Variety (Jul 1939)

14 VARIETY PICTURES Wednesdaj, Julj 26, 1939 Advance Production Chart Hollywood, July 25. ) Well into the 1939-40 releasing commitments are Melro, PorniiiouiiC, Production has hit a slight lull after the heavy pace which saw 52 jiic- 2olh-f'ox, Universal and Warners, all 0/ u'hich are now shootiny on next tures before the cameras during the past feiu weeks. Currently 38 are senson's product. C/iiiucrsnl, toith /our ihooting, lobcls one, 'First Love,' actively in production, and cutting rooiiis are busy on 93, or 10 more than as last of iUi commilments /or IBSfi-Sn. o few weeks past. I Columbia Number Number Features Westerbs Serials .. of Fix Promised 40 16 4 Com- 3:1 14 3 Now Shoot- ing 2 1 e Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cultine Before Prepara- itooras Cameras tion T 2 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 Totals 60 50 3 8 3 3 Pictures now in the cutting rooms,or awaiting previews are: 'COAST . GUARD,' meller; produced by Fred Kohlmar; directed by Edward Ludwig; no writing credits released; photographed by Lucien 1 Ballard. Cast: Randolph Scott, Ralph Bellamy, Frances Dee, Walter Con- ; nolly, Warren Hymer, Edmund MacDonald, Claire DuBrey, Beryl. Wallace,' Ann Doran, Linda Winters, Stanley Brown, Stanley Andrews, Lloyd > Whltlock. ■ 'OUTPOST OF THE MOUNTIES,' action; produced by Harry Decker for ' Irving 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. , 'GOLDJENTBOY,' melodrama; produced by William Perlberg; directed by Rouben Mamoulian; screen play by Lewis Meltzer and Daniel Taradash from play by Clifford Odets; photographed by Karl Freund. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolph Menjou, William Holden, Joseph Calleia, Edward Brophy, Sam Levene, Beatrice Blinn, Don Beddoe, I.ee Cobb, William Strauss. . 'FUGITIVE AT LARGE,' formerly titled 'CRISnNAL AT LARGE,' meller (1939-40 release); produced by Larry Darmour; directed by Lewis D. Collins; screen play by Eric Taylor and Harvey Gates; original by Eric Taylor; photographed by James Brown. Cast: Jack Holt, Patricia Ellis, Stanley Fields, Arthur Hohl, Weldon Heyburn, Guinti Williams, Don Douglas, :Leon Ames, Cy Kendall. •MB. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON,' drama; produced and directed by Frank Capra; screen play by Sidney Buchman; photographed by Joseph Walker. Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Edward-Arnold, Claude Rains, Guy Kibbee, Eugene Pallette, Beulah Bondi, Ruth Donnelly, Astrid AUwyn, Thomas Mitchell, Larry Simms, Harry Carey, Pierre Watkin, H. B. Warner, Maurice Costello, Porter Hall, Grant Mitchell, Wyndham Standing, John Ince, Arthur Loft, Dickie Jones, Helen Jerome Eddy, 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 Botilier, Stanley Brown, Don Beddoe. Jim Craig, Hank Bell, Richard Fiske, Bobbie Clark, John Tyrrell. THE MAN THEY 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 Karloff, Roger Pryor, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Ann Doran, Don Beddoe, Byron Foulger,. Charles Trowbridge, Josef de Stefani, John Dilson, Walter Sande. 'FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY CREW,' 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 Freulich. Cast: Edith Fellows. Clarence Kolb, Dorothy Peterson, Ronald'Sinclair, Dorothy Ann .Seece, Tommy Bond, Charles Peck. Columbia Plx Now in Production _ ' PRISON SURGEONS' (1 939-40 release), meller; produced by B. B. Kahane; directed by Charles vido'r;~no^rItlng~credits-Teleasedr-photo-- graphed by John Stumer. Cast: Walter Connolly, Onslow Stevens. Doug- las Fowley, Iris Meredith, Paul Fix, Nicholas Soussallin, Don Beddoe, Edouardo "Kiomajan, Jack Chapin, Lee Ford, June Pickerel!, Walter Bald- win, Claire McDowell, Louise Campbell. 'CONGA' (1939-40 release), drama; produced by Wallace McDonald for the Irving Briskin unit; directed by Sam Nelson; no writing credits re- leased; photographed by Benjamin Kline. Cast: Fred Stone, Rochelle Hud- son, Richard Fiske, Eddie Waller, Robert Warwick, Don Beddoe, Carl Stockdale, George Cleveland, Burr .Carruth, John Tyrrell, James Craig, Lee Prather, Boots (canine). 