DECEMBER
' PAULETTE ' \ STUDIO PERSONNELITIES Cleifers Metro CONRAD SALINGER will score for "Dream Wife." Republic compose ond conduct the Composer NED FREEMAN was inked to a new term pact. Loanouts Republic Borrowed from Metro, GIG YOUNG was set for the mole leod in Producer-Director John H. Auer's "City That Never Sleeps." Meggers Allied Artists Handed the megging chore on the new Bowery Boys comedy, "Jalopy," was WILLIAM BEAUDINE. The producer is Ben Schwolb. Columbia "49 Men," the Sam Kotzman production, will be directed by FRED F. SEARS. 20th Century-Fox Assigned respectively as producer and director of "No Business Like Show Business," a Technicolor musical stemming from Irving Berlin's hit song of that title, were SOL C. SIEGEL and WALTER LANG. Warners Milton Sperling's United States Pictures set HUGO FREGONESE to direct "Blowing Wild," upcoming oil field drome, which will star Gory Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. Options Columbia JUDD HOLDREN will star in Producer Sam Katzmon's senol, "Planet Man," which rolls shortly under Spencer Bennet's direction. Set as the femme lead wos VIVIAN MASON. The spoce opera is being directed by Spencer Bennet. JOHN HODIAK will portray the Apache chief, Cochise, in Producer Sam Katzman's Technicolor western, "Conquest of Cochise." Independent Sequoia Productions, headed by Sol Lesser, Jules Levy ond Arthur Gardner, signed EDWARD BINNS, Broodwoy actor, and JOAN VOHS, TV thespian, for supporting parts in "Horness Bull," which is being directed by Arnold Loven. GOD- DARD will star with Edward G. Robinson in the picture. Producer Ed Leven inked RON KENNEDY, former disk jockey, for the mole lead in "The Jagged Edge," a crime drama which Felix Feist will direct. Metro CORNEL WILDE and MEL FERRER will have the stellar roles in "Saadia," to be written, produced and directed by Albert Lewin. It will be filmed on location in French Morocco. JOHN LUND was set to stor with Lono Turner and Ricordo Montalban in Producer Joe Pasternak's "Latin Lovers." It will be directed in Technicolor by Mervyn LeRoy. Signed for the topline in "The Big Leaguer," o baseball story, was EDWARD G. ROBINSON. Motthew Ropf will produce from a script by Herbert Boker. Robert Taylor's leading lady in "King Arthur ond the Round Table," which Pandro S. Sermon will produce in England next spring, will be MAUREEN 5WAN50N, British actress. The Technicolor costumer will be megged by Richard Thorpe. Republic MARIE WINDSOR was signed for a top role in Producer-Director John H. Auer's "City That Never Sleeps." Booked for "A Perilous Voyage" were EILEEN CHRISTY and BEN COOPER. The William J. O'Sullivan production, starring Vero Ralston and Scott Brody, is being directed by R. G. Springsteen. 20th Century-Fox TOMMY NOONAN, nightclub comedian, drew a topline in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," the Sol C. Siegel production starring Marilyn Monroe ana Jone Russell, which Howard Hawks is directing. Inked for the Susan Hoyward-Robert Mitchum vehicle, "White Witch Doctor," was WALTER SLEZAK. Henry Hathaway megs the Otto Long production. Universal-International RICHARD CARLSON will star with Barbara Stonwyck in "Stopover," the Ross Hunter production, which is to be directed by Douglas Sirk. Joining Jeff Chandler and Marilyn Maxwell in the "East of Sumatra" cost was SUZAN BALL. Budd Boetticher directs for Producer Albert J. Cohen. Warners Set for a characted lead in "The System," starring Frank Lovejoy, was JEROME COWAN. The Samuel Bischoff production is being megged by Lewis Seller. PAUL PICERNl was cast as an attorney. TED DE CORSIA will enact the leading heavy in Producer Bryan Foy's "The City Is Dork," which stars Gene Nelson and Sterling Hoyden under the direction of Andre De Toth. Set for "The Grace Moore Story" were WALTER ABEL and ANN DORAN. Also inked for the Kothryn Grayson topliner, was ROSEMARY DE CAMP. The musicol biography is