Variety (Dec 1939)

16 VARIETY PICTURES Wednesday, December 27, I939 Advance Production Chart (Continued from page 14) Elizabeth Patterson, Snowflake, Tom Kennedy, Sterling Holloway, John Wray, Georgia Caine, John Beck, Thomds W. Hoss, Virginia Brissac. 'THE BISCUIT EATER,' drama; produced by Jack Moss; director, Stuart Heisler; screen play by Stuart Anthony and Lillic Hayward; based on a story by James Street; photography by Leo Tover. Cast: Billy Lee, Helene Millard, Richard Lane, Lester Mathews, Snowflake, Gordell Hickman. •THE WAY OF. ALL FLESH,' drama; GMO production; associate pro- ducer, Eugene Zukor; directed by Louis King; no writing credits released; photographed by Theodor Sparkuhl. Cast: Akim Tamiroff, William Henry, Gladys George, Muriel Angelus, Norma Nelson, James Seay, Roger Imhof, Berton Churchill, Douglas Kennedy. •AT GOOD OLD 'SIWASH,' drama; produced and directed by Ted Reed; screen play by Don Hartman; based on the stories by George Fitch; photo- graphed by Victor Milner. Cast: William Holden, Bonita Granville, Ezra Stone, Vaughan Glaser, Judith Barrett, Phillip Terry, Richard Denning, James Seay, John Laird, John Hartley, Douglas Kennedy,'John Arledge, Jean Phillips, Audrey Maynard, Kay Stewart, Paula De Cardo, Kathleen McCormick, Jimmy Dodd, Harry C. Bradley, Dick Winslow, Michael Gale, Lane Allen, William Orr, Dave Dunbar, Aldrich Bowker, Kent Rogers, Frank Coghlan, Jr., Robert Scott, Alan Ladd, Gaylord Pendleton, James Flavin, Stanley BIystone, Lux McBride, Hal Brazeale, Richard Clayton, Bradley Clark, Billy O'Brien. •HIDDEN GOLD,' formerly titled 'THE MAN FROM BAK-20,' western; produced by Harry Sherinan; directed by Lesley Selander; no writing credits released; 'photographed by Russell Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Ruth Rogers, Britt Wood, Roy Barcroft, Minor Watson, Lee Phelps, Ethel Wales. •EMEBGENCY SQUAD,' GMO production; associate producer, Stuart Walker; directed by Edward Dmytryk; no writing credits released; photo- graphed by Harry Hallenberger. Cast: William Henry, Louise Campbell, Robert Paige, Richard Denning, Anthony Quinn. 'KNIGIITS OF THE RANGE,' western; produced by Harry Sherman: associate producer, Joe W. Engle; directed by Les Selander; screen play by Norman Houston, based on a story by Zane Grey; photographed by Russell Harlan. Cast: Russell Haiyden, Jean Parker, Harry Humphrey. J. Farrell MacDonald, Rad Robinson, Britt Wood, Victor Jory, Morri Ancrum, Ethel Wales. 'THE UGHT OF WESTERN STARS,' western, produced by Harry Sher- man; director, Leslie Selander; screenplay by Norman Houston, original by Zane Gray; photographed by Russell Harlan. Cast: Victor Jory, Jo Ann Sayers, Russell Hayden. Morris Ankrum, Noah Beery, Jr., Ruth Rogers, J. Farrell MacDonald, Esther Estrella, Alan Ladd, Georgia Haw- kins, Earle Askam. Tom Tyler. 'ROAD TO. SINGAPORE,' musical-comedy, produced by Harlan Thomp- son; director, Victor Schertzinger; screen play by Don Hartman and Frank BuUer; based on a ' story by Harry Hervey; photographed by William Mellor. Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Judith Barrett, Charles .Coburn, Anthony Quinn, Jerry Colonnai Johnny Arthur, Pedro Regas, Belle Mitchell. Nina Campana. Benny Inocencio, Gloria Franklin, Carmen D'Antonio, Bob O'Connor, Ed Gargan, Greta Grandstcdt Don Bfodie, Jc*n Kelly, Kitty Kelly, Freddie Walburn, Payne Johnson, Larry Harris, Roger Gray, Monte Blue. •THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER,' comedy-drama; associate producer, Wil- liam Thomas; directed by James Hogan; no writing credits released: pho- tographed by Deo Tover. Cast: Martha Raye. Charles Ruggles, Williiam Frawley, Richard Denning, Gertrude Michael, William Duncan, Ann Shoe- maker, William Demarest, Inez Courtney, Lorraine Krueger, Betty Mc- Laughlin, Anne Harrison, Tom Dugan, Jock Norton, Benny Baker, Bill Boggess, Bert Hanlon. Grace Hayle. Wanda McKay, Wilired Roberts, John Hartley, Darryl Hickman, Pat West, Jane Webb, Si Jenks, Sam Ash, Eddie Borden. 