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MGM Schedules 15 Films For Early 1953 Start HOLLYWOOD—As the result of ten days of top-echelon executive huddles just concluded at the studio. MGM's 1952-53 picturemaking program will be maintained at an increasingly fast pace through the scheduling of 15 pictures to start during the coming three months. The slate was announced by Dore Schary, vice-president in charge of production, after east-west executive conferences for which Nicholas M. Schenck, president of Loew's. Inc., and Vice-presidents Charles Moskowitz. Joseph Vogel and Howard Dietz came out from New York. Participating for the studio, in addition to Schary. were members of the Culver City film plant's executive * board, E. J. Mannix, Ben Thau, L. K. Sidney, J. J. Cohn. Lawrence Weingarten, Kenneth MacKenna, Marvin Schenck and Charles Schnee. In addition to the 15 features being readied for production in coming weeks. Schary added that a tentative 1953-54 program has been outlined, drawn from among 52 story properties which are in long-range preparatory stages. Here are the 15 titles soon to go into work: Latin Lovers. Technicolor musical starring Lana Turner and Ricardo Montalban, which Joe Pasternak will produce and Mervyn LeRoy will direct. Years Ago, a romantic comedy toplining Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons and Teresa Wright, to be produced by Weingarten and directed by George Cukor. All the Brothers Were Valiant. Technicolor adventure story of the whaling-ship era, with Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger and Elizabeth Taylor, to be directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Pandro S. Berman. Blie Goodess. Producer Edwin H. Knopf's comedy starring Red Skelton, which Robert Z. Leonard will direct. Easy to Love, Technicolor musical toplining Esther Williams, a Pasternak production, with specialty numbers to be staged by Busby Berkeley. Interrupted Melody, biography of singer Marjorie Lawrence, who will be portrayed by Greer Garson. Jack Cummings will produce. Take the High Ground, story of the armed services, to be filmed in .Ansco Color with Schary personally producing. The cast will include James Whitmore and Dean Miller, and Richard Brooks will direct. Jefferson Selleck, from the best-selling novel, to star Spencer Tracy, with Joseph L. Mankiewicz as producer-director-writer. K:ss Me Kate, from Cole Porter's stage musical, starring Kathryn Grayson; to be produced by Cummings and directed by George Sidney. .Affairs of Dobie Giillis, featuring Debbie Reynolds, which Don Weis will meg for Producer .'\rthur Loew jr. One More Time, a Lana Turner starrer, which Cukor will direct and Armand Deutsch will produce. I Married West Point, a William Grady jr. production. Flight to the Islands. The Big Leaguer and Scarlet Coat, all to be lensed in Ansco Color. Three other Technicolor specials are scheduled for early spring, including "King Arthur and the Round Table," starring Robert Taylor: "Rose Marie," from the Rudolph Friml operetta: and "Brigadoon," based on the Broadway stage hit. Film rights also have been acquired to "The Ruth Etting Story," biography of the noted singer. Presently in work are "Mogambo." "Invitation to the Dance," "The Band Wagon," "Give a Girl a Break" and "A Slight Case of Larceny." These are in addition to 27 films already completed and awaiting relea.se. 1 U-l Executives to Meet in Hollywood During Week to Map Out Policies HOLLYWOOD—To perfect production, distribution and promotion plans for the coming year, executives in charge of these pha.ses of Universal-International's activities will launch a week-long .series of top-level policy sessions beginning Monday (8) at the studio. Division and district sales managers will participate, as will eastern and western promotion executives, studio and home office representatives. For the studio, the meeting will be attended by William Goetz, in charge of production; David A. Lipton. vice-president in charge of advertising and publicity; Edward Muhl, vicepresident and general manager: Al Horwits. publicity director, and other officials. Here from New York will be President Milton R. Rackmil; Alfred E. Daff, executive vice-president; Charles J. Peldman, general sales manager; N. J. Blumberg. board chairman: Adolph Schimel, vice-president and general counsel; Charles Simonelli, eastern advertising-publicity manager; Philip Gerard, eastern publicity director, and Jeff Livingston, eastern advertising chief. They will be joined at the studio by Ben Katz. midwest promotion representative; Ray Moon, assistant general sales manager; F. J. A. McCarthy, .southerri and Canadian sales chief; P. T. Dana, eastern sales head; Foster M. Blake, western sales manager; James J, Jordan, in charge of circuit sales; Harry Fellerman, sales head of U-I's special films division, and A. W. Perry, head of Empire-Universal in Canada, which distributes U-I films in that country. District managers participating will be David A. Levy. New York; James Frew, Atlanta; Manie M. Gottlieb, Chicago: Henry J. Martin, Dalla,s: P. F. Rosian. Cleveland; Lester Zucker, Kansas City; John J. Scully, Boston, and Barney Rose, San Franci.sco. 16
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