Variety (Jul 1939)

16 VARIETY PICTURES Wedneeday, July 12, 1939 Advance Production Chart Hollywood, July II- Pictures facing the camema have taken an uptum, rising to 52 for cur- rent stanza as of June 28. StUl needing 33 more be/ore completinj the current aeasou'a product onnouncement* (excepting Crond National, which still has 53 to go), studios are already aiming towards '39-40 commit* ments with 69 alreadv /Inished or in work. Currently; cutting are 83 features with 420 pictures either released or completed ogaitut this season's total of 582 needed. Cohimbia Now Balance ta Nnmber Namber Now BeFlaccd Stories In of Fix Com- Siioot- CniUns Before Prepara- Promlsed pleted ing Booms Cameras Hon Featvres 40 . 30 3 7 2 2 Westerns 16 14 e • 2 2 Serials 4 2 1 .1 0 • Total 60 46 4 8 4 4 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'COAST GUABD/ meller; produced by Fred Kohlmar; directed by Edward Ludwig; no writing credits released; photographed by Luclen Ballard. Cast: Randolph Scott, Ralph Bellamy, Frances Dee, Walter Con- nolly, Warren Hymer, Edmund MacD.onald, Claire DuBrey. Beryl Wallac^ Ann Doran, Linda Winters, Stanley Brown, Stanley Andrews, Lloyd Whitlock. . 'A WOMAN IS THE JUDGE,' drama; produced by Ralph Cohn for Irving Briskin unit; directed by Nick Grinde; no writing credits released; photo- graphed by Benjamin Kline. Cast: Rochelle Hudson, Otto Kruger, Frieda Jnescort, Gordon Oliver, Mayo Methot, Walter Fenner, Arthur Loft, James Craig, George Anderson, Robert Sterlingi WOUNTED POLICE NO. 2,' action; produced by Harry Decker for Irvine Briskin unit; directed by C. C. Coleman, Jr.; no writing credits re- leased; photographed by George Meehan. Cast: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, Sons of the Pioneers, Lane Chandler, Stanley Brown, Kenneth McDonald, Eddie Cobb, Dick Curtis, Albert Morin, Hal Taliaferro, Harry Cording, Vernon Steele; Roger Gray. 'GOLDEN BOT,' melodrama; produced by William Perlberg; directed by Rouben Mamoulian; screen play by Lewis Meltzer and Daniel Taradasn from play by Clifford Odets; photographed by Karl Freund. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolph Menjou, WilUam Holden, Joseph Calleia, Edward Brophy, Sam Levene, Beatrice Blinn, Don Beddoe, Lee Cobb, William Strauss. 'PARENTS ON TRIAL,' drama; produced by Ralph Cohn for IWIng Briskin unit; directed by Sam Nelson; screen-play oy Gladys Atwater, J. Robert Bren and Lambert HlUyer; from original story by Gladys Atwater and J. Robert Bren; photographed. by John Stumar. Cast: Jean Parker, Johnny Downs, Linda Terry, Noah Beery, Jr., Nana Bryant, Henry Kolker, Virginia Brissac. • i . 'BLONDIE TAKES A VACATION,' comedy; produced by Robert Sparks; directed by Frank Strayer; no writing credits released; photographed by Henry Fr'eulich. Cast: Penny Singleton, Arthur I<ake, Larry Simms, Eliza- beth Dunne. Robert WUcox, Thomas Ross, Donald "Meek, Harlan Briggs, Donald McBride, Arthur Housman, Harry Harvey, Emmett Vogan, Dave Willock. •FUGITIVE AT LARGE,' formerly tlUed 'CRIMINAL AT LARGE,' meller (1939-40 relea'ie); produced by Liarry Darmour; directed by Lewis D. Collins; screen play by Eric Taylor and Harvey Gates; orlghial by Eric Tayloir; photographed by James Brown. Cast: Jack Holt, Patricia Ellis, Stanley Fields, Arthur Hohl, Weldon Heyburn, Guinn Williams, Don Douglas, liCon Ames, Cy Kendall. Columbia Pix Now In Production •MB. