Variety (Mar 1939)

Wednesday, March 8, 1939 Advance Production Chart (Continued from page 29) ■^NO OF emNATOWN,' executive oroducer Harnw h..^i»„. producer, Stuart Walker; directed by\^fck G?hldef sc^^^^^^ Hayward and Irving Reis; based on a story by Herbert abermnn'^T.Wn^ graphed by Leo Tover. Cast: Anna May Wong yUiim Tfm^^^^ Walsh. Anthony Quinn, Roscoe Karns. Ber3ne HoyeJ PhU°p^ rcy Toler. Ray Mayer Alex Pollard, Sam Ash, CharierTVoXldee Archie Twitchell George Anderson, Marie Burton, Sheila Darcyi Wolg ChSnc Richard Dennmg, Judy King. Dolores Casey. Dorothy Dayton Paula ife Cardo, Harnette Haddon, Helaine Moler North Gale Gwen Kinvin Charles B. Wood. George MagriU. Lily Kin^Sl Clly%n?Guy vtZ •BULLDOG DBUMMOND'S SECRET POLICE.'. G. M. O production by Garnett Weston; based on 'Temple Tower.' by H. C. (Sapper) McNe le photographed by Merritt Gerstad. Cast: John How^ird Heather An "el H B Warner Elizabeth Patterson. Reginald DSnny^E E. Clive'Le^Car: wll Forrested, Harvey, ^David Clyde, Clyde Cook Gerald Rogers; Neil Fitzgerald, Elspeth Dudgeon, Dutch Hendrian, Dick Rush, .Wyndham Standing. PICTURES Sfntoward."'*' Kelso, Helen MacKeUar, Edgar Dearlng; hvW.ilS^S''"'*'^'"' PRAUO,' produced by Harlan Thompson; directed ^}°^fT'- no writing credits released; photographeS by WIlllMn Rnw; ^^^'t^^ Tamiroff, Lloyd Nolan. Patricia Mor?son° Sfeffi Dum v»?»^i.^'''^'''''' Re»<:>>«. Donald GaUaher, Mary Roland ErSIt Jfer^'ii.]^?te »uyji;!L''l»?J?'«y. Edward McW^de, Julius T^aT production; directed.by Paul Chief ThundeVdoSdr PrertonF rste^. gh^ ain'^n"^^^ RKO-Radio Reelect Mono Slate; ' Johnston and Dnnlap f Reject Salary TK «r!5^i?'^°n ^Zl^l DESERT,' produced by Harry Sherman; associate producer, J. D. Trop; directed by Leslie Selander; screen play by Norman Houston; additional dialog by Harrison Jacobs from original story by Zane Grey; photographed by. Russell Harlan, Cast: Donlld Woods, Robert Barrat, Evelyn Venable, C. Henry Gordon, Sidney Toler. RusseU Hayden, Paul Guilfoyle, Paul Fix. Willard Robertson, Reginald Barlow, J. 'Skins' Miller. 'HOTEL IMPEEIAL,' directed by Robert Florey; screen play by Gilbert Gabriel and Robert Thoeren; based on a play by Lajos Biro; photographed by William Mellor. Cast: Isa Miranda, Ray Milland, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, J. Carrol Naish, Curt Bois. Michel Werboff, Henry Victor. Spen- cer Charters, Bodll Rosing, Betty Compson. (Wolfgang Zilzer. Egon Brecher. Bert Roach. Augustino Borgato. Paul EvCrtbn. George Magrill, Lee Shum- way, Davison Clark, Harry Tenbrook. Paul Kruger. Don Cossack Chorus, Robert Middlemass, Ernst Verebes, Albert Dekker. William Bakewell, Nor- man Phillips, Robert Frazer, Sheila Darcy, Norah Gale, Paula de Cardo. Judith King, Russell Hicks, George MacQuarrie^ Arthur Cernitz, General Savitsky, Joseph Marievsky, Andre Marsaudon, F. Schumann-Heink, Bull Anderson, Marek Windheiiji, Gustav Von Seyltertitz, Harry Holman. 