Variety (Sep 1939)

Wednesday. Sept. 20, 1939 PICTURES VARIETY 23 door drama; produced by Raymond Griffith; directed by John Ford; from novel by Walter D. Edmonds; screen play by Lamar Trotti and Sonya Levien; photographeol by Bert Glennon. Cast: Ctaudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Eddie Collins, Linda Darnell, Edna May Oliver, Arthur Shields, Jessie Baljph, Roger Imhoff, Francis Ford, Kay Ijnaker, Russell Simpson, Spencer Charters. 'TOO BBSY TO WOBK.' Jones Family feature; procfuced by John Stone; directed by Otto Brower; no writing credits rieleased; photographed by Edward Cronjager. Cast: Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, Ken Howell, George Ernest, June Carlson, Florence Roberts, Billy Mahan, Joan Davis, Chick Chandler, Helen Ericson, Marjorie Gateson, Hooper Atchley, Harold Goodwin, Sherry Hall, Andrew Tombes, Marvin Stephens, Irving Bacon. 'THE SIMPLE LIFE,' drama; produced by Sol Wurtzel; directed by Eugene Ford, replacing William Beaudine; screen play by Clay Adams, Leonard Hoffman and Hamilton MacFadden; script by' Robert Ellis and Helen Logan from original by William Anthony McGuire; photographed by Virgil Miller. Cast: Marjorie Weaver, Stuart Erwin, Chick Chandler, Patric Knowles, Russell Hicks, E. E. Clive, Barnett Parker. 'HIGH SCHOOL,V family drama; produced by John Stone; directed by George Nichols; no writing credits released. Cast: Jane Withers, Paul Harvey, Lillian Porter, Giles V. Kellogg, Jr., Lloyd Corrigan, Joe Brown, Jr., Marvin Stephens, Cliff Edwards, Lynn Roberts, Claire du Brey, Mary McCarthy, John Pirrone, Dorothy Moore. 2eth-Fox Fix Now In Production 'SWANEE BIVEB' (Technicolor), drama; produced by Kenneth Mac- gowan; directed by Sidney t.anHeId; screen play by John Taintor Foote and Philip Dunne; photographed by Bert Glennon. Cast: Don Ameche, Al Jolson, Andrea Leeds, George Heed, Felix Bressart, Richard Clarke, Chick Chandler, Russel Hicks. '20,M» MEN A YEAR,' drama, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; directed by Alfred E. Green; no writing credits released; photographed by Ernest Palmer; Cast: Randolph Scott, Margaret Lindsay, Mary Healy, Kane Richmond, Maxie Rosenbloom. 'THE BLUE BIRD,' fantasy in Technicolor; associate producer. Gene Markey; directed by Walter Lang; screen play by Ernest Pascal from l)ook by Maurice Maeterlinck; photographed by Arthur Miller. Cast: Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Eddie Collins, Sybil Jason, Gale Sond^rgaard, Nancy Kelly, Ijaura Hope Crews, Nigel Bruce, Johnny Russell, Leona Roberts, Jessie Ralph, Al Shean. 'THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK,' meller; produced by Sol Wurtzel; directed by David Burton; no writing credits released; photography by Virgil Miller. Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Jean Rogers, Richard Clarke, Mae Marsh, Joan Valerie, Douglas Wood, Onslow Stevens, Eric Blore, Irving Bacon. 'THE ADVENTURER,' western; produced by John Stone; directed by Herbert L. Leeds; no writing credits released; photographed by Barney McGill. Cast: Cesar Romero, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Barrat, Chris-Pin iMartin, George Montgomery, John Beach. 'DATTHWE WIFE,' comedy-drama; produced by Raymond Griffith; di- rected by Gregory Ratoff; no writing credits released; photographed by Peverell Marley. Cast: "Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Warren William, Biiinio Barnes, Mildred Cover. 