Variety (Dec 1937)

^eilnesday, December 15, 1937 PiCTURfiS 19 Advance Production JChart (Continued from page 15) . ford; screen play by Norman Houston; photographed by Russell Harlan. Cast; William Boyd, George Hayes. Russell Hayden, Jphn.EUiblt, Billy King, Natalie Moorhead, Dorothy Short, Alden Chase, John Beach, Laae Chandler, Leo McMahon. •BiGr BROADCAST OF 193S,' produced by Harlan Thompson;, directed by Mitch"»irLejsen; screen play: by Walter DeLeon. Frahcis Martin, and Ken Englund; based on adaptation by Howard Lindsay and RusseL Crouse of story by Frederick Hailitt Brennan. Cast: W. C: Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Ben Blue, Bob Hbpe. Shirley Ross, Leif Erikson, Kirslen FIa?stad, Tito Guizar, Shep Fieldsj Lynne Overman, Grace Bradley, Rufe Da vis, S tanley King, Rex Moore, Bernard Puhsley, Don Marion, Dorothy Howe. • ■ • Paramount PIx Now in. Production ^ 'DOCTOR RHYTHM,* formerly titled 'tHE BADGE OF POLICEMAN O'ROON,' Major Pictures production; produced by Emanuel Cohen; directed by Frank Tuttle; original- by O, Henry;: screen play Ijy Jo Swerling and itichard Connell; photographed by Charles Lang. Cast: Bing Crosby^ Mary Carlisle, Beatrice Lillie, Andy DevJne, Laurij. Hope Crews. ^BLUEBEARD'S EIGHTH WIFE,' produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch; screen play by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; based on play •by :Alfred Savoir; photographed by Leo Tover. Cast: Claudette Colbert, Gciry Cooper, Edward Everett Hortoh, David Niven, Luis Albei-ni, Tyler Brooke. 'HER JUNGLIE LOVEi'produced by George Arthur; directed by George Archainbaud; no other credits available as yet; phbtograpfhed by Ray Ren- nahan. Cast: Dorothy, Lainoiir, Ray Milland, J. Carrol. Naish, Lyhii Over- nian.' •PROFESSOR BEWARE,' produced by Harold Lloyd; directed by Elliott Nugent; original by Francis arid. .Marion Coickrell. . Cast: Haiold Lloyd,. Phyllis Welch, ^ , 'DEPUTY SHERIFF/ produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Les Sclander; original story by Clarence E. Mulford; screen play by Arnold Belgrade; photographed by Russell Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Gwen Gaze^ William Duncan, Walter Long, Paul /SHtton^' ■■- v ...-■-^v'-; 'COLLEGE. SWING,V produced by Lewis E, Gens^^^^ directed by Raoul Walsh; no writer credit ..available, as yet; photographed by Victor Milner, Cast: Martha .Raye, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bob Hope, Charles Buttei'worth, Ben Blue, Edward Everett Hortbn, Florence George, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan, NeU Kelly, Slate Brothers, Skinnay Enhis, Charles Trowbridge, John Payne, June Ray^.St. Brendan's Choristers, Cecil Cun- ningham, Tully Marshall, Irving Bacpn. 'DANGEROUS TO KNOW/ general office production; directed by Robert Florey; no writer credits available as yet; photographed by Theodore SparkUhl.- Cast: Anna May Wong, Gail Patrick, Akim Tamiroflf, Lloyd Nolan, Harvey Stephens, Anthony Quinn, Barlowe Borland, Roscoe Karris, Porter Hall, Hiigh Sothern. 'BULLDOG DRUMMOND INTERFERES/ general office production; directed by James Hogan; ol-iginal by H. C: (Sapper) McNiele; photo- graphed'by Harry Fischbeck. Cast: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell, Nydia Westman, Reginald Denny, Porter Hall> E. E. Clive, Elizabeth Patterson, Michael Brooke. RKO-Radio Studio . •' .Condor m Sol Lesser David Loew...... Walt Disney. Totsil ■.,,..