'GRAND JUBT SECRETS,' produced by Sam Engel; directed by James Hogan; screen play by Irving Reis and Robert Yost; based on a story by Irving Reis and Maxwell Shane; photographed by Harry Fischbeck. Cast: John Howard, William Frawley, Gail Patrick, Jane Darwell, Porter Hall, Harvey Stephens, John Hartley, Morgan Conway, Elisha Cook, Jr.. Jack Norton, Richard Denning, Gordon Jones, Charles Jackson, Kitty Kelly, Tom Kennedy. HflDNIOHT/ produced by Arthur Hornblow; directed by Mitchell Lelsen; screen play by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; based on story by Edwin Justus Mayer and Franz Schuiz; photographed by Charles Lang. Cast- Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Francis Lederer, John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Elaine Barry, Hedda Hopper, Lionel Pape, Eugene Borden, Paul Bryor, Ferdinand Munier, Leonard Sues, Elspeth Dudgeon, Helen St Rayer, Eddy Conrad, William Eddritt, Billy Daniels. Wi FROM MISS01IBI,' produced by Paul Jones: directed by Theodore Reed; no writing credits released; photographed by Merritt Gerstad. Cast: Bob Bums, Gladys George, Judltti Barrett, William Henry, E. E, Clive, Doris Lloyd, Patricia Morison, Gene Lockhart, Lawrence Grossmith, Ernest Cossart, Dennie Moore, Tom Dugan, Ethel Griflies, James Burke, Spencer Charters, Raymond Hatton, Eddie Waller, Charles Halton, Richard Den- ning, Clarence Wilson, Morgan Banks, Harry Tenbrook, Frank Hammond, Martin Faust, Russ Powell, Harry Meyer, Lee Shumway, Carl Harbaugh, C. L. Sherwood, Phillip Morris, George P. Huntiey, PhiUip Warren, Billy Cook, Winifred Harris. Kenneth Hunter. 'FEDERAL OFFENSE,' produced by Edward T, Lowe; directed by Louis King; screen play by Horace McCoy and William R, Lipman from J. Ed- gar Hoover's 'Persons in Hiding'; photographed -by William Mellor. Cast: Lloyd Nolan. J. Carrol Naish. Shirley Logan, Heather Angel, Broderlck Crawford. Robert Wilcox, Richard Carle. SUnley Price, John Eldredge, George Meeker, Raymond Hatton, Philip Warren, Paul Fix, Richard Den- ning, Abner Biberman, Roy Gordon, Clem Bevans. Clarence Wilson, Monte " Blue, Grace Hayle, George Irving, Fern Emmett, Ottola Nesmith, Ivan Miller, Galan Gait John Maurice Sullivan. 'THE LADY'S FROM KENTUCKY,' produced by Jefl Lazarus; directed bv Al Hall; no writing credits released; photographed by Theodor Spark- uhl. Cast: George Raft, Ellen Drew, Hugh Herbert ZaSu Pitts, Louise Beaverrf, Harry /ftrler, Stanley Andrew, Carol Holloway, Hooper Atchley, Virginia Sale, Ley Payton, Cordell Tate, Jimmy Brlscow, Eugene Jackson, Fern Emmett 'UNMARRIED,' formerly' tiUed 'NIGHT SPOT HOSTESS,' formerly titled 'ME AND MT GAL,' associate producer, Mel Shauer; directed by Kurt Neumann; screen play by Lillle Hayward and Brian Marlow;. based on story by Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt; photographed by Harry Fischbeck. Cast: Buck Jones, Helen Twelvetrees, Donald O Connor, Dorothy Howe, John Hartley, Larry Crabbe, Robert Armstrong, Ed Paw- ley, Sidney Blackmer, Philip Warren, Louise Carter, Kathryn Bates, Sarah Edwards, Gordon Hart 'SUDDEN HONEY,' formerly tlUed 'SWEEPSTAKES MILLIONAIBE,' formerly titled 'SUDDEN MONEY,' associate producer, William Thomas; directed by Nick Grinde; screenplay by Lewis Foster; based on a play by Milton Lazarus; photographed by Henry Sharp. Cast: Charley Ruggles, Marjorle Rambeau, Charley Grapewin, Broderlck Crawford, Billy Lee, Evelyn Keyes, Philip Warren, William Frawley. Mary 'Punkhis' Parker, John Gallaudet Stanley Price, Robert Brister. Dick Elliott Richard Den- ning, Charles Halton, Ethel Wales, Larry Blake, Emory Parnell. Paramoont Plx Now In ProdacUon ■UNION PACIFIC,' produced and directed by CecU B. DeMille; asso- ciate producer, William H, Pine; location director, Arthur Rosson; screen play by Walter DeLeon, C. Gardner Sullivan and Jesse Lasky, Jr., based on an adaptation by Jack Cunningham of a story by Ernest Haycox; photo- graphed by Victor Milner and Dewey Wrigley. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff. Brian Donlevy, Lynne Over- man, William Haade, Regis Toomey, J, M. Kerrigan, Harry Woods, Fuzzy Knight Hugh McDonald, Mala, Noble Johnson. Anthony Quinn, Joseph Sawyer, Harold Goodwin, Sheila Darcy.-May Beatty, Nora Cecil, Julia Faye, Ruth Warren, Evelyn Keyes, Mike Driscoll. 'BEAU GESTE,' produced ahd directed by William A Welhnan; screen play by Robert Carson; from story by P. C. Wren; photographed by Theodor Sparkuhl. Cast: Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston, Susan Hay- ward, J. Carrol Naish, Broderick Crawford, Brian Donlevy, Donald Mac- Bride, James Stephenson. ■MAN ABOUT TOWN,' produced by Arthur Hornblow; directed by Mark Sandrich; original screen play by Morrie Ryskind; photographed by Ted Tetzlaft. Cast: Jack Benny. Dorothy Lamour. Edward Arnold, Binnie Barnes. Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson, Monty WooUey, Leonai-d Mudie, Her- bert Evans, Clifford Severn, Cyril Thornton, Kay Linaker. •INVITATION TO HAPPINESS,' produced and directed by Wesley Ruggles; screen play by Claude Binyon, based on story by Mark Jerome; photographed by Leo Tover. Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, Charlie Ruggles, Donald O'Connor, William Collier, Sr.. Burr Carruth, Charles Ran- dolph, Allen Wood, Don Latorre, Bob Evans, Mack Gray, Billy NeweU. 'SOME LIKE IT HOT,' associate producer, William C. ThoJnas; directed by George Archainbaud; no writing credits released; photographed by Karl Struss. Cast: Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, Gene Krupa, his drums and his. orchestra, Una Merkel, Ruft Davis, ■ Bernard Nedell, Wayne 'Tiny' Whitt Harry Harris, Frank Sully, Clarence H. Wilson, Dudley Dickerson. 'GRACIE ALLEN MURDER CASE,' produced by George Arthur; directed by Alfred E. Green; screen play by Nat Perrin; based on novel by S. S. Van Dine; photographed by Chavles Lang. Cast: Gracie Allen, Warren William, Kent Taylor; Ellen Taylor, Ellen Drew, Jerome Cowan, Judith Barrett, Donald MacBride, H. B. Warner, Horace MacMahon, William Lemarest, Al Shaw and Sammy Lee, Lillian Yarbo, Walter Soderling.- Lee Moore, Harry T^ler, James Flavin, Tiny Newlan, Willie Fung, Don Brodie, ■ Stuaio Sol Lesser Herbert Wilcox. Total '. Number Number of.Pix Corn- Pro jniccd 5» 3 1 pleied 22 3 1 ' Now Shoot- in? 1 0 » Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cnttin^ Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tlnn 6 21 21 0 .0 0 0 « 0 54 26 6 21 21 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are "THE FLYING IRISHMAN,' produced by Pandro S. Berman; directed by Leigh Jason; screen play by Ernest Pagano and Dalton Trumbo; photo- graphed by J. Roy Hunt. Cast: Douglas Corrigan,. Paul Kelly. Robert Ai-mstrong, Donald McBride. Dorothy Appleby, Eddie Quillan, Joyce Compton, Peggy Ryan. Dorothy Peterson. THE CASTLES,' produced by George Haight; directed by Henry Potter; no writing credits released; photographed by Robert De Grasse. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Walter Brennan, Lew Fields. Edna May Oliver, Jack Carson, Esther Muir, Janet Beecher, Donald MacBride. Sonny Lamont Frances Mercer, Etienne Girardot. : THEY MADE HER A SPY,' produced by Robert Sisk; directed by Jack Hively; screen play by Jo Pagano; original story by George Bricker and Lionel Houser; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Sally Eilers. Allan Lane, Fritz Lieber, Peggy Shannon. Alex Craig, Leona Roberts, Jonathan Hale, Theodore von Eltz, Spencer Charters. ^ 'ALMOST A GENTLEMAN,' formerly titled -PICARDY MAX,' produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Less Goodwins;' original - and screen play by Harold Shumate; photographed by J. Roy Hunt. Cast: James ElUson, Helen Wood, Robert Kent June Clay worth, Robert Warwick, Leonard Penn, John Wray, Brandon Tynan. Joe Bernard. •TROUBLE IN SUNDOWN,' formerly titled 'A KNIGHT IN A GHOST TOWN,' produced by Bert Gilroy; directed by David Howard; no writing credits released; photographed by Harry Wild. Cast: George O'Brien, Rosalind Keith, ChiU Wills, Ward Bond, Monty Montegue, Ray Whitley, Otto Yamanski. 'FIXER DUGAN,' formerly titled 'WHATtS A FIXER FOR,' produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Lew Landers; screen play by Paul Yawltz and Bert Granet; photographed by Roy Hunt. Cast: Lee Tracy, Peggy Shannon, Virginia Weidler, Bradley Page. Edward Gargan. William Edmunds^ Rite La Roy. Jack Arnold, Edythe Elliott Irene Franklin, John Dilson, Murray Alper, Netta Packer. RKO-Radlo Pictures Now in ProdacUon 'SORORITY HOUSE,' produced by Robert Sisk; directed by John Farrow; screen play by Dalton Trumbo from play by Mary Coyle Chase; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Anne Shirley. James Ellison, Helen Wood, Margaret Armstrong, Barbara Read, Doris Jordon, Adele Pearce, June Storey, Elizabeth Risdon, Sherrie Overton, Chill WUls, Phyllis Fraser. Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed Stories In of Piz Com- Shoot- Cottinf Before Prepara- Promised pleted Inf Booms Cameras tlon Total 59 26 3 4 26 26 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: ■HOME ON THE PBAIBIE,' formerly titled 'BIDIN' THE RANGE,' pro- duced by Harry .Grey; directed by Jack Townley; screen .play by Charles Arthur Powell ahd Paul Franklin from original, by Paul Franklm; photo- traphed by Reggie Lannin'g. Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnettie, June torey, George Cleveland, Jack Mulhall, Walter Miller, Gordon Hart, Ethan Laidlaw, Jack Ingram, Earl Hodglns, Hal Price. 'ROUGH BIDEB ROUNDUP,' formerly titled HOUGH BIDER PATROL,' produced and directed by Joe Kane; no writing credits released; photo- graphed by Jack Marte. Cast; Roy Rogers, Mary Hart Raymond Hatton, Eddie Acuff, Guy Usher. Jack Rockwell, George Meeker, Dorothy Sebas- tian, William Pawley. George Chesboro, Glenn Strange, Jack KUrk, Hank Bell, Jim Corey, George Letz, George Plues, Fred Bums, Howard Hickey, Bud Osborne. 'MEXICALI ROSE,' produced by Harry Grey; directed by George Sher- man; original screen play by Gerald Geraghty; photographed by William Noble, Cast: Gene Autry, Smiley Bum'ette. Noah Beery, Luana Walters, William Royle, Leroy Mason, Roy Barcroft, Burr Carruth, Henry Otho. 