'EVEBTTHING happens at NIGHT,' comedy-drama; produced by Harry Joe Brown; directed by Irving Cummings; no writing credits re- leased; photography by Lucien'Andriot. Cast: Sonja Henie, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, Maurice Moscovitch, Fritz Feld, Leonid Kinskey. 'THE CITT,' meller; produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; directed by Ricardo Corlez; no writing credits released; photographed by Edward Cromjager. Cail: Lynn Bari, Donald Woods, C. Aubrey Smith, June Gale, Hal Goodwin. United Artists (1939-40) N»w Balance fa Pictures in the cutting room or awaiting previews are: 'ETEBNALLT TOUES' (1939-40 release), romantic comedy; produced by Walter Wanger; directed by Tay Garnett; original screen play by Gene Towne and Graham Baker; photographed by Merritt GMstad. Cast: Loretta Young. David Niven, Hugh Herbert, C. Aubrey Smith, ZaSu Pitts, Raymond Walburn, Virginia Field, Eve Ardeii, Billie Burke, Broderick Crawford. 'INTERMEZZO' (1939-40 release), romantic drama; executive producer, David O. Selznick; associate producer, Leslie Howard; directed by Gregory Ratoff; original story by Gaesta Stevens and Gustav Molander; photo- graphed by Greg Toland, replacing Henry Stradling. C^st: Leslie Howard Ingrid Bergman, Edna Best, John Halliday, Ann Todd, Douglas Scott, Cecil Kelloway, Eleanor Wesselhocll, Enid Bennett. UA Fix Now In Production 'OF MICE-AND MEN,^ Hal Roach production; produced and directed_by. Lewis Milestone; associate producer, Frank Ross; screen play by Jean Solow from the John Steinbeck play; photographed by Norbert Brodine. Cast: Burgess Meredith. Lon Chaney, Jr., Betty Field, Charles Bickford, Bob Steele, Noah Beery. Jr., Roman Bohnen, Oscar OShea. 'SEND ANOTHER COiFFIN,' mystery meller; produced by Walter Wan ger; directed by Tay Gamett: screen play by John Lay, Robert Tallraan and Ken Englund; from novel by F. G. Presnell; photographed by Merritt Gerslad. Cast: Pat O'Brien, Ruth Terry, Broderick Crawford. Edward Arnold, Claire Dodd, Alan Dinehart. Phyllis Brooks, Bernard Nedell, John Sheehan, Howard Hickman, Douglas Fowley, Eve Ardcn, Douglas Dum- briUe. UNTITLED COMEDY; production, direction and screen play by Charles Chaplin; photography by Karl Struss and Rollie Totheroh. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Daniell, Emma Dunn, Maurice Mosco- vich. Max Davidson, Nellie V. Nichols, Esther Nichelson. 'RAFFLES,' mystery meller; produced by Samuel Goldwyn; directed by Sam Wood; from story by E. F. Hornung; photographed by Gregg Toland. Cast: David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty, Dudley Digges, Douglas Walton, Lionel Pape. 'REBECCA,' meller; produced by David O. Selznick; directed by Alfred Hitchock; from novel by Daphne du Maurier; photographed by George Barnes. Cast: Lawrence Olivier. Joan FonUine, Juditlv Anderson, Reginald Denny, George Sanders, Gladys Cooper, Philip Winter, Nigel Bruce, Ed- ward Fielding, Florence Bates. Universal (1939-40) 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, Anthony Averill, Edwin Stanley, Jack C. Smith, Roy Barcroft, Eddie Acufl, Forrest Taylor, Edward Van Sloan, Karl Hackett, Robert Blair, Jerry Frank. 'LEGION OF LOST FLYEBS,' meller; produced by Ben Pivar; directed by Christy Cabanne; original story by Ben Pivar; photographed by Jerome Ash, Cast: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Anne Nagel, Ona Munson, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, William Lundigan, Leon Ames, Theodore Von Eltz, Leon Belasco, David Willock, Eddie Waller, Pat Flaherty, Edith Mills, Jerry Marlowe. 