Variety (Nov 1937)

Wednesday, November 17, 1937 PICTURES VARIETY 25 Advance Production Chart Hollywood, Nov, 16. Studios finished production on 15 pictures since Nov. 2, bringing total of pix completed to 151, against season's promise of 588. Production in gen- eral continues to lag at all studios although plenty of product is on hand to meet scheduled needs. Currently shooting are 35 pictures, with 72 in the cutting rooms readying for release. Cohnnbia Features . Westerns Number Number of Fix Com- promised pleted 40 G ZZ 4 Now Shoot- ins 4 1 Now Balance to in Be Placed Storlea in Total 62 10 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or, awaiting previews are: 'PliL TAKE_ ROMANCE/ produced by Everett Riskin; directed by Edward H. Griffith; photographed by Lucien Andriot; no writing credits announced as yet. Cast: Grace Moore, Melvyn Douglas, Stuart Erwin Andre Bera.nger, Helen Westley, Richard Carle, Walter Kingsford. *ALL AMERICAN SWEETHEART/ produced by WaUace MacDonald for Irving Briskin unit; directed by Lambert Hillyer; original by Robert E, Kent; screen play by Fred Nlblo, Jr., Grace Neville and Michael L. Sim- mons; photographed bjr Benjamin Kline. Cast: Scott Colton, Patricia Farr, Gene Morgan, Ruth HiUiard, Joe Twerp, Allen Brook, Thurston Hall, Louis De Pron. . < - THE SHADOW/ formerly titled 'CARNIVAL LADY/ produced by Wal- lace 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 Arthur Loft. ♦SHE MARRIED AN AXIiST,'. produced by Sydney Buchman; directed by Marion Gering. Magazine story by B. Avery Strakosh; screen play by Gladys Lehman and Delmar Dayes; photographed by Merritt Gerstad, Cast: John Boles, Lull Deste, Helen Westley, Frances Drake, Thomas Mitchell, Patricia Farr. , •FORGOTTEN WOMEN/ produced by Wallace MacDonald for Irving Briskin Unit; directed by Lambert Hillyer; original by Mortimer Braus; screen play by Saul Elkins; photogr-aphed by Benjamin Kline. Cast: Sara Padden, Wyn Cahoon, Scott Colton, Mayo Methot, Barbara Weeks, Arthur Loft. Bess Flowers, 'UNDER SUSPICION,' formerly titled 'MURDERERS WELCOME/ pro- duced by Larry Darmour; directed by Lewis D. Collins; magazine story by Philip Wylie.. Cast: Jack Holt, Katherine De Mille, Craig Reynolds, Luis Albarni, Purnell Pratt, Esther Muir, Morgan Wallace. 'START CHEERING/ formerly titled 'COLLEGE FOLLIES OF 1938/ and 'FRESHMAN FOLLIES/ produced by Nat Perrin; directed by Al Bogell; original by Corey Ford; camera by Joe Walker. Cast; Charles Starrett, Joan Perry, 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. 'AMERICAN 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. 'HEADIN' EAST/-formerly titled 'BUCKING BROADWAY/ Coronet pic- ture for Columbia release; L. G. Leonard, associate producer; directed by Ewing Scott; original by Joseph Hoffman and Monroe ShafI; screen play by Ethel LaBlanche; photographed by Allen Thompson. Cast: Buck Jones, Ruth Coleman, Elaine Arden, Shemp Howard, Donald Douglas. 'MURDER IN SWINGTIME/ produced by Ralph Cohn for the Irving Briskin unit; directed by Leon Barsha; origmal by Fred Pedersen; screen play by Robert Kent and Henry Taylor; photographed by Henry Freulich. Cast: Don Terry, Wyn Cahoon, Robert Paige, Rita Hay worth, John Gal- laudet, Gene Morgan. 'SINGING RANGERS,' produced by Harry L. Decker for Irving Briskin xmit; directed by. Sam Nelson; original by Doris Schroeder; screen play by Ed Earl Repp, Cast: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Donald Grayson, Dick Curtis. Columbia Pictures Now in Production 'LITTLE MISS ROUGHNECK/ formerly titled 'WONDER CHILD,' pro- duced 'by Wallace MacDonald for the Irving Briskin imit; directed by Aubrey Scotto; original by Fred Niblo, Jr., and Grace Neville; screen play by Niblo, Miss Neville and Michael Simmons; photographed by Benjamin Kline. Cast: Edith Fellows, Leo Carrillo, Margaret Irving, Scott Colton, Inez Palange, Jacqueline Wells. TENITENTIART/ formerly titled 'CRIMINAL CODE/ produced by Robert North; directed by John Brahm; from play by Martin Flavin; screen play by Seton I. Miller and Fred Niblo, Jr. Cast: Walter Connolly. 