Variety (Oct 1938)

Wednesday, Oelober 19> 193S PICTURES VAUIETr Advance Ftodueiion Chart <Conlnuted from page 21) Unkei Artists Now BaliMweta Number Number Now ^ im Be Placeti Stories in of Pix Com- Slioot- CuU^ne Before Frepara- Prombed plct^d in; Booms Cameras tion Samuel Goldwyn.. 4 0 0 1 3 3 Selxniek 2 0 0 2 • • Walter' Wander,.. 8 0 0 17 7 Chaplte 1 0 • 9 1 1 Bosch 8 1 0 1 6 6 London Films 5 2 0 0 3 3 Edward Small 5 0 1 0 4 4 Total 33 3 1 5 24 24 Pictures in the cutting room or awaiting previews are: •THE rOUNG IN flBABT/ produced by David 6. Selznick; directed by Richard Wallace; screen play by Paul Osborne and Charles Bennett from novel by JLAJL Wylie, The Gay Banditti': photographed by Leon Shamroy. Cast: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., PauJette Goddard, Roland Voung, BlUie Bvu*ke, Richard Carlson, Minnie Dupree, JWargarel Early. Charles Qaltoh. lora Lys. Eily IMaly^in. Henry Stephenson. Tom Ricketts. 'TRADE WINDS.' produced by Walter Wanger; directed by Tay Gar- nett; screen play by Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell and Frank R. Adams from original story by Tax Garnett; photographed by Rudolph Mate. Cast Fredric March, Jijan Bennett. Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern. Alan Baxter. Robert Sminett O'Connor, Patricia Farr, Wilma Francis, Kay Linaker, Dorothy Tree, Phyllis Barry. Walter Bryon. Wilson Benge, Harry Painie, Hooper Atchley, Franklin Parker. Lee Phelps. John Webb Dillion, Dick Rush. Mrs. Sojin, Gloria Youngblood, Etfaelreda Leopold, Marie DeForest, Earl Wallace. Princess Luana, Paulita. Arbivu, Iko Magara. Suzanne Kaaren, Lotus Liu. Robert Elliott, Sidney Blackmer. •TOPPER'TAKES A TMF,' produced by Milton H. Bren for Hal Roach; directed by N'orman Z. McLeod; screen play by Jack Jevne and Eddie Moran from the Thome Smith novel; photographed by Norbert Brodine. Cast: Constance Bennett, Roland Young. Billae Burke. Alan Mowbray, Verree Teasdale, Alexander D'Arcy, Franklin Pangborn, Leon Belasco. Irving Pichel. 'MADE FOF ' CH OTHER,* produced by David O. Selznick; directed by John Crom^.-ii; screen play by Jo 'Swerling; photographed by Leon Shamroy. Cast: Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Lucile Watson, Donald Briggs, Charles Coburn, Arthur Hoyt, Ruth Weston. Nella Walker. Harland Briggs, Mickey Rentschler, Esther Dale, Edwin Maxwell, Tully Marshall. 'THE COWBOY AND THE LADY,' formerly titled 'LADY AND THE COWBOY' (for 1938-39 season), produced by Samuel Goldwyn; directed by H. C. Potter; screen play by Sam Behrman from an original by Leo McCarey and Frank R. Adams; photographed by Gregg Toland. Cast: Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, David Niven, 'niomas Mitchell, Walter Bren- nan, Patsy Kelly, Mabel Todd, Fuzzy Knight, Henry Kolker, Emma Dunn, Harry Davenport. ^ Vntted Artists Pix Now In Production 'DUKE OF WEST POINT,* produced by Edward Small; directed by Alfred E. Green; original screen play by George Bruce; photographed by ' Robert Planck. Cast* Louis Hay ward. Joan Fontaine, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson, Alan Curtis, Jonathan Hale, Gaylord Pendleton, Donald Barry, George McKay, Lane Chandler, William Bakewell. UiB?ersal Starr; directed by Al Rogell; screen play by Edmund L. Hartmanij from hovel gy Jonathan Latimer; photographed by George Meehan. Cast: Preston Foster, Frank Jenksv Frances Robinson, Kay Linaker, Joyce Comp> ton, E. E, Olive, Orville Caldwell; Alfred Dekker. Total Warners Number Number Now of tlx Com- Sboot- Pmnised pleted in; 52 5 3 New Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cutting Before n-epara- Booms Cameras tioa IS 29 29 Total ... t Number Number Now or Pix Com- Sboot- Promised pleted ing 48 1* S Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories In Cuitinff Before Prcpara- Rooms Cameras tion 8 24 24 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: 'RED BABBY' (serial) (for 1938-39 season), produced by Barney Sarecky; directed by Ford Beebe and Alan James; screen play by Ford Beebe, Norman Hall. Ray Trdmpe; photographed by Jerry Ash. Cast: Larry (Buster) C^abbe. Frances Robinson. Edna Sedgwick. 