Variety (May 1939)

20 VARIETY PICTURES Wednesday, May 31, 1939 Advance Production Chart (Continued from Page 18) - 5''fil"^c"'*^*^ released; photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Sidney Blane Charles"§altoir' ^^""ne Moore, John Carradine. Sally ^.^^fiFu^U^^r'^''^'^^*'*^^^ romance; produced by Gene Markey; di- rected by Sidney Lanfleld; no wriUng credite released; photographed by Leon Shamroy. Cast: Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power,. Rudy VaUee, Edna May OUver, Mary Healy, Lyle Talbot, Brian Sisters. ■TOUNO MR. LINCOLN.' historical drama; produced by Kenneth Mac- gowan; directed by John Ford; no writing credits released; photographed by Arthur Miller. Cast: Henry Fonda, Marjorle Weaver, AWeea Whelan, Richard Cromwell Eddie Collins, Pauline Moore, Eddie Qulllan. Dorris Bowden, Alice Brady, Fred Kohler, Jr, Francis Ford, Ward Bond, Spencer Charters. Milburn Stone. . 'THE ESCAPE,' formerly tiUed "EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE' X1939-40 re- leaw); produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; directed by Ricardo Cortez; no writing oedits released; photographed by Edward Cronjager. Cast: Amanda Duff, Kane Richmond, June Gale, Henry Armetta. Frank Relcher, Leona Roberts, Edward Norris, Scotty Beckett. Rex Downing, Jimmy BuUer. •SUSANNAH OF THE MOCNTIES,' produced by Kenneth Macgowan; directed by Walter Lang; no writing credits; photographed by Arthui" JLUer. Cast: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott. Margaret Lockwood, Mar- tin Goodrider, Moroni Olsen, J. Farrell MacDonald, Maurice Moscovich, Victor Jory,. Lester Matthews, Herbert Evans, Leyland Hodgson, Jack Luden, Charles Irwin. . 'CHABLIE CHAN IN RENO,' produced by John Stone; directed by Nor- man Foster; no writing credits released; photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Sidney Toler, Sen Young, Phyllis Brooks, Ricardo Cortez. Kane Rich- mond, Slim Summerville, Pauline Moore, Robert Lowery, Kay Linaker, Louise Henry, Iris Wong. 'NEWS IS MADE AT NIGHT,' produced by Edward Kaufman; directed by Alfred .Verker; original screen play by John Larkin; photographed by Ernest Palmer. Ctst: Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, George Barbier Eddie Collins, RusseU Gleason, Paul Harvey, Minor Watson, Charles Halton, 2Mh-Fex Fix N«w In Predactlon •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 Travei-s, Marie Ouspens- kaya, Montague Shaw, H. B. Warner, Nigel Bruce. Marjorle Rambeau. Mary Nash, Brenda Joyce. Laura Hope Crews, Abner Bibermah, William Royle, Soma Charsky, Adele I^bansat 'HOTEL FOR WOMEN' (1939-40 release), produced by Raymond Griffith: directed by Gregory Ratoff; screen play by Kathryn Scola and Darrell Ware; original by Kathryn Scola; photographed by Peverell Marley. Cast: Elsa Maxwell, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Joyce Compton, Lynn Bari, Katharine Aldrldge, Amanda Duff, Lillian Porter, Frances Leslie, Jean Rogers, June Gale, Alan Dinehart, Helen Erickson, Dorothy Dearing, Kay Griffith, Irma Wllsen, Alice Armand. Barbara and Gloria Brewster, Kay IJnaker. 'CHICKEN WAGON FAMILV (1939-40 release), family comedy; pro- duced by Sol M. Wurtzel; directed by Herbert I. Leeds; no writing credits relieased: photographed by Edward Cronjager. Cast: Jane Withers, Leo Carillo, Marjorle Weaver, Kane Richmond, Spring Byington, Inez PaUange. 'HABMONT AT HOME' (1939-40 release), famUy comedy; produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; directed by Otto Brower; no writing credits released; photographed by Lucien Androit Cast: Jean Rogers, Robert Kellard, WUliam Frawley. Cora Sue Collins, Helen Freeman, Jay Ward, Roger McGee, Eddie Collins. j . e Trowbridge, Edward J. LeSaint, William Moore, Edwin Stanley, Mala, Sandra Kane, Mamo Clark, Princess Luana, '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 Btown, Louise Stanley, Fuzzy Knight, Ed LeSaint, Bill Cody, Jr., Colin Kenny, Jim Toney, Jack C. Smith, Charles Stevens, Charles Murphy, Roy Barcroft, James Blaine, Charles King, Forrest Taylor. 