Variety (Nov 1937)

28 VARIETY PICTURES Wednesday-, November 17, 1937 Advance Production Chart 20th Century-Fox (Continued from page 25) graphecj by Russell Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell i Hayden, John Elliott, Billy King, Natalie Moorhead. . Faramouht PIx Now in rroductfon *BIG BROADCAST OF 1938,' produced by Harlan Thompson; directed by Mitch-^U Lelsen; screen play by Walter DeLepn, Francis Martin, and Ken Englund; based on adaptation by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse of story by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan.' Cast: W-- C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Ben Blue, Bob Hope,. Shirley Ross, Leif Erlksoh, Kirsten Flagstad, Tito Guizar, Shep Fields. 'ROMANCE IN THE DARK,' formerly titled 'THE YELLOW NIGHT- INGALE,' produced by Harlan Thompson; directed by H.' C. Potter;, screen play by Frank Partbs and Ahhe Morrison Chapin; based on play-by Hermann Bahr; ph'oto^aphsd" by' William MelTlor. Cast: 'Glaidys Swarth- oui, John Boles, John Barrymore,' Clair Dodd, Fritz Feld. 'DOCTOR RHYTHM,' formerljr titled "'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 ilichard Connell; photographed by Charles Lan.fT. Ca^tvBing Crosby, Mary Carlisle, Beatrice Lillie, Andy Devine, Laura Hope Crews. 'BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE.* produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch; no story criedils available -as yet; photographed by Leo Tover. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Evferett Horton, David Niven, Luis Alberni, Tyler Brooke. 'HER JUNGLE Lovi/ produced by. George* Arthur; directed by George Archainbaud; no other credits available as yet; photographed by Ray Ren- nahan. Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Ray Milland, J. iciarrol Naish, Lynn Over- man. Studio ;.v.. Sol Lesser. Nnmber Number Miow . of Fix Com- Shoot* ProtoiBcd pleted Inr 52 17. 4 •6 Z 1 Now Balance to In Replaced Storlen In Cutting Before Prepura- Rooms CameTAs ifen 3 28 . 8 1 2 2 30 10 RKO-Radio Studio Condor Sol Lesser David Locw..... • Walt Disney...... Number Number ' Now . of Fix Com- Shoot- Promiised pleted Ing 4i 11 4 '60 e 3 . 1 1 2 .2 0 1 0 1 New Balance to in Be Placed Stories in' Onttine Before Prcpara- Rooms Cameras 4ion 5 23 ' 16 • 6 2 0 1 1 0 e • . «' ' t • 19 • Total 55 14 : S 5 30 Pictures now in the.cutting rooms or awaiting previews are:. 'DANGER PATROL/ fonnerly titled 'HIGHWAY TO HELL/ produced by Maury. Cohen; directed by Lew Landers; original by Helen Vreel'and and Hilda Vincent; screen play by Sy Bartlett and J. Robert Bren;. photo- fraphcd by Nick Miisiiraca, Cast: John Beal, Sally Eilers, Harry Carey, rank M. Thomasj Lee J^atrick, Ed Gargan, Paul Guilfoyle. 'A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS/ produced by Pandro S. Berman; directed .'by George Stevens; original by P. G- Wodehouse; screen plaV by P.. G Wodehouse, Ernest Pagano and S. K. Laurel; photographed by Joe August. Cast: Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, Grade Allen and-George Burns,' Ray Noble, Reginald Gardiner, Constance CoUierj Montagu Leve, Harry Watson, Jack Carson.. 'HITTING A NEW HIGH/ formerly titled IT NEVER HAPPENED BE- FORE/, produced by Jesse L. Lasky; directed by Radul 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. 'SHE'S GOT THAT SWIKG/ 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, Ifelen Broderick, Billy Gilbert, William Bnsbane, Alan Bruce. 'TAKING THE TOWN,'produced by Maury Cohen; directed by Edward Killy; original by Arthur T. Horman; screen play by Horman and Franklin Coen; .photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Fr6d Stone, Dorothy Moore, Gordon. Jones, Harlan Briggs, Paul Guilfoyle, George Irving, Frank M. Thomas, Berton Churchill. RKO-Radio Pictures Now In Production 'BRINCING UP BABY/ produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Howard Hawks; original by Hagar Wilde; photographed by Russell 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: Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Richard 'Red' Skelton, Peggy Conklin, Eve Arden. Lucille Ball. 