Variety (May 1939)

20 VARIETr PICTURES Wednesday, May 10, 1939 Advance Production Chart (Continued fr<>in page 18) graphed by Edward Cronlager. Cast: Amanda Duff, Kane Richmond, June Gale, Henry Armetta, Frank Relcher, Leona Roberts, Edward Norris, Scotty Beckett, Rex Downing, Jimmy Buaer. 'JONES rAUTLJ m HOLLYWOOD,' associate producer, John Stone; directed by Mai St Clair; no writmg credits released; photographed by Edward Snyder. Cast Jed Prouty, George Ernest, June Carlson, Spring Byington, Florence Roberts, Kenneth HowelL June Gale. Billy Mahan, Marvin Stephens, Matt McHugh, WUUam Tracey. ZOth-Fox Fix Now la PredootlOB 'SECOND FIDDLE,' musical romance; produced by Gene Markey; di- rected by Sidney Lanfleld; no writing credits released; photographed by Leon Shamroy. Cast: Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee, Edna May Oliver, Mary Healy, Lyle Talbot, Brian Sisters. •roUNG MR. LINCOLN,' historical drama; produced by Kenneth Mac- gowan; directed by John Ford; no writing credits released: photographed by Arthur Miller. Cast: Henry Fonda, Marjorie Weaver, ■Arleen Whelan, Richard Cromwell, Eddie Collins, Pauline MOore, Eddie Quillan, Dorris Bowdeh, Alice Brady, Fred Kohler, Jr., Francis Ford, Ward Bond, Spencer Charters. Milbum Stone. THE BAINS CAME* (1939-40 release), drama: produced by Harry Joe Brown; directed by Clarence Brown; original story by Louis Bromfleld; photographed by Bert Glennon. Cast; Myma Loy, George Brent, Tyrone Power, Joseph Schildkraut, Jane Darwell, Henry Iravers, Marie Ouspens- kaya, Montague Shaw, H. B. Warner, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Rambeau, Mary Nash, Brenda Joyce, Laura Hope Crews, Abner Biberman, WiUiam Royle, Soma Charsky, Adele Labansat 'JONES FAMILY AT GRAND CANTON* (1939-40 release), family drama; produced by John Stone; directed by Malcolm St Clair; no writing credits released; photographed by Lucien Andriot Cast: Jed Piouty, Spring Byington, (George £rnest, Billy Mahan. June Carlson. Florence Roberts. Eddie Collins, Fred Kelse/. 'CHABUE CHAN AT TBEASDBE ISLAND* (1939-40 release), mystery drama; produced by Edward Kaufman; directed by Norman Foster; no writing credits released; photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Sidney Toler, Sen Yung, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore, John Carradine. Sally Blane, Charles Halton. ^ ■> •HOTEL FOB WOMEN* (1939-40 release), producediby Raymond Gi:ifiith; directed by Gregory Ratoff; screen play by Kathryn Scola and Darreu Ware; original by Kathryn Scola; photographed by Peverell Marley. Cast: Elsa Maxwell, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothem, Joyce Compton, Lynn Bari, Katharine Aldridge, Amanda DuS. Lillian Porter, Frances Leslie, Jean Rogers, June Gale, Alan Dinehart Helen Erickson, Dorothy Deajring, Kay Griffith, Irma Wilsen, Alice Armand, Barbara and Gloria Brewster, Kay Linaker. Unhrersal play by Lee Katz and Dean Franklin; photographed by Ted McCprd. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Rosella Towne, Eddie Foy, Jr., Moroni Olsen, John Gal- laudet, John Litel, June Gittelson, SteSi Duna. 'ENEMT AGENT,' meller; produced by Bryan Foy; associate producer, Mark Hellinger; no writing credits released; directed by Terry Morse, photographed by Sid Hickox. Cast: Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Holmes Herbert Maris Wrixon, Bruce Lester, Leonard Mudle, Clarence Derwent 'NAUGHTY, BUT NICE,' formerly titled THE PROFESSOR STEFS DOT,' formerly tiUed 'ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING,' executive. pro- ducer, Hal B. Wallis; associate producer, Sam Bischoil; directed by Ray Enright; screen play by Jerry Wald and Richard Macauley; photographed by Arthiu Todd. Cast: Dick Powell, Gale Page, Ann Sheridan, ZaSu Pitts, Maxie Rosenbloom, Allen Jenkins, Jerry Colonna, Halliwell Hobbes, I Granville Bates, Ronald Reagan, Helen Broderick. "HELL'S KITCHEN,' produced by Mark; Hellinger for the Bryan Foy unit: directed by E. A. Dupont; no writing credits released; photographed by Charles Rosher. Cast: Dead End Kids, Margaret Lindsay, Stanley Fields, Ronald Reagan, Grant Mitchell, Frank E. Burke, Charlie Foy, Fred Tozere. "WATEB FBONT,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Terry Morse; no writing credits releasedt shotographed by James Van Trees.. Cast: Dennis Morgan, Gloria Dickson, Marie Wilson, Sheila Bromley, Ward Bond, Arthur Gardner, George Lloyd, Aldrich Bowker. 