*«..•• Number Number, of Pix . Com- promised .pleted . 43 16 6 0 3 I .■■• 2 2 ' 1 0 55 19 NOW Shobt- . i :.. 0 I 0 0 8 • Now Balanee to in Be Placed Stories In Cutting Before Prepara- . Rooms Cameras tion 4 18 n «• 2 • I 1 • i 0 1 e 0 25 2« Pictures now in.the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'C;RASHING HOLLYWOOD,' formerly titled 'LIGHTS OUT/ produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Lew Lariders; play by Paul Dickey and Marin Page; screen play by Paul Yawitz and Gladys Atwater; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Lee Tracy, Joan Woodbury, Lee Patrick, Paul Guil- foyle, Richard Lane, Bradley Page, Tom Kennedy, Frank M. Thomas, Jack Carson. • • ■ 'EVERYBODY'S DOING IT/ formerly titled 'EASY MILLIONS/ pro- duced by William Sistrom; directed by Christy Cabanne; original by George Beck; screen play by J. Robert Bren, Edmund Joseph and Harry Sfegall; photographed by Paul Vogel. Cast: Preston Foster, Sally Filers, Paul Guil- foyle. Cecil Kellaway, Lorraine Krueger; 'WISE GIRL/forrrierly titled 'WOMEN HAVE A WAY/formerly titled 'THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES/^ro.duced by Edward Kaufman; directed by Leigh Jason; original by Allan Scott and Charles Norman; screen play by Scott; photographed by Peverell Marlay. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Ray Milland, Walter Abel, Henry Stephenson. Alec Craig, Guinn Williams, •HAVING WONDERFUL TIME/ produced by Pandro S. Herman; 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 Biall. •SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS/ feature length cartoon now being readied by Walt Disney studios for December release, RKO-Radio picturies Now in Production 'BRINGING UP BABY/ produced by. Cliff Reid; directed by' Howard Hawks; original by Hagar Wilde; photographed by Russell Metty. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Leona Roberts, Georgie Irving, Charles Ruggles; May Rob.son, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Catlett, Fritz Feld. •HAWAII CALLS/ produced by Sol. Lesser; directed by Eddie Cline; ,-original by. Don Blanding; screen'play by Wanda'Tuchock; photogi"aphed by Jack McKenzie! Cast: Bobby Breeii, Ned Sparks, Raymond Paige, Pua Lahi. Mamo Clark, Irvin S. Cobb. 'RADIO CITY REVELS/ produced by Edward Kaufman; directed by Ben Stbloff; original story by Matt Brooks and Eddie Davis; photographed by Roy Hunt. Cast: Milton Berle, Bob Biirris, Jiack Oakie, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Kenny Baker. Aiin Miller. Jane Fromari, Parkyakarkus. 'THE JOY OF LOVING/ produced by Felix Young; directed by Tay Carnett; original story and lyrics by Herbert and Dorothy Fields; screen play by Gene Towne arid Graham Baker; score by Jerome Kern; photo- graphed by Josieph Walker. Cast: Irene Diirine, Douglas Fairbanks; Jir., Alice Brady, Guy Kibbee, Lucille. Ball. Jean Dixon; . 