being produced by Henry Blonke and megged by Gordon Douglas. Metro ROBERT BUCKNER was signed to develop "The Donnybrook Fighter," from an original by Irene Winston, for production by Armand Deutsch. Story Buys Columbia "River of the Sun," a Book-of-the-Month club selection by James Ramsey UHman, was purchased end placed on William Fadiman's production schedule. Dealing with heretofore unexplored tributaries of the Amazon, it will be photogrophed in Technicolor on location in Brazil. Paramount "King Copper," a historical western by Jock Goodman, was acquired for production in Technicolor by Nat Holt. Frank Gruber is preparing the screenplay, which deals with the discovery and development of Utah's copper mines in the 1870s. RKO Radio Huntington Hartford Productions purchased 'Maud," a love story by Louis Auchincloss, as a starring vehicle for Marjorie Steele and Robert Preston. Filming IS slated to begin shortly after the first of the year under Hartford's multiple-picture commitment with this company. 20th Century-Fox "Mock the Midnight Bell," a melodroma by Virginia Van Upp and Maurice Ries, was purchased and assigned to Frank Rosenberg to produce. Horace McCoy will write the screenplay. "The Proud Ones," a western by Verne Athanas, was purchased and handed to Fronk Rosenberg to produce. Technically Independent Crew ossembled for Sequoia Productions' "Harness Bull" includes JOE BIROC, photogropher; CARROLL CLARK, art director, and HARLAN WARDE, dialog director. Metro WILLIAM KAPLAN will be the unit manoger on "Years Ago," with JACK GREENWOOD as ossistont director. Warners AL ALLEBORN will be the assistant director on "The Eddie Cantor Story." :,iSKfn£ Title Changes Republic "The Perilous Voyage" changed to A PERILOUS VOYAGE. i West: Y. Frank Freeman, Paramount vicepresident in charge of studio operations, returned from a week of homeoffice huddles in New York. « * « West: David A. Lipton, U-I vice-president in charge of advertising and publicity, planed in from Manhattan after attending a series of high-level policy meetings. i • * * 2 MtirititS ::fflttoriip( '•:'iiiejPrel ::::. Jul ii 1 ~ :-;:est- . ;i:tai --T:.;iry ( West: Due in from New York for studio | conferences was Charles Einfeld, 20th-Fox vice-president in charge of advertising and I publicity, who will huddle at the Westwood film plant with Darryl F. Zanuck, production chief, and Harry Brand, studio publicity director, on upcoming product. il3-Pi --WOO! * * * West: S. Barret McCormick, until recently advertising-publicity director for RKO. checked in from Gotham for a two-week visit. BRITISH VISITOR—C. J. Latta (second from left), managing dinctor of Associated British Pictures, was guest of honor at a dinner party given him recently in Hollywood by executives of Allied Artists. At left is Scott R. Dunlap. AA producer; Harold Mirisch, AA vice-president, and President Steve Broidy are at right. 81 Per Cent of Goal HOLLYWOOD—With a total of $992,156 thus far pledged by 17,793 subscribers, the Permanent Charities committee has attained 81 per cent of its 1953 goal of $1,225,000, it was disclosed by Dore Schary, campaign chairman. Labor's executive committee, representing 34 crafts and unions, has reported 14,549 subscriptions for $448,821, while ttie balance of the present total was pledged by studio executives, talent guilds and allied industries. -.:::S 44 BOXOFFICE December 6, 1952