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON,' drama; produced and directed by Frank Capra; screen play by Sidney Buchman; photographed by Joseph Walker. C^st: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Edward Arnold, Claude Rahis, Guy Kibbee, Eugene Pallette, Beulah Bondi, Ruth Donnelly, Astrid Allwyn, Thomas Mitchell, Larry SImms, Harry Carey, Pierre-Watkin, H. B. Warner, Maurice Costello, Porter Hall, Grant Mitchell, Wyiidham Standing, John Ince, Arthur Loft, Dickie Jones, Helen Jerome Ed(^, Vera Lewis, Harry, Billy, Delmar and Gary Watson, Gene Morgan, George McKay, Evalyn Knapp, Dub Taylor, Dorothy Short, Stanley Andrews, Sam Ash. 'OVERLAND WITH KIT CARSON,' historical western serial; produced by Jack Fier for the Irving Briskin unit; directed by Norman Deming and Sam Nelson; no writing credits released; photographed by Benjamin Kline and George Meehan. Cast: Bill Elliott, Iris Meredith, Treva Bardette, Dick Curtis, Hal Taliaferro,' Flo Campbell, Dick Bofllier, Stanley Brown, Don Beddoe, Jim Craig, Hank Bell, Richard Fiske, Bobbie Clark, John TyrrelL <TBE MAN THET COULD NOT HANG,' meller; produced by Walt Mac- Donald for the Irving Briskin unit- directed by Nick Grinde; no writing credits released; photographed by Benjamin Kline. Cast: Boris Karlofl, Roger Pryor, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Ann Doran, Don Beddoe, Byron Foulger, Charles Trowbridge, Josef de Stefani, John Dilson, Walter Sande. •FIVE LITTLE FEFFEBS AND HOW THET GREW,' comedy-drama; produced by Jack Fier for the Irving Briskin unit; directed by Charles Barton; taken from novel by Margaret Sidney Lothrop; photographed by Henry FreuUch. Cast: Edith FeUows, Clarence Kolb, Dorothy Peterson, Ronald Sinclair, Dorothy Ann Seece, Tommy Bond, Charles Peck. Grand Natioiial „ ^ Ndw Balance i« Nnmber Namber Now In Be Placed Stories Id at Pix Com- Shoot- Catting Before Prenara- *"« Booms Cameras tlon . Total 68 13 • 2 53 5S Pictures now In cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: •EVERTTHINO HAPPENS TO ANN,' produced by Jack Skirball; directed by AJ Christie; screen play by Fred Jackson, oriffbal by Dalton Trumbo- photographed by Charles Van Enger. Cast: Heather AngeL John King. Constance Collier, Robert Elliott. Walter CaUett, Wilbur Mack. Tom Dugan! Emma Dunn. < "THE MIRACLE OP MAIN STREET,' melodrama; Arcadia producUon: 5reduced by Jack Skirball; directed by Steve Sekely; screen play by Fred ackson; original by Boris Ingster; photographed by Charles Van Enger. Cast: Margo, Walter Abel, Wynne Gibson. Veda Ann Borg, Lyle Talbot Dorothy Devore, Pat Flaherty, Jane Darwell, WUliam Collier. Sr. Metro Now Balance to Nnmber Number New In Be Placed Stories in of Fix Com- Shoot- Catting Before Prepara- Promlsed pleted tug Booms Cameras tlon Features M 42 1 6 1 i Selznlok-Int'l 1 0 1 • • « Total SI 41 8 . 7 1 ~1 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: •BLACKMAIL,' meller; produced by John W. Considlne, Jr.; directed by Henry C. Potter; no writing credits released; photographed by Clyde De Vinna. Cask.Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, John Wray, Arthur Hohl, Victor Killan, Edward Chandler, George Cooper, Lee Phelps, Bill Fisher, Cy Kendall 'A DAT AT T9E CIRCUS' (1931 >40 release), comedy; produced by Mer- vyn LeRoy; directed by Edward Buzzell; no writing credits released; photo- graphed by Len Smith. Cast: Groucho, Chico' and Harpo Marx, Florence Rice, Kenny Baker, Nat Pendleton, Margaret Dumont, Jerry Marenghi, Henry Sylvester, Irving Bacon, James Burke, Eddie Kllroy, Irene Cole- man, Granville Bates, Charles (^mora, Anna Merkle. . 'NbrOTCHKA, (1089-40 release), drama; produced bv Sidney Franklin; directed by Ernst Lubitsch; no writing credits released; photographed by Williatoi Daniels. Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas,' Ina Claire, Sig Rumann, Alexander Grenach, FeUx Bressart,< Gregory Gaye, Rolfe Sedan, Edwin MaxwelL 'MIRACLES FOB SALE,' mystery-meller: no producer assignment: di- rected by Tod Browning; no writing credits released; photographed by Charles Lawton. Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Lee Bowman, Henry Hull, Frank Craven, Frederick Worlock, Suzanne Kaaren, Astrid Allwyn, Gloria Holden, Harry l^ler, Walter Klngford, John Davidson, Cllil Clark, Fred Warren, Chester Clute, Armand Kaliz, William Demarest, Charles Lane, Al Minjlr. •THE WIZARD' OR-OZ' (Technicolor), produced by Mervyn LeRoy; directed by Victor Fleming: based on story by Frank L. Baum; photo- graphed by Harold Rosson; for Technicolor, Allan Dazey. Cast: Frank Morgan. Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Charley Grapewin, BUlie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Pat Walsh. 1 TAKE THIS WOMAN,' formerly UUed 'NEW TORK CINDERELLA,' produced by Lawrence Welngarten; directed by Frank Borzage; original story by -Charles MacArthur; photographed by Charles Lawton. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Thurston Hall, Carlos Val- dez, Leonard Penn, Ina Claire, Maijorle Main, Louis Calhern, Lana Turner, Mona Barrie, Willie Best, Dwlght Frye, Jack Carson, Frank Puglia, Adrl enne Ames. Metro Fix Now in Production 'GONE WITH THE WIND' (Technicolor), produced by David O. Selz- nick; directed by Victor Fleming, replacing Cieorge Cukor; screen play by Sidney Howard and Oliver H. P. Garret from novel'by Margaret Mitchell; photographed by Ernest Haller, replacing Lee Garmes; Technicolor photog- raphy by Ray Rennahan. Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Haviland, Barbara O'Neil, Laura Hope Crews, Hattie McDanlel, Oscar Polk, Butterfly McQueen, Everett Brown, Victor Jory, Ann Ruther- ford, Evelyn Keyes, Thomas Mitchell, Carroll Nye, Jackie Moran, Harry Davenport •BABES IN ARMS' (1930-40 release), musical; produced by Arthur Freed; directed by Busby Berkeley; from stage musical by Rodgers and Hart; photographed by^.Ray June. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Betty Jaynes, Douglas MacPhail, Henry Hull, Rand Brooks, Grace Hayes, Lent Lynn, Guy Kibbee, Charles Winnmger, June Preisser. •THE WOMEN,' comedy-drama; produced by Hunt Stromberg; directed by George Cukorr sAeea play by Jane Murfln; from play by Clare Boothe; photographed by Oliver Marsh. C^t: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine, Phyllis Povah, Muriel Hutchinson, Ruth Hussey, Virginia Grey, Ann Morris, Virginia Weidler, Lucille Watson. •THE LADT OF THE TROPICS.' meUer; produced by Sam Zlmballst; directed by Jack Conway; original by Ben Hecht; photographed by George Folsey. C^st: Robert Ttiylor, Hedy Lamarr, Gloria franklin, Maty Turlor, Ernest Cossart, Paul Porcasi, Joseph Schlldkraut Edward Kilroy, Abner Biberman, Claude King. THESE GLAMOUR GIRLS' (1939-40 release), college drama; produced by -Sam Zhnbalist; directed by S. Sylvan Simon; original story by Jane Hall and Marlon Parsonnet; photographed by Al Gilks. Cast: Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson, Mary Beth Hughes, Ann Rutherford, Marsha Htmt, Anita Louise, Owen Davis, Jr., Peter Hayes, Sumner Getchell. •THET ALL COME OUT,' meller; (four-reel short being made into fea- ture-length picture) produced by Jack Chertok; directed by Jacques Tour- neur; no writing credits released; photographed by Paul Vogel. Cast: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Nerbard Nedell, Edward