Variety (Oct 1937)

24 VARIETY PICTURES Wedncsdayr October 20, 1937 ^ Advance Production Chart (Continued from page 21) > Robert Florey: no writing credits yet; photographed,by Charles Sghoen- baum. Cast: Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Larry Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham, Anthony Quinn, J. Catrol Naish, Chmg Wah Lgo; •THE YELLOW NIGHTINGALE,' produced by Harlan Thompson; di- rected by H. C. Potter; no writing credits yet; photographed by William Mellor. Cast: Gladys Swarthout, John Boles, John Barrymore, Clair Dodd, Fritz Feld. 'THEY KNEW WHAT HAPPENED,' produced by general manager's office; directed by James Hogan; writer credits not yet announced; photo- graphed by Henry Sharp. Cast: Lew Ayres, Louise Campbell, Porter Hall, Roscoe Karns, Virginia Weidler, Edgar Kennedy and Cecil Cunningham. 'THE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROON,' Major Pictures production, produced by Emanuel Cohen; directed by Frank Tuttle; original by O. Henry; screen play by Jo Swerling and Richard ConneU; photograph^ by Charles Lang. Cast: Bing Crosby, Mary Carlisle, Beatrice LiUie, Andy Devine, Laura Hope Crews. Studio ...... Condor Sol Lesser. David Locw. Walt Disney. Number Number N«w •f Pix Com- Shoot- Premised pletcd Ine: 43 9 7, 6 ff f 3 1 • 2 2 9 1 0 1 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cuttinir Bcf«rc Prepara- Booms Cameras tlon 3 24 13 9 6 2 • 2 1 • • • • • • 17 photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Peter Lorre, Rochelle Hudson, Chick Chandler, George Regas, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg. 'IN OLD CHICAGO,' Kenneth Macgowan, associate producer; directed by Henry King; screen play by liamar Trotti and Sonya Levien, based on story by Niven Busch; photographed by Peverell Marley. Cast: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Bra^, Andy Devine, Brian Don- levy, Tom Brown, Phyllis Brooks, Berton Churchill, June Storey, Paul Hurst, Tyler Brooke, J. Anthony Hughes, Gene Reynolds. 'BORROWING TROUBLE,* produced by Max Golden; directed by Frank Strayer; original screen play by Robert Ch^piA and Karen De-Wolf; photo- graphed by Edward Snyder. Cast Jed Prouty* Spring Byington, Shirley Deane, Russell Gleason. June Carlson, Billy Mahan, George Ernest, Douglas Powley. 'SECOND HONEYMOON,' produced by Raymond Griffith; directed by Walter Lang; no writing credit^ photographed by Ernest Palmer. Cast: Tyrone" Power, Loretta Young, Stuart Erwm, Claire Trevor, Lyle Talbotj J. Edward-Bromberg, Jayne Regan. 20th-Fox Pictures Now In Prodactlon 'LOVE AND HISSES,' produced by Kenneth Macgowan; directed by Sid- ney Lanfield; original screen play by Arthur Arthur and Curtis Kenyon, Jr. Cast: Walter Winchell, Ben Bemie, Simone Simon, Joan Daivis, Dick Bald- win, Wally Vernon, Bert Lahr. ^ ^CHARLIE CHAN AT MONTE CABJLO/ produced by John Stone; di- rected by Eugene Forde; original by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan; screen play by Jerry Cady and Charles Belden. Cast; Warner OUmd, Virginia Field, Robert Ken^ Keye Luke, Harold Huber, Sidney Blackmer, K^ Linaker, 'BIG TOWN GIRL,' produced by Milton Feld; directed by Alfred Worker; screen play by Lou Breslow iand John Patrick, from original by Francis Whiting Reid; photographed by John Mescall. Cast: CUure Trevor» Donald .Woods, Alan Dinehart, Maurice Cass, Alan Baxter, Lillian Yarbo. 'REBECCA OF SUNNYBBOOK FARM/ produced by Raymond Griffith; directed by -Alan Dwan; song^s by Lew Pollack and Sidney Mitchell: no other writer credits yet announce; photographed by Arthur Miller. Cast: Shirley Temple, Gloria Stuart, Randolph ScotV 7ack Haley, Helen Westley, Alan Dinehart, Phyllis Brooks, William Demarest; Slim Summerville, Raymond Scott Quintet, Bill Robinson, Dixie <Dunbar, The Peters Sisters. Censure Censors total 55 12 S 3 ,32 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'LIVING ON LOV^,' formerly titled 'LOVE IN A BASEMENT,' produced by Maury Cohen; directed by Lew Landers; original by John Wells; screen Slay by Franklin Coen; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: James lunn, Whitney Bourne, Joan Woodbury, Solly Ward, Franklin Pangbom, Tom Kennedy. 'HIGH FLYERS,' produced by Lee Marcus; directed by Eddie Clme; 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. 