, VER-IMAOINATIVE 'Captain Kidd' to Bow r.?« i4 At Chicago on 17th HOLLYWOOI>- "AbboU u.il Costello Meet Captain Kldd," produced (or Warner rclen.Mby Alex Gottlieb, will be given Its midwe.sl premiere Wednesday (17) at the United Artists Theatre In Chicago, with the comedy learn set to make personal appearances. Tliey co-star with Charles Laughton In the comedy, which was filmed In Clnecolor and directed by Charles Lamont. Six Educcrtional Centers To Get 'Kon-Tiki' Prints HOLLYWOOD— Six universities and educational organizations have been designated U 1952 recipients of 16mm prints of "Kon- Tlkl" In the first annual grants of the International Documentary Film Foundation, recently established by Sol Lesser and Thor Heyerdahl. Heyerdahl. the Norwegian scientist and explorer who made the "Kon-Tlkl" voyage, has been here for the past week conferring with Lesser, who sponsored the "Kon- Tlki" film, on the grants. To be given the 16mm prints are Oxford and Cambridge universities, England: the National Norwegian Film Center, the University of Pennsylvania, the Sino-British club of Hong Hong, the University of Hong Kong, and the University of California at Los Angeles. Two Depart From 20th-Fox HOLLYWOOD—Departure of a producer and the impending checkout of a director whittles 20th-Fox's contract list by two. Andre Hakim, who produced three films for the company, has terminated his contract, while megaphonist Howard Hawks will resume activities as an independent producer and director upon completion of the current "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Meantime, Julian Blaustein's contract as a producer was renewed, with Blaustein—at his own request—planning to concentrate on individual pictures and being relieved of the supplementary executive duties he has exercised for the past 18 months. AA to Begin 1953 Program With 13-Picture Backlog HOLLYWOOD—With the expected completion this month of "Jalopy." a Bowery Boys comedy. Allied Artists wiU end 1952 with a 13-picture backlog, four in color. The tinters are "Kansas Pacific." "The Roar of the Crowd," "Fort Vengeance" and "Son of Belle Starr." Also awaiting release, in black-and-white, are "Cow Country." "Timber Wolf." "Star of Texas." "The Marksman." "Tangier Incident." "The Homesteaders." "Copperheads" and "White Lightning." Glenn Ford Signs for Two HOLLYWOOD—Glenn Ford inked a twopicture starring pact with U-I. the Initialer to be a Technicolor action drama. "Wings of the Vulture." It will roll in mid-February as an Aaron Ro-senberg production. Ford currently is on location in Mexico as the star of "Plunder of the Sun." a John Wayne-Robert Fellows production to be distributed by Warners. BOXOFFICE :: December 6, 1952 prcM agentn may .sometlme.t work agi^rut the long-mnKc beat lntcre.il of the film colony, e.speclally when pursued by a publlcl.1t whojie cnthu.iln.im Li greater than hii Judgment or hl.s ethics. (There arc ethics In the field of drumbcatlng? Suspicion of one xuch coac Li found In the newspaper space recently accorded the socalled Hollywood Actors Council. This organization allegedly elected ILielf a batch of new officers and announced, via printed reports, that It Intends to continue to participate actively In both civic affairs and charitable ventures, which alms encompass collecting articles for benefit auctions, furnishing musical talent for public appearances on holidays, campaigning on behalf of the Red Cro.ss Bloodmoblle, March of Dimes, American Legion, Community Chest, civilian defense and similar endeavors. Its new slate of officers Includes Les Tremayne. radio and film actor, president, succeeding William Talman; Paul Flerro. TV player, vice-president; singer Carole Richards, secretary, and Buddy Ebsen, treasurer. Keen ob.servers of the Hollywood scene were quick to note that many of the mummers named in the yarns as officers—past or present—are or were clients of Bernle Kamlns. freelance space-snatcher. On the surface, it might appear that Kamins' hijacking of news columns on behalf of hLs clients, and through emploj-ment of a slightly mythical organization. Is a harmle.s.s pursuit. But this isn't exactly the case. There is one outstanding organization for film players—the Screen Actors Guild. Through years of herd work and exceptionally efficient management It has won an enviable and valuable status as strongest and most effective of Cinemania's trade unions. What it has accomplished for its members both