'NANCY DBEW. TBODBLE SHOOTEB,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William Clemens; from original by Caroline Keene; photo- graphed by Lou O'Connell. Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas,' John Litel, Charlotte Wynters, Aldrich Bowker, Edgar Edwards, Erville Al- derson. THE KID FBOM KOKOMO,' formerly titled 'BBOADWAY CAVALIEB,' executive producer, - Hal B. Wallis; associate producer, Sam BischofT; directed by Lew Seller; screen play by Michael Fessier from original by Dalton Trumbo. CTast: Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Maxie Rosenbloom, Max Robson, Stanley Fields, Morgan Conway, Sidney Toler, Ed Brophy, OUn Howland, Jack Roper, Clem Bevans. "GIVE HE A CHILD' (1939-40 release), drama; executive producer, Hal B. WaUls; .associate producer, Sam Bischoff; directed by Lloyd Bs/con; screen play by Robert Rossen; photographed by Charles Rosher. Cast: Geraldlne Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lynn, Gale Page, Eve' Arden, Johnnie Davis, Gloria Holden, Spring Byugton, Henry O'Neill, Jean Sharron, Nanette Fabares,.John LlteL 'GAN'IRY, THE GREAT,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William McGann; no writing credits released; photographed by Ted McCord. Cast; Edith Fellows, JImicty McCalllon, Granville Bates, DeWolt Hopper, Frankie Burke, Fred Tozere. ■EACH DAWN I DIE,' executive producer, Hal B. Wallis; associate pro- ducer, David Lewis; directed by WilUam Keighley; original by Jerome Odium; photographed by Arthur Edeson. Cast: James Cagney, George Raft Jane Bryan, George Bancroft WiUard Robertson, Maxie Rosenbloom, Victor Jory, John Wray, Stanley Ridges, Louis Jean Heydt, Ed Pawley, Joseph Downing, Alan Baxter, Aldridi Bowker, Fred Tozere, Charles Trowbridge. A FAMILY AFFAIR,' formerly tiUed 'FAMILY REUNION,' formerly titled 'AMERICAN FAMtLY*; executive producer, Hal B. Wallis; associate producer, Henry Blanke; directed by luchael Curtiz; no writing credits released; photographed by James Wong Howe. Cast: John Garfield, Pris- PAR'S JIM TUILY REPLY; OTHER PK SUITS Feztnres Westerns Serials .. Number Nnmbcr of PIx Com- promised pleted 40 31 12 U 4 4 Now ShooU lag 4 • 1 New Balanced In Be Placed Stories In Outilnff Before Prepani* Beema Cameras Uon 8 4 4 • • • 1 • • Total 56 47 S < 4 4 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: VOUSE OF FEAB,' formerly titled "BACKSTAGE PHANTOM,' mys tery meller; produced by Edmund Grainger; directed by Joe May; screen play by Peter Milne; original by Thomas Fallon; photographed by Milton Krasna. Cast: William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Dorotl^ Arnold, Harvey Stephens, Walter WooU King, Alan Dinehart El Brendel, Jan Duggan, Tom Dugan, Raymond Parker, Stanley Hughes, Don Douglas, Herbert Corthell. * 'EX-CHAMP,' drama; produced by Burt Kelly; directed by Phil Rosen; no writing credits released; photographed by Elwood Bredell. Cast: Victor McLaglen, Tom Brown, Nan Grey, Constance Moore, William Frawley, Donald Briggs. 'OREGON TRAIL' (1939-40 release), western serial; produced by Henry MacRae; directed by Ford Beebe and Saul Goodkind; original screen play by George Plympton,-Basil Dickey, Edmund Kelso and W. W. Watson; photographed by Jerry Ash. Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Louise Stanley, Fuzzy Knight Ed LeSaint Bill Cody, Jr., CoUn Kenny, Jim Toney, Jack C. Smith, Charles Stevens, Charles Murphy, Roy Barcroft James Blaine, Charles King, Forrest Taylor. •FOR LOVE OR HONEY,' comedy; produced by Max Golden; directed by Al Rogell; screen play by Charles Grayson from original by Julian . Blaustein, Daniel Taradash and Bernard Feins; photographed by Stanley Cortez. Cast: June Lang, Robert Kent Edward Brophy,' Richard Lane, Addison Richards, Tony Merrill, Horace MacMahon, Etienne Girardot Charles Regan, Dora Clement 'OLD ORAD,' produced by Ken Goldsmith; directed by Harold Young, screen play Harold Buchman; original story by Matt Taylor; photO' graphed by John Boyle. Cast: Charley Grapewin, Anita Louise, Diclc Foran, Frances Robinson, Richard Lane, Burton Churchill, Samuel. .S. Hinds, David Holt Jerry Marlowe, Eddie Aouff, Cully Richards, Emma Dunn. \ THE SUN NEVER SETS,' romantic drama; produced and directed by Rowland V. Lee; original story by Jerry Horwin and Arthur Pitz-Richard; screen pl^ by W. P. Lipscomb; photographed b^ George Robinson. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Basil Rathbone, Barbara O'Nell, Vttginia "Field, Mary Forbes^ Arthur Mulliner, John Burton, Universal PIx Now in Prodootten INSIDE INFORMATION,' produced by Irving Starr; directed by Charles Lament; screen play by Alex Gottlieb; original by Martin -Mooney and Burnet Hershey; photographed by Arthur Martinelll. Cast: June Lang, Dick Foran, Harry Carey, Mary Carlisle; Addison Richards, Joseph Sawyer, Grant Richards, Paul McVey, Selmer Jackson, Fred Burton. TN OLD CALIFORNIA' (1939-40 release), produced by Ben Pivar, directed by Christy Cabanne; original screen play by Michael L. Simmons; photographed by John Boyle. Cast: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Con- stance Moore, Noah Beery, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Thurston Hall, Richard Lane, Mabel Albertson, Marion Burns, Paul Fix, Byron Fougler, Eddy C. Waller, Charles Trowbridge. Edward J. LeSaint, WUliam Moore, Edwin Stanley, Mala, Sandra Kane, Mamo Clark, Princess Luana. •MODERN CINDERELLA,' produced and directed by John M. Stahl; original by James M. Cain; photographed by John MescalL Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Nydia Westman. Frances Robinson, Philip Trent Myitis Crynley, Edward Earle, Inez Courtney, Florence Lake, Dorothy Granger, Helen Lind, Mary Treen, Kitty McHugh. THE UNDERPUP' (1939-40 release),' produced by Joe Pasternack; directed by Richard Wallace; screen play by Grover Jones; from story by I. A. R. Wylie; photographed by Hal Mohr, Cast: Gloria Jean, Nan Grey, Robert Cummlngs, Virginia Weidler, Ann Glllis, Ernest Truex, Doris Lloyd. THE PHANTOM CREEPS' (serial for 1939-40 release), produced by Henry MacRae; co-directed by Ford Beebe and Saul A. Cioodkind; original screen play by Willis Cooper, George Plympton, Basil Dickey and Mildred Barish; photographed by Jerry Ash. Cast: Bela Lugosi. Robert Kent Dorothy Arnold, Regis Toomey, Anthoiiy Averill, Edwin Stanley, Jack C. Smith, Roy Barcroft Eddie Acuff. Forrest Taylor, Edward Van Sloan, Karl Hackett Robert Blair, Jerry Frank. cilia Lane, Gale Page,. Jeffrey Ijmn, Fur Balnter, Claude Rains, May Rob- son, Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane, Dick Foran, Frank McHugh. 'BATTLE OF CITY HALL,' comedy drama; executive producer, Hal B. Wallis; associate producer, Max Slegel; directed by Ray Enright; no writing credits released; photographed by Arthur Todd. Cast: 'Dead End' Kids, Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan, Bonita GranvUle, Frankie Thomas, Berton Churchill, Eduardo CUannelU, Franklin Pangborn, Bernard Nedell, Egon Brecher, Henry O'Neill, Minor Watson, Jackie Searle, Marjorie Main, Sara Padden. 'LIGHTHOBSE HABBY,' comedy-drama; supervised by Mark Hellinger for Bryan Foy unit; directed by Koel Smith; no writing credits released; photographed by Ted McCord. Cast: Bert Wheeler, Marie Wilson, Gloria Dickson, Eddie Foy, Jr. De Wolf Hopper, Jr., Charles Wilson, Trevor Bar. dette, William Demarist, Don Turner, Max Hoffman, Jr. 