'CHIP OF THE FLYING U,' western; Front Office production; directed by Ralph Staub; screen play by Larry Rhine and Andrew Bennisob; based on story by B. M. Bower; photographed by William Sickner. Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy ICnight, Doris Weston, Forrest Taylor, The Texas Rangers, Anthony Warde, Karl Hackett, George Anderson, Ferris Taylor, Walter McCauley, Kermit Maynard, Charles Morrison, Cecil Kel- logg, Ted Wells, Jack Shannon. 'ONE HOUR TO LIVE' (1939-40 release), meller;. produced by (jeorge Yohalem; directed by Harold Schuster; original scrieen play by Roy Chanslor; photographed by C^eorge Robinson. Cast: Doris Nolan, Charles Bickford, Samuel S. Hinds, John Litel, Jack Carr, Robert Emmett Keane, Emory Parnell, John Gallaudet. 'LAFF IT OFF,' formerly titled USTEN, KIDS,' musical drama; pro- duced and directed by Albert S. Rogell; original story by Lee Loeb; photo- graphed by Stanley Cortez. Cast: Constance Moore, Johnny Downs, Mar- jorie Rambeau, Edgar Kennedy, Hedda Hopper, Janet Beecher, Cecil Cun- ningham, Horace MacMahon; William Demarest, Louise Bates, Lillian West, Paula Stone, Chester Clute, Claire Whitney, Tom Dugan. 'RIO' (1939-40 release), romantic drama with song.<!: no producer assigned; directed by John Brahm; screen play by Stephen Morehouse Avery, Frank Partes, Edwin Justus Mayer and Aben Kandcl; original by Jean Negulesco; photographed by Hal Mohr. Cast: Sigrid Gurie. Basil Rathbone, Victor McLaglen. Robert Cummings, Leo CarriUo, Irving PicheL Billy Gilbert, Maurice Moscovich, Irving Bacon, Lane Chandler, Samuel S. Hinds. Kath- leen Howard, Anne Gwynne, Ernie Adams, William Royle, Ben Taggart, Marty Faust, Syd lyAlbrook, Ferike Boros. 'MAN FROM MONTREAL,' action meller; produced by Ben Pivar; di- rected by Christy Cabanne; screen play by Owen Francis, suggested by Ben Pivar; photographed by Milton Brasner. Cast: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Anne Gwynne, Kay Sutton, Addison Richards, Reed Hadley, Lane Chandler, Tom Whitten, Karl Hackett, Don Brodie, Joseph Sawyer, Eddy Conrad. "WEST OF CARSON CITY,' formerly titled 'THE GALLOPING KID,' western with songs; Front office production; directed by Ray Taylor; no writing credits released; photographed by Jerry Ash. ■ Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Peggy Moran, Harry Woods, Eddie Cobb, Jack Roper, Frank Mitchell, Charles King, Roy Barcroft, Robert Homans, Ted Wells, Jack Shannon, Donald Kerr, Al K. Hall, Ernie Adams. Universal Pix Now In Production •FIRST LOVE,' drama with itiusic; produced by Joe Pasternak; directed by Henry Koster;. no writing credits released; photographed by Joseph Valentine. Cast: Deanna Durbin. Helen Parrish, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Lewis Howard, Leatrice Joy, Marcia Mae Jones, Charles Coleman, Kathleen Howard, Samuel S.' Hinds, Virginia Brissac, Jack Mulhall, Mary Treen. TOWER OF LONDON,' historical drama; produced and directed by Rowland V. Lee; original story by Robert N. Lee; photographed by George Robinson. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Nan Grey, Barbara O'Neil, Ian Hunter, John Sutton, Vincent Price, Leo G. Carol, Miles Mander. 'GBEEN. HELL,' drama; Famous Productions; directed by James Whale: original story and screen play by Frances Marion; photographed by Karl Freund. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Joan Bennett, John Howard, Alan Hale, George Sanders, George Bancroft, Vincent Price, Gene Garrick,: Fran- cis McDonald, Mala. 'LITTLE ACCIDENT,' comedy-drama; produced and directed by Charles Lamont: no writing credits released; photographed by Milton Krasher. Cast: Hugh-Herbertr-Baby Sandy, Richard^Catlson.. JFlorence Jlice._Fritz Feld, Peggy Moran, Anne Gwynne, Frances Robinson, Charles D. Brown. 'DESTRY RIDES AGAIN,' western; produced by Joe Pasternak; directed by George Marshall; no writing credits released; photographed by Hal Mohr. Cast: Marlene Dietrich. James Stewart, Charles Winninger, Mischa Auer, Brian Donlevy, Irene Hervey, Una Merkel, Allan Jenkins. Warren Hymer, Samuel S. Hinds, Edmund MacDonald, Tom Fadden, Jack Carson, Lillian Yarbo. THE GBEEN HOBNET,* serial; produced by Henry MacRae; directed by Ford Beebe and Saul Goodkind; no writing credits released; photographed by Jerome Ash. Cast: Gordon Jones, Anne Nagel, Wade Boteler, Keye Luke, Philip Trent, Walter McGrail, John Kelly, Gene Rizzi, Douglas Evans, Ralph Dunn. 'VIGILANTE WAR,' western; Front office production; directed by Ray Taylor; original story and screen play. Ford Beebe; photographed by Wil- liam Sickner. Cast: Johnny Mack Brown, Bob Baker, Fuzzy Knight, Frances Robinson, Arthur Loft, Frank LaRue, James Guilfoyle, Laife Mc- Kee, Charles Morrison, Ed Cassidy, Robert Wmkler, William Gould, Ted Adams. Warners (1939-40) Now Balance to in Be Placed Stories in Cultinic Before Prepara- Pictures in the cutting rooms or awailiiig previews: THE PHANTOM CREEPS' (serial for 19:19-40 relea.'se), produced_ by Henry MacRae; co-directed by Ford Bcobe and Saul A, Goodkind; original Now Balance to Number Number Now in Be Placed .Stories In of Pix Com- Slioot- Cutlinp Before Prepara- Promiscd pleted iog Bosms Cameras tlon Totals............ 48 10 2 " " *• Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting previews are: •BRITISH INTELLIGENCE,' formerly titled 'SECRET ENEMY,' formerly titled 'ENEMY AGENT,' meller; produced by Bryan Foy; ^sociate pro- ducer Mark Hellinger; no writing credits released; directed by Terry Mori; i^iotographSr b^ Sid Hickox. Cast: Boris Karloff, Margare Lmd- My, Holmes Herbert, Maris Wrixon, Bruce Lester, Leonard Mudie, Clarence Dcrwcnl. •A CHILD IS BOBN,'.iormerly titled 'GIVE ME A CHILD' (1939-40 re- lease) drama; executive producer. Hal R Wallis; associate producer, Sam directed by Lloyd Bacon; screen play by Robert Rossen; photo- grlohed by Charles Rosher. Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald. Jeffrey Lynn Cale r4ce Eve Arden, Johnnie Davis, Gloria Holden. Spring Byington, Henry O'Neill, Jean Sharron. Nanette Fabares, John Litel. •PRIDE OF THE BLUEGBASS,' formerly titled 'GANTRY. THE GREAT, formerly titled 'STEEPLECHASE,' produced by Bryan ^0^: ^''^i?'' WUnam McGann: no writing credits released; photographed by Ted Mc- Cord CastT Edith Fellows Jimmy McCallion, Granville Bates, DeWolf Hopper, Frankie Burke. Fred Tozere. THE DEAD END KIDS ON DRESS PARADE,' formerly ^ titled THE nZin KNrt KIDS AT MILITARY SCHOOL,' 11939-40 release), com- ?dy-drama produced by ^y^^^^^ by William Clements no wrUing «^ftl Xsed;%hotographed by Arthu Todd Cast: Dead End Kids Henry O'Neill, John Litel, Cissy Loftus, Frankie Thomas. Virginia Brissac, Spencer Charters. •PRIVATE LIFK OF ^"2*?