'THE PERFECT ALIBI/produced by Maurice. Cohen; directed by Lew Landers; original by 'Arthur T. Ho.rman: screen play by Horman. and Ji Robert- Breh; photographed by Frank Redmond. Cast: Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Samuel iS. Hindis, Donald Meek, Paul Gullfpyle,: Cecil / Kellaway. June Johnson. . • S '9ROADWAY AFTER MIDNIGHT.?' produced ..by Robert Sisk; directed by Christy Cabanne; original by . Ann Jordan; screen play by Lionel HoUsor; photographed by Nick .Musuraca. Cast: Allan .Lane, Joan Wood- bury, Bradley Page, Lee Patrick, Gordon Jones, Parkyakarkus. graphed by Ernest Miller. Cast; Wallace Ford. June Travis, Dean Jagger, Arthur Lake, Syd Saylor. . / ;• ■:'.WILD HORSE icODEO/ produce4.'by Sol Siegel; directed, by George Sherman; original by Gilbert Wright; " screen, play by Betty Burbridge. Cast: Bob Livingstone,. Max Terhune, Ray Corrigan. 'LADY BEHAVE/ formerly titled 'THE LADY MISBEHAVES/ produced by Al Levoy; directed by Lloyd Corrigan; original by Joe Krunigold; screen play by Krumgold and Olive Cooper; photographed by Harry Wilde. Cast: Sally Filers, Neil Hamilton, Joseph Schildkraut, Marcia Mae Jones, George Ernest, Mary Gordon. 'SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES/ produced by Sol Siegel; directed by Joe Kari.e; original screen play by Gilbert Wright and Betty BurbridKe; photographed by'Ernest Miller. Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnctte, Polly Rpi^'los, Ula Love. Ruth Bacon, Jane Hunt. 'MAM.V RUNS WILD/ produced by Ralph Slaub; directed by Ralph Staub; original by Gordon Kiahri; screen play by (Gordon Kahn and Hal Yates; additional dialog by Paul Gerard Smith;-photographed by Ernest Miller. Cast: Mary Boland, Ernest Truex.-Max.,Terhunc. Wil liam H enry. Lynn Roberts. Republic Pictures Now in Production :'• 'OUTSIDE OF PARADISE/ produced.by Harry Sauber; directed by John Auer; original by Harry Sauber; screen play by Sauber; photographed by Jack Marta: Cast: Phil Regan, Dorothy McNuUy, Bert Gordon, Ruth Coleman, Joe E. Marks, Cliff Naza;-ro, Lynd: Haysj Renie Rianb, Mary Forbes, Holmes Herbert.^ *OLD BARN, DANCE/ produced by Sol Siegeli directed by .Toe Kane;- original by Bernard McGonvillej screen play by. Charles Francis Royal and Oliver Drake; photographed, by Ernie Miller; Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Colorado Hill Billies, Helen Valkis, Sammy McKim, Earl Hodgins; Jack Rockwell, Raphael Bennett, Frarikie Marvin, Buck Spencer. 'THE LONE RANKER/ (serial) produced by Sol Siegel; directed by William Witney and Jack English; screen play by Barry Shiprrian, Franklin Adrian, Ronald Davidson and Lois Eby; from radio serial of sariie title; photographed by Williarrt Nobles. Cast: Lee Powell, Herman Brix, Hal Taliaferro, George Letz, Lynn Roberts, Larie Chandler. Chief Thundercloud, Edmund Ciobb, Tonx London, John Merton, Charles King, 20th Century-Fox Studio ... Sol Lesser. Total Number Number ' of Pix Com- promised pleted 19 ■ .: 6 2 5S 21 .;Now;.' Shuot- int 8 0 8 Now Balance to -_ _ v in Re Placed' StoVres'ln Cutlinj; -Before- Pfepara- Rooms Cameras tioii 3 • ■■ 22 ■ 6 ■ 2 ■■. - 2-: ■ 2 24 8 Pictures in the ciitting rboms or awaiting previews are: . 'IN OLD CHICAGO/ Kenneth Macgowan, associate producer; directed by Henry King;. screen play. by Lamar Trotti and Sonya Levieri,. based on story .by Niyen .Busch; photographed by Peverell Marley. Cast:. Tyrone Power, Alice Faye,. Don Ameche, Alice Brady. Andy Devine, Brian Don- levy. ,Tom Brov^n, Phyllis Brooks. Berton Churchill, June Storey, Paul Hurst, Tyler Brooke, J. Anthony Hughes, Gene Reynolds, *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 Bernie, Simone Simon, Joan Davis, Dick Bald- win, Wally Vernon, Bert Lahr. 'REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM/ produced by Rayriipnd Griffith; directed by Alan Dwan; songs by Lew Pollack and. Sidney Mitchell; screen play by Karl Tunberg and Don- Ettlinger; suggested by the Kate Douglas Wiggin story; photographed by Arthur Miller. Cast: Shirley Temple, Gloria Stuart, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Helen Westley, Alan Dinehart. Phyllis Brooks, William Demarest, Slim Summerville, Raymond Scott Quintet, Bill Robinson, Dixie Dunbar, The Peters Sisters. •TARZAN'S REVENGE/ produced by Sol Lesser; directed by D. Ross Lederman;. original by Edgar Rice Burroughs; screen play by Jay Vann and Robert Lee Johnson. Cast: Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holm, George ■Barbier, Hedda Hopper, C. Henry Gordon. . 'H.^WAIIAN 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'Brien. . 20th-Fox Pictures Now in Production •SALLY, IRENE AND MARY,' produced by Gene Markey; directed by Williarn Seiter; from play by Edward Dowling and Agnes Wood; no. other writing credits as yet announced; photographed by Ernest Palmer. Cast: Alice Faye,' Joan Davis, Fred Allen, Gregory RatoiT, Marjorie Weaver, Tony Martin, Louise Hovick, Raymond-Scott Quintet, Jimmy Durante, 'HAPPY LANDING/ formerly titled 'HAPPY ENDING/ produced by Dave Hempstead; directed by Roy Del Ruth; original screen play by Milton Sperling and Boris Ingster; photographed by. John Mescal. Cast: Sonja Henie,. Don Ameche, Jean Hersholt, Ethel Merman, Cesar Romero, Leah Ray, Raymond Scott Quintet, the Peters Sisters, the Coridos Brothers. . 'LOVE ON A BUDGET/associate, producer. Max Golden; directed by Bert Levy; screen play by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan; photographed by Edward. Snyder. Cast: Shirley Deane. Spring Byington, Jed Prouty, Alan Dinehart, Russell: Gleasbn, George Ernest, Billy Mahri, Marvin Stephens, Kenneth Howell. June Carlson, Florence Roberts, Dixie Dunbar. 'SHANGHAI DEADLINE/ produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; directed by Eugene Forde; original screen play by Lou Breslow and John Patrick from novel by LaSalle Gilman. Cast: . George Sanders. Dolores Del Rio. June Lang, Peter Lorre, Jean Hersholt, Slim Summerville, J. Edward Bromberg, .John Carradine, Keye Luke, Dick Baldwin, Borrah Minevitch and His Gang, Leon Ames, Ruth Terry, • 'HEADLINE HUNTRESS/ produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; directed by James Tinling; original by Stewart Edward White. Cast: Michael Whalen, Gloria Stuart. Lyle Talbot, Jane Darwell, Delriiar Watson, Harold GoodWinl 'CITY GIRL/ formerly titled 'BLONDE MOLL/ produced by Sol JW. Wurtzel; directed by Alfred Werker; original, screen play by Frances Hyland, Rdbin Harris and Lester Ziffern; photographed by Hai-ry Jackson. Cast: Phyllis Brooks, Esther Mui.r, Adrianne Ames, Ricardo Cortez, Harold Huber, Eve Arden, Robert Wilcox, Douglas FoWley, Chick Chandler. ; 'GYPSY/ produced by John Stone; directed by Bruce. Humberstbne; no writing credits as yet; photographed by Edward Cronjager. Cast: Jane Withers, Borrah Minevitch, Rochelle Hudson. 