NOVEMBER

featuring
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STUDIO PERSONNELITIES
RKO Radio
HANK FINE has joined Producer Samuel Goldwyn's
publicity staff on a special drumbeoting assignment
for "Hons Christian Andersen."
Cleffers
Warners
Music director assignment on "The Grace Moore
Story" will be handled by RAY HEINDORF, studio
musical head.
Loanouts
Paramount
BARBARA BATES, borrowed from Paramount, and
DONNA REED, on loan from Columbia, will supply
the femme romantic interest in the Dean Martin-
Jerry Lewis comedy, "The Caddy," which is being
produced by Paul Jones.
Warners
Borrowed from Metro, HOWARD KEEL will portray
Wild Bill Hickock in the Doris Day starrer, "Calamity
Jane." The Technicolor musical western will be
directed by David Butler for Producer William Jacobs.
Meggers
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Allied Artists
EDWARD BERNDS was set to direct Producer Ben
Schwolb's "White Lightning," starring Stonley
Clements.
Independent
Producer Sidney Harmon tagged IRVING LERNER
"Man Crazy, Colleen Miller
to direct
and Neville Brand.
Paramount
IVAN MOFFAT, former associate of Producer-
Director George Stevens, will make his directorial
debut on "The South Seas Story," Producer Joseph
Sistrom's Technicolor entry, which will star Mel Ferrer
and Don Taylor.
Universal-Intemationar
LLOYD BACON was ticketed to direct the forthcoming
Donald O'Connor starring musical, "Walking
My Baby Back Home," which will be produced in
Technicolor by Ted Richmond.
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Allied Artists
Cast as Stanley Clements' femme lead in "White
Lightning" was BARBARA BESTAR. Also inked for
the Ben Schwolb production, being megged by Edward
Bernds, were STEVE BRODIE, GLORIA BLONDELL and
LYLE TALBOT.
Metro
Tagged for one of the leads in the upcoming "All
the Brothers Were Valiant" was BETTA ST. JOHN.
1 he Pandro S. Berman production, with Richard
Thorpe megging, will topi me Robert Taylor, Stewart
Granger and Elizabeth Taylor.
ROBERT HORTON drew a top role in "Big Mike,"
college football yarn to be produced by Sol Fielding
and directed by Gerald Moyer. Set for toplines
were GIG YOUNG and JANE GREER.
Cast OS Ann Boleyn in "Young Bess" was ELAINE
STEWART. The Sidney Franklin production, in Technicolor,
stars Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah
Kerr and Charles Laugh ton, with George Sidney
megging.
Paramount
MEL FERRER was signed for one of fhe male
leads in the tentatively-titled "South Seas Story,"
an upcoming Joseph Sistrom production in Technicolor.
Republic
Joining the cost of Producer- Director Allan Dwan's
"The Woman They Almost Lynched" were BEN
COOPER and NINA VARELA. The topliners ore John
Lund, Brian Donlevy, Audrey Totter and Joan Leslie.
JIM DAVIS was tagged for the picture.
20th Century-Fox
Held for another term was actor DALE ROBERT-
SON.
Joseph Bernhord ProduGtions inked BARBARA
STANWYCK for the starring role in "The Moonlighter,"
outdoor action drama based on a story
by Niven Busch.
Universal-International
ROCK HUDSON replaces Farley Granger as the
mole topliner in the Richard Wilson production,
"The Golden Blode." Granger, who hod been borrowed
from Somuel Goldwyn for the assignment.
was suspended by Goldwyn for refusing the role.
Booked for the film was GENE EVANS.
JULIA ADAMS will be the femme star in "Apache
Landing." STEPHEN McNALLY was assigned the
top mole role in the Technicolor western which Lee
Sholem will direct for Producer William Alland.
RICHARD CARLSON wos cost.
Handed a character lead in Producer Albert J.
Cohen's "The Prince of Bagdad" was LUDWIG
DONATH. Starring Victor Mature and Man Blanchard,
the Technicolor costume drama will be directed
by George Sherman.
Warners
VIRGINIA MAYO was given a new long-term contract-
Her next: "End of the Rainbow."
Scripters
Columbia
JESSE L. LASKY JR. was set by Producer Sam
Kotzmon to prepare the screenplay for "The Kiss
and the Sword," a Technicolor costume subject.
