Variety (Sep 1938)

Wednesday* September 21, 1938 PICTURES VARIETY 17 Advance Production Chart (Continued from page 15) Ferdinand Reyher and John C. Moffitt; photographed by William Mellor. Cast: Akim Tamfrofi*,. Frances Farmer, Leif Erikson, Lynne Overman, Vladamir Sokoloff, Wade Crosby, Dewey Robinson, William Newell, John Bliefer, Alex Woloshin, "James Flavin. 'ILLEGAL TRAFFIC (for 1938-39 release), general manager office pro- duction; directed by Louis King; no writing credits released as yet; photo- graphed by Henry Sharpe. Cast: J. Carroll Naish, Mary Carlisle, Robert Preston, Judith Barrett, Richard Stanley, Richard Denning, John Hart, Philip Warren. Dbrothy Howe, Sheila Darcy. pblores Casey. 'KING OF ALCATRAZ' (for 1938-39 season), produced by front office: directed by Robert Florey; original story and screen play, by Irving Reis; photographed by Harry Fischbeck. Cast: Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Preston, Virginia Dabney, Nora Cecil, Harry Carey, Porter Hall, Richard Denning, Dorothy Howe, Anthony Quinn, John Hart, Philips Warren, Harry . Worth, Tom Tyler, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Eddie Marr. Paul Fix, John Harmon. Jack Knoche. Dick Rich. Emory Parnell. •SUNSET TRAIL,' formerly titled 'SILVER TRAIL PATROL*, (for 1938- 39 season), produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Les Selander; screen play by Norman Houston, from story by* Clarence E. Mulfdrd; photo- graphed by Russel Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Charlotte Wynters, Jane Clayton, Robert Fiske, Catharine Shel- don, Maurice Cass, Anthony Nace, Kenneth Harlan, Alphonse Ethier, Glenn-Strange, Jack Rockwell. Tom London, Claudia Smith. 'ZAZA' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Albert Lewin; directed by George Cukor; screen play by Zoe Akins; from play by Pierre Berton and Charles Simon; photographed by Charles Lang. .Cast: Claudette'ColberJ, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr. Helen Westley, Constance Collier, Genivieve Tobin, Rex O'Malley, Rex Evans, Walter Catlett. Robert C. Fischer, Ernest Cossart, John Sutton, Michael Brooke. Phillip'Warren, Alexander Leftwich, Janet Waldo, Fredrika" Brown, Dorothy Dayton, Harriett Haddon, Helaine Moler,* Dorothy White, Duncan Renaldo, Hala Linda. Tom' Ricketts. 'THANKS FOR THE MEMORY' (lor 1938-39 release); executive pro- ducer, Harold Hurley; associate, Mel Shauer; directed by George Archain- baud; from play by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich; photographed by Karl Struss. Cast: Bob Hope, Shirley Rbss. Charlie Butterworth, Otto Kruger. Hedda Hopper, Roscoe Karns. Laura Hope Crtws. Elizabeth Pat- terson. Patricia Wilder. Eddie Anderson. Jack-Norton, Edward Gargan. 'FRONTIERSMAN,' produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Leslie Selander: screen play by Norman Huston from original story by Clarence E. Mulford; additional dialog by Harrison Jacobs; photographed by Rus- sell Harlan. Cast: William Boyd; George Hayes, Russell Hayden, Evelyn Venable, William Duncan, Clara Kimball Young, Charles Hughes, Dickie Jones; Roy Barcroft, Emily Fitzroy, John Beach. 'SCOTLAND YARD VS. BULLDOG DRUMMOND' (for 1938-39), pro- duced by Stuart Walker for Harold Hurley unit; directed by James Hogan; original story by H. .C. 'Sapper' McNiele; photographed by Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner, Reginald Denny, E. E. CUve, Elizabeth. Patterson, George Zucco, Jean Fenwick, Leonard Mudie, Clyde Cook, David Clyde, Ferdinand Munier, John Rogers. Paramount Plx Now In Production 'ST: LOUIS BLUES' (for 1938-39 release), produced by Jeff Lazarus; directed by Raoul Walsh; screen play by John C. Moffitt and Malcolm Stuart Boylan; based-on adaptation by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan of story by Ele.anore Griffin and William Rankin; additional dialog bjy Virginia Van Upp; photographed by Theodor Sparkuhl. Cast: Lloyd-Nolan, Dorothy Lamour, Tito Guizar, Jessie Ralph, Maxine Sullivan, William Frawley, Punkins Parker. Jerome Cowan. Matty Malneck and His Boys. 