'SWING THAT CHEEK' (for 1938-39), produced by Max Golden; directed by Harold Schuster; story by Thomas Ahearn and F. Maury Grossman; screen play by Charles Grayson; photographed by Elwood BredelL Cast: Tom Brown, Andy Devine, Rot>ert Wilcox, Constance Moore. Stanley Hughes, Samuel S. Hinds. Ray Parker, Ernest Truex, 'Doodles' Weaver, Margaret Early. 'PRAIRIE JUSTICE/ produced by Trem Carr; directed by George Wagg- ner; original screen play by Joseph West; photographed by Gus Peterson. Cast: Bob Baker, Hal Taliaferro, Dorothy Fay, Jackr Rockwrfl, Carleton Young, Forrest Tayior, Glenn Strange. 'WESTSIDE MIBACLiB,' produced by Buft Kelly; directed by Arthur Lubin; original by Quentin Reynolds; screen play by Tom Lennon; photo- graphed by Elwood BredelL Cast: Edmund LoVve. Dick Foran, Helen Mack, Paul Hurst, Samuel S. Hinds, Leon Ames, David Olivtf, Frances Robinson, Dorothy Arnold; Stanley Hughes, Horace MacMahon, Clyde Dilson, Clarence Muse, Virginia, Brissac, George Chandler, Frank Sheri- dan, Paul Fix, Selther Jackson. 'ADAM'S EVENING.' produced by Ken Goldsmith; directed by Gus Meins; original by Katherine Kavanaugh; photographed by Henry Sharp. Cast: Charles Buggies, Maxie Rosenbloom. Marian Martin, Ona Munson, Georgia Kaine, Raymond Parker, Frances Robinson, Richard Lane, Benny Baker, Stepin Fetchit, Stanley Hughes, Regis Toomey. 'THE STORM,' produced by Ken Goldsmith; directed by Harold Young; screen play by Hugh King, Daniel Moore and George Yohalem from origi- nal by .Hugh King and Daniel Moore; photographed by Milton Krasner. Cast: Charles Bickford, Barton MacLane, Preston Foster, Tom Brown, Andy Devine, Frank Jenks. Samuel Hinds. 'E:^P0SED,' produced by Max H. (^Iden; directed by Harold Shuster; screen play by Charles Kaufman and Franklin Coen; photographed by Stanley Cortez.^ Cast: Glenda Farrell, Otto Kruger, Herbert Mundin, David Oliver, Charles B. Brown, Lorraine Krueger, Chester Clut^. 'STRANGE FACES,' produced by Burt Kelly; directed by Errol Taggart; screen play by Charles Grayson from original story by Cornelius Reece and Arndt Giusti; potographed by Elwood Bredell. Cast: Dorothea Kent, Frank Jenks, Andy Devine, Leon Ames, Mary Treen. Universal Pix Now in Product on 'BUCK ROGERS* (serial), produced by Barney Sarecky; co-directed by Ford Be^b6 and Saul Goodkind; screen play by Norman Hall and Ray Trampe from cartoon strip by Dick Calkins and Phil Nolan; photographed by Jerry -Ash. Cast: Larry Crabbe, Constance Moore, Reed Howes, Wheeler Oakman, Jackie Moran, Carleton Young, Henry Brandon, Philson Ahn. 'LITTLE TOUGH GUYS IN SOCIETY,' produced by Max H. Golden; directed by Erie Kenton; original screen play by Edward Eliscu and Morti- mer Offner; photographed by George Robinson. Cast: Mary Boland, Edward Everett Horton, Mischa Auer. Helen Parrish, Jack Searl and Little Tough G uys — Frankie Thomas, Hally Chester, Harris Berger, Charles Duncan, David Gorcey and Lester Jay. 'THE EAGLE SCOUT' (serial), produced by Henry MacRae; co-directed by Ray Taylor and Alan James; original story by J. Irving Crump; screen play by Wyndham Gittens, George Plymton, Basil Dickey and Joseph Poland; photographed by William Sickner. Cast: Jackie Cooper, Lucy Oilman, William Ruhl, David Durand. Ralph Dunn, Fr^^nk Coghlan, Jr., Sidney Miller, Jason Robard's, Victor AdamSi Richard. Botilier, Bill Cody. Jr. 'SON OF FRANKENSTEIN,' produced by Burt Kelly; irector not set; ^^^^reer^^^ljl^^^ W^^ Cast: Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Bela 'GHOST TOWN RIDERS,' produced by Trem Carr; associate producer, Paul Malvern; directed by George Waggner; original screen play by Joseph West; photographed by Harry Neumann. Cast: Bob Baker, Fay Shannon, George Cleveland, Forrest Taylor, Glenn Strange, Jack Kirk, Hank Warden, Martin Turner. 