professionally and as concerns many of their extra-curricular activities—requires no accenting here. Resultantly, it rightfuUy commands the undivided organizational loyalty of its card-bearers. To project another outfit, merely for the sake of garnering doubtful-value attention for a few space-hungry thesplans. may cause confusion among other actors, as well as the reading public. So It appears that Bernle. the bashful boy blurber. would be serving the Industry that supports him more effectively by limiting his activities to less volatile pursuits and subjects, such as guzzling goldfish, which weird gastronomical pastime first won him recognition when he was blushing unseen on Harvard's campus. From Dave Epstein comes disillusionment In the form of a yam about his rlient. Koy Rowland, who. he avers, is preparinR an opus titled "The PromLsed Land" for upcoming productions. The property. accordinK to the Epsteinian communique, shows the Cillfornia gold rush of 1849 "not .as a happy adventure of ca.sy fortunes but as .i a.-jtional calamity, a fliKht from reality, .ind a debacle resulting; In thousands of personal traicrdifs, ruined homes and abandoned farms and busl- . . II mdrd «ith > handful of railUoe- •lrr« and 2M.0M I>P* in ( allfomU Uirrw our national rconomlr •tabllU)r off baLinrr Into a ipin from whlrh It liaa iMwr r*- rorrrrd." That > pitrin \lw.ti% briltllln" t'Xnt Ihlag you know, hr'll try to %rll thr Idra that tt ain't Kold 'nrath thrm thar prrut acrnt The Warner Bros.' Burtwinklan bhtrbery supplle.i Information about a "cheeMcake" Interview during which Tesaa Prenderfast. Jamalca-bom actre*.s who appears with Burt Lanca.iter In the upcoming "His Majeaty CKecfe," recounted for members of HoUjrwood'.s foreign press her "experlencea of swimming In the shark-Infested waters of Um South Pacific." TesB ain't seen nothin' yet Walt till siM encounters the wolf-Infested itretches of Suaset boulevard. In one week, Hollywood's film appralvm had so much of the Spanish Main that it flirurativrly ran out of their ears. Thry had the edifylnr experience of wltnr-s.sin( thrr« count 'em—Ihrre pirate pictures, Harnrr Bros.' ".\bbotl and ("ostello Meet ( apUin Kldd." Iniversal-Internatlonals ".%raln.st All FlaBs" and RKO Radios 'Blackbraj-d. the Pirate." There was plenty of "Yo. ho, ho" from the prevs agents rrspecllvely concerned with the trio of swa.shbucklers— but nary a bottle of rum. Things are toueh all orer, boyv Just getting the feel Allied Artists, nee Monogram, which Is of atmaspherlc previews, unfurled Its "Flat Top" aboard the carrier U.S.S. Princeton, anchored at San Diego Now comes the debut of "Hiawatha" at the prosaic Academy Theatre. Some consideration was accorded the possibilities of previewing the opus in a wigwam, but none could be found sufficiently commodious to cover Sandy Abrahams. Teel Carle's Paramount praLsery apprises that the studio recently hosted a froup of a>iation executives attending a conTcnUon of the National .\viation Trader; .\».s'n. Should have been a cinch for the pabliclty staff to handle, since Teet and his lads are up in the air most of the time anrway. 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PAULETTE<br />
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STUDIO PERSONNELITIES<br />
Cleifers<br />
Metro<br />
CONRAD SALINGER will<br />
score for "Dream Wife."<br />
Republic<br />
compose ond conduct the<br />
Composer NED FREEMAN was inked to a new<br />
term pact.<br />
Loanouts<br />
Republic<br />
Borrowed from Metro, GIG YOUNG was set for<br />
the mole leod in Producer-Director John H. Auer's<br />
"City That Never Sleeps."<br />
Meggers<br />
Allied Artists<br />
Handed the megging chore on the new Bowery<br />
Boys comedy, "Jalopy," was WILLIAM BEAUDINE.<br />
The producer is Ben Schwolb.<br />
Columbia<br />
"49 Men," the Sam Kotzman production, will be<br />
directed by FRED F. SEARS.<br />
20th Century-Fox<br />