'UNTITLED CHAS, STARRETT WESTERN,' with songs; produced by Harry Decker for the Irving Briskin unit; directed by Norman Deming; no writing credits released; photographed by George Meehan. Cast: Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith, the Sons of the Pioneers. Dick Curtis, Eddie Cobb, Stanley Brown, Francis Sayles, "Forrest Taylor, Ethan Allen, Olin Francis, George Chesebro, Carl Sepulveda. Grand National Total Number Number of Pix Com- promised pleted 68 13 Now Balance to Now In Be Placed Stories In Shoot- Cattinc Before Prepara- Ing Rooms Cameras tion • 2 53 63 Pictures now in cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: •EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ANN,' produced by Jack Sklrball; directed by Al Christie; screen play by Fred Jackson, original by Dalton Trumbo; photographed by Charles Van Enger. Cast: Heather Angel, John King, Constance Collier, Robert Elliott, Walter Catlett, Wilbur Mack, Tom Dugan, Emma Dunn, 'THE MIRACLE OF MAIN STREET,' melodrama; Arcadia production; Jreduced 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, William Collier, Sr, raphy by Ray Rennahan. Cast: (Mark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Haviland, Barbara O'Ncil, Laura Hope Crews, Hnttie McDaniel, Oscar Polk, Butterlly McQueen, Everett Brown, Victor Jory, Ann Ruther- ford, Evelyn Keyes, Thomas Mitchell, Carroll Nye, Jackie Moran, Harry Davenport. . 'BABES IN ARMS*' (1939-40 release), musical; produced bv 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, Leni Lynn. Guy Kibbee. Charles Winninger, June Preisser. 'THE WOMEN,' comedy-drama; produced by Hunt Slromberg; directed by George Cukor; screenjplay by Jane Murfln; from play by Clare Boothe; photographed by Oliver "Marsh. Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fonjaine, Phyllis Povah, Muriel Hutchinson, Ruth Hussey, Virginia Grey. Ann Morris. Virginia Weidler. Lucille Watson. 'THE LADY OF THE TROPICS,' meller; produced by Sam Zimbalist; directed by Jack Conway; original by Ben Hecht; photographed by- George Folsey. Cast; Robert Taylor, Hedy'Lamarr, Gloria Franklin, Mary Tailor, Ernest Cossart, Paul Porcasi, Joseph Schildkraut, Edward Kilroy, Abner Biberman, Claude King. 'THESE GLAMOUR GIRLS' (1939-40 release), college drama; produced by Sam Zimbalist; directed by. S. Sylvan Simon; original story by Jane Hall and Marion Parsonnet; photographed by Al Gilks. Casj^ Lew Ay res, Lana Turner, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson, Mary Beth Hughes. Ann Rutherford, Marsha Hunt, Anita Louise, Owen Davis, Jr, - Peter Hayes, Sumner Getchell. 'MIRACLES FOR SALE,' mystery-meller; no producer assignment: di- rected by Tod Brownin.sj; 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 Tyler, Walter Kingsford, John Davidson, Cliff Clark, Fred Warren, •'Chester Clute, Armand.Kaliz, William Deniarest,'.Charles Lane. Al Minjir - THE WIZARD OF 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 Judv Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr. Jack Haley, Charley Grapewin, Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Pat Walsh. 'I TAKE THIS WOMAN,' formerly titled 'NEW YORK CINDERELLA,' produced by Lawrence Weingarten; directed by Frank Borzage; original story by Charles MacArthur; photographed by Charles Lawton. Cast: Spencer Tracv, Hedv Lamarr, Walter Pidgeon, Thurston Hall. Carlos Val- dez, Leonard Penn, tna Claire, Marjorie Main, Louis Calhern, Lana Turner, Mona Barrie, Willie Best, Dwight Frye, Jack Carson, Frank Puglia, Adri- enne Ames. Metro Plx . Now In Production 'A DAY AT THE CIRCUS' (193t>40 release), comedy: produced by Mer- vyn LeRoy; diMcted 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 Kilroy, Irene Cole- man, (iranviUe Bates, Charles Camora, Anna Merkle. •NINOTCHKA, (1939-40 release), drama; produced by Sidney Franklin; directed by Ernst Lubitsch; no writing credits released: photographed by William Daniels. Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina C'a""e, Sig Rumann, Alexander Grenach, Felix Bressart, Gregory Gaye, Rolfe Sedan, Edwin Maxwell. 'BALALAIKA' (1939-40 release), musical romance; produced by Law- rence Weingarten; directed by Reinliold Schunzel; screen play by George Oppenheimer and Ernest Vadja from Eric Maschwitz musical play; photo- graphed by Karl Freuhd. Cast: Nelson Eddy. IlOna Massey, Charles Rug- gles, Walter Woolf King, Joyce Compton, Lionel Atwill, Phillip Terry, Theodore Chaliapin, Jr.. Abner Biberman, Dolly Frantz 'HENRY GOES ARIZONA,' comedy-drama; produced by Harry Rapf; iditeclfid by Edwin L. Marin; based on the W. C. Tuttle Argosy magazine yarns; £hotegra"pieaT53nCerWhltr.