine De Mille, Craig Reynolds, Luis Alberni, Purnell Pratt, Esther MUir, Morgan Wallace. 'STABT CHEEBING,' formerly titled 'COLLEGE FOLLIES OF 1938,' and 'FBESHMAN FOLLIES,' produced by Nat Perrin; directed by Al Rogell; original by Corey Ford; camera by Joe Walker. Cast: Charles Starrett, Joan Per^, Walter Connolly, Jimmy Durante, Gertrude Niesen, Romo Vincent, Chaz Chase, Hal LeRoy, Johnny Green, Raymond Walburn, Howard, Fine and Howard, Virginia Dale, Ernest Truex, Jimmy Wallington, Gene. Morgan, Louis Prima, Thurston Hall, Geni Legon. 'AMEBICAN LEGION,' produced by. Ralph Cohn; directed by C. C. Coleman, Jr.; original by Martin Mooney; screen play by Michael Simmons; photographed by Lucien Ballard. Cast: Don Terry, Mary Russell, Robert Warwick, James Hollywood, George McKay. 'BUCKING BBOADWAT,' Coronet picture for Columbia release; L. G. Leonard, associate producer; directed by Ewing Scott; no writer credits yet available; photographed by Allen Thompson. Cast: BucktJones, Ruth Cole- man, Elaine Arden, Shemp Howard, Donald Douglas, Grand National Now Balance, to Number Number Now ■ in Be Placed Stories In of Pix Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- Promised pleted ing Booms Cameras tion Features 43 9 0 2 32 7 Westerns 22 2 9 3 17 2 Total..... 65 11 0 5 49 9 Pictures now in the cutting room or awaiting previews are: 'KING OF THE SIEBBAS,' Condor picture featuring three horses, Rex, Sheik and Thunder; Frank Gayass, associate producer; directed by Arthur Rosson; original screen play by Scott Darling; photographed by Tom Gal- ligan. Cast: Frank Campeau, Wally Albright, Morgan Brown, Edward Peil, Billy Van Every. 'HE WANTED . TO MABBY,' produced by David Diamond; directed by Raymond Cannon; original by Percy Rowland; screen play by Clarence Marks; photographed by Richard Fryer. Cast: Wallace Ford, Ray Mayer, Isabel Jewell, Mary Lou Treen, CuUy Richards, Max Hoffman, Jr., George Humbert, Alexander Leftwich, Kenneth Harlan, Rex Lease. 'TEX BIDES WITH THE BOY SCOUTS,' produced by Edward Finney; supervised by Lindsay Parsons; directed by Ray Taylor; original by Edward Kelso; camera, Gus Peterson. Cast: Tex Ritter, Snub Pollard, Horace Murphy, Heber Snow, Charles King, Forrest Taylor, Marjorie Reynolds, Karl Hackett. 'MB. BOGGS STEPS OUT,' formerly titled 'MB. BOGGS BUYS A BABBEL,' produced by Ben Pivar; directed by Gordon Wiles; original by Clarence Budington Kelland; screen play by Richard English; photographed by John Stumar. Cast: Stuart Erwin, Helen Chandler, Toby Wing, Walter Buron, Spencer Charters, Milburn Stone, William Moore. ^ 'FBONTIEB TOWN,' produced by Edward Finney; supervised by Lindsr ley Parsons; directed by Ray Taylot; original screen play by Edmond Kelso; photographed by Gus Peterson. Cast: Tex Ritter, Ann Evers, Hor- ace Murphy, Snub Pollard, Charles King. Metro 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 ., 48 7 4 4 33 7 Hal Boach 4 9 0 0 4 1 Total ' 52 7 4 4 ' 37 8 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaitinc; previews are: •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 Hoffenstein and Talbot Jennings; dance direction by Val Raset; photographed by Karl Freund. Cast: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Henry Steph- enson, C. Henry Gordon, Maria Ouspenskaya, Alan Marshall, George Hous- ton. Shepard Strudwick, Ivan Lebedeff, Bodil Rosing, Claude Gillingwater, Noble Johnson, Roland Varno. T 5,^?? ^'AN OF DBIMSTONE,' produced by Harry Rapf; directed by J. waiter Ruben; original by Ruben. Cast: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hat- jon. Virginia Bruce, Lewis Stone, Bruce Cabot, Larry Doyle, Joseph <-alIeia. Guy Kibbee, Warren Hymer, Clirt Edwards. Noah Beary. Sr., \rlhur Hohl. Robert Gleckler, Olin Howard. Mitchell Lewis, John Qualen, THE LAST GANGSTEB,' no producer credit; directed by Edward Lud- wig; original by Robert Carson and William Wellman; photographed by William Daniels. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart Rose St'rad- ner, Lionel Stander, Douglas Scott, Louise Beavers, Sidney Blackmer, Henry Daniell; Allan Baxter, Donald Barry, Moroni Olsen. 'THE FdUB MABYS.' produced by Louis D. Lighton; directed by Rich- ard Thorpe; original by Fanny Heaslip Lea; photographed by Karl Freund. Cast: Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, Franchot Tone, Walter Pidgeon, Nana Bryant, Leonard Penn, Ruth Hussey, Rita Johnson. 