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STUDIO PERSONNELITIES<br />
Barnstormers<br />
Columbia<br />
GENE AUTRY checked in after o three-week personal<br />
appeoronce tour, during which he covered 20<br />
cities in 13 stotes.<br />
Briefies<br />
Columbia<br />
Producer-Director Jules White gunned "A Pair<br />
of Sneakers," o two-reel comedy starring Welly<br />
Vernon and Eddie Quillon. Felix Adier wrote the<br />
script.<br />
Cleffers<br />
Allied Artists<br />
"White Lightning" will be scored by MARLIN<br />
SKILES.<br />
Warners<br />
RAOUL KRAUSHAAR wos set as musical director<br />
on "The Blue Gardenio," which is being produced<br />
independently by Alex Gottlieb.<br />
Meggers<br />
Columbia<br />
"The Infinite Woman," Edison Morshall's fict ionized<br />
biography of Lola Montez, has been assigned<br />
to ROBERT ARTHUR to produce.<br />
WILLIAM FADIMAN was handed the production<br />
reins on "The Franz Liszt Story/' celluloid biogrophy<br />
of the pianist-composer.<br />
Metro<br />
"The Ruth Etting Story," based on the career of<br />
the nightclub ond recording singer, will be produced<br />
by JOE PASTERNAK.<br />
20th Century-Fox<br />
ROBERT BASSLER is readying "The Twelve Mile<br />
Reef," a story of sponge-diving off the Florida coast,<br />
for a February start. The script is by A. t.<br />
Bezzerides.<br />
Options<br />
Allied Artists<br />
Set for one of the femme toplines in "Jclopy,"<br />
Producer Ben Schwalb's new Bowery Boys comedy,<br />
was MONA KNOX. The megophonist is William<br />
Beaudine.<br />
Columbia<br />
TOMMY FARRELL was signed for "49 Men." Producer<br />
Sam Katzmon booked SUZANNE DALBERT<br />
to portray the femme heavy in the picture which<br />
stars John Ireland and Richord Denning under the<br />
direction of Fred F. Scars.<br />
Independent<br />
Wisberg-Pollexfen Productions signed ROBERT<br />
SHAYNE and DORIS MERRICK for the top roles in<br />
"The Neonderthal Man," a science-fiction melodramo,<br />
which is being directed by E. A, Dupont.<br />
Universal-International<br />
Cast as Barbara Stanwyck's daughter in "You<br />
Belong to Me," the Ross Hunter production, was<br />
LORI NELSON. The romontic drama will be megged<br />
by Douglos Sirk.<br />
Little theatre actor STUART WHITMAN, signed to<br />
a term pact, will moke his film bow in the Victor<br />
Mature-Mori Blonchord vehicle, "Prince of Bagdad."<br />
George Shermon is directing the Albert J. Cohen<br />
production.<br />
Warners<br />
FRANK FERGUSON was signed for o character part<br />
in the Kathryn Grayson starrer, "The Grace Moore<br />
Story," which Gordon Douglos is megging for Producer<br />
Henry Blonke.<br />
Scripters<br />
Columbia<br />
MICHAEL BLANKFORT is penning "River of the<br />
Sun," from Jomes Romsey Ullmon's adventure novel<br />
for Producer William Fadimon.<br />
"The Circle of the Day," from the novel by Helen<br />
Howe, will be screenplayed by JAY DRATLER as o<br />
Willifirn Fadiman production.<br />
Biographer IRVING STONE was togged to write<br />
'ho screenplay of "The Life of Cosonovo," upcoming<br />
Villiotn Fadiman production.<br />
-'' ' mmond," the Kenneth Garnet original,<br />
n-d for Producer Lewis J. Rachmil by<br />
Story Buys<br />
Columbia<br />
Film rights to the Emile Zolo novel, "The Human<br />
Beast," were acquired and the property has been<br />
bonded to Lewis J. Rachmil to produce.<br />
"High Commond," on adventure story about Canadian<br />
bush pilots by Kenneth Gomef, was acquired<br />
and added to Lewis J. Rachmil's production docket.<br />
Metro<br />
Acquired and added to Producer Jock Cummings'<br />
slote was "The Tea House of the August Moon," a<br />
best-seller by Vern Sneider. It deals with the experiences<br />
of on ormy captoin assigned to rehabilitate<br />
a war-torn Okinowon village.<br />
20th Century-Fox<br />
"Be Prepared," a humorous tome by Rice E. Cochrane,<br />
was purchased and assigned to Leonard Goldstein<br />
to produce.<br />
Warners<br />
The independent unit headed by John Wayne and<br />
Robert Fellows purchased "Island in the Sky," o<br />
novel by Ernest K. Gonns, and inked William A.<br />
Wellman to direct the action dromo.<br />
Technically<br />
Metro<br />
"All the Brothers Were Valiant" will be photographed<br />
by GEORGE FOLSEY.<br />
Warners<br />
"Calamity Jane" will be photographed by WILFRID<br />
CLINE.<br />
DON PAGE will be the assistant director on "Blowing<br />
Wild."<br />
Title<br />
Changes<br />
Columbia<br />