'HERO FOB A DAT,' formerly titled 'OLD GRAD,' produced by Ken Goldsmith; directed by Harold Young; screen play by Harold Bucbman; original story by Matt TayloE; photographed by John Boyle. Cast: Charley Grapewin,' Anita Louisei, Dick Foran, Frances Robinson, Richard Lane, Burton Churchill. Samuel S. Hinds, David Holt, Jerry Marlowe, Eddie Acuff, Cully Richards, Emma Dunn. ^THE SDN NEVER SETS,' romantic drama; produced and directed by Rowland V. Lee; original story by Jerry Horwin and Arthur Fitz-Richard; screen piny by W. P. Lipscomb; photographed by George Robinson. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Basil. Rathbone, Barbara O'Neil, Virginia Field, Mary Forbes, Arthur Mulliner, John Burton.' Universal Fix Now in Prodnction ^ '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, Myrtis Crynley, Edward Earle, Inez Courtney, Florence Lake, Dorothy Granger, Helen LInd, Mary Treen, Kitty McHugh, 'THE UNDERPUP' (1939-40 release), produced by Joe Pastemack; 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 Cummings, Virginia Weidler, Ann Gillis, Ernest Truex, Doris Lloydi THE PHANTOM CREEPS' (serial for 1939-40 release), produced by Henry MacRae; co-dlreeted by Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind; original screen play by Willis Cooper, George Plympton, Basil Dickey and Mildred Barish; photographed by Jerry Ash. Cast: Bela Lusosl. Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold, Regis Toomey, Anthony Averill. Edwin Stanley, Jack C. Smith, Roy Barcroft, Eddie Acuff. Forrest Taylor, Edward Van Sloan, Karl Hackett Robert Blair, Jerry Frank. 'FORGOTTEN WOMEN,' meller; produced by Edmund Grainger; di- rected by Harold Young; screen play by Lionel Houser and Harold Buch- man; original story by John Kobler; photographed by Stanley Cortez. Cast: Sigrid Gurie, Donald Brlggs. Eve Arden, Donnie Dunagan, William Lundigan, Ray Walker, Joseph Downing, Norman Willis. URIGHT VICTORV (1939-40 release), drama; produced by Burt KeUy; directed by Joseph Santley; no writing credits released; photographed by Elwood Bredell. C^: Jackie (^>oper, Freddie Bartholomew, Melville Cooper, Dorothy Peterson, J. M. Kerrigan. Warners ^ Now Balance <«. In Be Placc'd Stories In Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tlon 16 0 • United Artists Nnmber Number Samnel Goldwyn. Selznlck Walter Wanger... Cbaplln Koach London Films.... Edward Small... of PIx Promised 4 2 8 1 8 5 5 Tolal 33 Com- pleted 2 2 2 t 4 3 2 IS Now Shoot- ing 1 1 1 • Now Balance to In Be Placed Stories In Catting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras 1 0 • t • S • 1 0 4 • 2 1 2 2 14 tlon • 5 1 4 2 2 14 Pictures in the cutting room or awaiting previews are: THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK,' produced by Edward Small; directed by James Whale; screen play by George Bruce; based on the novel by Alexander Dumas; photographed by Robert Planck. Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, Miles Mander, Bert Roach, Marian Martin, William Royle, Montagu Love. •MUSIC SCHOOL,' formerly titled 'ANGELS MAKING MUSIC,' drama With miisic; produced by Samuel Goldwyn; directed by Archie Mayo; no writing credits released; photographed by Greeg Toland. Cast: Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Margot Stevenson, Gene Reynolds, Tommy Kelly, Porter Hall. UA PIz Now In ProdnoUon •WINTER CARNIVAL,' romantic drama; produced by Walter Wanger; directed by Charles Riesner; original screen play by Budd Schulberg. Morris