'HEROES OF THE DESEBT,' produced by WlUiam Berke; directed by George Sherman; no writing credits released; photographed by Jack Marte. Cast: John Wayne, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhuine, Ruth Rogers, Doreen Mc- Kay, George Douglas, Walter Wills, Sammy McKim, Tom Tyler, Kermit Maynard. Bepoblle Piz Now in Prodactlon 'MAN OF CONQUESTS,' formerly titled 'WAGONS WESTWARD,' pro- duced by Sol C. Siegel; directed by George Nicbolls, Jr.; screen play by Wells Root; E. E. Paramore, Jr., and Jan Fortune; ori^nal story idea by Harold Shumate; photographed by Joseph August Cast: Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Joan Fonteine, Edward Ellis, George Hayes, C. Henry Gordon, Max Terhune, Victor Jory, Robert Barrat Robert Armstrong, Ralph Mor- ;an, Janet Beecher, Jason Robards, Kane Chandler, Ferris Taylor, Charles itevens. 'STREET OF MISSING MEN,' produced by Armand Schaefer; directed by Sidney Salkow; screen play by Leonard Lee and Frank Dolan; original by Eleanore Griffin and-William Rankin; photographed by Ernest Miller. Cast: Charles Bickford, Harry Carey, Tommy Ryan,.Guinn Williams, Mabel Todd, Nana Bryant John Gallaudet. FRONTIER EXPRESS,' produced and directed by Joseph Kane; no writing credits released; photographed by. William Nobles. Cast: Roy Rogers. Mary Hart Raymond Hatton, Monte Blue, Noble Johnson, William Royle, Donald Dillaway, Edward Keane. Stockholders of Monogram ' Picr'' tures Corp. ■at'tH8Tr'?itif(fi.anriial sion last week reelected all the pres4'' ; ent board of durectors. Two addi-|-'j tions to the board are Leon From-ry' kcss, treasurer, and Norton Vi' Ritchey, foreign sales manager. Wi; Ray Johnston reelected president^;' Edward A, Golden, v.p. in charge or', sales; Scott R. Dunlap, v.p. in chargeti. of production; Fromkess, treasurer/' and M.. S. V/hlte, secretary. In addi^K tion, directors . elected George -Wa'" Weeks a v.p. of sales. ' kif Most important proposal for stock^i holders to vote on was increase Inl'^' present compensation to Johnston!:^ and Dunlap of $200 a. week. In a';;^ surprise move, and before stockhold-|l';' or.'- were permitted to vote the mat^),! tC'i-, Johnston on behalf of-himself and Dunlap stated they had .given|'|j proposition of accepting increaswijj deep consideration and. their cdnclu-f|| sion was- that the company needs|l their support at this time ahd untU[|T it is on a stronger financial basis,||' hence it would be wiser for them top|l decline the offer. Proposal waa"iiji therefore witlidrawn. m\ Johnston! receives an annual sal-|Mi arj- of $25,000 and Dunlap $l5,600.RjJ Their contracts with the companyii'j/ rue until March. 1942. |-l Of the 360,586 shares Monogram;'}' stock outstending, 234,000 sharesS; j.' were represented at the meeting,!;; i' chiefly in the hands of a proxy com-i'^'j' mittee headed by Trem Carr in placer ( of Sol A. Rosenblatt They votedC ji a totel of 211,119 shares. \m Other action voted by the stock-tf^' holders was change in company's calendar business year to a fiscal year basis, stertlng July 1, and ehd ing on June 30, and increase in tiiQ directorial board from seven to nine. In view of the change to new fiscal year. Monogram's 1939 calendar bual' ness year will end on June 30; thus sfctting the next annual stockholders' meeting for S^tember, 1939, instead of March, 1940. Those attending stockholders' meet- ing in addition to Johnston, Dunlajf, Carr, Golden, Fromkess, White and Ritchey were O. Heniy Briggs, presl dent of Pathe Flhn Corp., the largest holder of Monogram stock; William B. Jaffe and Herman Rosenblatt, Monogram counsel; David Garrison Berger and representatives of Wall Street brokerage houses. 