'THE DEAD DONT CARE,' Crime Club production; produced by Irving Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'ANGELS WITH DIKTY FACES,' produced by Sam Bischoff; directed by Michael Curtiz; original^ story by Roland Brown; photographed by Sol F^iito. Cast: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bo- gart, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey. Bernard Punsley, Gabri'el Dell, Huntz Hall. 'COMET OVER BROADWAY,' formerly titled 'CURTAIN CALL,' pro- duced by Bryan F<^; directed by John Farrow; screen play by Mark Hel- linger from magazine story" by Faith Baldwin; photographed by James Wong Howe. Cast: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Janet Chapman, Melville Cooper, Donald Crisp, John Litel, Ian Keith. 'BLACKWELLS ISLAND.' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William McGann; original screen play by Crane Wilbur and Dave Marcus; photo- graphed by Sid Hickox. Cast: John Garfield. Rbsemary Lane, Morgan Conway. Peggy Shannon, Dick PurcelL Lottie Williams, Stanley Fields, Charley Foy, Norman Willis. Granville Bates, Raymond Barley, Jimmy O'Gatty. Wade Boteler. William Davidson. Walter Young. 'THEY MADE ME A CRIMINAL,' produced by Benjamin Glazer; direct- ed by Busby Berkeley; screen play by Sig Herzig from story by Bertram Millnauser and Beulah Dix; photographed by James Howe. Cast: John Garfield, Gloria Dickson, Beulah Bondi, Claude Rains, Billy Halop,, Huntz Hall, Leo Caorcey. Gabriel Deli; Bobby Jordon. Bernard Punsley. 'LOVE BITES MAN,' formerly tiUed 'UNFIT, TO PRINT.' produced by Sam Bischoil; directed by James Flood; screen play by Earl Baldwin, Niven Busch, Lawrence Kimble and Robffrt Buckner from original story by Saul Elkins aind Sally Sandlin; photographed by Charles Rosher. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Bobby Jordan, Alan Baxter, Joe Cunningham, Douglas , Dumbrille, Armand Kaliz. Ed- Dearing. ' 'DEVIL'S ISLAND,' formerly titled 'RETURN OF DR. X,'. produced by i Bryan Foy; directed by William ClemeHs; no writing credits, released as yet; photographed by George Barnes. Cast: Boris Karloff-, Leonard Mudie, Frank Reicher; James Stephens, Pedro De Cordoba, Nat Carr. Tom Wilson, Sidney Bracy. Stusurt Holmes. Dino Corrado, John Harman. 'NANCY DBEW—DETECTIVE.' formerly tiUed 'PASSPORT TO LARK- SPUR LANE,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William Clemmens; no" writing credits released yet;, photographed by Lew O'Connell. Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel, John Ridgely, Richard Bond. Frank Mayo, Jack Mower,' Helena Phillips Evans. Frank Orth. 'WOMEN IN THE WIND,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by John Farrow; screen play by Lee Katz and Albert DeMond from novel by Francis Walton. Cast: Kay Francis, William Gargan, Victor Jory, Maxie Rosenbloom, Sheila Bromley, Harvey Stephens, Frankie Burke^ Frank Faylen. 'GOING PLACES.' produced by Barney Glazer; directed by. Ray En- right; screen play by Maurice Leo. Jerry Wald, Sig Herzig; photographed by Arthur Todd. Cast: Dick Powell, Anita Louise, Allien Jenkins, Walter Catlett, Minna Gombell, Thurston Hall. Hal Huber, 'DAWN PATROL.' produced by Robert Lord; directed by Edmund Goulding; original screen play by Seton I. Miller and Don Totheroh. Cast: Errol Flynn, Melyille Cooper, Basil Bathbone, Rodin Rathbone, David Niven, Barry Fitzgerald, James Stephenson, Michael Brooke, Stuart Hall, Norton Lowater. 'HARD^ TO GET.' formerly titled 'KISS AND RUN,' formerly titled 'HOT HEIRESS.' formerly titled HEAD OVER HEELS.* produced by Sam Bischoff; dir^ted by Ray Enright; no writing credits released yet; photo- graphed by Charles Rosher. Cast: Dick Powell, Olivia De Havilland, Allen Jenkins, Charles Winninger, Isable Jeans, Bonita Granville, Melville Cooper, Patric KnQwles, Penny-Singleton. «KING OF THE UNDERWORLD,* formerly titled 'UNLAWFUL,' pro- duced by Bryan Foy; directed by Lew Seller; screen play by George Bricker; photographed by Sid Hickox. Cast: Kay. Francis, James Stephen- son, Humphrey Bogart, John Eldredge, Jessie Busleigh, Harles Foy, Joe Develin, Penny Sinj^eton. 