'WOMEN HAVfe A WAY/ formerly titled 'THE FEMALE OF THE SPlilCIES/ produced by Edward Kaufman; directed by Leigh JasOn; orig' inr.l by Allan Scott .'and Charles Norman; screen play by Scott; photo . graphed by Peverell Marlay.. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Ray MiUand, Walter Abel, Henry Stephiehison, Al«ic Craig, Guinn Williams. 'SNOW WHITE ANb THE SEVEN DWARFS/ feature length cartoon now being, readied by'Walt Disney studios for December release. 'HAWAn CALLS/ produced by Sol Lesser; directed by Eddie Cline; origmal by Don Blanding; screen play by Wanda Tuchock; photographed by Jack McKenzie. Cast: Bobby Breen, Ned Sparks, Raymond Paige, Pua Lani, Mamo Clark, Irvin S. Cobb. 'LIGHTS OUT,' produced by ClifE Reid; directed by Lew Landers: play by Paul Dickey and Mann Page; screen play by Paul Yawitz and Glaidys Atwater; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Lee Tracy» Joan, Wood- bury, Lee Patrick, Paul Guilfoyle, Richard Lane, Bradley Page, Tom Ken- nedy, Frank M. Thomas, Jack Carson. 'EASY MILLIONS/ produced by William. Sistrom; directed by Christy Cabanne; original by George Beck; screen play by J. Robert Bren, Edmund Joseph and Harry Segall; photographed by Paul Vogel. Cast: Preston Foster, Sally Eil6rs, Paul Guilfoyle, Cecil Kellaway, Lorraine Kruieger. Rqmbiic Total Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ihf 52 8 1 Now Balance to in' Be Placed Stories in Cutting Before Prepara' Booms Cameras tion 6 37. 24 Total 58 19 5 4 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: •IN OLD CHICAGO,' Kenneth Macgowan, associate producer; directed by Henry King; screen play by Lamar Trotti. andVSonya Levien, based on story by Niven BusclV; photographed by Peverell Marley. Cast: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Amechti, Alic;e Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Don- levy, Tom Brown/Phyllis Brooks, Berton .Churchill,, June Storey, Paul Hurst, Tl'ler Brooke, J. Anthony Hughes, Gene Reynolds. •LOVE AND HISSES/ prdduced;by Kenneth Macgowan;. directed by Sid- ney Lanfield; original screen play by Arthur Arthur and Curtis Kenyon, Jj". Cast: Waller Winchell, Ben Bernie, Simone Simon, Joan Davis, Dick Bald- win, Wally Vernon, Bert Lahr. •REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM/ produced by Raymond Griffith; directed, by Alan Dwan; songs by tew Pollack and. Sidney Mitchell; no other writer credits yet announced; photographed by Arthur Miller. Cast; Shirley Temple, Gloria Stuart, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Helen Westley, Alan iDinehart, Phyllis Brooks, William Demarest, Slim Summerville, Ray- mond Scott Quintet, Bill Robinson, Dixie Dunbat, The "Peters Sisters. 'TARZAN'S REVENGE/ produced by Sol Lesser; directed by D. Ross Lederman; original by Edgar- Rice'Burroughs; sc.reen plajTi by'Jay • Vann and Robert Lee Johnson. Cast: Glenn . Morris, Eleanor-"fiolm, , Gep^rge Barbier; Hedda-Hopper, C. Henry .Gordon. 20th-Fox Pictures Now In Production ■ i' ■•' 'CHECKERS/ produced by John Stone; directed by H. Bruce Hlimber- stone; no', story 'credits yet announced; photographed by Daniel B. Clark; Cast: Jane Withers,. Stuart Erwin, Una M^rkel, Marvin Stephenis, Marcia T^ae'Jones. • ■ . 'THANK YOU, MR. MO'^a; produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; directed by Norman Foster; no writer credits announced as yet; photographed by Vir- gil Miller. Cast: Peter Lorre^ Jayne Regan, John Carradine, Thomas Beck, Pauline Frederick. . ' • 'HAPPY ENDING/ produced by Dave Hempstead; directed by Roy Del Ruth; no writer, credits as yet; .photographed by John Mescal. Cast: Sonja Henie, - Don Ameche, Jean -Hersholt, Ethel Merman, C^sar Romero, Leah Ray, Raymond Scott Quints, the 'Peters Sisters, the Condos Brothers. 'HAWAIIAN BUCKAROO/ produced by. Sol Lesser; directed by Ray Taylor; original story by Harold. Bell Wright; screen play by Dan Jarrett; photographed. by Allan Thompson. Cast: Smith Ballew, Evalyn Knapp« Benny Burt, Harry Woods, George Regas, Pat O'Brieji. . . 