'DANGER PATROL,' formerly titled 'HIGHWAY TO HELL,' produced by Maury Cohen; diriected by Lew Landers; original by Helen Vreeland and Hilda Vincent; screen play by Sy Bartlett and J. Robert Bren; photo- graphed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: John Beal, Sally Eilers, Harry Carey, Frank M. Thomas, Lee Patrick. Ed Gargan, Paul Guilfoyle. BKO-Radlo Pictures No.w in Prodnetlen '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 «nd S. K. Laurel; photographed by Joe August Cast: Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, Gracie Allen and Gebrge Burns, Ray Noble, Reginstld Gardiner, Constance ColUer, 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: Ldy Pons, John Howard, Jack Oakie, Eric Blore, Edward Everett Horton, Billy Gilbert, Eduardo CiannellL 'WOMEN HAVE A WAY,' formerly titled "THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES,' produced 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. 'SNOW'WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS,' feature length cartoon pow 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 Broderlck, Billy Gilbert, William Brisbane, Alan Bruce. 'BRINGING UP BABY,' produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Howard Hawks; original by Haga^ Wilde; photographed by Russell Metty. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Leonia Roberts, George Irving, Wesley Barry. 'HAVING WONDERFUL TIME,'produced by Pandro S. Berman; directed by Al Santell; play and screen pfay by Arthur Kober; photographed by Robert De Grasse. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks. Jr., Richard 'Red* Skelton, Pejggy Conklin, Eve Arden, Lucille Ball. 'TAKING THE TOWN,'j)roduced by Maury Cohen; directed by Edward Killy; original by Arthur T. Horman; screen playijy Horman. and Franklin Coen; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Fred Stone, Dorothy Moore, Gordon Jones, Harlan Briggs, Paul Guilfoyle, George Irving, Frank M. Thomas, Berton Churchill. United Artists Repiblic Total Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised t>Ieted Ing 52 5 3 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting: Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 5 39 5 Number Number «f Pix Com* Promised pletcd Samuel Goldwyn. 6 Z Alexander Korda. 6 0 Selznick ......... 5. 1 Walter Wang:er..l 8 2 Chaplin 1 0 London Films.... 8 1 Now Balance i« New in Be Placed Sh««i- Cutting Before ing Rooms Cameras 1 Z I • • 6 0 2 2 0 15 • • 1 0 0 7 Stories In Prepara- tion 1 6 2 5 1 8 23 Total 34 6 1 S 22 Pictures now in the cutting rooms awaiting previews are: 1 MET MY LOVE 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, Henry Fonda. Dame May Whit^, Alan Itiforshall, 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. Wellmanporiginal 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 Cluurles Norhoff and James Norman Hall; photogrt^hed by Bert Bltmnon. Cast: Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Jerome Cowan, Movita, Mamo Clark, Kuleii De Clereq. 'THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO POLO/produced by Samuel Qoldwyn; 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. 'THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER,' produced by David O. Selz- Xilck; directed by Norman Taurog; screen play oy 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 GiUis, Victor Jory, Mickey Rentcshlei:, Cora Sue Collins, Charles Rich- man, Spring Byington, David Holt, Matcia Mae Jones, Margaret Hamilton, Philip Hurtic, iWille Alderson, Donald Meek, Nana Bryant, Victor Kilian, Frank McGlynn, Sr. - , United Artists Pictures Now in Production 'THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES,* produced hy Samuel Goldwyn; directed by George Marshall; photography by Gregg Toland; original screen play by Ben Hecht Cast: Kenny Baker, Virginia Verrill, Adolphe Menjou, the Ritz Brothers, Helen Jepson, Charles Kullmann. Phil Baker, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Zorina, Bobby Clark, EUa Logan, William Dollar, George Balanchine's American Ballet, Andrea Leeds. Uiii?ersd Pictures now in the cutting rooms awaiting preview are: 'PORTIA ON TRIAL,' produced by Al Levoy; directed by George Nich- olls, 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 Donnelly, Heather Angel. 'MANHATTAN MEBRY-GO-ROUND,' produced by Harry Sauber; 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 DiMaggio, Henry Armetta, Dorothy Paige, Selmer Jackson, Gene Autry. 'THE DUKE COMES BACK,' produced by Herman Schlom; directed by Irving Pichel; Satevepost story by Lucien Carey; screen play by Adele Buffiinigton. 