Story Buys
Columbia
"Tombstone," a Saturday Evening Post serial by
Clarence Budington Kelland, was acquired and handed
to Kenneth Garnet to script and produce. It has
Arizona in the '80s as its locale.
Republic
The Homer Croy tome, "Jesse James Was My
Neighbor," was added to the studio's slate.
Technically
Metro
Art director on "Big Mike" will be EDDIE IMAZU.
BERT GLAZER will be the assistant director, and
CHARLES HUNT the unit manager, on "Blue Goddess."
Crew ossembled for "A Slight Case of Larceny"
includes HUGH BOSWELL, unit manoger, and FRANK
BAUER, assistant director.
Republic
Comprising the crew for "The Woman They Almost
Lynched" are REGGIE LANNING, cameraman; BOB
SHANNON, assistant director; FRED ALLEN, film
editor, and JAMES SULLIVAN, art director.
Warners
MEL DELLAR will be the assistant director on "The
System."
Lensing assignments include EDWIN DU PAR to
"The System" and HARRY STRADLING to Cagney
Productions' "A Lion Is in the Streets."
Set as assistant director on
Story" wos OREN HAGLUND.
"The Grace Moore
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Chcmges
Paramount
"So Where's the Money?" to THE CADDY.
Universal-International
"Nuthin' But the Blues" to WALKING MY BABY
BACK HOME.
A Greene-Rouse Unit
HOLLYWOOD—An independent unit to
produce one picture annually has been formed
by Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse, in
addition to their producer-director-writer
commitment with Harry Popkin Productions.
Initialer on the G-R slate is "A Love Story,"
which 1.S being planned for filming on location
in New Orleans and Europe next summer.
L. J. Rachmil Quits RKO
HOLLYWOOD— Lewis J. Rachmil has resigned
as an RKO producer, effective Fi-iday
114). He joined the studio in August 1949 and
functioned as associate producer on a number
of films, including "Angel Face," "Jet Pilot"
and "Androcles and the Lion." Rachmil had
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been preparing "The Return of Zorro
time of his departure.
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Lush Nevada Debut
Given for Toresl'
HOLLYWOOD—Filmland's newsmen ha.
their choice of two lush premieres which, bt
cause of overlapping time schedules, force
them to split their coverage of the glamoi
laden events.
The Community Chest of Reno. Nev., ws
enriched by some $3,100, the proceeds froi
the formal world debut of the Pine-Thoma
production for Paramount, "The Blazing For
est," which bowed Monday evening (10) a
the Majestic Theatre there. It was sue
ceeded on Armistice day (11) by Allied Artistpremiere
of Producer Walter Mirisch's "Plai
Top" aboard the aircraft carrier USS Prince
ton in San Diego harbor.
Sponsored by the management of Renojj
new Golden hotel, the "Forest" affair was
24-hour celebration in which some 60 Holly*
wood, San Francisco and Oakland correspond,
ants were transported to the Nevada metropo
lis by chartered airplane. A one-hour stag
show was presented following the screening
in which John Payne, Richard Arlen, Williar.
Demarest, Susan Morrow and Roscoe Ates c
the picture's cast participated, while Rhond;
Fleming and Producer WiUiam Thomas als,
made appearances.
Allied Artists transported its premier
guests to San Diego by chartered train. Th
screening aboard the Princeton was precede
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by luncheo.i in Coronado, an orientation tou!
of the carrier and a helicopter rescue demon
stration and was followed by a cocktail part;
and buffet supper at the Officers club oi.
North Island.
Guests included John D. Butler, San Diego";
mayor, and high-ranking naval officers; 5;
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Los Angeles newsmen, tradepaper representa
fives and magazine staffers: AA executive!
comprising President Steve Broidy, Harol(
Mirisch. G. Ralph Branton. Walter Mirisct
and board members Arthur C. Bromberg. Mei
Hulling, W. Ray Johnston, Edward Morey, Her-'
man Rifkin, Norton V. Ritchey and Howard
Stubbms; circuit and film buying-combini,
representatives C. H. Brislin, Izzy Berman^
Stanley Brown, Lester Blumberg, Willian
Drummond, Fred Friedman, Lou Goldstein;
Bill Johnson. Earle Johnson, Leo Miller, Jo