'SAY IT IN FRENCH,' produced and directed by Andrew Stone; screen play by Frederick Jackson from play-by Jacques Deval; photographed by Victor Milner. Cast: Ray Milland, Olympe Bradna, Irene Hervey, Janet Beecher, Evelyn Keyes, Erik Rhodes, Walter Kingsford, Holmes Herbert, Gertrude Sutton, Forbes Murray, Billy Daniels. 'TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE,' produced by Harold Hurley; directed by Louis King; no writing credits yet; photographed by Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Donald O'Connor, Billy 'Cook, Porter Hall, Philip Warren, Janet Waldo, Clara Blandick, Elisabeth Risdbn, Edward Pawley, Hattie McDaniels, Oscar Smith, William Haade, Stanley Price, Harry Worth, Si Jenks. 'DISBARRED,' produced by Harold Hurley; directed by Robert Florey; screen play by Lillie Hay ward and Robert R. Presnell from story ,by Harry Sauber; photographed by Harry Fishbeck. Cast: Gail Patrick, Otto Kruger, Robert Preston, Sidney Toler, Helen MacKellar, Clay Clement, Edward Marr; Olin Howland. RKO-Radio Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories In of Plx Com- Shoot- Cutting: Before Prepara- Promlsed pleted ing Rooms Cameras tion Studio 50 0 2 3 39 39 Sol Lesser 3 0 1 0 2 2 Herbert Wiloox... 1 0 0 0 1 1 Total 54 6 3 3 42 42 Pictures now in the cutting rooms Or awaiting previews are: THE MAD MISS MANTON/ produced by P. J. Wolfson; directed by Leigh Jasop; soreen play by Fred Finklehoffe from original story by Wil- son Collison. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Eleanor Hansen, Sam Levene. 'ANNABEL TAKES A TOUR' (for 1938-39), produced by Lou Lusty; directed by Lew Landers; screen play by Olive Cooper and Bert Granet; photographed by Russell Metty. Cast: Jack Oakie/Lucille Ball, Frances Mercer, Ruth Donnelly, Ralph Forbes, Bradley Page, Pepita, Chester Ctute, Rafael Storm, Jean Rouverol, Donald MacBride, Alice White, Rita Gould. 'A MAN TO REMEMBER' (for 1938-39), produced by Robert Sisk; di- rected by Garson Kanhv, screen play by Dalton Trumbo; original by Katharine Havilland-Taylor; photographed by J. Roy Hunt. Cast: Anne Shirley. Lee Bowman, Edward Ellis, Frank M. Thomas, Dickie Jones, Granville Bates, Harlan Briggs. Julius Tannen. RKO-Radio Pictures Now in Production 'GUNGA DIN' (for 1938-39), produced and directed by George Stevens; screen play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; photographed by Joe August. Cast: Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Fontame, Eduardo Ciannelli, Sam Jaffe, Montagu Love, Lumsden Hare. 'MIRACLE RACKET,' produced by B. P. Fineman; directed by Les Goodwins; screen play by Saul Ellcins and Joseph Pagano; original by Saul Ellcins; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast:' Sally Eilers, Ann Miller, Lee Bowman, Alma Kruger, Paul Guilfoyle, Jonathan Hale, Jack Arnold, Cecil Kellaway. 'PECK'S BAD BOY WITH THE CIRCUS,' produced by Sol Lesser; asso- ciate producer, Leonard Fields; directed by- -Edward Cline; no writing credits released yet; photographed^ by Jack McKenzie. Cast: Tommy Kelly, Ann Gillis, Edgar Kennedy, Spanky McFarland, Benita Hume, Fay Helm, William Demarest, Wade Boteler, Grant Mitchell, Nana Bryant, Louise Beaver. 