Rapf and Lester Cole; photographed by Merritt Gerstad, Cast: Ann Sheridan. Richard Carlson, Helen Parrlsh, Robert Armstrong, James Comer, Joan Brodell. Marsha Hunt Robert Allen. INTERMEZZO' (1939-40 release), romantic drama; produced by David O. Selznlck; associate producer, Leslie Howard; directed by William Wyler; original story by Gaesta Stevens and Gustav Molander; photographed by Henry Stradllng. Cast: Leslie Howard, Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, Cecil Kelloway. THE REAL GLORT,' historical drama; produced by Samuel Goldwyn: directed by Henry Hathaway; no writing credits released; photographed by Rudolph Mate. Cast: Gary Cooper. Andrea Leeds, David Niven, Regi- nald Owen, Broderick Crawford; Maurice Moscovitch, Vladmir SokolofT, Thurston Hall, RusseU Hicks, Roy Gordon. William Stack. Universal Featores Westerns Serials .. Number Nnmber of PIx Com- promised 40 12 4 pleted 32 12 « Now Shoot- ing 4 6 1 Now Balance to In Be Placed Stories In CntUng Before Prepara- Booms Cameras tlon 2 Total 56 48. Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews: •HOUSE OF FEAR.' formerly titled 'BACKSTAGE PHANTOM,' mys- tery meller; produced by Edmund Grainger; directed by Joe May; screen Slay by Peter Milne; original by Thomas Fallon; photographed by Milton Irasna. Cast: William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Dorothy Arnold, Harvey Stephens, Walter Woolf King, Alan Dinehart, El Brendel, Jan Duggan, Tom Dugan, Raymond Parker, Stanley Hughes, Don Douglas, Herbert CorthelL ■ INSIDE INFORMATION,' produced by Irving Starr; directed by (diaries Lamont; screen play by Alex Gottlieb; original by Martin Mooney and Burnet Hershey; photographed by Arthur Martlnelll. Cast: June Lang, Dick Forah, Harry Carey, Mary Carlisle, Addison Richards, Joseph Sawyer, Grant Richards, Paul McVey, Selmer Jackson, Fred' Burton. •MUTINY ON THE BLACKHAWK,' formerly titled IS OLD CALI- FORNIA' (1930-40 release), produced by Ben Pivar; directed by ChrL<!ty Cabanne; original screen play by Michael L. Simmons; photographed by John Boyle. Cast: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Constance Moore, Noah BeetT, Guinn 'BifT Boy' Williams, Thurston Hall. Richard Lane, Mabel AlbertsoD, Marlpn Burns, Paul Fix, Byron Fougler, Eddy C. Waller, Charles Nnmber Nnmber Now of PIx Com- Sbool- Premlsed pleted Ing Total 62 36 5 Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: •SECRET AGENT,' formerly tiUed 'ENEMY AGENT,' meller; produced by Bryan Foy; associate producer, Mark Bellinger; no writing credits; directed by Terry Morse; photographed by Sid Hickox. Cast: Boris KarlofI, Margaret Lindsay. Holmes Herbert, Maris Wrixon, Bruce Lester, Leonard Mudie, Clarence Derwent 'NAUGHTY, BUT NICE,' formerly titled 'THE PROFESSOR STEPS OUT,' formerly titled 'ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHtNG.' executive pro- ducer. Hal B. Wallis; associateproducer, Sam Bischoff; directed by Ray Enright; screen play by Jerry Wald and Richard Macauley; photographed by Arthur Todd. Cast: Dick Powell, Gale Page. Ann Sheridan. ZaSu Pitts, Maxie Rosenbloom, AUen Jenkins, Jerry Colonna, Halliwell Hobbes, Granville Bates, Ronald Reagan, Helen Broderick. •HELL'S KITCHEN,' produced by Mark Hellinger for the Bryan Foy unit: directed' by Bl. 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. "WATER FRONT,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Terry Morse; no writing credits released: photographed by Jameis Van Trees. Cast: Dennis Morgan, Gloria Dickson, Marie Wilson, Sheila Bromley, Ward Bond, Arthur Gardner, (^orge Lloyd, Aldrich Bowker. 'NANCT' DREW. TROUBLE SHOOTER,' 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. 