1 20tli Centory-Fox Totel Number Number of Fix Com- promised pleted 55 31 Now Balance to Now o in Be Placed Stories in Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- ing Rooms Cameras tlon .6 7 II 11 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'GIRL FROM BBOOKLYN,' formerly titled 'BY THE DAWN'S EABLY 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, Charleis Winninger, Keye Luke, Arthur Treacher, Willie Fung. Doris Lloyd. Leonid Snegoff, 'ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL,' associate producer, Kenneth Macgowan; directed by Irving Cummings; screen play, Lamar Trotti; original story by Ray Harris; photographed by Leon Shamroy. Cast: Lorette Young, Don Ameche. Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart. Sally Blane, Spring Byington, Polly Ann Young, Georgiana Young, Bobs Watson. Harry Daven- port Elizabeth Patterson, Charles Trowbridge, Jonathan Hale, Lillian West Ottola Nesmith. •THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES,' associate producer. Gene Mar- key; directed by Sidney Lanfleld; screen play by Ernest Pascal; photo- graphed by Peverell Mavley, Cast; Richard Greene, Basil Rathbonc, Wendy Barrle, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill. John Carradine, Ralph Forbes. Beryl Mercer, Barlow Borland, Morton Lowry, E. E. Clive, Eily Malyon, Rita Page. •DANGER ISLAND,' formerly titled TERROR ISLAND,' formerly titled 'MR. MOTO IN PORTO RICO,' produced by Sol Wurtzel; directed by Her- (Contlnued on page 34) Duals at 10c (Continued i- -n page 17) parent Allied Si? . j is participating. They' promise to make themselves heard plenty at the forthcoming con- vention. T» Press DIroreement Washington, March 7. Theatre divorcement legislation will be the principal topic at the an- nual convention of Allied States Ex- hibitors Assn. in Minneapolis next June. This was revealed By the-call for the session issued by Proxy H. A. Cole, Texas, fiery advocate of meas- ures to compel major distributors -to divest themselves of theatre hold- ings. The defeat suffered hi North Da- kdte, lyhere the legislature recently repealed a theatre divorce law be- fore it had become operative, will not deter Allied members. Cole pointed out Campaign will be launched to force N. D. lawmakers to reinstate statute at next coss.'on. - Plans will also be developed at tl. ■ .convention to intensify Allied's drive to persuade Congress'to enact legis- lation abolishing compulsory block booking and blind buying. . t •j r i Rag Waver for Bams 1 Hollywood, March 7. |< Bob Burns' next starrer at Para- ij^'i mount is a patriotic yarn. 'Us Amer- icans,' written by Jrvin S. Cobb for Will Rogers as 'So This is America' and acquired recently from 20th-Fox. Shooting starts late this montb with Al Santell directing under pro- duction guidance of George Arthur^ Bainter Attends 'College^] Hollywood, March 7. Warners is readying 'What Price I College?' campus yarn, with Fayl Bainter in the featured spot. Irving Fincman, professor at Ben- nington College, Vt., is doing the] screenplay.