"The Velvet Coge" to PROBLEM GIRLS.<br />
Universal-Internalional<br />
"Wings of the Vulture" to WINGS OF THE HAWK.<br />
Stolkin, Corwin, Burke<br />
No Longer in Gamble Co.<br />
WASHINGTON—The FCC Tuesday (9)<br />
decided<br />
that Ted Gamble's Mount Hood Radio<br />
and Television could amend its application<br />
for a Portland, Ore., television channel to<br />
show that Ralph Stolkin. Sherrill Corwin and<br />
Edward G. Burke jr. had sold out their interest<br />
in the company. This reversed the<br />
decision of the hearing examiner, who held<br />
that the application could not be amended<br />
because the deadline for amendments had<br />
been passed.<br />
Stolkin. Corwin and Burke, between them,<br />
owned 43 per cent of Mount Hood's stock,<br />
the same percentage as that owned by Gamble.<br />
The Stolkin-Corwin-Burke stock was sold<br />
to about 30 employes of Portland radio station<br />
KOIN. operated by Mount Hood.<br />
Mount Hood is competing for a Portland<br />
television channel with the company which<br />
operates radio station KGW in that city.<br />
Hearings, postponed because of the wrangle<br />
over amendment of the application, were<br />
scheduled to be resumed on Wednesday (10).<br />
but a further postponement was certain.<br />
'Stooge' Set for New Year's<br />
HOLLYWOOD—"The Stooge," the Dean<br />
Martin-Jerry Lewis comedy produced for<br />
Paramount release by Hal Wallis, will be<br />
the piece de resistance at special New Year's<br />
eve shows scheduled at seven local theatres<br />
the Orpheum. downtown; the Hawaii, Hollywood;<br />
Crown. Pa.sadena; Picwood and Manchester.<br />
Inglewood. and the Gage and Van<br />
Nuys drive-ins.<br />
Party Given for 65 Ready<br />
To Leave on GI Tours<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Film and radio persona;<br />
I<br />
j<br />
,<br />
ities making overseas trips to entertain G]' ''<br />
during the Christmas-New Year's seaso:<br />
joined military brass, leaders of charitabli<br />
and civic organizatioras and state, county anj<br />
city government officials Thursday (18) at I<br />
goingaway luncheon at the California Nb'<br />
tional Guard armory in Culver City.<br />
;<br />
With George Murphy, president of tfcj<br />
Hollywood Coordinating committee, as chair]<br />
man, speakers included Dore Schary, MGI<br />
production chief; James F. Sauter, presider<br />
of USO-Camp Shows. New York, and. froi.<br />
Washington. Col. Raymond F. Stone, chief c<br />
special services, representing the army's adju.<br />
tant general and Brig. -Gen. Frank Dori|<br />
deputy chief of information.<br />
,<br />
Luncheon was prepared and served by arm,<br />
^<br />
personnel from mobile field kitchens fror] li<br />
Ft. Mac Arthur. The 48 volunteer stars and Ij 4<br />
musicians who will carry yuletide greeting,<br />
to military personnel stationed and hospjj<br />
talized overseas is the largest project of it;<br />
kind yet organized by the committee in coj<br />
operation with the Department of Defens(j<br />
USO-Camp Shows, army special services an^<br />
the army air force. They took off by plan'<br />
Friday il9i for Korea, Alaska, the Caribbea,<br />
and the Greenland-Newfoundland area.<br />
;<br />
West: Producer Fred Brisson of Independi<br />
ent Ai'tists, accompanied by publicist Ph<br />
Gersdorf. returned from a month in Ne^<br />
York and Washington, where they draft<br />
plans for the premiere of "Never Wave at<br />
i<br />
WAC." being released by RKO. to be stag"<br />
late in January in the nation's capital.<br />
• • *<br />
West: Francis M. Winikus, United Artist<br />
advertising-exploitation director, was<br />
pected in from New York for huddles wiC<br />
various members of the UA production fam'j<br />
ily.<br />
• • •<br />
West: Harry Cohn. president of Colum^<br />
bia. planed out for Honolulu to check pr<br />
posed location sites for the upcoming fl'<br />
version of "Prom Here to Eternity."<br />
• • •<br />
West: Steve Broidy. president of Allie<br />
Artists, returned from Chicago, where he at<br />
tended a COMPO session.<br />
• • •<br />
East: Walter Lantz, cartoon producejj<br />
trained for New York for parleys with tJhome<br />
office executives on his 1953 prograiril<br />
He'll also talk with officials of Coca-Cola".j<br />
export division on a series of two-mlnut<br />
Technicolor commercial cartoons, which<br />
dubbed into several languages.<br />
• « •<br />
East: Charles Amory, vice-president 111<br />
charge of west coast sales for Pat he Labora