Boxoffice-March.06.1948

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. . Enterprise . . "Be . . . . . . . RKO . . . Producer . . Cast . . Warner "f^oUffCM^ ^cfront Seven Manuscript Sales Reported for the Week While the production picture remains definitely bearish, with no signs that it will be otherwise for some time to come, the studio market for literary wares paradoxically continues on the bullish side—indicating that although the filmmakers are currently reluctant to start the cameras turning, they still retain sufficient faith in the industry's future to risk their bankrolls on building up a stockpile of story properties for future production. The period just ended was no exception, since a substantial total of seven manuscript sales were completed. To Metro went "Remembrance Rock." Carl Sandburg's new historical novel of America from Revolutionary da,vs to the present, which will be published in September and thereafter will be made into a motion picture by Sidney Franklin. The work was five, years in the writing . . . Hal Walhs, whose film output is released by Paramount, snagged "The Soimd of Years," a first novel by Merriam Modell. and signed Lucille Fletcher to write the screenplay. Barbara Stanwyck will have the pivotal role as a married woman whose life is complicated by the arrival of her adolescent daughter by a previous marriage . Nice to Emily," a romantic comedy by Matt Taylor, went to Warners, where it will be produced as a Viveca Lindfors vehicle by Alex Gottlieb. It concerns a Swiss girl who shelters three Yank fliers and comes to visit them in the U.S. after the war . purchased "The Fabulous Hoosier," a biography by Mrs. Carl Fisher of her late husband, who developed the Indianapolis speedway and Miami Beach. It will be produced under the title of "The Miami Beach Story," . . . Roger D. WiUiams' original, "Postoffice Investigator," went to Republic, where it will be produced and directed by Allan Dwan. It will reveal the activities of postoffice agents who track down criminals who use the federal mails in their activities . . . Robert Frost's Equity Pictures purchased "Lillie of Six-Shooter Junction," Katherine Phillips' biography of Mrs. Lillie Drennan, who built up an oil empire in Texas two decades ago. Eagle Lion will release . Alfred Noyes' new novel, "The Devil Goes to Santa Barbara," was picked up by Picture Plays, Inc., independent unit recently organized by Tim Whelan. Gary Cooper to Portray Orville Wright Next Gary Cooper, who has played everybody on the screen from Sergeant York to Lou Gehrig, goes up in the air for his next biographical assignment. He's been cast as Orville Wright in Warners' projected film story of the famed aviation pioneers, be to produced by Henry Blanke ... On the same lot Jane Wyman replaced Joan Crawford as David Niven's co-star in "A Kiss in the Dark," with Miss Crawford instead going into "Mi,ss O'Brien, " story of a school teacher . Dick Powell draws another tough-guy assignment as the male lead opposite Marta Toren in Universal-International's "Rogue's Regiment" . . . Title role in "Michael O'Hal- By IVAN SPEAR loran," which Windsor Pictures is making for Monogram release, goes to Scotty Beckett Radio and Vanguard are splittii-^ a long-term contract set with Betsy Drake, young Broadway and London stage actress Frank Seltzer lined up John Emery and Tamara Geva for the leads in "The Gay Intruders," his second for 20th Century-Fox release . . . Ilka Chase goes into Paramount's "The Tatlock Millions." with Henry Hull set for the same studio's "The Great Gatsby" . additions to Columbia's "Winner Take Nothing" included Blake Edwards, Jane Nigh and Henry O'Neill. Big-League Scale Plans For SRO Coast Offices In the David O. Selznick tradition, the pending transfer of his company's home offices from New York to the film capital is being planned on a big-league scale. The blueprints as whipped up by J. McMillan Johnson, production designer for SRO, call for complete reconversion of the former Western Airlines building in Beverly Hills—which covers more than a half-acre of space. One of the purposes of the current Hollywood visit of Neil Agnew. SRO president, was to check over the final plans for the structure, which will be strictly modern in decor. Columbia to Distribute 