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machine guns, o tank attack and an assault by
Communist infantry, the platoon suffers many casualties
and, hardened, toughened and exhausted,
sofely reaches its own lines.
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Comedy With Music).
Stars: Not set. Producer; George Jessel. Director:
Richard Sale. Original: Anita Loos. Screenplay:
Mary Loos, Richard Sale.
• From the best-seller of the 1920s and the recent
musical stage hit based thereon, this will be
filmed in Technicolor.
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR (Comedy). Stars: June Haver,
Don Dotley, Dennis Doy. Producer: Robert Bossier.
Director: Richard Sale. Original; Louis Bush-Fekcte,
Mary Fay. Screenplay: Isobel Lcnnort.
• Dancing and singmg star June Haver has fome,
fortune, everything— but the widower next door,
Dan Dailey, doting parent of lO-yeor-old Billy
Gray. Billy's jealousy ond oppositron cause June to
withdrew until, in the hands of a designing moppet,
Billy is won over to a more tolerant attitude
toword true love.
GOLDEN GIRL (Historical Drama). Stars: Mitzi Goynor.
Dale Robertson, Dennis Day. Producer: George
Jessel. Drrector: Lloyd Bacon. Qriginol: Albert
and Arthur Lewis, Edword Thompson. Screenplay:
Walter Bullock, Charles O'Neal, Glodys Lehman.
• Film biography of Lotto Crabtree (portroyed by
Mitzi Gaynor), the fomed entertainer known as
the "Merry Madcap" during California's gold rush
days a century ago. She wos the first to elevate
the singing-dancing comedienne to the status of
legitimate stardom. Filmed in Technicolor.
I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU (Drome). Stars: Tyrone
Power, Ann BIyth, Michael Rennie. Producer: Sol
C. Siegel. Director: Roy Baker. Original: John Balderston.
Screenplay: Ronald MacDougoll.
• Tyrone Power, a scientist working in modern
London, is able to transport himself back to the
late 1 8th century, which he regords as "the oge
of reason." Finding it to be, instead, on era of
cruelty and prejudice, he manages to bridge back
to the present through the aid and love of Ann
BIyth.
ISLAND IN THE SKY (Dramo). Stars: Richard Widmork
(incomplete). Producer: Fronk Rosenberg.
Director: Not set. Original: Ernest K. Gann. Screenplay:
Not set.
• A trans-Atlantic airplane pilot crashes in the
northern wilderness but is ultimately rescued.
JAPANESE WAR BRIDE (Romantic Drama). Stars:
Don Toylor, Shirley Yamoguchi, Cameron Mitchell.
Producers: Joseph Bernhard, Anson Bond. Director:
King Vidor. Original Screenplay: Kotherine Turney,
Irving Shulmon.
• On American Gl falls in love with ond marries a
Japonese girl. This deals with their efforts to moke
the marriage o successful one through mutual
adjustments.
JOURNEY INTO LIGHT (Drama). Stars: Sterling Hoyden,
Viveco Lindfors, Thomas Mitchell. Producers:
Joseph Bernhard, Anson Bond, Director: Stuart
Heisler. Original: Anson Bond. Screenplay: Stephanie
Nordii, Irving Shulmon.
• Sterling Hoyden, a small-town minister, becomes
disgusted with the hypocrisy of his flock when his
alcoholic wife commits suicide. He degenerates into
o Skid Row bum but is rehabilitated through the
love and faith of Viveco Lindfors, the blind daughter
of the owner of a slum mission, and returns
to his calling.
KANGAROO (Action Dramo). Stors: Peter Lowford,
Maureen O'Haro, Chips Rofferty. Producer: Robert
Bossier. Director: Lewis Milestone. Original: Mortin
M. Berkeley. Screenplay: Horry Kleiner.
• First full-length Technicolor subject to be mode
in Austrolia, this deals with the devastating drought
of 1900-1903. It IS backgrounded on an Australian
cottie ranch, whose owner, on o bender, meets two
gentlemen of fortune who escort him home and plot
unsuccessfully to steal his doughter and fortune.
THE LADY IN THE IRON MASK (Costume Drama).
Stars: Louis Hoyward, Patricio Medina, Alan Hole
jr. Producers: Walter Wanger, Eugene Frenke. Director:
Rolph Murphy. Original: Aubrey Wisberg,
Jock Pollexfen. Screenplay: Not set,
• Twin princesses ore born to the King of France
and after his death one is bonished ond the other
mode o claimant to the throne. A conspiracy to
switch sisters is overthrown by D'Artognon (Louis
Hoyward) and the Three Musketeers, and the right
princesss rescued from torture. Filmed
Kodok color.
in Eostman
LES MISERABLES (Drama). Stars: Michael Rennie,
James Robertson-Justice, Elsa Lonchester. Producer:
Fred Kohl mar. Director: Lewis Milestone.
Original: Victor Hugo. Screenplay: Not set,
• Adapted from Victor Hugo's classic novel, this
is the story of a man's desperate effort to shake
off pursuit by o relentless, unswerving and cruel
police officer who odheres to the letter of the low
ond does not toke mitigating circumstances into
consideration.
