Variety (Apr 1939)

u VARIETY OF THE 52 20th CENTURY-FOX PICTUBES FO PRODUCE 24 FROM THE FOLLOWING GREAlil THE RAINS CAME The biggest ptoducdon ever attempted by 20tb Centuiy-Fox. Based on Louis Bromfield's best selling aoveL Diieaed by Clarence Brown. Co-starring MYRNA LOY, TYRONE POWER, GEORGE BRENT with a supporting cast including Cesar Romero, Joseph Scfaildkraut, Maria Ouspenskaya and Henry Travets. STAIWLEY AND UVINGSTONE IA production diat has been more than two years in the making. A special ei^tedition braved the African wilds for months toi obtain authentic scenes. Directed by Henry King. The cast is one of the most impressive in screen history: SPENCER TRACY, RICHARD GREENE, NANCY KELLY. Sir Cedric Hardwidke, Walter Bteo- oan^ Henry Hull, Henry Travers, Charles Cobum^ thousands more. HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE 'The "Big Parade" of film history... pattemied to the scale of *Ales> andet's Ragtime Band." Co-starring ALICE FAYE and DON AMECHE A cast blazing widi luminaries of the film capital Screen j>lay by Ernest Pascal, from a story by Lou Breslow. MARYLAND In TECHNICOLOR. Produced as a companion picture to '^sa^ tucky." Tingling and ftudnating drama that revolves around the breeding of thoroughbred trotting horses and the glorious histocy i<»f the state of Maryland. From the story by Sonya Levien. MmeterUmek's THE DLVE DIRD Starring SHIRLEY TEMPLE. In TECHNICOLOR. One of the, most important properties ever acquired by this industry.; Based on the play and book of world-wide fame. Screen play by Ernest Pascal To be produced with a lavishness that will make it ' sund out among even the very biggest of 20th's top<bracket hits.', EVERYTHING HAPPENS AT NIGHT Starring SON]A HENIE Romantic comedy, dirilling with the grace 'and heart-liftiag beauty of the most spectacular ice ballets yet to present this t^-ranking "First Ten" star. DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK In TECHNICOLOR. From Walter Edmonds* best of best-sellers. Two whole years of research and writing have been devoted to getting the full throbbing power of this 5toty of pioneer trappers and the American Revolution onto the saeen. Its multi-star cast will be one of the year's nA>st impressive. THE MARK OF ZORRO TYRONE POWER will star in this adaptation of one of die most sensationally successful and colorful boxoffice hits in all screen history. A role ideally suited for this most versatile and dadiing of great stats. Truly big-picturel A RRITON AT YALE RICHARD GREENE'S sky-rocketing popularity will leap forward again with the showing of this attraction — an intensely dramatic •toiy woven around the tradirions and high-spirited, acdvities of one of America's greatest uoivetsides.j ■ ^^^^^ SWANEE RIVER The nNnantic Old South in song and drama. Staning DON AMECHE in a characterization that gives full play to his wealth of talent LITTLE OLD NEW YORK Starring ALICE FAYE. The famous play by Rida Johnson Young, a notable success on stage and screen, ridi in heart-vtrarming sentiment and romance. Perfea for theglorious abilities of beautiful Alice Faye. LADY ^ANE Another SHIRLEY TEMPIJB dramatic spectacle .. . produced with all the breath-taking scope of "The Little Princess.'! Resplendent with the brilliant and reckless gaiety of New Orleans at Mardi Gras. From the classic by Mrs. C V. Jamieson. Directed by Walter Lang. AN S. S. VAN DINE MYSTERY emu TO COME) A master-strdce of showmanship stars SONJA HENIE in a story by one of the greatest writers of detective fiction. A picture loaded with the electrifying surprises for which Van Dine is fiunous., El«m MmxwteW» HOTEL FOR WOMEN 'The flair of the famous Elsa for the daring has made her entertain* ments internationally famous. Here she makes her debut as a screen personally... in a story die co-authored with Kathryn Scola. A .spontaneous-publidty natural... a word-of*mouth seosatioa Dir rected by Gr^ory Ratoff. The first of three Cosmopolitan Product tions. DANCE WITH THE DEVIL An original story by William Rankin and Eleanore Griffin, who wrote ^'Boys Town.** FRONTIER MARSHAL A dramatization of the West in its most lawless and tumultuous days ... depicting the never-to-be-forgotten exploits of historic Wyatt Earp. HE MARRIED HIS WIFE WARNER BAXTER and BINNIE BARNES, who scored so bril- liandy in ''Wife, Husband and Friend," in a story even richer in hilariQr and romance. THE KHYRER RIFLES . A story of heroic action... as British regiments and native hordes clash for die gateway to India... historic,, blood-drendied Khyber Pass. To be produced on a lavish scale. JOHNNIE APOLLO Vital with timely significance and drama ... showing die disillu- siMiment of modem youth facing a troubled world. Stpry by Samuel G. Engel, Hal Long and Roland Brown. 20,000 MEN A YEAR Quick-on-the-trigger alertness won 20di this story of modem avia- tion's newest phase—the fliers of tomorrow and their training in American colleges. Thrilling and ^live with youth. From the spry by Frank Wead.)