'NAVY BLUE AND GOLD,' produced by Sam Zimbalist; directed by Sam Wood; screen play from novel by George Bruce; photographed by John Seitz. Cast: Robert Young, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Flor- ence Rice, Billie Burke, Tom Brown, Barnett Parker, Paul Kelly. Metro Pix Now in Production 'MANNEQUIN,' produced by Joseph Mankiewicz; directed by Frank Bor,- zage; original by Katharine Brush; photographed by George Folsey. Cast: Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, Mary Phillips, Leo Gorcey, Elizabeth Risdon, Oscar O'Shea. 'THOROUGHBREDS DON'T CBY,' produced by Harry Rapf; directed by Alfred E. Green; original by J. Walter Ruben and Eleanor Griffin; photographed by Len Smith. Cast: Judy Garland, Sophie Tucker, Mickey Rooney, Ronald Sinclair, C. Aubrey Smith, Forrester Ha.rvey, Elisha Cook, Lionel Belmore. 'EVERYBODY SING* produced by Harry Rapf; directed by Edwin L. Marin; writing credits not yet announced; photographed by Joe Rutten- berg. Cast: Allan Jones, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Billie Burke, Reginald Owen, Lynne Carver. 'MATTER OF PRIDE,' no producer credit; directed by William Thiele; original by William C. White; photographed by William Daniels. ,Cast; Frank Morgan, John Beal, Florence Rice, Herman Bing, Cora Witherspoon, Janet Beecher, Erik Rhodes, E. E. Clive, George Givot. 'BENEFITS FOBGOT,' produced by John W. Considine, Jr.; directed by Clarence BrOwn; novel by Honore Willsie Morrow; photographed by Charles Lawton. Cast: Walter Huston, James Stewart, Beulah Bondi, Charles Cobui-n, Ted Healy, Charley Grapewin, Guy Kibbee. Monogram Picture in the cutting room •FEDEBAL BULLETS,? produced by Lon Young; directed by Karl Brown; original screen play by Brown; photographed by Gilbert Warrenton. Cast: Terry Walker, Zeffie Tilbury, Milburn Stone, Helen McKellar, William Harrigan, Selmer Jackson, -Matty Fain. 'DANGEB VALLEY,'produced and directed by R. N. Bradbury; original screen play by Robert Emmett; photographed by Bert Longenecker. Cast: Jack Randall, Lois Wilde, Charles Kmg,. Ernie Adams, Earl Dwire, Hal Price. Monogram Pic Now In Production ♦THE COUNTY FAIB,' produced by E. B. Derr; directed by Howard Bretherton; original screen play by Jack Neville; photographed by Arthur Martinelli. Cast: John Arledge, Mary Lou Lender, J. Farrell MacDonald, Fuzzy 'Knight, Jimmy Butler. Paramonnt Number Number' Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted Ing Studio 36 12 5 Harry Sherman... 6 2 0 Emanuel Cohen... 8 0 2 B. P. Schulberf... 8 .1 0 Now Balanoo to in BePlaced Stories in Cutting Before Prepara- Booms Cameru tion 7 12 4 2 2 1 15 2 16 9 Total 58 15 7 11 25 7 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'THE BABBI^B,' produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Les Selander; original by Rex Beach; screen play by Bernard Sphubert; additional dialog by Harrison Jacobs and Mordaunt Shairp; songs, Harry ^Tobias and Jack Stern; camera, George Barnes. Cast: Leo Carrillo,- Jean Parker, Jimmy Ellison, Otto Kruger, J. M. Kerrigan, Andy ClydCj Robert 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. "BLOSSOMS ON BBOADWAY,' produced by B. P. Schulberg; directed 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. '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 Grable, Johnny Downs, Eleanore Whitney, Leif Ericson, Larry Crabbe. 'NIGHT 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. Cast: John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, John Mack Brown, Syd Saylor, Monte Blue, John Patterson, Nick Lulcats, James Craig, Lucien Li tt^efleld. '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. 'BULLDOG DRUMMOND'S BEVENGE,' general office production; di- rected by Louis King; screen play by Edward T. Lowe, based on original by H. C. 'Sapper' McNiele; photographed by Harry Fischbeck. Cast: John Barrymore, Louise Campbell, John Howard, E. E. Clive, Reginald Denny, Lucien Littlefleld, Nydia Westman. ,'WELLS FARGO,' produced arid directed by Frank Lloyd; Howard Esta- brook, associate producer; original by Stuart N. Lake; screen play by Paul Schofleld, Gerald Geraghty and Fred Jackson; camera, Theodore Sparkuhl. Cast: Joel McCrea, Prances Dee, Bob Burns, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Nash, Ralph Morgan, Porter Hall, Robert Cummings, Jane Dewey, Barlowe Borland. 'TRUE CONFESSION,' produced by Albert Lewin; directed by Wesley Ruggles; photographed by. Ted Tetzlaff; no writing credits. Cast: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Porter Hall, John Barrymore, Edgar Kennedy, Richard Carle, Una Merkel, 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 b- Russell. Harlan. Cast: Frank Darien, Russell Hay- den, Nora Lane, Robert Fiske, John Elliott. Paramount Pix 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 Tamirofl, Ian Keith, Walter Brennan, Doug- las Dumbrille, Robert Barrat, Fred Kbhler, Sr., Beulah Bondi, Margot Grahame, Spring Byington. '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 Lciscn; 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, SY :p Fields. 'DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI,' general office production; directed by (.Continued on page 24) 16'MM Boom (Continued from page 7) and exhibitors are swayed to the narrow-gauge material. The industrial field has been so successful and profitable that few firms handling this type of product objected to Screen Actors Guild wage scale. Customary method used by industrial companies is to shoot pictures in standard 3S and then reduce to 16-mm. film. Same method is employed for numerous entertainn>ent pictures: sold for non- theatrical and home usage. Narrow-gauge equipment appeals to industrials, and for home and club. showing, because of minimum or total absence of fire hazard. Talk of a possible newsreel circuit using 16-mm. equipment and films is pre- dicated on the saving in film costs and through costly fireproof booth and theatre construction. Indicative of the demand for the smaller wiBth films in homos, clubs and other non-theatrical exhibitions is the elaborate setup of CasLb Films and also Pathe.-rrams, both dealers in 16 and 8 mm. pictures. In the educational field, the most elaborate and closest to text-book material has been complied by Electrical Re- search Products Picture Consult- ants which has the most complete library of subjects. These have been costly to produce but with production now geared to a high pace, company just now is begin- ning to recoup in coin outlay. Industrial production has Audio Production, Inc., and Jam Handy currently as leading rivals and prob- ably the most extensive film build- ers. There are some four other Im- portant ones In the field. Audio re- cently started' work on an 8-reel picture for a large N. Y. manufac- turer indicating how far production has extended In this field where a two-reel subject formerly was tops. Jam Handy maintains offices and branch operations in several cities, with bulk of producing In the east. Claim they make the most convinc- ing sales talk films In the biz. Nearest counterpart to actual film distributors for the Industrial 16-mm. field la Modern Talking Picture Service^ which is made up of for- mer ERPI employes. This company will handle the product of any in- dustrial firm, arrange special .show- ings, contact dealers, handle tickets and other details of distribution. With the strides made towards perfect projection of the IC-mm. pic- ture, one of biggest advances was the new high intensity arc light with a miniature arc. This gives a white light Instead of the yellow one em- ployed in 10-mm. project'on thus far. This will be placed on the mar- ket soon. It provides the latest sound and a screen Image suuab''e for use in small theatres. Refine- ments of lens which make possible larger, clearer screen images with the same amount of light and a new lens gadget that would eliminate the old shutter type of projector are other Inventions that loom on the 16 mm. horizon. Govt's Survey In first comprehensive attempt to secure worthwhile information cov- ering the 16 mm. non-theatrical field, particularly with reference to size, capital Investment and number of people employed, the Motion Picture Division of the Department of Com- merce in Washington has launched a widespread survey under direction of N. D. Golden, chief of the divi- sion. Series of Corm letters is being sent out by Golden to producers, manu- facturers, laboratories, camera and projection equipment concerns and film libraries, requesting compara- tive data ipovering 1932 and 1937, with particular emphasis laid on full-time and part-time workers in both the 16 mm. and 8 mm. fields; yearly footage production ia both black and white and color output, and an estimate of the amount of capital in^rested In the manufacture of this type of fllm and distribution. Previous estimates by the, depart- ment of commerce have varied to such an iextent that it has hereto- fore been impossible to get an accu- rate Idea of the ramifications of this industrial and advertising produc- tion field. IN THE SADDLE Hollywood, Oct. 19. George Sherman gets his fust solo directing assignment at Republic in 'Wild Horse Rodeo,' one of *Th« Three Mcsquiteers' series. Production starts Thursday (21) with five days on location at Lone Pine.