-CastHFrank Morgan, George Murphy, Ann Morriss, Virginia Weidler, Guy Kibbee, Slim SummerviUe, Robert Emmett Keane, Chester Conklin, Tennen Holtz, Jim Thorpe, Robert ^'•ANOTHER THIN MAN,' mystery-drama; produced by Hunt Stromberg; directed by W. S. Van Dyke; no writing credits released; photographed by John Seitz. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, C. Aubrey Smith. Yjrginia Grey, Tom Neal, Ruth Hussey, Patric Knowles, Phyllis Gordon, William Anthony Poulsen, Asta (canine). , , , _ . _ , 'DANCING CO-ED,' drama with music; produced by Edgar Selwyn, directed by S. Sylvan Simon; no writing credits released; photographed by Al Gilkes. Cast: Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, Artie Shaw and orches- tra, Lee Bowman, Ann Rutherford, Mary Beth Hughes, June Preisser, Leon Errol, Roscoe Karns, Lynn Lewis. _ . . , j j 1. 'NORTHWEST PASSAGE' (Technicolor), historical drama; produced by Hunt Stromberg; directed by King Vidor; no writing credits released; photographed by Sid Wagner. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Laraine Day, Donald McBride, Truman Bradley, Isabel Jewellr Helen MacKellar, Regis Toomey, Hugh Sothern, Addison Richards, Douglas Walton, Andrew Pena, Tony Guerrero, Lawrence Porter, Lumsden Hare, John Merlon, Olaf Olsson. ' . .. MonogTfUn Metro (1939-40) Features .... Selznick-Int'l Number Number of Plx Com- promised pleted 51 0 1 • Now Shoot- ing 7 0 Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories In Cutting Before Prepara- Rooms Cameras tion 9 35 35 10 0 35 Total 52 0 7 10 35 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are; 'BLACKMAIL,' meller; produced by John W. Considine, Jr.; directed by Henry C. Potter; no writing credits released: photographed by Clyde De Vinna. Cast: Edward G. Robinson. Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, John Wray, Arthur Hohl, Victor Kilian, Edward Chandler, George Cooper, Lee Phelps. Bill Fisher, Cy Kendall. 'THUNDER AFLOAT' (1939-40 release), meller; produced by J. Walter Ruben; directed by George Sei,tz; original story by Com. Harvey Haislip and Ralph Wheelwright; photographed by John Seitz, Cast: Wallace Beery. Chester Morris, Virginik Grey, Philip Terry, Douglas Dumbrille, Carl Esmond, Regis 'Toomey, John Qualen, Clem Bevans, Jonathan Hale, Phillip Terry, Charles Lane, Wade Boteler, Mitchell Lewis, Anthony " Hughes, Henry Victor. 'GONE WITH THE WIND' (Technicolor), produced by David O. Selz- rick; directed by Victor Fleming, replacing (Jeorge Cukor; screen play by Sidney Howard and Oliver H. P. Garret from novel by- Margaret Mitchell; photographed by Ernest Halter, replacing Lee Garmes; Technicolor photog- Now Balance to Namber Number Now • in Be Placed Stories In of Plx . Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepar'a- Promiscd pleted ing Rooms Camerastion- Features 26 19 0 3 4 4 WesUrns 16 . 11 • _3 ^ J6 Total . 42 30 0 6 6 « Pictures in the cutting room: 'SHOULD A GIRL MARRY,' formerly titled THE GIRL FROM NO- WHERE,' drama; produced by E. B. Derr; associate producer, Frank Mel- ford; directed by Lambert Hillyer; original screen play by Gayl Newbury and David Silverstein; photographed by Paul Ivano. Cast: Anne Neagle, Warren Hull, Mayo Methot, Aileen Pringle, Lester Mathews. Helen Brown, Sarah Padden, Gordon Hart, Edmond Elton, Robert Elliott, Claire Rochelle, Weldon Heyburn. THE GIRL FROM RIO,* drama with songs (English and Spanish ver- sions); produced by E. B. Derr; associate producer, Jerrold Brandt; directed by Lambert Hillyer; 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 Jiminez, 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. Cast: Tex Hitter, Hal Price, Charles B. Wood, Vic Demoruelle, Jr., Roy Barcroft, Frank Wayne, Kenneth Duncan, Ruth Rogers, "Tom London. 'RIDERS OF THE FRONTIER,* formerly titled 'LAWLESS FRONTIER,' western with songs; produced by Edward Finney; directed by Spencer Bennett; original story and screen play, Jesse Duffy and Joseph Levering; photographed by Marcel Le Picard. Cast: Tex Ritter. Jack Rutherford, Hal Taliaferro, Glen Francis. Nolan Willis, Roy Barcroft, Bill McCormick, Manlan Moreland, Edward Cecil, Bruce Mitchell, Jean Joyce, Marion Sais, Maxine Leslie. 