'HEART OF THE NORTH' (in Technicolor), produced by Bryan Foy; - directed by Lewis Seller; screenf play by Robert Rossen, Vincent Sherman and Lee Katz from novel by William Byron IVLowery; photographed by L. William O'CoimelL Cast: Dick Foran, Margaret Lindsley, Gloria,Dick- son, Janet Chapman, Patric Knowles, Allen Jenkins, James Stephenson, Alec Harford, Russell Simpson, Gordon Hart, Pedro de Cordoba, Jack Mower. John Harron. Anthony Averill, J. Crawthers. 'WINGS OF THE NAVY,' produced by Lou Edelman; directed by Lloyd Bacon; original screen play by Michael Fessier; photographed by Arthur Edeson. Cast: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne, Frank McHugh, John Bidgeley, Henry O^eill,. John Litel, Regis Toomey, Donald Briggs, Max Hoffman, Jr., John Gallaudet. rrORGHY IN CHINATOWN,' produced by Bryan i'oy; directed by Wil- liam Beaudine; screen play by George Bridcer; phot<>graphed by Warren Lynch. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MaqLane, Henry O'Neill. Tom Ken- nedy, Janet Shaw, Dick Bond, Patric Knowles, Janies Stephenson, Andy Lawlor, Frank Shannon, George Guhl. Joe Cunningham, Jack Mower, Charles Hickman, Bruce Mitchell, John Hatroh. Warner Pix Now in Production 'CRIME IS A RACKET,' produced by Sam BischofT; directed by Lew Seller; -no writing credits yet; photographed by Sol Polito. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop. Henry ©"Neil, John Litel, Harold Huber, Henry Travers, Harvey Stephens. 'SECRET SERVICE IN THE AIR,' produced by Bryan Foy; dire(ited by Noel Smith; na writing credits released yet; photographed by Ted Mc- Cord. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Irene Rhodes. Rosella Towne, James Stephen- son, John Litel, Morgan Conway^ Joe- Cunningham, Anthony Averill, Larry Williams, Richard Bond, John Ridgeley. Eddie Foy, Jr. 'DARK VICTORY.' produced by David Lewis; directed by Edmund Goulding; screen play by Casey Robinson from play by George Brewer, Jr., and Bertram Bloch; photographed by Ernest Haller. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald. Humphrey Bogart, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, Dorothy Peterson, Charles Richman, Lottie Wil- liams, Virginia Brissac, Frank Reicher, Pierre Watkins. (Continued from page 7) operators are controlled by the lATSE. United Ajrent Front Artists Managers Guild, whose membership includes practically all topflight actor representatives, has joined hands with the independent agents to present a united front against the 19-point licensing plan of the Screen Actors Guild. Committee representing two groups, at ° conference with SAC agency committee headed by George Murphy, demanded elimination pi at least six of 19 points. Most objec- tionable in program is one limiting contracts between agents and their clients to one year. Others would give the actor the right to cancel his contract with an agent if he felt the latter had too many clients to properly represent him, or if the persons handling his business left the agency. The SAG committee listened to the complaints of the agents and said SAG board of directors would be ad- vised of the situation. The actors committee pointed out, however, that neither it nor the board of directors had authority to change any of the program since the 19-point plan had been approved by the SAG member- ship. Other members of SAG agency committee in addition to Murphy are Basil Rathbone, Gloria Stuart, Mor- gan Wallace, Edward Brophy, Maude Eburne. Abe Lastfogel is chairman of'lflie' AMG committee. Other members are Leland Hayward, Bert AUenberg, Frank Vincent, M. C. Levee, prexy of the organization. Conjmittee rep- resentirrg the indies is composed" of William Woolfenden, chairman; Freddie Fralick, Sam Armstrong, Dave Thomson and William Ste- phens. Both committees have been given author!