'THE BARONESS AND THE BUTLER/ produced by Raymond Griffith; directed by Walter Lang; from play by Ladislaiis Bus-Fekele; no other writing eredits as yet; photographed by Robert Planck. Cast: Annabella, William Powell, Henry Stephenson, Gregory Ratoff, Helen. Westley, Joseph Schildkraut, J, Edward Bromberg, Lynn Bari. Belfrage'^s Tome ,:(Coi)tinued froni page 7; W Greek a.;-1'> show their Ip'^.s from -tlie feet to the thi'ihs. . Thfi. Ice-Breakors . Titat the first stars to come 'li),. : terms socially \yi^h tiic Puritans wlio ran the town were Cecil and William be Mi He; -.Mary. Pickford, Dou.cjla.s Fairbanks, Theodore Roberts and Frank Keonari—IVlrs. William. De ' Mille beini; tlie maker of: history by being the lirst to cra.slv the so- cle ty col iim rVs^~ " ~ ~~ That two: years later Jesse La.sky got a short notice tor a 'progressive dinner' in his; hillside palace, though by 1919 even Mary Pickford's script- writer rated a notice pii- her. manv riage; ' . •' That the Lasky Home CJuard, which was formed one day .before the draft in 1917,. personally pre- sented each trooper of-the first draft conlin.^ent to leave Hollywood for French, with—of all things—a pie. That eight years after pictures wd"?. . an establislved. riiultii-miilion dollar . industry HoUy Leaves.was Tiecording. 'One of the ^disl^riGtive features pt Hollywood life isJts motion picture industry, evidences of which are everywhere apparent.' That even when . Mae, Murray had orily;^ f0u-p.;5rsons_to_.attend to her;^ far from simple wants, the big social items vyere going to Princess Paul Stamariili of Milwaukee and Mrs. Stuart, Norcock 'In white point lace and apricot charmeuse'—two dariiea' who were. lucky to have a rriaid twice a week. ■ . . That what 'flna.ny fetched the Hol- lywood burghers was when royalty from abroad not only, began hob- nobbing with pictui-ie stars, and in several Cases rnarrying . them,' bi-<t Went even further and grabbed off jobs as script-wriiers and actors. On that one .(by then. Anno 1921),: Hollywood having climbed from J 5,000 to 60,000, fell off its high horse and admitted that a .social blending with people who made their money in pictures would be^ desirable. . It was helped by the tact that without the natives doing anything to help the industry the natives' boulevaird frontage had jumped frpni $50 afoot to $750 a foot!, ■ , ; ' .. After that even Geraldine Farrar being greeted on her arrival at the Santa Fe station with a basket ot flower.s, Ruth Stonehouse falling from a trapeze while doing a circus picture, Grace Cunard being nearly drowned after jumping from a blaz- ing buildin?, and a girl riding on horseback from Mis.-joula, Mont!, to the.Lasky studios became spot news —getting a 'must' over such pre- viously 'must' social, items as th* First Presbyterian Church tea. Then somebody (Bolfrage, prob- ably) discovered that Bryant Washr burn was a grand-nephew of Dwight Moody, " the ■ • evangel i&4, - : and . - the. cha.sm between the picture personal- ities and the First Farmers of Keo- kuk was closed. GoIdWyn's locale Laramie, Wyo., Dec. 14. Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., Hollywood, has written for" information regard* ing ranches and topography of the country hereabout. Wants to make a ,film here. Laramie and ,Alban,y counties were . the locale of 'The Plainsman.' United Artists Number Number Samuel Goldwyn. Alexander Kprda. Selznick ... ... . .. . .. Walter Wanscr., Chaplin , London Films.... or Pix Promised 6 6 . 