'WOMEN WITHOUT NAMES,' formerly titled 'STRANGE MONEY,' drama; associate producer, Eugene Zukor; directed by Robert Florey; no writing credits released; photographed by Stuart Thompson. Cast: Ellen. Drew, Robert Paige, Judith Barrett, John McGuire, Thomas E. Jackson, Warden M. Thomas, Joseph Sawyer, James Seay, Louise Beavers, John Miljan, Charles Williams, Esther Dale, Marjorie Main, Charles Waldron, Cy KendalU Weldon Heyburn. •THE SHOWDOWN,' formerly titled 'FOUR ACES,' formerly titled 'GUN CHORES,' Hopalong Cassidy westen; produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Howard Bretherton; screen play by Harold and Daniel Kusell; original story by Jack Jungmeyer; photographed by Russell Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Britt Wood, Morris Ankrum, Jane Clayton, Wright Kramer, Donald Kirk, Roy Barcroft, Kermit Maynard, Walter Shumway.— - . — — _. . . . _ •TYPHOON,' meller (Technicolor); GMO production; directed by Louis King; screen play by Allen Rivkin; based on story by Steve Fisher; photo- graphed by William Mellior. Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish, Paul Harvey, Norma Gene Nelson, Jack Carson, Al Kikume. Par Ptx Now In ProdacUon •BUCK BENNY RIDES AGAIN,' comedy; produced and directed by Mark Sandrich; no writing credits released; photographed by Charles Lang. Cast: . Jack Benny, Virgmia Dale, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Merrlel Abbott Dancers. Ellen Drew, Lillian (Cornell, Kay Linaker, Theresa Harris, Dennis Day, George Guhl, Billy Bletcher, Allen Wood, Monte Collins. Harry Baldwin, James Burke, Edgar Dearing, Eddie Acuff, Marte Faust, Eddie Chandler, Dick Rush, Roger Gray, Willie Fung, Sonny Chorre, 'SAFARI,' drama; GMO production; directed by Edward H. Griffith; no writing credits released; photographed by Ted Tetzlafl. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., .Medeleine Carroll, Tullio Carminati, Lynne Overman, Muriel Angelus, Fredrik Vogeding, Clinton Rosemond, Thomas Liouden, Fred Godoy, Jack V. Carr, Billy Gilbert, Hans Von Morbart, Darby Jones, Henry Rowland, George Melford, James Davis, Al Duval, John B. Wash- ington, Ben Carter, Hassan Said, Major Sam Harris, Jesse Graves, Ernest Whitman. 'GOLBEN GLOVES,' drama; G. M. O. production; associate producer, WiUiam C. Thomas; directed by Edwcrd Dmytryk; no writing credits re- leased; photographed by Henry Sharp; Cast: Robert Ryan, Jean Cagney, - Richard Denning, Robert Paige, William Frawley, Edward Brophy. ' •HOLD YOUR HORSES,' western; produced by Harry Sherman; directed by Lesley Selander; screen play by No;.*'.nan Houston based on a stoiy by Clarence E.. Mulford; photographed by Russell Harlan. Cast: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Britt Wood, Harvey Stephens, J. Farrell MacDonald, Julie Carter, Rad Robinson, Frank Lackteen, Edward Waller, Jack Rock- well. •DOWN WENT McGlNTY,' drama; produced by Paul Jones; directed by Preston Sturges; no writing credits released; photographed by William Mellor. Cast: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest, Allyn Joslyn, Harry Rosenthal, Libby Taylor, Thurston Hall, Steffi Duna, Esther Howard, Donnie Kerr, Mary Thomas, Walter Soder- ling, Harry Hayden, William Edmunds, Dorothy Vernon, Sylvia Andrew, Kay Stewart, Jean Phillips. duccd by Max Gordon and Harry Goctz; directed by John C^romwell; play and screen play by Robert Sherwood; photographed by James Wong Howe. Cast: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mory