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aucer-Director Clarence Brown's agenda, with<br />
Paul Douglas in the starring spot.<br />
MONOGRAM—Leading off with "Casa Manana,"<br />
a tunefilm to be produced by Lindsley Parsons, this<br />
studio's picture-making paca for the period will<br />
embrace three films. "Manana," which will feature<br />
the Rio Brothers and other nightclub and vaudeville<br />
acts, will be megged by Jean Yarbrough. An entry<br />
in the "Latham Family" series being produced by<br />
Peter Scully is "Father Takes the Air," featuring<br />
Raymond Walburn and to be directed by Frank Mc-<br />
Donald. Slated for filming in Cinecolor is "Rodeo,"<br />
an outdoor subject starring Jean Nigh, which William<br />
Beaudine will meg for Producer Walter Mirisch.<br />
PARAMOUNT—Marking her first appearance before<br />
a motion picture camera since the 1930s, Helen<br />
Hayes has the starring role in "My Son John," a<br />
story of mother-love being produced and directed<br />
for the Marathon St. studio by Leo McCarey. With<br />
Robert Walker and Dean Jagger in the male toplines,<br />
the offering is one of two awaiting the green<br />
light at this film plant during the period. The other,<br />
which is in the carryover category, is "The Rage of<br />
the Vulture," an Alan Ladd starrer, backgrounded<br />
iti post-war India. Everett Riskin is the producer,<br />
Charles Vidor the megaphonist, and Corinne Calvet<br />
is the femme lead.<br />
RKO RADIO—Attaining a rapid tempo, this company<br />
planned March starts on no less than six subjects.<br />
Postponed from its original February date<br />
when H. C. Potter withdrew as the director,<br />
"Andrccles and the Lion," film version of the George<br />
Bernard Shaw play, is a major entry, with Gabriel<br />
Pascal producing and Jean Simmons, Robert Newton<br />
and George Sanders in the starring assignments.<br />
Newcomers to the lineup are "Behave Yourself," a<br />
Wald-Krasna opus, and "The Racket," which will be<br />
produced by Edmund Grainger. "Behave Yourself,"<br />
a satire on detective dramas, co-stars Farley Granger<br />
and Shelley Winters and will be directed by George<br />
Beck from his own script. "The Racket" is a modernized<br />
version of an early day talkie about gangdom,<br />
first produced by Howard Hughes, now the<br />
RKO Radio studio boss. Uncast early in the month,*<br />
it is slated for megging by John Cromwell. Wald<br />
and Krasna also will roll "The Blue Veil," a remake<br />
of a French film, with Raymond Hakim as<br />
the associate producer, Jane Wyman in the starring<br />
spot, and Curtis Bernhardt directing. Robert Young,<br />
Janis Carter and Jack Buetel are the co-stars of "The<br />
Half-Breed, ' ' a historical western which Edward<br />
Lndwig megs for Producer Irving Starr. "The<br />
Miami Storv," another carryover, toplines Victor<br />
Mature and Jane Russell. The cops-and-robbers<br />
feature lists Robert Stephenson as the director and<br />
Robert Sparks as producer.<br />
REPUBLIC—One top-budgeter, one contribution<br />
from an independent unit and four programmers<br />
three of them in the western category—comprise a<br />
busy month's slate at this valley studio. To be<br />
filmed with U.S. air force cooperation as a contribution<br />
to the current cycle of war films is "Wings<br />
Acro
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