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; original by Gilbert Wright; screen play by Jack Natteford and Betty Burbridge. Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnett, Polly Rowles. 'ZORRO RIDES AGAIN' (.serial), produced by Sol Siegel; directed by William Witney and Jack English; original screen play by Johnson Mc- Cauley. Cast: Duncan Renaldo, John Carroll, Elsa Christian, Richard Alexander, Roger William, Reed Howes. Republic Pictures Now in Production 'THE LADY MISBEHAVES,' produced by Al Levoy; directed by Lloyd Corrigan; original by Joe Krumgold; screen play by Krumgold and Olive Cooper; photographed by Harry Wilde. Cast: Sally Eilers, Neil Hamilton, Joseph Schildkraut, Marcia Mae Jones, George Ernest, Mary Gordon. •NEWS IN THE AIR,' produced by Armand Schaefer; directed by Nick Grinde; original screen play by Wellyn Totman and Jack Townley; photo- graphed by Ernest Miller. Cast: Wallace Ford, June Travis, Dean Jagger, Arthur Lake, Syd Saylor. 'WILD HORSE RODEO,* produced by Sol Siegel; directed by George Sherman; original by Gilbert Wright; screen play by Betty Burbridge. Cast: Bob Livingstone, Max Terhune, Ray Corrigan. 20th Century-Fox Studio Sol Lesser. Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pletcd ing: . 52 12 4 6 10 Now Balance to . in Be Placed Stories In Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tlon 4 30 5 9 5 5 35 10 Total 58 13 4 6 Pictures in the cutting room.s or awaiting previews are ^LOXilCC OUT, MB. MOTO,' Sol M. Wurtzel, executive producer; directed by Norman.Foster; original screen play by Lou Breslow and John Patrick;! Total Number Number New of Pix Com- Slioot* Promised pleted ing 50 8 1 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 10 31 4 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: 'THE BOSS OF LONELY VALLEY,' produced by Buck Jones; directed by Ray Taylor; novel by Forrest Brown; screen play by Frances Guihan. Cast: Buck Jones, Muriel Evans, Harvey Clark, Walter Miller, Lee Phelps, Ted Adams, Dickie Howland, Ezra Paulette, Matty Fain, Grace Goodall. 'ADVENTURE'S END,' produced by Trem Carr; directed by Arthur Lubin; novel by Ben Ames Williams; screen play by Ben G. Kohn. Cast: John Wayne, Diana Gibson, Moroni Olsen, Montagu Love, Maurice Black, Paul White, Cameron Hall, Patrick J. Kelly, George Cleveland. 'SUDDEN BILL DORN,' produced by Buck Jones; directed by Ray Taylor; novel by Jackson Gregory; screen play by Frances Guihan. Cast: Buck Jones, Noel Francis, Frank McQlynn, Sr., Harold Hodge, Ted Adams, Evelyn Brent Lee Phelps. 'SOME BLONDES ARE DANGEROUS,' produced by E. M. Asher; di- rected by Milton Carruth; novel by W. R. Biurnett; screen play by Lester Cole. Cast: Noah Beery, Jr., Nan Grey, William Gargan, Dorothea Kent Rowland Drew. 'A GIRL WITH IDEAS,' formerly titled 'MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD,' produced by Edmund Grainger; directed by S. Sylvan Simon; original by Bruce Manning; screen play by Robert T. Shannon. Cast: Wendy Barrie, Walter Pidgeon, Kent Taylor, Henry Hunter, George Bar- bier, Dorothea Kent Hobart Cavanaugh, Samuel S. Hinds, Horace Mac- Mahon. 'MERBY-GO-ROUND OF 1938,' produced by B. G. De Sylva; directed by Irving Cummings; original screen play by Monte Brice and Dorian Otvos. Cast: Joy Hodges, John King, Bert Lahr, Billy House, Mischa Auer, Jimmie Savo, Alice Brady, Barbara Read, Louise Fazenda, Richard Carle, Howard Cantonwine, Charley WilUams, Dave Apollon and orchestra. 'COURAGE OF THE WEST,' produced by Trem Carr; directed by Joe Lewis; original screen play by Jay Norton Baker; photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Bob Baker, Lois January, J. Farrell MacDonald, Fuzzy Knight Carl Stockdale. 'RENEGADE WRANGLERS,' produced by Trem Carr; directed by Joe Lewis; original screen play by Harry O. Hoyt; photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Bob Baker, Joan Barclay, Fuzzy Knight. 'TIM TYLER'S LUCK,' produced by Henry MacRae; directed by Ford Beebe; screen play by Wyndham Gittens, Norman S. Hall, Ray Trampe Cast: Frankie Thomas, Frances Robinson. 