Howard, Dorothy Tree, Harvey Stephens, Minor Watson, Alan Baxter, Howard De Silva, Aldrich Bowker, Maurice Murphy, Louis Jean Heydt, Cl6m. Bevans, Hnrlan Briggs. •SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON,' drama, produced by Gene Towne and Gnibani Baker; director, Edward Ludwig; stoiy adaptation by Towne and Baker; screenplay by Walter Ferris; photography by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Terry Kilburn, Tim Holt, Bobby Quillan, Christian Hub, John Wray, Herbert Ra^ylinson, Fred Kohler. •MARINES FLY HIGH,' melodrama; produced bv Robert Sisk; directed by Ben Stoloflf; screen play by Jerry Cady; photographed by Frank Redman. Cast: Richard Dix, Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, John Eldredgc, Paul Harvey, Horace MacMahon, Dick Hogan, Steffi Duna, Bob Stenton, Doris Lloyd, Frank M. Thomas, Nestor Paiva. 'LITTLE ORVIE,' drama; produced by William Sistrom; directed by Ray McCarey; screen play by Lynn Root and Frank Fenton from the novel by Booth Tarkington; photographed by Roy Hunt. Cast: John Sheffield, Ernest Truex, Dorothy Tree, Ann Todd, Daisy Mothershed, Ray Turner, Fay Helm, Dell Henderson. 'VIGIL.IN THE NIGHT' (1939-40 release), drama; produced and directed by George Stevens; from novel by A. J. Cronin; photographed by Robert De Grasse. Cast: Carole Lombard, Brian Aherne, Anne Shirley, Brenda Forbes, Robert Coote. •SAINT'S DOUBLE TROUBLE,' melodrama; produced by Cliff Reid; directed by Jack Hively; screen play by Ben Holmes and Jerry Cady from novel by Leslie Charteris; photographed by Roy Hunt Cast: George San- ders, Helene Whitney, Jonathan Hale, Bela Lugosi, Donald MacBride, John F. Hamilton, Thomas W. Ross, Elliott Sullivan, Byron Foulger. RKO PIx Now In Production . 'PINOCCHIO' (1939-40 release), Walt Disney adaptation of child's folk tale by C. Collodi; an animated feature in Technicolor. •THE PRIMROSE PATH,' drama; produced and directed by Gregory La Cava; no writing credits released; photographed by Joseph August. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers, Vivian Osborne, Miles Mander, Queenie Vassar, Joan Carol, Carmen Morales. •IRENE,' romantic comedy with music; produced and directed by Her- bert Wilcox; screen play by Alice Duer Miller from the James Montgom- ery play; photographed by Russell Metty. Cast: Anna Neagle, Ray Mil- land, Roland Young, Alan Marshal, May Robson, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher, Isabel Jewell, Doris Nolan, Tommy Kelly, Ethel Griffies, Marsha Hunt, Stuart Robertson, Juliette Compton. 'MY FAVORITEvWIFE,' drama; produced by Leo McCarey: directed by Garson Kanin; screen play- by Sam and Bella Spewack; photographed by Rudolph Mate. Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Ann Shoemaker, Scotty Beckett, Mary Lou Harrington, Donald MacBride. •MILLIONAIRE PLAYBOY,' comedy; produced by Robert Sisk: directed by Les Goodwins; screen play by Charles Roberts; photographed by Jack McKenzie. Cast: Joe Penner, Linda Hayes, Russ Brown, Fritz Fcld, Tom Kennedy, Granville Bates, Arthur Q. Bryan. 'BILL OF DIVORCEMENT,' drama; produced by Robert Sisk; directed by John Farrow; screen play by Dalton Trumbo from the stage play by Clemence Dane; photographed by Nick Musuraca. Cast: Maureen O'Hara, Adolphe Menjou, Fay Bainter, Herbert Marshall, Dame May Whitty, Patric Knowles, C. Aubrey Smith, Ernest Cossart, Kathryn Collier, Lauri Beatty. RKO-Radio „ ^ . Now Balance to Number Nnmber Now in Be Placed Stories In of Plx Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- Promised - pleted ing Booms Cameras tion Studios 52 10. 4- 4' 34 34 ' Westerns 6 2 9 0 '.4 4 Sol Lesser 2 2 0 0 0 0 •The Plays' the Thing 4 .0 • 1 3 .3 Plays & Fix Corp. 2 0 • 1 1 1 Uajor Pictures (English) 1 • 0 0 Harold Lloyd 1 0 • 1 1 Stephens-Lang .... 