'NO PLACE TO GO,' formerly titled ^OLD MAN MINICK,' formerly titled 'NOT WANTED,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by Teriy Morse; screen plsy by Lawrence Kimble and Fred Niblo, Jr.; adapted by Lee Katz from play by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman; photographed by Arthur Edeson. Cast: 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 OR 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. C^st: Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins. Tom Kennedy, Joe Cunningham, Frank Shannon, George Guhl, Sheila Bromley, Ekldie Grib- bon, Eddie Marr, Edgar Dearing, Aldrich Bowker. Vera Lewis, William Gould, Cliff Clark, Sidney Bracy, Ruth Robinson, John Harron. •GIVE ME A CHILD' (1939-40 release), drama: executive producer, Hal B. Wallis; associate producer, Sam Bischoff; directed by Lloyd Bacon; screen play by Robert Rossen; photographed by Charles Rosher. C^st: Cieraldine Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lynn, Gale Page, Eve Arden, Johnnie Davis, Gloria Holden, Spring 'Byington, Henry O'Neill, Jean Sharron, Nanette Fabares, John LiteL •STEEPLECHASE,' formerly' titled 'GANTRY, THE GREAT,' produced by Bryan Foy; directed by William McGann; no writing credits released; photographed by Ted McCord. Cast: Edith Fellows, Jimmy McCallion, Granville Bates, DeWolf Hopper, Frankie Burke, Fred Tozere. 'EACH DAWN I DIE,' executive producer, Hal B. Wallis; associate pro- ducer, David Lewis; directed by William Keighley; original by Jerome Odium; photographed by Arthur Edeson. Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, (Seorge Bancroft, Willard Robertson, Maxie Rosenbloom, Victor Jory, John Wray, Stanley Ridges, Louis Jean Heydt, Ed Pawley, Joseph Downing. Alan Baxter, Aldrich Bowker, Fred Tozere, Charles Trowbridge. 'A FAMILY AFFAIR,' formerly titled •FAMILY REUNION,' formerly titled 'AMERICAN FAMILY'; executive producer, Hal B. Wallis; associate producer, Henry Blanke; directed by Michael Curtiz; no writing credits released; photographed by James Wong. Howe. Cast: John Garfield, Pris- cilla Lane, Gale Page, Jeffrey Lynn, F^ Bainter, Claude Rains, May Robr son, Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane, Dick Foran, Frank McHugh. 'BATTLE OF CITY HALL,* comedy drama; executive producer, Hal B. Wallis; associate producer. Max Siegel; directed by Ray Enright; no writing credits released; photographed by Arthur Todd. Cast: 'Dead End' Kids, Ron old Reagan, Ann Sheridan, Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, Berton Churchill, Eduardo Ciannelll, Franklin Pangborn, Bernard Nedell, Egon. Brecher, Henry O'Neill, Minor Watson, Jackie Searle, Marjorle Main, Sara Padden. 'THE COWBOY QUARTERBACK,* formerly titled •LIGHTHORSE HARRY,* comedy-drama; supervised by Mark Hellinger for Bryan Foy unit; directed by Noel Smith; no writing credits released; photographed by Ted McCord. Cast: Bert Wheeler, Marie Wilson, Gloria Dickson, Eddie Foy, Jr., DeWolf Hopper, Jr.. Charles Wilson, Trevor Bardete, William Deraarist, Don Turner, Max Hoffman, Jr. 'DEVIL ON WHEELS,* formerly titied THE ROARING CROWD,* for- merly titled 'THE ROARING ROAD'; execuUVe producer, mi B. Wallis; associate producer. Max Siegel; directed by Lloyd Bacon: no writing credits released; photographed by Sid Hickox. 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 (Continued on page 35) Urges Accepting (Continued from pfige 3) concerning jiossible prejudicing of rights involved, said that he didn't believe anyone would minimize their right to'investigate the other side of the fence on the code before jumping over to it He expressed the belief that the Minneapolis forum would be much broader and of vast import- ance through representation of all states. Still insisting that Allied agreed in principle on the code at a meet- ing in Chicago last summer~Hlenied oy Allied—William - F. Rodgers (Metro) stated at the foruni, in an effectually delivered speech, that, theatre divorcement had no place in code negotiations, but that it is a - pet idea of a minbrity in Allied who believe Its prosecution can be used as smokescreen to justify the con- tinuance of attacks that can only cause dissension. Stating theatre divorcement and abolition of block-booking or blind- selling, could hot be worked out from an industry standpoint Rodgers declaimed that until the U. S. anti- trust suit against the majors is tried, "we are at least entitled to a fair and impartial consideration.' In the in- terim, he added, 'we expressed a willingness, and do ,so now express it to set up. the niachlnery where certain practices claimed to be un- just can be arbitrated.' Allied reluctance, regardless of whether many or most of its mem- bers want to buy pictures this year under the code, is understood to stem from the fear that the U. S. suit calling for divorcement and other things, together with the Grif- fith case, might be called oft through the code. This hope, it may be in- ferred. Is not withoutthe realm of the dreams of the distributors, in view of the concessions they are now making. Making a brief but excellent ad- dress, Myers noted the Allied'9 motive was only to ascertain what is the maximum of benefit to be at- tained under a code, and whether those benefits are to be fair or pros- pective as well as speculative. While Cohen may not always see eye-to- eye with Myers or Col. H. A.'Cole, national president he expressed and backs the hope that a bill of rights for the indie exhibitor may be ob- tained from witliin, with legislation and litigation as a court of last re- sort He promises, however, that the bill of rights must come, and that It will be one way, if not the other. Cohen's Speech On Wednesday (24) Cohen sought to dispel any impression a cleavage exists between National Allied and his N. Y. state unit but added for his outfit and personally that if the distribs lay a crumb on the table, it should be grabbed if it doesn't prejudice the government's suits. If the pact is a step in the direction of solving present problems, then it Is a step forward, he added, but just as long as distribs are Indisposed te grant rights belonging to the indie, just so long will 'we prosecute by Government action.' In a resolution passed by N. Y. AlUed, a negotiating. committee for the national body was suggested, made up of one man from each of the 17 state Allied witi. Col. Cole believed such a large committee would be cumbersome, A veteran exhibitor leader from Texas, Col. Cole reviewed the his- tory of distributor-exhibitor trou- bles from about 12 years ago when he claimed distribs ran out on prom- ises of a trade practice conference, presided over by Myers as a com- missioner of the Federal Trade Com- mission. Down through the 5-5-9 conferences and other negotiation, he cited the U. S. suit the Interstate decision and finally the Griffith case as indicating that legislation or liti- gation is the only effective weapon for killing bad trade practices. He said he didn't believe It would be good or healthy for the industry to be under strict Governmental supervision and expressed the view that the time will come when defi- nite limits will be established and real negotiation will be invoked and succeed. 'Big men and big thoughts,' he added, 'will then be needed for the job.' N. Y. Allled's convention, its first was spread over three days, ending in a banquet Thursday night (25). Although- the turnout was under hop«s, tlie meeting marked a very progressive step ahead for the New York unit and for Cohen, its presi- dent who operates theatres in New York City and proceeds on . a policy that doesn't call for shin-kicking, claws or sharp teeth.