Variety (Oct 1938)

Wednesday, October 5, 1938 PICTURES VARIETY J9 Advance Production Chart (Continued from page 17) Robert Preston, Sidney Toler, Helen MacKellar, Clay Clement, Edward Marr, Olin Hoy^land. •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. Mulford; photo- graphed by RusseJ Harlan. Cast. William Boyd, George Hayes. Russell Hayden, Charlotte Wynters, Jane Clayton, Robert Fiske. Catharine Shel- don, Maurice Cass. Anthony Nace;'TCenneth Harlan,- Alphonse Ethier,' Glenn Strange. Jack Rockwell, Tom London, Claudia Smith. •ZAZA' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Albert Lewin; directed by George Cukon screen play by Zoe Akins; from play by Pierre Berton and" Charles Simon; photographed by Charles Lang. Cast: Claudetle Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr. Helen Westley, Constance Collier, Genivieve Tobih. Rex O'Malley; Rex Evans. Walter Catlett. Robert C. Fischer Ernest CdSsart, John Sutton, Michael Brooke. Phillip Warren. Alexander Leftwich. Janet Waldo, Frednka Brown. Dorothy Dayton, Harriett Haddon, Helaine Moler. Dorothy White. Duncan Renaldo. Hala Lfnda. Tom Ricketts. 'THANKS FOR THE MEMORY' (for 1938-39 release); executive pro- ducer. Harold Hurley; associate. Mel Shauer; directed by George Archain- baud; from play by Albert Hapkett and Frances Goodrich; photographed by Karl Struss. Cast: Bob Hope, ghirley Ross. Charlie Butterworth. Otto Kruger. Hedda Hopper, Roscoe Karns. Laura Hope Crews. 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 Haydeh, Evelyn- Venable, William Duncan, Clara Kimball Ypung. Charles Hughes. Dickie Jones. Roy Barcroft. Emily Fitzroy, John Beach. 'ARREST BULLDOG DRUMMOJfD/ formerly titled 'SCOTLAND YARD VS. BULLDOG DRUMMOND' (for 1938-39), produced by Stuart Walker for Harold Hurley unit; directed by James Hogan; original story by H. C. 'Sapper' McNiele; photographed by Ted Tetzlafl. Cast: John Howard, Heather Angel, H. B. Warner,. Reginald Denny, E. E. Clive, Elizabeth Pat- terson, George Zucco, Jean Fenwick, Leonard Mudie, Clyde Cook, David Clyde, Ferdinand Muniei", John Rogers. Paramount Pix Now In Production 'ST. LOUIS BLUES' (for 1938-39 release), produced by Jeff Lazaru .; directed by Raoul Walsh; screen play by John C. Moffitt and Malcolm Stuart Boy Ian* based on adaptation by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan of story by Eleanore Griffin and William Rankin; additional dialog by Virginia Van Upp; photographed by Theodor Sparkuhl. Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Dorothy Lamour. Tito Guizar, Jessie Ralph, Maxine Sullivan, William Frawley. Punkins Parker. Jerome Cowan. Mattv Malneck and His Boys. •SAY IT IN FRENCH/ produced and directed by Andrew Stone; scr^n play by Frederick Jackson from play by Jacques Deval; photographed by Victor Milner. Cast: Ray Mjlland, 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 Risdon, Edward Pawley, Hattie McDaniels, Oscar Smith. William Haade, Stanley Price, Harry Worth, Si Jenks. 'KING OF CHINATOWN/ executive producer, Harold Hurley; associate producer, Stuart "Walker; directed by Nick Grinde; no writing credits re- leased yet; photographed by Leo Tovar. Cast: Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, J. Carrol Naish, Anthony Quinn, Roscoe Karns, Bernadene Hayes. Philip Ahn.. 'RIDERS OF THE RANGE/ produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Lesley Selander; from original story by Clarence E. Mulford; photographed by Russell Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, George Hayes, Stanley Ridges, Ruth Rogers, Frederick Burton, Jack Rockwell, Roy Bar- croft, Ed Cassidy, Sherry Tanzey, Jim Carey. Bruce Mitchell. 'LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE/ produced by John Speaks; directed by Ben Holmes; screen play by Budd Schulberg, Sam Ornitz, Andre Bohem; photo- graphed by Fred Redman. Cast: Ann Gillis. Robert Kent, June Travis, Ian MacLaren, Margaret Armstrong, J. M. Kerrigan, Dorothy Baughan, James Burke, Charles. Wilson, Sara Padden, Tommy Bupp,- Ben Welden, J. Farrel McDonald, Vincent Lombardy, Eddie Gribbon, Dick Rich, Harry Tyler. RKO-Radio Now Balance to Number Namber Now In Be Placed Stories in of Pix Com- Shoot- Cutting. Before Prepara- Promlsed pleted ing Rooms Camera^ tion Studio 60 7 4 3 37 37 Sol Lesser 3 0 0 1 2 2 Herbert Wilcox... 1 0 0 0 1 1 Total 54 7 4 4 40 40 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'THE MAD MISS MANTON/ produced by P. J. Wolfson; directed by Leigh Jason; screen play by Fred Flnklehofle from original story by Wil- son Collison. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Francis Mercer, Stanley Ridges, Whitney Bourne, Leona Maricle, James Burke, Penny Singleton, Vicki Lester, Ann Evers, Paul Guilfoyle, Eleanor Hansen. '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 Clute. Rafael Storm. Jean Rouverol, Donald MacBride, Alice White, Rita Gould. V 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: Qary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks. Jr., Joan Fontaine. Eduardo Ciannelli. Sam Jaffe. Montagu Love. Lumsden Hare. 'MIRACLE RACKET/ produced by B. P. Fineman; directed by Les Goodwins; screen play by Saul Elkins and Joseph Pagano; original by Saul Elkins; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Sally Filers, Ann filler. 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,' procuctd 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. 'TRAILER ROMANCE/ produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Garson Kanin: screen play by Dudley Nichols and John Twist; photographed by Russell Metty. Cast: Lucille Ball. James Ellison. Lee Bowman, Granville Bates, Mantan Moreland, Dick Elliott, Florence Lake, Frank Shannon. 'LAWLESS VALLEY/ produced by Bert Gilroy; directed by Dave How- ard; screen play by Oliver Drake; original by W. C. .Tuttle; photographed by Harry Wild. Cast: George O'Brien, Kay Sutton, Walter Miller, George Burton, Bob Clark, Walter Patt erson.. Republic Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories in of Pix Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- Proniise* pleted ing Rooms Cameras tion Total 59 5 3 3 48 48 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: 'OVERLAND STAGE RAIDERS' (for 1938-39), produced by William Berke; directed by George Sherman; 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, 'PRAIRIE MOON/ produced by Harry Grey; directed by Ralph Staub; screen play by Betty Burbridge and Stanley Roberts: photographed by William Noble.«5. Cast: Gene Autry. Smiley. Burnette, Shirley Deane, David Gorcey, Tommy Ryan. Walter Tetley. Stanley Andrews. William Pawley, Ratael Bennett. Warner Richmond. Tom London. •1 STANO 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. Republic Pix^Now in Production •HAWK OF THE WILDERNESS' (serial),-produced by Robert Beche; co- directed by William Witney -and Jack English; no writing credits released yet; photographed by William Nobles. Cast; Herman iJrix. Jill Martin, Monte Blue, Mala, Noble Johnson, William Royle, George Eldredge, Snow- fleike, Dick Wessel, Tom Chatterton, Earl Askam, Jerry Sheldon, Harry Tenbrook. •STORM OVER ^ENGAL,' formerly titled 'BENGAL LANCER PATROL/ proauced by Armand Schaefer; directed by Sidney Salkow; original screen play by Garret Ford; photographed by Ernest Miller, Cast: Patric Knowles. Richard Cromwell. Rochelle Hudson, Colin Tapley, Doug- las Dumbrille Halliwell Hobbes, Claude Alister, Clyde Cook. 'RODEO BUSTER/ produced by Harry Grey; directed by George Sher- man; original screen play by Paul Franklin; photographed by Jack Marta. Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Peggy Moran, Pert Kelton,- LeRoy Mason. 20tb Century-Fox Total Number Number Now of Pix Com- Shoot- Promised pleted ing 55 10 6 ' Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 9 30 30 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: •SUEZ' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Gene Markey; directed by Allan Dwan; screen play by Julien Jdsephson 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. E^lward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut. Sig Rumann, Leon Ames. Rafaela Ottiano. Maurice Moscovich. 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, Keye 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 Milhollahd and Charles B. MilhoUand; 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 MacDonald, George E. Stone, George Humberti 'MR. MOTO TAKES A VACATION/ -produced by Sol M. Wurtzel'; di- rected by Norman Foster; original screen play by Philip MacDonald and Norman Foster; photographed by Charles Clarke. Cast: Peter Lorre, Vir- ginia Field, John King, Joseph Schildkraut, Lionel Atwill, Iva Stewart; CSreorge P. Huntley, Victor Varconi. 'THE ARIZONA WILDCAT/ produced by John ..Stone; directed by Her- bert I. Leeds; screen play by Barry Trivers and Jerry Cady from original idea by Frances Hyland and Albert Ray"; photographed by Lucien Andriot. Cast: Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo, Pauline Moore, Henry Wilcoxon, Etienne Girardot, Douglas Fowley, William Henry, Henry Woods, Rosita Harlan. •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. 'INSIDE STORY/ formerly titled 'A VERY PRACTICAL JOKE* (for 1938-39), produced by Howard J. Green; directed by Ricardo Cortez; screen play by Jeriy 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. 'UP THE RIVER,' formerly titled '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. 