3 • fl 2 2 Boris Morros Prod. 1 4 6 0 0 Walt Disney 1 I 0 0 0 Totals 73 16 6 fl. 45 45 Pictures now. in the cutting rooms or awaiting release are: <aiiK r.tvrof.N in ILLINOIS'^ (1939-40 release), historical drama: pro Republic Now Balance to Number Number Now In Be Placed Stories In of Plx Com- Shoot- Cutting Before Prepara- Promised pleted ing Jlooms Cameras tion Features Z4 8 1 2 13 13 Westerns 24 7 0 1 16 16 Serials 4 2 0 0 2 2 Totals 52 17 1 3 31 31 . Pictures in the cutting rooms or awaiting release: •THE WOLF OF NEW YORK,' meller; associate producer, Robert North; directed by William McGann; no writing credits released; photographed by Reggie Lanning. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Rose Hobart. James Stephenson, Bill Demarest, Jerome Cowan, Maurice Murphy, Ann Baldwin. •HEROES OF THE SADDLE,' western; produced by Harty Grey; di- rected by-William-Witney; no writing credits released; photographed-by William Nobles. Cast: Bob Livingston, Raymond Hatton, Duncan Renaldo, Loretta Weaver, Patsy Lee Parsons, Byron Foulger, William Royle, Al Taylor, Douglas Deems, Darwood Kay, Patsy Carmichael. 'VILLAGE BARN DANCE,' drama with music; associate producer, Armand Schaefer; directed by Frank MacDonald; no writing credits re- leased; photographed by Ernest Miller. Cast: Richard Cromwell. Doris Day, Barbara Jo Allen, Robert Baldwin, Esther Dale, Don Wilson, Lulu Belle, Scotty. Republic Plx Now In Prodncilon ^ 'THE DARK COMMAND,' meUer; associate producer, Sol C. Siegel; T""?*^i^° ?y Raoul Walsh; no writing credits released; photographed by Jack Marta. Cast: John Wayne. Claire Trevor. Roy Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, Porter Hall, Joseph Sawyer, Marjorie Main, George Hayes. 20th Cenhiry-Fox (1939-40) „ , Now Balance to Number Number Now In Be Placed Stories In <rt Plx Com- Shoot- Cokttlng Before Prepara- . Premised pleted ing Rooms Cameras tion Totals 52 30 3 11 11 11 Pictures now in the cutting rooms or awaiting-release are: 'THE BLUE BIRD,' fantasy in Technicolor; a.ssociate producer Gene Markey; directed by Walter Lang; screen play by Ernest pSc^ from b^k T?^n,nfo"''ilt**rn''-''"';''= photographed by Arthur Miller. Cast^ShW^y Temple, Spring Byington, Eddie Collins. Sybil Jason, Gale Sondcrcaard S&liL^ie^R\y;h,^?lhfar^- ^-«' '^^"^y ^'ssTSi by Ernest Palmer Cast: Joel McCrea, Nancy Kelly, Roland Young Mary Boland, Mary Healy, Lyle Talbot, Elisha Cook, Jr.. Ba"nelt Parker ' flirpMnr''*Voh?*"Tr^?'^''"'' '^1?"'°= associate producer, Nunnally Johnson; Tni,nS ' ^iS"^^! no writing credits released; photography by Gregg nprwfn o"^""?- ^°"rfes- ^9.^K Bowdon, Charlie Grapewfn. JanI Frank Vrien" Fran'k^SulIy'^*''^'" ^"^P^'^"' JUilT^u^rP^^v^^'" YORK- drama; produced by Raymond Griffith; di- QV„ m;«? ;X . "0 writing credits released; photography by Leon T^viS Al'ce Faye, Fred MacMurray, Richard Greene. Brenda Wilson ' ^"""^ Stephenson, Ben Carter. Clarence Hummel _ 'PHARLIE CHAN IN PANAMA,' meller, produced by Sol M. Wurlzel; director, Norman Foster; no writing credits released; photographed by Virgil Miller Cast: Sidney Toler, Jean Rogers, Lionel AtwiU, Sen Yung, Chris-Pin Martin, Kane Richmond, Mary Nash. Lionel Royce, Helen Ericson, Edwin Stanley; Don Douglas. Frank Puglia. •THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T TALK,' meller; produced by Sol WurUel; .,'jy David Burton; no writing credits released; photography by yirgil Miller. Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Jean Rogers, Richard Clarke, Mae Marsh, Joan Valerie, Douglas Wood, Onslow Stevens, Eric Blore, Irving Bacon. 