'LAW WEST OF TOMBSTONE,' proCuC&d by Cliff Reid; directed by Glenn Tryon; screen play by John Twist and Clarence Young; photo- graphed by J. Roy Hunt. Cast: Harry Carey, Anne Shirley, Tim Holt, Evelyn Brent, Allan Lane, Paul Guilfoyle, Bradley Page, Esther Muir, George Irving, Eleanor Hansen, Peggy Carroll, Robert Moya, Jane Wood- worth. Republic Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories in of Plx Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- Promisei pleted ing Rooms Cameras, tion Total 59 3 l 4 51 — Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: 'OVERLAND STAGE RAIDERS' (for 1938-39), produced by • William Berke; directed by George,, Jaherpw^s: screen play by Luci Ward; photo- graphed by William Nobles, Cast: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Ter- hune, Louise Brooks, Frank La Rue, Charles Whittaker, Duke R. Lee, Edwin Gaffney. Jr., Anthony Marsh, George Plums. George Sherwood, .'DOWN IN ARKANSAW/ produced by Armand Schaefer; directed by Nick Grinde; original and screen play by Dorrell and Stuart McGowan; photographed by Ernie Miller. Cast: Weaver Brothers, Elviry, Ralph Byrd, June Storey, Pinkie Tomlin, Guinn Williams, Berton Churchill, Galli Sisters. 'NIGHT HAWK,' produced by Herman Schlom; directed by Sidney Salkow; original screen play by Earl Felton; photographed by Jack Marta. Cast: Robert Armstrong, June Travis, Robert Livingston, Joseph Downing, Roland Gott. Robert Homans, Paul Fix. 'PRAIRIE MOON,' produced by Harry Grey; directed by Ralph Staub; screen play by Betty Burbridge and Stanley Roberts; photographed by William Nobles. Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette,. Shirley Deane, David Gorcey, Tommy Ryan, Walter Tetley. Stanley Andrews, William Pawley, Rafael Bennett, Warner Richmond. Tom London. Republic Pix Now in Production 'I STAND ACCUSED*' produced and directed by John H. Auer; no writing credits yet; photographed by Jack Marta. Cast: Robert Cummings, Helen Mack. Lyle Talbot, Gordon Jones, Thomas Jackson, Leona Roberts, Tom Beck, Robert Paige, Robert Middlemass. 20th Century-Fox Total Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ing 55 8 6 Now Balance to in Be Placed*" Stories. In Cutting Before 'Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 9 32 32 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'STRAIGHT, PLACE AND SHOW' (for 1938-39 season), produced by David Hempstead; directed by David Butler; from Damon Ruhyon's story; photographed by Ernest Palmer. Cast: Ritz Brothers, Phyllis Brooks. Ethel Merman, Robert Allen, Sidney Blackmer, George Barbier. 'SUEZ' (for 1938-39 reason), produced by Gene Markey; directed by Allan Dwan; screen play by Julien Josephson and Phillip Dunne; original by Sam Duncan; photographed by Peverell Marley. Cast: Loretta Young. Tyrone Power, Annabella, Henry Stephenson, Thomas Beck, Sidney Black- mer, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut, Sig Rumann, Leon Ames, Rafaela Ottiano, Maurice Moscovieh. Nigel Bruce. 'GIRL FROM BROOKLYN,' formerly titled 'BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT-' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Edward Kaufman; directed by Gregory Ratoff; original, by Gene Markey; photographed by Karl Freund. Cast: Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Charles Winninger, Key e Luke, Arthur Treacher, Willie Fung, Doris Lloyd, Leonid Snegoff. 'SUBMARINE PATROL/ formerly titled 'WOODEN ANCHORS,' for- merly titled 'SPLINTER FLEET' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Gene Markey; directed by John Ford; screen play by Rian James, Darrell Ware and Jack Yellen from story by Ray Milhplland and Charles B. Milholland; photographed by Arthur Miller. Cast:' Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, George Bancroft, Slim Summerville, Douglas Fowley, Joan Valerie, Pres- ton .Foster, John Carradine, Warren Hymer, Elisha Cook, Jr., Ward Bond, Maxie Rosenbloom, Harry Strang, Russ Clark, Charles Tannan, Dick Hogan, Henry Armetta, J. Farrell MacDohald, George E. Stone, George Humbert. 'SHARPSHOOTERS' (first Camera Daredevils series) (for 1938-39 sea- son), produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; directed by James Tinling; screen-play by Robert Ellis and Helen Logan; photographed by Barney McGill. Cast: Brian Donlevy. Wally Vernon, Lynn Ban, C. Henry Gordon, Douglas Dumbrille, Sidney Blackmer. 