Assigned respectively as producer and director of<br />
"No Business Like Show Business," a Technicolor<br />
musical stemming from Irving Berlin's hit song of<br />
that title, were SOL C. SIEGEL and WALTER LANG.<br />
Warners<br />
Milton Sperling's United States Pictures set HUGO<br />
FREGONESE to direct "Blowing Wild," upcoming oil<br />
field drome, which will star Gory Cooper and Barbara<br />
Stanwyck.<br />
Options<br />
Columbia<br />
JUDD HOLDREN will star in Producer Sam Katzmon's<br />
senol, "Planet Man," which rolls shortly under<br />
Spencer Bennet's direction. Set as the femme lead<br />
wos VIVIAN MASON. The spoce opera is being<br />
directed by Spencer Bennet.<br />
JOHN HODIAK will portray the Apache chief,<br />
Cochise, in Producer Sam Katzman's Technicolor western,<br />
"Conquest of Cochise."<br />
Independent<br />
Sequoia Productions, headed by Sol Lesser, Jules<br />
Levy ond Arthur Gardner, signed EDWARD BINNS,<br />
Broodwoy actor, and JOAN VOHS, TV thespian,<br />
for supporting parts in "Horness Bull," which is<br />
being directed by Arnold Loven.<br />
GOD-<br />
DARD will star with Edward G. Robinson in the<br />
picture.<br />
Producer Ed Leven inked RON KENNEDY, former<br />
disk jockey, for the mole lead in "The Jagged<br />
Edge," a crime drama which Felix Feist will direct.<br />
Metro<br />
CORNEL WILDE and MEL FERRER will have the<br />
stellar roles in "Saadia," to be written, produced<br />
and directed by Albert Lewin. It will be filmed<br />
on location in French Morocco.<br />
JOHN LUND was set to stor with Lono Turner<br />
and Ricordo Montalban in Producer Joe Pasternak's<br />
"Latin Lovers." It will be directed in Technicolor by<br />
Mervyn LeRoy.<br />
Signed for the topline in "The Big Leaguer," o<br />
baseball story, was EDWARD G. ROBINSON. Motthew<br />
Ropf will produce from a script by Herbert Boker.<br />
Robert Taylor's leading lady in "King Arthur ond<br />
the Round Table," which Pandro S. Sermon will<br />
produce in England next spring, will be MAUREEN<br />
5WAN50N, British actress. The Technicolor costumer<br />
will be megged by Richard Thorpe.<br />
Republic<br />
MARIE WINDSOR was signed for a top role in<br />
Producer-Director John H. Auer's "City That Never<br />
Sleeps."<br />
Booked for "A Perilous Voyage" were EILEEN<br />
CHRISTY and BEN COOPER. The William J. O'Sullivan<br />
production, starring Vero Ralston and Scott<br />
Brody, is being directed by R. G. Springsteen.<br />
20th Century-Fox<br />
TOMMY NOONAN, nightclub comedian, drew a<br />
topline in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," the Sol C.<br />
Siegel production starring Marilyn Monroe ana Jone<br />
Russell, which Howard Hawks is directing.<br />
Inked for the Susan Hoyward-Robert Mitchum<br />
vehicle, "White Witch Doctor," was WALTER<br />
SLEZAK. Henry Hathaway megs the Otto Long<br />
production.<br />
Universal-International<br />
RICHARD CARLSON will star with Barbara Stonwyck<br />
in "Stopover," the Ross Hunter production,<br />
which is to be directed by Douglas Sirk.<br />
Joining Jeff Chandler and Marilyn Maxwell in the<br />
"East of Sumatra" cost was SUZAN BALL. Budd<br />
Boetticher directs for Producer Albert J. Cohen.<br />
Warners<br />
Set for a characted lead in "The System," starring<br />
Frank Lovejoy, was JEROME COWAN. The<br />
Samuel Bischoff production is being megged by<br />
Lewis Seller. PAUL PICERNl was cast as an attorney.<br />
TED DE CORSIA will enact the leading heavy in<br />
Producer Bryan Foy's "The City Is Dork," which<br />
stars Gene Nelson and Sterling Hoyden under the<br />
direction of Andre De Toth.<br />
Set for "The Grace Moore Story" were WALTER<br />
ABEL and ANN DORAN. Also inked for the Kothryn<br />
Grayson topliner, was ROSEMARY DE CAMP. The<br />
musicol biography is being produced by Henry<br />
Blonke and megged by Gordon Douglas.<br />
Metro<br />