'Knock on Any Door' Columbia added another subject to its schedule via the sharecropping route when it arranged to distribute "Knock on Any Door." film version of the Willard Motley novel about adolescent dehnquency, which will be turned out on an independent basis by the new unit headed by Robert Lord and Humphrey Bogart. Lord recently checked out of a producing berth at Metro to become associated with the outfit, an outgrowth of the Bogart-Mark Hellinger company which dissolved with Hellinger's recent death. RKO Signs H. C. Potter To Long-Term Contract H. C. Potter has been signed to longterm directorial ticket by a RKO Radio, at which studio he recently completed "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," produced for distribution by SRO . . . William Selwyn replaces Lew Kerner as executtve talent director for Samuel Goldwyn, moving over from a similar spot with Walter Wanger. Kerner recently submitted his resignation. Douglas Morro'w Returns To MGM As a Writer Once under MGM contract as a leading man, Douglas Morrow returns to that studio, this time as a writer, to develop the script of "The Life of Monty Stratton," on which he turned out the original . . . Edward Small borrowed Gordon Douglas from Co- Contracted Players Reduced to 463 Just about everybody in Hollywood agrees lugubriously that times are tough and that there is widespread and increasing unemployment among studio toilers. Considerable of the talk has been in the scuttlebutt category, however, and the conversation among the alarmists has sometimes tended to draw a gloomier picture than actually is the case. Partially confirming such conflicting and unofficial guesses, at least so far as employment among actors is concerned, the Screen Actors Guild now bobs up with an authoritative compilation of the number of contract players as of March 1, 1948, compared' with the same date a year ago. The figures as released are not cheerful ones. Guild records show 463 players under studio contracts, compared with 742 a year ago, for a reduction of slightly more than 37 per cent. In addition to this decrease, Guild spokesmen said, "there unquestionably has been a still greater decrease In employment of freelance actors." The breakdown shows 2G2 men and 201 women currently under contract, compared with 401 men and 341 women a year ago. lumbia to pilot "G-Men vs. Scotland Yard," which Small will make for Eagle Lion release . . . Charles Lamont was booked by Pi-oducer Harry Joe Brown to meg "The . Wrangler," sagebrusher to be released through Columbia assigned scenarists on two upcoming Henry Blanke productions. Ranald MacDougall went to work on "The Hasty Heart," with Stephen Longstreet set on the film story of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Jesus Productions, Inc. To Produce in Italy Although the company was incorporated here, production headquarters will be established in Italy for a new independent unit, Jesus Productions. Inc., which will turn out a series of religious pictures. Heading the unit is Lady Maria Korda. former wife of Sir Alexander Korda, and one-time British and American film actress, with whom A. James Roche and Hallie M. Daniel are associated in the project. Sol Wurtzel Schedules 7 Films for 20th-Fox There may be a picture-making slowdown in some quarters, but not at the Sol Wurtzel unit. The 20th Century-Fox sharecropper has set five properties to start within the next five months, which with two pictures ready for release will give his company a total of seven subjects on 20th's current program. Completed is "Arthur Takes Over," which will be followed by "Fighting Back," "Big Dan," "Trouble Preferred," "Tucson" and "Ticket to Nowhere.' 24 BOXOFFICE :: March 13, 1948 i
"The Movingest Movie Pihe-Thomas Has Ever Turned Out For Paramount" * Stands for Pine-Thomas, of course. This Exploitation Trade Press says: 'Showmen can have a field day with it."(Heraid) "Best of the Pine-Thomas thrillers." (Variety) "Climaxed with thrilling fire." (FiimOaiiy) "Never misses the mark." (m. p. oaiiy) "Break-neck tempo." (Hoik wood Reported "Pine-Thomas' top contender." (Oaiiy vaneuj SHEILA RYAN BUSTER CRABBE MARY BETH HUGHES Directed by WILLIAM BERKE Original Screen Play by David Lang
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