'FIVE OF.A KIND' (for 1938-39 season), associate producer, Kenneth Macgowan; directed by Herbert I. Leeds; original screen play by Lon Breslon and John Patrick; photographed by Daniel B. Clark. Cast: Dionne Quintuplets, Jean Hersholt, Claire Trevor, Inez Courtney, Cesar Romero, Slim Summerville, John Qualen. Henry Wilcoxon, John Russell, Jane Dar- well. Joan Valerie. •JUST AROUND THE CORNER' (for 1938-39 season), produced by David Hempstead; directed by Irving Cummings; screen play by J.' P. McEvoy and Ethel Hill; original story by Kenneth Earle and Howard Smith; songs by Walter Bullock and Harold Spina; photographed by Arthur Miller. Cast: Shirley Temple, Joan. Davis, Bill Robinson, Charles Farrell, Bert Lahr, George Barbier, Franklin Pangborn, Bennie Bartlett. Amanda Duff. 'DOWN ON THE FARM' (for 1933-39), Jones Family feature produced by John Stone; directed by Malcolm St. Clair; no writing credits released yet; photographed by Edward Snyder. Cast: Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, Louise Fazenda, Russell Gleason, Ken- Howell, George Ernest. June Carl- son, Florence Roberts, Billy Mahan. Rdberta Smith, Marvin Stephens, Eddie Collins, Dorris Bowdon. 'INSIDE STORY,' formerly titled 'A VERY PRACTICAL JOKE' (for 1938-39), produced by Howard J. Green; directed by" Ricardo Cortez; screen play by Jerry Cady; based on a story .by Ben Ames Williams; pho- tographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Michael Whalen, Jean Rogers, Chick Chandler, June Gale. Douglas Fowley, Jane Darwell, Theodore Von Eltz. 20th-Fox Pix Now in Production 'JESSE JAMES' (for 1938-39, in Technicolor), produced by Nunnally Johnson; directed by Henry. King; no writing credits released yet; photo- graphed by George Barnes. Cast: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Walter Brennan, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg, Brian Don- levy, Douglas Fowley, Jane Darwell, Donald Meek, Ernest Whitman. •MR. MOTO TAKES A VACATION/- produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; di- rected by Norman Fbster; no writing. credits released yet; photographed by Charles Clarke. Cast: Peter Lorre. Virginia Field, John King, Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill, Iva Stewart, George P. Huntley, Victor Var- coni. 'THE ARIZONA WILDCAT/ produced by John Stone; directed by Her- bert I. Leeds; no writing credits released yet; photographed by Lucien Andriot. Cast: Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo. Pauline Moore. Henry Wil- coxon, Etienne .Girardot, Douglas Fowley, William Henry, Henry Woods, Rosita Harlan. 'HARD TO.GET/- produced by Sol Wurtzel; directed,by Alfred Werker; no writing credits yet; photographed by Robert Planck. Cast: Preston Foster, Phyllis Brooks, Tony Martin, Arthur Treacher, Bill Robinson, Slim Summerville, Jane Darwell, Eddie Collins, Alan Dinehart, Robert Allen, Sidney Toler. 'KENTUCKY/ produced by Gene Markey; directed by David Butler; from novel, 'Look of Eagles,' by John Taintor; photographed by Ernest Palmer. Cast: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Ralph Morgan, Willard Robinson, Douglas Dumbrille, James West, Charles Waldron, Karen Morley, Ward Robinson, Moroni Olsen. 'SAMSON AND LADIES/, produced by Sol Wurtzel; directed by Joseph Santley; no writing credits yet; photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Lynn Barri, Robert Allen, Iva Steward. United Artists Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories In of Plx Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- Promlsed pleted in; Rooms Cameras tion Samuel Goldwyn.. 4 0 1 0 3 3 Selznick 2 0 1 1 0 0 Walter Wanger.. 8 0 1 0 7 7 Chaplin 1 0 0 0 1 1 Roach ,.\. ........ 