^'"" i^^'^/^^S KnTgOT AN^ t5e • Anir &Mn Tiiif KNIGHT' formerly titled Tilt jvniomi i\nu TownrJar^es Stephenson. John Sutton. Mans Wrixon. •ESPIONAGE AdENT,' formerly titled 'CAREER MAN' (1939-40 release), .irii^r Hal B Wallis executive producer; associate producer Lou Edel- j (Continued on page 30) FLOCK OF NEl NABES BLDG. ALL OVER Three new picture theatres, tw9 in Queens and orie in Brooklyn, ara progressing rapidly enough in con- struction to be- ready for opening . the first of next year. House probably to be known as the Trylon is being erected, by Iii- terboro Circuit in Forest Hills near 66th Ave. Frank Moscato has tha cinema set for Long Island C>ty. at Crescent Ave.. and Queens Plaza. Randforce Amus, Corp. is listed as owner of new Clinton, 595 Clinton St., Brooklyn; also set to open early in 1940. Shea Building Nabe.s Buffalo. Sept. 19. Shea Amus. Co. (Par) has an- nounced building of a number of neighborhood hou.ses in the greater Buffalo district. First new house in the string is announced for the Niag- ara street section^ Move appears as a counter-attack to! the loss of tv/o nabes and downtown first run housa (Century) to the Dipson-Basil cir- cuit. Canton Zone's New Houses Canton, O., Sept. 19. Construction under way at Woods-, field, O., on new 650-seater by. Chris Velas for late September opening.' Vclas also on new theatre building at Woodsdale, suburb of. Wheeling, W. Va.. on the highway leading to Elm Grove. Will be known as Woodsdale, completed within next two months. Jess Shannon, exhibitor at Woods- flcld, p., has opened a new 600- seater, the Life. K. F. Boothman, of Mingo, C, ac- quired the Temple, Wheeling, and renamed it the Pythian. Colored patronage. Jack Steinberg remodeling tha Wilson, Youngstowii. Major im- provement is-addition of 200 seats; G. C. Davis sold his Alpine, Saline- ville, formerly the. Palace, to C. B. Kosco. Clark Raider planning new housa at Easton, O., work to start this fall. Dillon's Addition St. Louis, Sept. 19. W. H. Dillon, Morehouse, Mo, planning 400-seatcr in Morehousa, tagged the Dillon. E. M. Loew's New Nabe Worcester, Mass., Sept. 19. Nabe houses bc.ijinning to .'<prout in this heart of the commonwealth. With one in Grccndale .section set to open within a couple of weelcs, ground will be broken for Worces- ter's fourth immediately in other end of city. Latter, which will seat 800, according to present plans, will bo erected by E. M. Loew's on land owned by R. Lawson Daniels, man- ager of Loew's Olympia licre. Opens early in spring. Robertson's 600-Sealer Dayton, O., Sept. 19. John Robertson will build a new 600-scatcr at Fairfield, work to start at once. House will be located near Patterson and WriRht Fields, army air bases. Robortson recently toolc over theatres in New Lexington and Shawnee. Mitchell's New House Whitesboro, Texas. Sept. 19. Whilesboro soon will have a ii^w picture bouse in a building now be- ing remodeled. Tom Milchell, in business at Denton, Texas, for sev- eral years, will operate. Ballo's l.st Ncwsreeler Baltimore, Sept. 19. Town's first newsrsclor being erected at Charles and North, busi- ness sub-center just oft midlown. Will be called the 'Time, 700 seals, skcdded to open early in October. Mclselraan's New Strand Spartanburg, S. C, Sept.-19. ■ H. B. Mciselman hiis. opened new S'trand, 725-seat house, Rockinghanv H. C. Wall, operator of Richmond, Rockingham, plans a new 500-seater. Construction bc.ijun. A.shevillc's now city auditorium Ipr vaudeville, clc. ppcnimj In Novem- ber. One of largest and most elabo- rate layouts in Carolina.s. Located on site of.famed old Aslioville audi- torium long used for opera, vaudc, roadshows, etc.