'DEVIL ON WHEELS,' formerly tiUed THE BOABINO CBOWD,' for- merly titled 'THE BOARING BOAD'; executive producer, Hal B. Wallis; associate producer, Max Siegel; directed by Lloyd Bacon; no writing credits released; photographed by Sid GOckox. Cast: Pat O'Brien, John Payne, Gail Page, Ann Sheridan, Frank McHugh, Ronald Reagan, Granville Bates, Regis Toomey. THE OLD MAID,' drama; executive producer, Hal B. Wallis; associate producer, Henry Blanke; directed by Edmund Goulding; screen play by Casey Robinson from play by Zoe Akins; photographed by Tony Gaudio. Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Humphrey Bogart Jane Bryan; Cissy Lpftus, Donald Crisp, Jerome Cowan, Frank Darlen. 'HOBBY FAMILY,' family drama; produced by Gordon HoIIingshead for Bryan Foy unit; directed by William McGann; no writing credits released; ghotographed by Sid Hickox. Cast: Henry O'Neill, Gabriel Dell, Jean haron, Irene Rich, Fred Tozere, John Ridgeley, Aldrich Bowker, Jackie Moran, Larry Williams, Warner Pix Now In Predaeilon •DUST BE MY DESTINY'; executive producer, Hal B. Wallis; associate, Lou Edelman; directed by Lew Seller; no writing credits released; photo- graphed by Arthur Edesion. Cast: John Garfield, Pat O'Brien, Allen Jen- kins, Jane Bryan, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordon, Stanley Ridges, Henry Armetta^ Margo Stevenson,''jAothur A^lsworth, Walter Miller, Charley .Grapewin. '-•-^ THB KNIGHT AND THE LADY' (Technicolor), executive producer. Hall B. Wallis; associate producer, Robert Lord; directed by Michael Curtiz; screen play by Norman RelUy Raine and Aeneas MacKenzie; from the play, 'Elizabeth the Queen,' by Maxwell Anderson; photographed by Sol Polito; associate photographer, W..Howard Greene. Cast: .Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland^ Alan Hale, Vincent Price, Donald Cx^p, Henry Stephenson, Henry Danlell,-(3uy Belbs, Robert Warwick Keith Kenneth, Nanette Fabares, Rosella Towne, James Stephenson, Johh Sutton, Marls Wrixon. 'NOT WANTED',' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Terry Morse; screen play by Lawrence Kimble and Fred Niblo, Jr.; adapted by Lee ICatz from play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman; photographed by Arthur Edeson. C^st: Dennis Morgan, Fred Stone, Gloria Dickson, Sonny Bupp, Bemice Pilot, Greta Meyer, Christian Rub, Frank Faylen, Dennie Moore. Aldrich Bowker, Charles Halton, Georgia Caine, William Pawley, Gary Owen. 'DEAD OB ALIVE,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Noel Smith; screen play by Earle Snell and Charles Belden; from original story by Scott Littleton; based on characters created by Frederick Nebel; photographed by Arthur Todd. Cast: Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy, Joe Cunningham, Frank Shannon, Cieorge Guhl, Sheila Bromley, Eddie Grib- bon, Eddie Marr, Edgar Dearlng, Aldrich Bowker, Vera Lewis, William Gould, Cliff Clark, Sidney Bracy, Ruth Robinson, John Harron. 'NANCY DBEW AND THE BIDDEN STAIRCASE,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William Clemens; screen play by Kenneth Garnet; based on the Nancy Drew stories by C:aroIyn Keene; photographed by L. William O'Connell. Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas. John Litel, Vera Lewis, Louise Carter, William Gould, Frank Orth, Renie Riano, Fred Tozere. Dick Elliott John Ridgely, DeWolf Hopper, Creighton Hale, Frank Mayo, Don Rowan, (Seorge Guhl. Paramount filed answer in N. Y. federal court yesterday (Tues.) to. the $50,000 suit of Jim Tully against William K. Howard, Odessco Pro- ductions, Inc., and Par, in which Tully claims unauthorized use of his name in connection with 'Back Door to Heaven'. Paramount replies that Tully re- quested a statement be issued to the effect that he was leaving C^ifornia for N. Y., and waa going to deliver