3- ■ «■ 1 « Com- pleted b 2 2 ,0 1 Now iShoot- inff 0 0 Q « 0 ■' ■ 0 ! Now'ISiailance to in . Replaced Stqrifss In Cuttinip Before Prejpara- Cameras tion 1 6 '6 6 :Z- 4 % 1 1 7 8 • Rooms 2 0 I 1 :0 lie 30 Total Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shootr Promised pleted iiig: 52 8 3 Now Balance to In Be Placed. Starics in Cutting: Beftfre. Prepara- Rooms Cameras , tion ■ ■ 1 ' " zi ■ 21 Pielures now in the cutting rooms awaiting preview are: 'THE DUKE COMES BACK,' produced by Trermah.Schlom; directed by «:ving Pichcl; Satevepost story by Lucien Carey; screen play by Adele .BiilThigton. Cast: Allan Lane. Heather An.cjel, Genevieve Tob'm, Joseph <-i'ehan. John Russell, Chick Chandler. Sclmer Jackson. . ;ZORRO RIDES- AGAIN.' (serial) produced by Sol Siegel; directed by William Witney and Jack Ertglislb; original screen play by Johnson Mc- ^auley. Cast; Duncan Renaldo, .Jolin Cjrroil, Elsa Christian, I^ichard Alexander, Roger William, Reed Howes. NEWS IN THE AIR;' produced bv Armand Scjhacfer; directed by Nick Vi'mde; original screen play by Wellvn Toltnail and Jack Townley; phot\>- ■l• ! Totar..!-....-. M ^ 4. . P' ' Pictures how ii'iyihe cultin.g. roOrn-i awaiting previcw.s ars; ;• ■ 'i'MET .MY LOVE''AGAIN,' produced,'by Walter Wanger; directed by Arthur Ripiey aiid Joshua Logan; screen pljy. by David Hertz from novel by'AVIcnc Corliss; photographed,-by Hal Mohr. Cast: Joan Bennett; Henry .Fonda; Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshall, Louise Piatt, Alan Baxter, Tim Holt. Dorothy Sliclcncy... Florence Lake, Genee. Hall,. Alice Gavenha. . ..: 'THE ADVENTURES OF MARCO' POLO,' produced by Saniuel Goldwyn; directed by Archie Mayo; screen,pla.y by Robert Emrnett Sherwood; photo- graphed l)y Rudolf Mate and Archie Stout. Cast: Gary Cooper, Sigrid- CJurie.,Eine.st TrUcx. Binnie Barnci. Baoil Ralhbone, George'Barbier, Lotus Liu..Ferdinand Gottschalk. .'THE ADVENTURES OF TOIVI SAWYER,' produced by David O. Solz- nick; directed by Norman Taurog; screen play by John V. A. Weaver, from story by Mark Twrain; photographed by James Wong Howe and Wilfred ("line. Cast: Tommy Kelly. Jackie Mpran May Robson, Walter Brennan, Ann Gillis. Vicmr Jory, Mickey Rentchler, Cora Sui? Collins, Charles Rich- man, Spring Byington, Day id Holt, Marcia Mae Jones, Margaret Hamilton, (Continued oh page .211 CONTRACTS Hollywood, Dec. 14. Universal retained contract ser- vices of .linmiy McHugh and Jlarold Adamson, songwriting duo; Charles Prcvin, music department head; Charles Hender.son and Frank Skin- ner, corhpose.i'-ar.rangers. . . Metro repacted F. Scott Fitzgerald to a-.scrib termer. ' RKO holds .Helen Meinardi. on a. scrib ticket renewal. Paramount picked . up r Charles Brackett's writing option. Elizabeth Allan;- now in London, reached terms with Metro on a new plaver pact via transatlantic phone. Karen De Wolfe and Robert Cha- pin, scrib duo! signatured to straight' year's contract at '20th-Fo.x, G. Gardner SuUivan .iohnhancockcd Paramount .writing Pact. Richird bix si{tncd one-year play- er deal at RKO. - , TITLE CHANGES If oily wood. Doc' 14; Tag of--BkiiiHo Moll' svvitchrri io^ 'City .Girl' by S.il M. Wurtzel at llOth- Fox-. V ■ 'Night ■ Sp')l' get.-; Ihe call over 'Broadway Aflj.r, Hid night' .it IlKO. STORY BUYS Hollywood. Doc. 14. • Mk^tro purchti.scd .screen ri«hts to Frederick H.tviUtt Brennan's new novpl. 'On(» Young American,' which will b^i serialiiced in' Collier's.