'KENTUCK'.' (in Technicolor), 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 H. Bruce Humb^rstone; no writing credits yet; photographed by Edward Snyder. Cast: Michael Whalen, Lynn Bari, Iva Stewart, Robert Allen, June Gale, Gulnn Williams, Edward Brophy, John Miljan, Theodore Von Eltz, Chester Clute. 'THE LITTLE PRINCESS (in Technicolor), produced by Gene Markey; directed by Walter Lang; no writing credits released yet; photographed by Arthur Miller; Technicolor photography by William, Skall.; Cast: Shir- ley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero, Arthur Treacher, Mary Nash, Sybil Jason, Miles Mander, Marcia Mae Jones, Deidre Gale, Ira Stevens. 'TAIL SPIN/ produced by Harry Joe Brown; directed by Roy Del Ruth; original screen play by Frank Wead; photographed by John Mescall. Cast: Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Nancy Kelly, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell. Jane Wyman, John King, Wally Vernon, Joan Valerie, Robert Lowery, Edward Nofris, J. Anthony Hughes, Jack Pennick. United Artists Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories in of Pix Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- Promised pleted ing Rooms Cameras tion Samuel Goldwyn.. 4 0 0 1 3 3 Selznick 2 0 1 1 0 0 Walter yVanffcr.... 8 0 1 0 7 7 Chaplin 1 0 0 0 1 1 Roach ... 8 1 1 0 6 6 London Film.s 5 2 0 0 4 2 Edward Smnll 5 0 1 0 4 4 Total 33 3 4 2 25 23 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 I.A.R. Wyli'e. ''The Gay Banditti': photographed by Leon Shamroy. (Continued on page 23) Theatre Engineers Walk in Chi; Want 10^ Wage Cuts Back Chicago, Oct. 4. Operating Engineers union last week pulled its men out of the cir- cuit theatres and started a picketing campaign in a drive to obtain a re- instatement of the 10% reduction which expired 10 weeks ago. Walk- outs and picketing covers all houses of -Balaban & Katz. Warner Bros., RKO and Jones, Linick & Schaefer. Engineers handle all interior equipment such as the heating ard air-conditioning plants. Uhion claims that they allowed the circuit houses a :10-week breathing spell, but now want the scale returned to the original status. Meanwhile the other union or- ganizations, including the Interna- tional Alliance of Theatrical Em- ployees, have taken no official cog- nizance o.f the walkout, and other union help in the theatres are cross- ing the picket lines. AT LAST, CHI GETS NEWSREEL-MINDED Chicago, Oct. 4. With Chicago lacking a solo news- reel house, the rival Balaban & Katz Cjarrick and the Essaness Woods have started a barrage of counter- billing to become established as the 'newsreel' house of the town. Herb Elisburg has plastered the entire front' of the Woods with news flashes and cards plugging the newsreel, which Is made'up of clips from three releases. Garrick has also named itself boldly as 'Garrick Newsreel House' and is kicking up plenty of marquee ballyhoo for its news- coverage. Meanwhile there is still consider- able talk around town about an in- vasion of the loop by. Translux. Mort Singer has given the o.o. to several likely locations on the main stem for a 50b-seat Transluxer, but thus far nothing has materialized. At one tihie B. & K. had seriously considered turning the GarricH ipto an exclusive newsreel house on an experimental basis, but hasn't yet taken that step. Ops Sue Eltinge, N. Y,, For Oyer $5,000 Back Pay Suit to recovei $5,240 in back pay as motion picture machine operators at the Eltinge, N. Y,, back in 1933 was begun Friday (30) by Joseph D. Basson, president of Local 309, MPMO, and several of Its members, against the Edjomas Amus." Corp, operators of the theatre. Plaintiffs claim the Eltinge, through its of- flcers. Max Rudnick, Ed Maidden and Joseph Quittner, disregarded a con- tract the operators had with the the- atre when Edjomas took over the picture house in February, 1933, The operators were fired l>ut were reinstated a year later. They now want to recover the pay they lost during the time they were battling for their jobi. Flynn, Davis in liz' Hollywood, Oct. 4. Errol Flynn co-stars with Bette Davis in Warners historical picture, 'Queen Elizabeth,' the result of their successful teamwork in 'The Sisters.' Picture follows 'Dark Victory,' next starrer for Miss Davis, Bronx Montre Bkpt. Bronx Montre Theatre Corp., operator of picture house at 1942 Tremont avenue^ N. Y., filed a volun- tary petition to reorganize under the Bankruptcy Act Monday (3) in Fed- eral Court, N, Y. The application, filed by the corporation's president, Bernhardt Zimet'jaum, lists liabil- ities at $29,431 and assets at $22,224. Echo Amusement Corp.,' biggest creditor, is owed $3,800. Columbia Pictures and Paramount have suits pending on claims for 51,500 and $67 respectively. Lady, Be.Good Hollywood, Oct. 4. Anne Shirley, riecently suspended by RKO, went liack to work (Tues- day) in,'The Pure.in Heart,' i Picture is P. J, WolfSon's first job as producer-director.