'SALLY, IRENE AND MARY/ produced by Gene Markey; directed by William Seiter; from play by Edward Dowling and Agnes Wood; no other writing credits as y.et announced; photographed by Ernest Palmer. Cast: Alice. Faye,. Joan. Davis, Fred Allen, Gregory Ratoif, Marjorie Weaver, Toriy Martin, Lo.uise Hovick, Raymond Scott Quintet, Jimmy Durante. United Artists Samuel Goldwyn., Alexander Korda. Selzni<;k . ..... Walter 'Wander... Chaplin London Films.... Total Number Number New of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted Inc 5 3 1 6 0 • 5 10 8 2 0 1 0 0 8 10 34 7 1 Now Balance to. in 3e Placed Stories In Cuttinr Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 1 1 4 0 6 6 2 2 4 1 5 5 • 0 1 1 0 7 8 22 28 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 AUene Corliss; photographed by Hal Mohr. Cast: Joan Bennett, Henry 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. •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, Slgrid Gurie, Ernest Truex, Binnie Barnes, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier, Lotus Liu, Ferdinand Gottschalk; 'THE ADVENTURES OF TOM . SAWYER/ produced by David O. Selz- nick; directed by Norman Taurog; screen play by John V. A. Weaver, from .story by Mark Twain; photographed by James Wong Howe. ah,d,Wilfred Cline. Cast: Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran,' May Robson, .Walter Brcnnan, Ann Gillis, Victor Jory, Mickey .Rentchler, Cora Sue Collins, Charles Rich- man, Spring Byington, David Holt, Marcia-Mae Jones, Margaret Hamilton, Philip Hurtic; Erville Aldersoh, Donald Meek, Nana Bryant,-Victor Kilian, Frank McGlynn, Sr. United Artists Pictures Now In Production ' 'THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES/ produced by Samuel Goldwyn; directed by Gebrge Marshall; photography by Gregg Toland; original screen play by Ben' Hecht. Cast: Kenny Baker, Virgmia Verrill, Adblphe Menjou, the Ritz Brothers, Helen Jepson, Charles KuUmann. Phil Baker. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Zorina, Bobby Clar'r, Ella Logan, William Dollar, George Balanchine's American Ballet, Andrea Leeds. Umyersal Prepara- tion 10 Pictures noSv in the cutting rooms awaiting preview are: •THE DUKE COMES BACK,' produced by Herman Schlom; directed by Irving 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. '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. •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. •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. •SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES/ produced by Sol Siegel; directed by Joe Kane; original screen play by Gilbert Wright and Betty Burbridge; Shotographed by Ernest Miller. Cast; Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Polly :owles, Ula Love, Ruth Bacon, Jane Hunt. Republic Pictures Now in Production •MAMA BUNS WILD/ produced by Ralph StaUb; directed by Ralph. Staula; original by Gordon Kahn; screen play by Gordon Kahn and Hal Yates; additional dialog by -Paul Gerard Smith; photographed by Ernest Miller. Cast: Mary B61and» Ernest Truex, Max Terhune, William Henry, .I^ynn Roberta. Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories In -of Pix Com- Shoot- Cuttinr Before ' Promised pleted inr Rooms Cameras Total ... 50 11 1 9 ^ 29 Pictures in the catting 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* Caste Buck Jones, Muriel Evans, Harvey Clark, Walter Miller, Lee Phelps, Ted Adams, Dickie Howland, Ezra Paulette. Matty Fain, Grace Goodall. •SUDDEN BILL . DORN/ produced by Buck Jones; directed by Ray Taylor; nbvel by Jackson Gregory; screen play by Frances Guihan. Cast: Buck Jon -3, Noel Francis, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Harold Hodge, Ted Adams, Evelyn Brenl, Lee 1 helps. '-•SOME BLONDES ARE DANGEROUS/ produced by E. M. Asher; di- rected'by Milton Carruth; novel by W. R. Burnett; screen'play by Lester Cole. Cast: Noah Beery, Jr.,iNan Grey, William Gargah, Dorothea Kent, Rowland Drew. I •COURAGE OF THE WEST/ produced by Txem Carr; directed by'Joe Lewiis; original screen play by Jay Norton Baker; photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Bob Baker, Lois January, J. Farrell MacDonald.. Fuzzy Knight. Cirl Stockdale. : . ' •SINGING OUTLAW,' formerly titled •RENEGADE WRANGLERS,' pro- duced 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 TThomas. Frances Robinson. •PRESCRIPTION FOR ROMANCE,' produced