Gargan. •THUNDER AFLOAT* (1039-40 release), meller; produced by J. Walter Ruben; directed by George Seltz; original story by Com. Harvey HaisUp and Ralph Wheelvnright; photographed by John Seltz. Cast: Wallace Beerjr Chester Morris, Virginia Grey, Philip Terry, Douglas Dumbrllle, Carl Esmond, Regis Toomey, John Qualen, Clem Bevans, Jonathan Hale, Phillip Terry, Charles Lane, Wade Boteler, Mitchell Lewis, Anthony Hughes, Henry Victor. "BALALAIKA' (1939-40 release), musical romance; produced by Law- rence Wehigarten; directed by Reinhold Schunzel; screen play by George Oppenheimer and Elmest Vadja from Eric Maschwltz musical play; photo- graphed by Karl Freimd. Cast: Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey, C:harles Rug- gles, Walter Woolf King, Joyce Compton, Lionel Atwill, Phillip Terry, Theodore Chaliapin, Jr^ Abner Biberman, Dolly Frantz. Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories In Cattinc Before Prepsra- Rooms Cameras ' tien 3 S 5 14 4 Featares Westerns Nnmber Namber of Pix Com- promised pleted 28 18 16 11 29 Now Shaot- Ing 0 • Toial 42 Pictures in the cutting room: •SHOULD A GIRL MARBT,' formerly titled •THE GIRL FROM NO- WHERE,* drama; produced by E. B. Derr; associate producer, Frank Mel- ford; directed by Lambert HUIyer; original screen play by Gayl Newbury and David Silverstein; photographed by Paul Ivano. Cast: Anne Neagle, Warren Hull, Mayo Metnot Alleen Prlngle, Lester Mathe^^s, Helen Brown, 'Sarah Padden, Gordon Hart Edmond Elton, Robert Elliott Claire Rochelle, Weldon Heyburn. Monogram Plx Now In PrednoMon •MR. WONG IN CHINATOWN,' mystery-meller; produced by W. T. Lackey; directed by William Nigh; original screen play by Scott Darling; based on the James Lee Wong character created by Hugh Wiley; photo- graphed by Hany Neumana Cast: Boris Karlofl, Grant Withers, Lotm Long, Marjorie Reynolds, Peter Creorge tiynn,.Wm. Royle, Huntly Gordon, James Flavin, Richard Loo, Bessie Loo, Lee Tong Foo, Little Angelo, Guy Usher. •THE GIRL FROM BIO,' drama with songs (English and Spanish ver- sions); produced by E. B. Derr; associate producer, Jerrold Brandt; directed by Lambert RiUyer; original screen play by Milton Rason and John T. Neville; photographed by Paul Ivano. Cast: Movita, Warren Hull, Alan Baldwin, Kay Linaker, Clay Clement Adele Pearce, Dennis Moore, Carle- ton Young, Soledad Jlmlnez, Richard Tucker. •THE MAN FROM TEXAS,' western with songs; produced by Edward Finney; directed by Al Herman; original screen play by Robert Emmett; photographed by Marcel Le Picard. C^ast: Tex Ritter, Hal Price, Charles B. Wood, Vic Demoruelle, Jr., Roy Barcroft, Franlf: Wayne, Kenneth Duncan, Ruth Rogers, Tom London, Paramoant Pictures now in cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: 'BEAU GESTE' (1939-40 release), produced and directed by William' A. Wellman; screen play by Robert Carson; from story by P. C. Wren- photographed by Theodor SparkuhL Cast: Gary C^ooper, Ray Milland. Rob- ert Preston, Susan Haywaid, J. Carrol Naish, Sroderick Crawford. Brian Donlevy, Donald MacBrlde, James Stephenson, Charles Barton. G. P. Huntley, Heather Thatcher, James Burke, Albert Dekker, Arthur Ayles- worth. Harry Woods, Harold Huber, Stanley Andrews, Donald O'Connor. David Holt, Martin Spellman. Ann Glllis, Harvey Stephens, Duke Green, (C!ontlnued on page 18) REPUBUC BUFF HEAD NOT SET ASYET Buffalo, July 11. Jack Berkowltz' withdrawal from Republic leaves the Buffalo otflc* vacant with James R. Grainger du« here this week to appoint new man» ager. Arthur Newman has been spotted for the Albany office, 'with Sam Seplowin