8 0 116 6 London Films 5 2 0 0 4 2 Total 28 2 4 2 21 19 Pictures in the cutting room or awaiting previews are: 'THE YOUNG IN HEART/ produced by David O. Selznick: directed by Richard Wallace: screen play by Paul Osborne and Charles Bennett from novel by l.A.R. Wylie. 'The Gay Banditti'; photographed by Leon Shamroy. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland (Continued on page 19) Quiz Booklets Not Contingent On Ticket Buys Theatre managers throughout the country are being instructed that issuance of booklets for the 'Films Are Your Best Entertainment' quiz must not. be. made contingent upon the purchase of admission. Ex- 1 plained that the U. S. postal laws re- quire that all such booklets must be issued free. Requiring the applicant to purchase a ticket to the theatre makes the contest legally a lottery. Question first came to notice in Mo- bile, Ala., when patrons who were refused gratis booklets appealed to a newspaper, which printed an ex- planation of the law. 5 Errors Rules Out Five errors involving answers on as many feature pictures entered in the Mlovie Quiz Contest have been discovered in the contest booklet-by the Motion Pictures'" Greatest Year officials. Result is that' Paul Gulick, campaign coordinator, has an- nounced that the campaign com- mittee has decided that .no mat- ter what answer is turned in by con- testants on 'The Texans/ 'Crowd Roars,' 'Girls on Probation,' 'Give Me a Sailor' and 'Gateway/ they will be adjudged correot by the contest judges. It means that only 25 cor- rect answers are. needed, instead of 30. Campaign headquarters is rushing out screen announcements making Clear that any answer made on the Ave pictures in question will be judged as correct. Committee also is preparing a lobby poster listing the five pictures and explaining that any answers on them will be tabbed cor* rect. Committee requests contestants to state name of the theatre where the pictures in question were viewed' though explaining this is not neces- sary in order to qualify for entrance in the contest. Drive headquarters sent bulletins to, theatre -managers active in 'the cajnpaign as to procedure to be-fol- lowed in coming weeks of the .drive. Short feature, 'The World Is Yours/ soon will be ready for distribution in the campaign. Another ptojeLt'- planned is for National Music Week to devote part of its activities this year to Motion Pictures* Greatest Year. In instructions to exhibitors, cam- paign committee is stressing how the Quiz Contest shall be developed to attract the eye of prospective ra- trons in ad. matter and elsewhere. Advertising committee of the drive, consisting of - Howard Dietz, Robert Gillham and Charles E. McCarthy, is meeting this week with Donahue & Coe to discuss plans for the next phase of national ad\ ertising. Eleven three-quarter and full-page, ads have been placed In some 2,000 daily newspapers in this country and in Canada. G-B's Own Drive Gaumont-British took steps to launch a 'greatest film year' drive of its own last week. It will not be launched until after new product has been tested as to campaign and drive contest possibilities in four, medium- sized cities. At the same time, Gau- mont laid plans for handling several features on a roadshow basis in arty theatres. First is 'Pagliacci/ Tra- falgar Films production, based on the opera. G-B claims it was overlooked by the 'greatest year' drive. Another Crimer Away Hollywood, Sept. 20. Warden Lewis E. Lawes' yarn, 'Crime Is a Racket,' went into pro- duction at Warners. Lewis Seiler is directing from script by Don Ryan and Kenneth Gemet. Cast is headed by Humphrey Bo- gart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, John Litel and Henry O'Neill. THE KING'S QUEEN Hollywood, Sept. 20. Anna May Wong starrer, 'King of Chinatown,' hit the cameras at Para- mount yesterday (Mon.) with Nick Grinde directing. • Oriental star has three heavies, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish and Anthony Quinn in support.