a series of lectures about the pic- ture, which he claimed was based on his life. Paramount claims that it did as requested, and did not at any time attempt to use this statement for publicity or advertising purposes. The company asks a dismissal of the action, A temporary Injunction restrain- ing International Roadshows, Inc, John and Bert Goldberg, from ex- hibiting their picture, 'Eietpe from Devil's Island' was granted Monday (8) by N. Y. supreme court Justice Bernard L. Shientag to Columbia Pictures Corp. Latter also asks for $50,000 damages, claiming title in- fringement CoL asserts it made a picture with similar name in 1935, at a cost of $200,000, from a- story by Fred de Gresac. Col. charges the defendants acquired their picture from Olym- pic Pictures of England and changed its title from 'Broken Melody' to 'Escape from Devil's Island' and that, among others, sold it to Skouras Theatres Corp. Zannok's Exam on Coast Darryl F. Zanuck need not come to New York to be ex<>inined before trial in connection with Stephen Tamas' suit against 20th Century- Fox Film, but a Los Angeles com- mission may examine him in Cali- fornia, according to Judge Alfred Frankenthaler's ruling in N. Y. su- preme court Tamas claims that he was engaged by Fo'x fax 1936 to write a scenario for Shirley' Temple, the result of which was 'Stowaway.' Screen credit was given to others, and Tamas was not paid. An injunction, accounting of profits and damages are sought Tippett Cant Amend N. Y. supreme court Justice Philip J. McCook denied yesterday (Tues.) an application by John D. Tippett Inc., to amend its bill of complaint against Universal Pictures, Print Stock Corp, Eastman Kodak, Con- solidated Film Industries, Inc., Carl Laemmle^ Maurice Fleckles, J. E. Brulatour, Inc., and Jules E. Brula- tour, by discontinuing the action against Wa'f*™''^, Consolidated and Brulatour, with' whom the plaintiff has settled, and to bring further charges against the others. Tippett seeks $600,000 damages in this action, which is one of three that he has filed. He claims breach of a raw stock agreement with Uni- versal on a five-year contract made in 1932. The judge in denying the applica- tion stated the case had been marked fOr trial, and it was too late to amend. Warners Now Balance to Namber Number Now In Be Pbecd Stories in of PIx Com- Shoot- Cattinff Before Prepara- Promlsed pleted Ing Booms Cameras tlon Total 52 ' S4 S 16 2 2 PicturesMn the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'CODE OF THE SECBET SERVICE,' formerly titled 'SMASHING THE HONEY RING,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Noel Smith; screen United Artists Samuel Goldwyn. Selznick Walter Wanger... Chaplin Roach London Films.... Edward Small ... Total S3 Number Number of PIx Com- promised pleted 4 2 8 1 8 5 t 2 2 • 3 3 2 14 Now Shoot- ing 1 0 I 0 • 0 Now Balance to In Be Placed Stories In Cotllng Before Prepara' Rooms Cameras tlon 1 • 5 1 4 2 2 IS 1 0 5 ■ 1 4 2 2 IS Pictures in the cutting room or awaiting previews are: THE MAN IN THE IRON HASE,' produced by Edward Small: directed by James Whale; screen play by (George Bruce; based on the novel by (Continued on page 23) •AU Baba Snit Kayoed . las Angeles, May 9. Andreas F. Michael's $1,000,000 plagiarism suit against Eddie Can- tor and 20th-Fox was quashed by Superior Judge Thomas C. Gould. Michael claimed his manuscript had been pirated in the making of Can- tor's picture, 'All Baba Goes to Town.' Wyler on 'Intermezzo' Hollywood, May 9. David O. Selznick has borrowed William Wyler from Samuel Gold- wyn to direct 'Intermezzo,' slated to roU May 23. Ingrid Bergman, Swedish star, plays opposite Leslie Howard. CmECOIOB'S SFBEAS Hollywood, May 9. Cinecolor is building a $40,000 ad- dition to its Burbank plant to house a recently invented method for proc- essing 16-mm. film in color. • New equipment will give plant a capacity of 600,000 feet of film a week.