ROBERT BUCKNER was signed to develop "The<br />
Donnybrook Fighter," from an original by Irene<br />
Winston, for production by Armand Deutsch.<br />
Story Buys<br />
Columbia<br />
"River of the Sun," a Book-of-the-Month club<br />
selection by James Ramsey UHman, was purchased<br />
end placed on William Fadiman's production schedule.<br />
Dealing with heretofore unexplored tributaries<br />
of the Amazon, it will be photogrophed in Technicolor<br />
on location in Brazil.<br />
Paramount<br />
"King Copper," a historical western by Jock<br />
Goodman, was acquired for production in Technicolor<br />
by Nat Holt. Frank Gruber is preparing the<br />
screenplay, which deals with the discovery and development<br />
of Utah's copper mines in the 1870s.<br />
RKO Radio<br />
Huntington Hartford Productions purchased 'Maud,"<br />
a love story by Louis Auchincloss, as a starring<br />
vehicle for Marjorie Steele and Robert Preston. Filming<br />
IS slated to begin shortly after the first of the<br />
year under Hartford's multiple-picture commitment<br />
with this company.<br />
20th Century-Fox<br />
"Mock the Midnight Bell," a melodroma by Virginia<br />
Van Upp and Maurice Ries, was purchased<br />
and assigned to Frank Rosenberg to produce. Horace<br />
McCoy will write the screenplay.<br />
"The Proud Ones," a western by Verne Athanas,<br />
was purchased and handed to Fronk Rosenberg to<br />
produce.<br />
Technically<br />
Independent<br />
Crew ossembled for Sequoia Productions' "Harness<br />
Bull" includes JOE BIROC, photogropher; CARROLL<br />
CLARK, art director, and HARLAN WARDE, dialog<br />
director.<br />
Metro<br />
WILLIAM KAPLAN will be the unit manoger on<br />
"Years Ago," with JACK GREENWOOD as ossistont<br />
director.<br />
Warners<br />
AL ALLEBORN will be the assistant director on<br />
"The Eddie Cantor Story." :,iSKfn£<br />
Title<br />
Changes<br />
Republic<br />
"The Perilous Voyage" changed to A PERILOUS<br />
VOYAGE.<br />
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West: Y. Frank Freeman, Paramount vicepresident<br />
in charge of studio operations, returned<br />
from a week of homeoffice huddles<br />
in New York.<br />
« * «<br />
West: David A. Lipton, U-I vice-president<br />
in charge of advertising and publicity, planed<br />
in from Manhattan after attending a series<br />
of high-level policy meetings. i<br />
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West: Due in from New York for studio<br />
|<br />
conferences was Charles Einfeld, 20th-Fox<br />
vice-president in charge of advertising and<br />
I<br />
publicity, who will huddle at the Westwood<br />
film plant with Darryl F. Zanuck, production<br />
chief, and Harry Brand, studio publicity director,<br />
on upcoming product.<br />
il3-Pi<br />
--WOO!<br />
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West: S. Barret McCormick, until recently<br />
advertising-publicity director for RKO.<br />
checked in from Gotham for a two-week visit.<br />
BRITISH VISITOR—C. J. Latta (second from left), managing dinctor of Associated<br />
British Pictures, was guest of honor at a dinner party given him recently in<br />
Hollywood by executives of Allied Artists. At left is Scott R. Dunlap. AA producer;<br />
Harold Mirisch, AA vice-president, and President Steve Broidy are at right.<br />
81 Per Cent of Goal<br />
HOLLYWOOD—With a total of $992,156<br />
thus far pledged by 17,793 subscribers, the<br />
Permanent Charities committee has attained<br />
81 per cent of its 1953 goal of $1,225,000, it<br />
was disclosed by Dore Schary, campaign<br />
chairman. Labor's executive committee, representing<br />
34 crafts and unions, has reported<br />
14,549 subscriptions for $448,821, while ttie<br />
balance of the present total was pledged by<br />
studio executives, talent guilds and allied<br />
industries.<br />
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