'SHOOTING HIGH,' drama; produced by Sol M. Wurtzel; directed by Alfred Green; no writing credits released. Cast: Jane Withers, Gene Autry, Manone Weaver, Katharine Aldridge, Jack Carson. •YOUNG AS YOU FEEL,' Jones Family comedy; produced by John Stone; directed by Malcolm St. Clair; no writing credits released; photo- graphed by Charles Clarke. Cast: ,Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, Ken (Continued on page 18) Hays Meeting Covers Neely, Foreign Coin, The 1940 Budget, Etc The Neely bill, tentative discussion of the 1940 budget and the foreign coin situation occupied the meeting of the Hays office directors Thurs- day (21) after lack of quorum forced an adjournment from the previous day. This was the regular quarterly year-end session, with the directorate showing its concern over foreign losses by calling in all foreign de< partment chiefs for a doseup ver- sion. Although the matter was taken up, Only preliminary discus.<uon was held on the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors' Assn. budget for next year. That will be decided when the directors huddle again Jan. 3. Last Thursday's session was the. first since Great Britain .had decided to freeze approxhnately 50% of the net annual revenue of seven majors in Great Britain, or about $17,500,« 000. The British quota law remain- ing as it was, until Mfirch 31, that must force a majority of the major companies to go ahead with produc- tion in England, which had been temporarily halted. A large portion of the frozen currency probably will be used for this production. Besides Will Hay? and Major Fred- erick L. Hcrron, head of the Hays olTicc foreign division, Maurice Silvcrstonc, Nicholas M. Schenck, W. C. Michel, Jack Cohn, Nate Bluinberg, Barney Balaban, George J. Schaefer and Joseph H.' Hazeh at- tended the board meeting. The foreign chiefs called in were Arthur M.i Loew, David Bernstein (who accompanied Loew), Phil Rels- man, John A. McCbnville, Walter J. Hutchinson, Arthur Kelly, Karl Mc- Donald, J. W. Hicks, Jr., and Joe H. Scidelman. McDonald appeared in the absence of Joseph Hummel, for Warner Bros. Plan to lend financial aid to varl« ous units such as the AMPA commit* tee, recently appointed, to combat the Neely bill, was reported as ono of the topics up for consideration. U'S '39-40 RELEASES AT HALF-WAY MARK Hollywood, Dec. 36. Universal has delivered half Its 1939-40 quota of pictures and Is set to release four additional features within threie weeks. •Charlie .. McCarthy, Detective,* 'Green Hell' and 'The Invisible Man Returns' are ready for delivery. 'My Little Chickadee,' the Mae West- W. C. Fields co-starrer, goes into tho editing room this week. . . Waiting for Grant Keeps Edington Idle Till March Hollywood, Dec. 26. Harry Edington's Famous Produc- tions at Universal is taking a siesta because Cary Grant is unavailable as star of the company's next picture, 'La Chienne,' until March. Currently Grant is playing in 'My Favorite Wife* at RKO. after which he goes into 'Tree of Liberty' at Columbia. Kelley Made U Exec Hollywood, Dec. 26. Dan Kelley, casting head at Uni- versal for six years,- was upped to associate executive, with authority to negotiate with directors and writers as well as players; New contract runs for two years. Lesser Tests Legiter . Hollywood, Dec. 26. Lois Hall, currently in the cast of John Barrymore's 'My Dear Chil- dren,' planes in today (Tues.) from Chicagq for a screen teit If 'she clicks she gets the femme lead in Sol Lesser's 'Our Town.' DraECTOE THIELE'S % SUIT Los Angeles, Dec. 26. Stanley Bcrgeman agency filed suit for $2,120 against William Thiele, Metro director, charging breach of contract Plaintiff asks commissions on Thiele's $600 weekly salary since April 10, 1939, plus percentage of his earnings under the studio ^n- I tract.