continuing at Detroit Otto Seigel, recently appointed Omaha branch manager for IJniver- sal, left Thursday with his family to take up permanent residente there. The Lincoln, Manllus, N. Y., dark for over a year reopened by Leon D. Moody, Parish, N. Y. exhibitor. Harold B. Franklin in Buffalo over past weekend. Annual golf tournament and din- ner dance of Varied Club Is slated for the Wllmont Country Club, July 17. Sid Lehman, Ralph Maw and Bob Murphy in charge. Columbia enlarging and remodel- ing local exchange. The Palace, Baldwinsville, re- opened by Samuel Slotnick and Rueben Cantor. The Granada, North Buffalo nabe, purchased by SchiHe Theatres, Inc., for approximately $200,000. The Schine outfit which has had the house under lease since its construc- tion a dozen years ago, has pur- chased the real estate consisting ot the theatre and six stores. Gibraltar's Conclave Denver, July 11. The annual convention of ttii Gib- raltar Enterprises, Inc., has been set tor Aiig. 4-7 and will be held in Den- ver. Group now has 34 theatres In CV>lorado,.New Mexico, Wyoming and Nebraska, Those attending will b« Ed Schidte, William Ostenberg, Ev- erett Coir, Thomas Murphy. Nathan Salmon, John Greer and JEi. W. Ward. Charles R. GUmour is president of the company. The Eaton, Eaton, Colo., taken over by Harry Lauch from J. R. Wills. Rocky Mountain Screen clubrooms redecorated and air-conditioned. An- nual picnic and goU tournament due some time in August Following the resignation several weeks ago ot Frank MUton as man- ager of uie Santa Fe, Denver, Dave Davis, circuit manager for Atlas The- atre C!o., has appointed Ralph Hamil- ton to sue -eed. Hamilton has been managing the Gem, Golden, and he is followed there by Alvln Quint re- cently assistant city manager at SaUda. -The Empress, Laramie, Wyo., shut down - by Tox for complete altera- tions. The house will be torn down to the walls except for the big stage which will be re&ined. When com- pleted the house will seat 840, Strand, Cheyenne, Wyo.. also Fox re- open about July 25, following face- lift Ihiermonntain Adds 2 Salt Lake City, July II. Harry David (Intermountain The- atres) acquired two more houses at Logan, fourth largest city in Utah. Capitol and' Lyric, owned and ope- rated by Consolidated Theatres, shut- tered since last April, will reopen late in the summer under the Inter- mountain banner, which also ope- rates two other houses at Logan. Eatl'Baughman will direct all four theatres. FalMnbrag Better Birmingham, July II. After fix weeks in Florida, where he underwent a major operation at Miami's St Francis hospital, Francis Falkenbrug has returned to Birming- ham and resumed his duties as manager ot the Alabama theatre. More FJ.-Can. Moves Winnipeg, July 11. Further changes were reported by the local Famous Players-Canadian. With A. E. Zorn, new head of tho Wiimlpeg office In town from Cal- Sary, Frdnk Kershaw will shortly eave for the FP convention in the east, retumtaig here later to take over the Western Theatres chahi ot 19 houses in Winnipeg. Don Gauld. of Western, leaving that organization to join Famous as manager of -the ace Metropolitan, Winnipeg, replacing Frank Willis, who is going to the Orpheum, Fort William, to replace Clarence' Robson. Robson retires due to illness, which has kept him from business for some time. All appointments effective July 15. . Ed Lynch Shifts • Bridgeport July 13. Edgar Lynch leaves Warner after 13 years in Bridgeport for Warner house In Worcester, Mass. Howard W. Fettingill in trom Worcester to replace Lynch as manager of WB llrst-runner here.