'A PRESCRIPTION FOR ROMANCE,' produced by Edmund Grainger; directed by S. Sylvan Simon; driginal by John Reinhardt and Robert Ne- ville; screen play by James Mulhauser, Robert T. Shannon and Albert R, Perkins. Cast: Wendy Barrie, Kent Taylor, Mischa Auer, Dorothea Kent, Frank Jenks, Henry Hunter. Universal Pictures Now in Production •YOU'RE A SWEETHEART,' formerly titled 'YOUNG MAN'S FANCY,' produced by B. G. De Sylva; directed by David Butler; original story by Bill Thomas, Maxwell Shane and Warren Wilson; screen play by Monte Brice and Charles Grayson. Cast: Alice Faye, George Murphy, Ken Mur- ray, the Three Diamond Brothers, Andy Devine, Larry Blake, Harry Stock well, Charles Winninger, Frank Jenks, Frances Hunt (Continued on page 25) (Continued from page S) heavies of anybody but Germans and Russians—and Americans. No mat- ter, ho^ deep-dyed a villain, if he's an American that's j^ke with every- body all over the world, including America. But one crack at an old-time Mexi- can bandit and by grapevine word passes south of the Rio Grande and never stops traveling till it crosses the Panama Canal and hits Cape Horn. After that the picture is all set to get the- Latin American works. Even comic characters are not liked by nations whose nationalism suffered an arrested development through, recent centuries and has only begun to flower since the world war. Producers duck that one by making him a Latin from Manhattan and billing him 'Nick.' Nick, they argue when cornered, can even be the name of a Russian. One such character in a current $1,000,000 saga of pioneering days stUl has Mussolini shaking his head jibout that Nick, It may be a Greek to the producers, but it's a spaghetti- bender to him.. As to who stopped the production of Humphrey Cobb's 'Paths of Glory' and Sinclair Lewis' 'It Can't Happen Here' the Hollywood censorial stooges don't know and for the mo- ment care less. Their only concern with things of that sort is to concede that with the present setup and the present pusillanimity of producers no A idea for world-betterment has a chance. .' One of the main things against pictures is. that despite their im- provement in 20 years they still rate as something less than literature, painting, sculpture and architecture by people who will battle any at- tempt to inflict, censorship on these art-forms. Even holy men in high places can be snobs about things of this sort and until they -get the regard for pictures that cardinals in the Mid- dle Ages had for paintings, pro- ducers looks for no help from that quarter. Five hundred years from now,.^maybe, but not next week, or next year, and certainly not today. While conceding that- such move- ments as the Legion of Decency did a-fine job in sapolioing pictures, the studios aren't so sure they're still doing it MUIenlnm Idea All such movements shake down in tim6 to committees and after that instead of a traffic cop you have a dead horsejn the road. Committees are jobholders and either get hard- ened to what they are seeing or, if the case for censorship is sound, must necessarily get their minds and morals poisoned after seeing 500 pix a year in their worst state. Rotating the work, giving each member onie or two pictures a year to see, not more, lest he become in- fected, and confining the peeks to people young enough to know if cer- tain scenes really do harm them are some of the ideas advanced as a way out of censorial boredom. Others have suggested that the organiza- tions showing some vitality be widened in their memberships until all -America gets in. After that they'd be so democratic as to not need outside censorship, since 120,- 000,000 can't be wrong. As to cleaning it all up with piti- less publicity, as the studios have been urged to do several limes by name-writers only too willing to go to bat if the studios would turn over the material in their archives to the writers, the producers have been reluctant to do this. What. Red Lewis, they argue,. or Gene Powler would say about cen- sors would be read by people who already agree with them and would have no influence on the rest, be- cause such writers are known as ribald scoffers and certainly- in any case are not recent converts to the faith. If a writer like the late G. K. Chesterton would come along and want to use the material to blast censorship back into, the lap of the Puritan fathers, the studios would give him the key to their secrets. Mteanwhile their taking it out on table-cloths, and each other. LEVY DIRECTING Hollywood, Oct. 19, Bert Levy makes his bow as a 20th-Fox director with 'Blonde Moll,' skedded to start Nov. 15. Phyllis Brooks and Lyle . Talbot are set ds featured jplayers and Sol M. Wurtzel will produce.