'NO TIME TO MARRY/ formerly titled THE NIGHT BEFORE,' pro- duced by Nat Perrin; directed by Harry Lachman; original by Paul Gallico; screen play by Paul Jarrico. Cast: Richard Arlen, Mary Astor, Lionel Stander, Virginia Dale, Thurston Hall, Marjorie Gateson, Arthur Loft, Paul . Hurst* 'LONE RIDER,' produced by Harry L. Decker for Irving Briskin unit; directed by Sam Nelson; no Other credits yet available. Cast: Charles Starrett. 'A DANGEROUS AFFAIR/ produced by Larry Darmour; directed by Lewis D. Collins; original by Howard Green; screen play by Jefferson Parker; photographed by James Brown. Cast: Jack Holt, Beverly Roberts, Craig Reynolds, Douglas Wood, Spencer Charters, Maurice Cass, Marjorie Gateson, Tom Kennedy, Corbet Morris, Dorothy Appleby, Gilbert Emery, John Wray, Sheila Bromley, TuUy Marshall, Greta Meyer, Grand National Features . Westerns Number Number of Pix Com- promised pleted 43 10 . ZZ 3- Now Shoot- inp 0 6 Total 65 13 Now BaUn«eto in Be Placed Storiet im Cuttinc Before Prepara- Rooms Camera* tion 1 32 T 2 17 » 3 49 9 Pictures now in the cutting room or awaiting previews are: 'KING OF THE SIERRAS/ 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. BiUy Van Every. 'MR. BOGGS STEPS OUT/ formerly titled 'MR. BOGGS BUYS A BARREL/ 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. 'FRONTIER TOWN/ produced by Edward Finney; supervised by Lmds- ley Parsons; directed by Ray Taylor; original .screen play by Edmond Kelso; photographed by Gus Peterson. Cast: Tex Ritter, Ann Evers, Hor- ace Murphy, Snub Pollard, Charles King, Metro Now Balan«o(o Number Number Now In Be Placed Stories tn of Pix Com- Shoot- Cuttinr Beforo Prep«ra- Promised pleted in; Rooms CamorM Uom Features 4S n 7 3 Z1 t Hal Roach 4 0 0 • 4 1 Total 52 n 7 S .31 « Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: T '5,^P OF BRIMSTONE/ produced by Harry Rapf; directed by J. Walter Ruben; original by Ruben. Cast: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hat- ton, Virginia Bruce, Lewis Stone, Bruce Cabot, Larry Doyle, Joseph Calleia, Guy Kibbee, Warren Hymer, Cliff Edwards, Noah . Beery, Sr., Arthur Hohl, Robert Gleckler, Olin Howard, Mitchell Lewis, John Qualen. 'THE FOUR MARYS/ produced by Louis D, Lighten; 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. 'MANNEQrUIN,' 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, Loo Gorcey, Elizabeth Risdon. Oscar O'Shea. Metro Pix Now in Production 'EVERYBODY SING/ produced by Harry Rapf; directed by Edwin L. Marin; original story by Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf; other writer credits not available as yet; photographed by Joe Ruttenberg- 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 FORGOT,' 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 Bonjdi, Charles Coburn, Ted Healy, Charley Grapewin, Guy Kibbee. 'ROSALIE,' produced by William Anthony McGuire; directed by. W. S. Van Dyke; photographed by Oliver Marsh; no writing credits as yet. Cast: Nelson Eddy, Eleanor Powell, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bona Massey, Edna May Oliver, Virginia Gray, Reginald Owen, Janet Beecher. 'A FAMILY VACATION,' no producer credit; directed by George Seitz; writer 'credits not available as yet; photographed by Lester White. Cast; Lewis Stone, Cecelia Parker, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Sara Haden, Ted Pearson, Charley Grapewin, Eleanor Lynn, Ann Rutherford. 'GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST/ produced by William Anthony Mc- Guire; directed by Robert Z. Leonard; from the stage play by David Belasco; screen play by William Anthony McGuire; photographed by Oliver Marsh. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Leo Carrillo, Buddy Ebsen, Ray Bolger; Leonard Penn, Priscilla Lawson. 'ARSENE LUPIN RETURNS/ produced by John W. Considine, Jr.; directed by Gfeor«e Fitzmaurice; original from story by Maurice Leblanc; no other writer credits as yet announced; photographed by John Seitz. Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Halliday, Monty Woolly, George Douilas, Leonard Penn. Monogram Now Balance to Number Number Now in BePlaoed Stories in of Pix Com- Shoot- Cuttingr Before Prepara- Promised pleted in^ Rooms Cameras - tion Features 26 .14 0 1 U 5 Westerns 16 4 0 2 10 2 Total ........... 42 18 0 3 21 7 Pictures in the cutting room: 'DANGER VALLEY/ produced and directed l>y 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. . 'BOY OF THE STREETS/ produced by Charles Bigelow; directed by William Nigh; original by Rowland Brown; screen play by Scott Darling; photographed by Gilbert Warrenton. Cast: Jackie Cooper, Maureen O'Connor, Marjorie Main, Matty Fain, Guy Usher, Kathleen Burke, Gordon Elliott. . ' 'ROMANCE OF THE ROCKIES.' produced and directed by R. N. Brad- bury; original screen play by • Robert Emmett; photographed by Bert Longenecker. Cast: Tom Keene, Beryl Wallace, Earl DWire, Horace Murphy. Paramonnt studio Harry Sherman. Emanuel Cohen. B. P. Schulberg. Number Number Now of Pix- Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ing 36 16 4 6 3 0 3 0 1 3 10 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cuttinc Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 6 10 4 2 11 2 5 2 16 0 BRONCO BILLY'S SISTER HAS RADIO SHOW IDEA San Francisco, Nov. 16. A radio act called 'Classical Swingster,' consisting of burlesques of operatic sopranos, is being peddled to local arid Los Angeles radio sta- tions by Lcona Anderson, sister of George W. 'Bronco Billy* Anderson, first cowboy star of the old Essanay studios. Miss Anderson, who is .said to po.sse.ss a sizable fortune, recent- ly demonstrated her idea at a dance sponsored by the National Broad- casting Co. technicians' union. As- sociated Technical Employees. She appeared in the earliest Charlie Chaplin screen comedies, and has sung both in opera and in George M. Cohan musical comedies.. Total 58 20 5 11 22 1 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'LOVE ON TOAST,' produced by Emanuel Cohen; directed by E. A. Dupont; original screen play by Jane Storm, Richard Connell and Doris Malloy; photographed bv Charles Schoenbaum. Cast: Stella Ardler, John Payne, Grant Richards. Katharine 'Sugar' Kane, Isabel Jewell, Luis Alberni. 'BLOSSOMS ON BROADWAY/ produced by B. P. Schulberg; directed by Richard Wallace; original by George Auerbach; screen play by Theodore Reeves; camera, Leon Shamroy. Cast: Edward Arnold, Shirley Ross, John Trent, William Frawley, Weber and Fields, the Radio Rogues, Ruth Davis, Kitty Kelly. 'BORN TO THE WEST/ general office production, directed by Charles Barton; screen play by Stuart Anthony and Robert Yost; from novel by Zane Grey. Cast: John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, John Mack Brown, Syd Saylor, Monte Blue, John Patterson, Nick Lukats, James Craig, Lucien Littlefield. , „ ^ 'WELLS FARGO/ produced and directed by Frank Lloyd; Howard Eftta- brobk, asisociate producer; original by Stuart N. Lake; screen play by Paul Schofleld, Gerald Geraghty and Fred Jackson; camera, Theodore Sparkuhl. Cast: J6el McCrea, Frances Dee, Bob Burns, Lloyd Nolan, Mary Nash, Ralph Morgan, Porter Hall, Robert Cummings, Jane Dewey, Barlowe Borland. ♦TRUE CONFESSION/ produced by Albert Lewm; directed by Wesley Ruggles; photographed by Ted Tetzlaff; screen play by Claude Binyon; based on play by Louis Verneuil and Georges Berr. , Cast: Carole Lom- bard, 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 by Russell Harlan. Cast: Frank Darien, Russell Hay- den, Nora Lane, Robert Fiske, John Elliott. 'THE BUCCANEER/ produced and directed by C. B. De MiUe; photo- graphed by Victor Milner; screen play by Edwin Justus Mayer, Harold Lamb and C. Gardner Sullivan from Jeanie MacPherson's. adaptation of 'Lafltte, the Pirate,' by Lyle Saxon. Cast: Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Ian Keith, Walter Brennan, Douglas Dumbrille, Robert Barrat, Fred Kohler, Sr., Beulah Bondi, Margot Grahame, Spring Byington. 'DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI/ general office production; directed by Robert Florey; original by Garnett Weston; screen play by Garnett Weston and Gladys Unger; photographed by Charles Schoenbaurft. Cast; Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Larry Crabbe, Cecil Cunning- ham, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish, Ching Wah Lee. 'EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY,' Major Pictures production; produced by Emanuel Cohen; directed by Edward Sutherland; screen play by Mae West; Cast: Mae West, Edmund Lowe. Charlie Butterworth, Walter Catlett. 'SCANDAL STREET/ formerly titled 'THEY KNEW WHAT HAPPENED,' produced by general manager's office; directed by James Hogan; screen Slay by Bertram Millhauser and Eddie Welch; basetj on story by Vera iaspary; photographed by Henry Sharp. Cast: Lew Ayres, Louise Camp- bell, Porter Hall, Roscoe Karns, Virginia Weidler, Edgar Kennedy and Cecil Cunningham. ' . 'GUN SMOKE/ produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Les Selander; original by Clarence E. Mulford; screen play by Norman Houston; photo- (Conlinued on page 28) Lloyd's'Fargo'Bally Hollywood, Nov. 16. Paramount is readying .smash campaign for 'Wells Fargo' with Frank Lloyd, producer-director, mak- ing key spot rounds with print. Heads for N. Y. Dec. 5 for trade showing and then hits keys for press trade screenings. Returns to N. Y. for premiere Dec. 22 and then spans country for "Frisco opening Dec. 30. Studio publicist accompanies Lloyd on jaunt. Cronin West for Metro Dr. A. J. Cronin, author of 'The Citadel,' current best seller, arrived from England: Monday (15) and will leave fpr the Coast in a fe\V days as adviser to Metro on the filming of his book. Will remain in New York several days and visit Boston before hopping west. CONTRACTS Hollywood, Nov. 16. .Tane Withers optioned for an- other year at 20th-Fox. Columbia handed Ed Earl Repp a year's scripting termer. Jack Durih, ex-skating partner of Sonja Henie,.drew a playing termer at Paramount. Gladys Unger ticketed to a . Para- mount writing pact. Frieda Inescort sealed for two more films at Republic. Rex Dunn handed year's contract at 20th-Fox as composer arid musi- cal director. Paramount hoisted its options on Burton Lane, melodist, and Ralph Freed, songwriter, for another year. Lou Breslow sticks at 20th-Fox as a writer for another year on ari op- tion-hoisting deal. Mrs. Elisabeth Alexander. Major's vocal coach pact has been renewed at 20th-Fox for six months. Warner dotted-llned Irving Rapper to new dialog-directirig pact. William Noble renewed with Re- public as lenser for a year. Obtion on Charles Henderson, U vocal arranger, picked up for anoth- er year. Metro has handed Jack Chertok a new termer as short subjects chief. Gale Sondergaard signatured new playing termer at Metro. Jayne Regan, 20th-Fox starlet, had her option exercised. Universal signed Edna May Jones to a playing ticket. Metro validated the option of Ted Pearson. TITLE CHANGES Hollywood, Nov. 16. Universal transmogrified 'A Wel- come Impostor' into 'The Midni.'jht Intruder,*^ It started as 'Synthetic Gentleman,', novel by Channing Pol- lock. Columbia's 'American Legion' goes to the marquees as 'Squad of Honor,* Universal switched 'More Than Love' to 'Deadlocked.' 'West of Broadway/ Coronet Buck Jones pic, now is 'Headin' East.' Tag of 'The Badge of Policeman O'Ropn,' Bing Crosby starrer at Ma- jor, whittled down to 'Doctor Rhythm.' Metro switched 'A Family Vaca- tion' to 'Catch of the Season.* 'A Matter of Pride' at Metro be comes 'Beg, Borrow or Steal.' STORY BUYS Hollywood, Nov. 16. Universal acquired 'The Victoria Docks at Eight,' novel by Rufus King. Filming rights to 'She Said. I Do/ Red Book novel by Frank R. Adan)s, purchased by Gregory LaCava. 'Hell's Kitchen Has a Pantry,' mag .serial by Borden Chase, has been purchased by Universal, with Charlas Beahan, story ed, handling deal. This is second yarn to be bouqht by U for next sea.'jon'.s line-up. Charles R. Ro.'icrs, production chief, is due iti N. Y. next Monday (22) fpr confabs with Beahan.