by Edmund Grainger; directed bv S Sylvan Simon; original by John Reinhaidt and Robert Ne- ville; screen play by James Mulhauser. Robert T. Shannon and Albert R. Perkins. Cast: Wendy Barrie, Kent Taylor, Mischa Bauer, Dorothea Kent, Frank Jenks. Henry Hunter. •YOU'RE A SWEETHEART/ formerly titled 'YOUNG MAN'S FANCY,' produced by B, G. De Sylva; directed by David Butler; original story by Bill Tliomas, 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. •INTERNATIONAL SPY/ produced by Trem Carr; directed bv Joe Lewis; original screen- play by George Waggncr; photographed by Harry (Continued on page 33) 4 AWAY, U PRODUCTION HIATUS tmmo END . . ; Hollywood, Nov. 16.' i '. Production lull at Uhivers^r came to an end this week with four pic- tures, inclwdin^ a serial, going into production yesterday .(Monday), ' Quartet lists 'Mad About Music/ new Deanna Durbln starrer with Joe Pasternak- producing and .Nor- man Taurog directing; 'Border Wolves,* Trem Carr film; a Crime Clubber, directed by Otis, Garrett with'Larry Fox ind Irving Starr co- producing, and 'Flash Crordon's Trip to Mars/ a chapterplay. 'Gordon' win^s up U's serials for the season'. Kent Drops Personal : Holding Co., Berkshire . Washington, Nov. 16. Existence of . Pathe option on Monogram Pictures Stock came to light today (Tuesday) in latest re- port of the Sectirities and Exchange Commission on transactions of cor- porate insiders.. With but one deal involving a film condpany figures showing, the Gov- ernment summary disclosed that Pathe International Corp. can pur- chase*'6,0i7 shares of Monogram com- mon at bargain-cjounter rates. Palhe presently acjcoiirits lor 66,667 shares of the Mono paper. • Lone transaction during late Sep- tember was shift In. 20th Century- Fox, holdings of Sidney R. Kent, company president. In transferring from one pigeon-hole tp the other, Kent assumed direct ownership of 3,355 shares oi coinmon which for- merly were. registered to Berkshire Finance Co., his personal investment firm. Berkshire's interest was wiped out, thvis simplifying bookkeeping under complicated tax laws designed to discourage holding companies. Newsrieels Calling: Off On Sino-Jap Coverage U. S. newsreel companies are ex- pected to start recalling their special cameramen now covering the Sino- Japanese front in. a fe^v weeks. Aside from the desire for economy, newsreel execs are convinced that they have obtained the bulk of best actioh material from the warfare zone. Capture of. Shanghai proper by Japanese ds held responsible for this change in attitude because news* reelers believe that fighting in the country and along long front will be less spectacular. Newsreel editors have learned from previous experience that the most graphic battle material is se- cured only when forces come into contact in a large city. This was true of Sjpanish 'revolution, with best sequences obtained in and near Madrid. . Desire to trim expenditure sails also is based on the prospect that Japanese censorship around Shang- hai will' affect their coverage. Even though footage is hot obtained there, most of it has to pass through Shang- hai to get to U. S. Conn Supes 8 Gallopers For Concord Productions Hollywood, Nov. 16. Maurice Conn will supervise a series of. eight gallopers for Mono- gram release to be made by Concord Productions for the 1937-38 program. Activities will, hive nothing to do with Conn's other production obliga- tions, according. to. Scott R. Dunlap, Mono v.p. in charge of production. ' Nat'I Screen's 15th Unit National Screen Service is opening a. trailer and accessories branch at Cleveland next month under an ex- pansion program which has seen the addition of numerous key city olTices during the past year. With Cleve- land, company will have around 15 branches all told.. Gaston L. Stern, home office ex- ecutive, who two months ago or- ganized a branch at Charlotte, N. C, is going out to supervise the opening of the new one at Cleveland. Bruce Follows Through Hollywood, Nov. 16. George Bruce has returned to the Metro writing corps to script his own novel, 'Baby Face,' which Sam Zim- balist will produce. Scrivener's last work for Metro was on 'Navy Blue and Gold/