^ to represent their full memberships and to take any ac- tio nthey believe necessary. Agents also invited the NBC and CBS artists bureaus to join them in fighting the SAG licensing idea. Dr. Towne Nylander, regional di- rector of National Labor Relations Board, has under advisement the is- suance of unfair labor practice charges against major companies, re- quested by the Screen Writers Guild. The 3WG claims the producers have refused to negotiate with them as the exclusive bargaining representative for all writers as directed by the NLRB. Screen Directors Guild hearing on petitions charging 10 major compan- ies with unfair labor practice and asking the NLRB to certify the Guild as bargaining representative for di- rectors, imit managers and assistant directors, was completed last week with summation of the evidence by attorneys. William R. Ringer, NLRB trial examiner, is now lurep^ring his reports for submission to the board in Washington. William Walsh, senior counsel for NLRB, in referring to a letter to the Guild from Darryl F. 2^nuck in which the 20th-Fox executive sug- gested the SDG be divided into two groups, said: 'Move to Destroy Guild' 'By this ultimatum the producers attempted to destroy the Guild and lessen its effective bargaining power in violation of the* National Labor Relations Act. He said jurii^diction of the board was established in the Screen Writers Guild case, and that producers recognized the employee status of directors by insetting a clause which reads,, 'The producer hereby employs the director." Alfred Wright, Counsel for 20th- Fox, -wqs delegated by associate at-, torneys to make the principal argu- ment for the piroducers. Latter con- tended that neither Senator Wagner, Congress nor the President had in mind men -who are pdifl iromi $250 to $6,000 and more per. week-wiien the Wagner act was enacted. Independent Motion Picture Pro- ducers Association, in ft state of eclipse for four years, has been re- organized, and will make a Ught to secure better terms from Screen Ac- tors Guild than those given to major producers. The following ciynmit- tee has been named to contact the SAG: Edward Halperin, Sam Katz- iVian, George Hirliman, Lou Rantz, Phil Krasne and Phil Goldstone. New officers of the association are Phil Goldstone, president; Phil Krasna, C^orge Hirliman, £Ug New- field, v.p.'s; Sam Wolf, sec.; Bud Bar- sky, treasurer.. Rise in production costs resulted in a big drop in independent produc- tion for the states-right market, the association claims, and that revival of independent production will prove a boon to unemployed actors, techni- cians, et al., but that'this cannot be engineered without the direct co- operation of the actors themselves. -Community Chest has agreed to turn over 10% of all funds contrib-^ uted by the motion picture industry -to-4he-Motion-Picture Belief Fund. The first day of cooperation, how- ever, resulted in a telegraphic warn- ing to the studios from the SAG that there must be no compulsion^ It was reported that certain studios had handed pledge Cards to actors on which the amount they were ex- pected to contribute had already been filled in. Kenneth Thomson, executive sec- retary of the SAG, filed a complaint with District Attorney Buron Fitts following receipt of anonymous tele- phone threats. Prod. Rep on Board Producers this week will appoint a representative to sit on an arbitra- tion board to conciliate differences between the producers and the SAG which may arise over the interpreta^ tion of the new modified agreement The SAG has already named Murray Kinnell to represent it. These two will select a third member. Edwin Duden Ashton, formerly with the publicity department of Co-, lumbia Broadcasting in New York, has been hired as public relations counsel for the SAG. Board of directors of Society of Motion Picture Film Editors has ap- pointed the following executive com- mittee; Edmund D. Hannan, Edward Dmytryk, Robert W. Carlisle, Louis H. Sackin and Otto W. Meyer. Frank GlUmore, president of As- ^,oci%ted .Actors & Jk.ttAstfts .Qt .Amer- ica, is here for conferencfes with Kenneth Thomson, of the SAG, and leaders in other AAAA organiza- tions. He will go from here to Sau Francisco to discuss the Fair with exposition officials.