'OKLAHOMA TERROR,' western; produced by Lindsley Parsons; directed by Spencer Bennett; original screen play by Joseph West; photo- graphed by Bert Lon.genecker. Cast: Jack Randall, Virginia Carroll, Al St. John, Don Rowan, Warren McCollum, Davison Clark, Tristram Coffin, Brandon Beach, Earl Gurin, Nolan Willis, Glenn Strange, Ralph Peters. *lEISHA.ttCK,'meller; produced by Grant Withers; directed by Howard ' (Continued on page 18) Pic Code Clause On Arbitration Being Revised A revised clause to cover the ar- bitration of clearance disputes has been worked out as to details, follow- ing a Monday (24) conference with attorneys an^ will be submitted to exhibitors aft^ a final huddle with the legal battery of the majors in- .volved, William F. Rodgers, spokes- man for the distributors, announced late yesterday afternoon (Tue."!.). Rodgers indicated that the modified clause on clearance should be ready for submission to the trade by the end of the week, possibly Friday (281. The process of framing the clau.<!e, following general accord.on it by the distributors, is now under way,- with study of the wording to follow, Rod- gers declaring 'we want to see how: it looks.' Pending a nnal approval, the new arbitration clause and the board -setup oh protection disputes, which involve two and three parlie<;, is not divulged as to' detail. One re- port was that dlstribs, where they are the third party to controversies over clear'a'n-.e, would not sit in on the arbitration board except v»here their revenue is vitally affected under the dispute. Rodgers conferred yesterday morn- ing (Tuts.) with Ed Kuykendall, president of the Motion Picture The- atre Owners of America, who be- lieves 90% of the country will adopt the code following revision of tha clearance clause. Kuykendall be- lieves the new clause is an improve- ment, as outlined to him, adding thAt several of the 'bugs' have been taken out of it. He doesn't give the details Kuykendall announced that Rodg- ers assured him a complete draft of the code, embodying the changes made, will be ready for the meeting of the Southeastern Theatre Owners of Atlanta Aug. 9, which he will at- tend. Independent Theatre Owner.i Ass'n of New York has called a special meeting for Aug. 2 at the Hotel Astor to discuss the trade practice code, arbitration, film pur- chasing and non-cooperation of United Artists on trade practice par. ticipation. Result of IT'OA committee's Wash- ington conference with • the United States Dept. of Commerce was dis- cussed -at last week's meeting, but nothing conclusive was decided upon. Coast Exhibs Nix Los Angeles, July 25. Allied States Exhibitors Assn. of California, Arizona and Nevada at a meeting here yesterday (Monday) discu.ssed the trade practice code re- jected at the recent Allied national convention in Minneapolis. James Quinn, who represented th* local branch at the Minneapolis con- fab, made his report with about 39 exhibs participating in a roundtable discussion. Consensus was that tha proposed code gave nothing to ex- hibs and should be rejected! Pa.-N. J. UMPTO O.K. Code Philadelphia, July 25. Approval of the trade code was voted by the board of managers of the United Motion Picture Theatre Owners of Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware last week. The organization, which is officially unaffiliated but cooper- ates with MPTOA, had previously expressed approval of the code be- fore it was submitted -in its final draft Lewen Pizor, UMPTO prez, said after the meeting that the code 'is not a complete solution, but does give relief that did not previously exist.' Ways and means of battling in- creases in the cost of film were also discussed at the board meeting. A committee was named to outline- a plan of action, which will be co- ordinated with the schemes of MPTOA units throughout the coun- try. Support was voted for the con- templated celebration in August of 'Motion Pictures' Golden Jubilee/ No. Ohio Also Nixes Code Akron, O., July 25. Independent Exhibitors of North- ern Ohio have unanimously passed a resolution approving the action of national Allied negotiations commit- tee and the board of directors at the recent Minneapolis convention, in their rejection of the proposed trade practice code.