LET'S MAKE IT LEGAL (Romantic Comedy). Stars:
Cloudette Colbert, Mocdonald Corey, Zachary Scott.
Producer: Robert Bossier. Director: Richard Sole.
Originol: Mortimer Brous. Screenploy: F. Hugh
Herbert, I. A. L. Diamond.
• After 20 years of marriage, Cloudette Colbert
ond Mocdonold Corey ore divorcing, but on an
amiable basis. Into her life pops Zochory Scott,
who once proposed to her, and who now tries to
rekindle the old romance. However, Carey puts up
a vigorous battle and manoges a reconciliation.
LOVE NEST (Comedy). Stars: Juno Hover, Witliom
Lundigan, Fronk Foy, Producer: Jules Buck. Director:
Joseph Newman. Original: Scott Corbctt.
Screenploy: I. A. L. Diomond.
• June Hover buys o ramshackle boarding house
so her cx-Gt husbond, William Lundigan, will have
Q place to come home to. The venture proves to
be a constant series of heodoches, culminating with
the arrests of Lundigon ond o swindling boarder,
Frank Foy, but ultimately the situation is straightened
out satisfactorily.
LYDIA BAILEY (Historical Drama). Stars: Dole Robertson,
Anno Francis, Chorles Korvin. Producer:
Jules Schermer. Director: Jean Negulesco. Original:
Kenneth Roberts. Screenplay: Michael Blankfort,
Philip Dunne.
• Adapted from the novel by Kenneth Roberts,
this casts Dole Robertson os a two-fisted adventurer
in the early 1800s who becomes involved in the
efforts of Haiti to resist capture by Napoleon and
aids that smol! country in smashing Bonaparte's
attempted invosion. Filmed in Technicolor.
MABEL AND ME (Comedy). Stars: Don Dailey (incomplete).
Producer: Somuel G. Engel. Director:
Henry Levin. Originol: Robert Thoeren. Screenploy:
Julius and Philip Epstein.
• A group of GIs forms o syndicate to purchase
o racehorse.
THE MODEL AND THE MARRIAGE BROKER (Romantic
Comedy). Stars: Jeanne Croin, Scott Brady,
Thelma Ritter. Producer: Charles Brockett. Director:
George Cukor. Original: Walter Reisch. Screenploy:
Walter Reisch, Richord Breen, Charles Brockett.
• Thelma Ritter, o marriage broker, has her
offices in New York— "the loneliest city in the
world." She becomes friendly with Jeonne Croin,
a lingerie model, and tries to poir her off with
Scott Brady, one of Thelma's dissatisfied clients.
It's a tough bottle, but finally Jeanne ond Scott
see the light and foil in love.
ONE NIGHT STAND (Comedy-Dromo). Stars: David
Wayne, Gloria DeHoven. Producer; George Jessel.
Director: Not set. Original: Hunt Stromberg jr.
Screenplay; George Jessel.
• Concerns the adventures of a traveling roadshow
company.
OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT (Outdoor Drama). Stars:
Dale Robertson, Anne Baxter, Barbara Bates. Producer:
Julian Bloustein. Director: Joseph Newman.
Original: Bret Harte. Screenplay: Edmund North.
• This is o new version of Bret Horte's classic odventure
story of California in the gold rush days
of 1849.
PASS THE AMMUNITION (War Drama). Stars: William
Lundigan (incomplete). Producer: Jules
Schermer. Director Not set. Original: Ted Sherdemon.
Screenplay: Not set.
• William Lundigon is cast as Father McGuire, the
U.S. navy choploin who during o World War It
novol battle shouted, "Praise the Lord and pass
the ommunition," o sentiment thot become universally
fomous and the title for a popular song.
PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER (Drama). Stars:
Bette Davis, Helen Westcott, Gary Merrill, Shelley
Winters. Producer: Nunnolly Johnson. Director:
Jeon Negulesco. Originol: I. A. R. Wylie. Screenplay:
Nunnolly Johnson.
• Believing his wife is faithless. Gory Merrill leaves
her and boords o plane for Los Angeles on which
there are three other passengers, oil of whom confide
their problems to him. The plane crashes;
Merrill, the only survivor, consoles the families of
the dead passengers, then decides to give his morrioge
onother try.
THE PINWHEEL MAN (Drama). Stars: Not set. Producers;
Joseph Bernhord, Anson Bond, Director: Not
set. Original: Anson Bond. Screenplay: Not set.
• This is a story of the rocket-propelled, oneman
helicopters which have been developed by
the U.S. navy.
PONY SOLDIER (Historical Western). Stars; Tyrone
Power. Producer: Samuel G. Engel. Director: Not
set. Original: Gornett Weston. Screenplay: John
C. Higgins.
• This a story of the Royal Canodion Northwest
Mounted Police during the time of the battle
of the Little Big Horn, and how thot law enforcement
organization handled the Cree Indions
returning from the massacre of Gen. George
Custer.
THE PRESIDENT'S LADY (Historicol Drama). Stars:
Not set. Producer: Sol C. Siegel. Director: Not
set. Original: Irving Stone. Screenplay: Leonard
Fields.
• From the biographical novel by Irving Stone,
this is the story of President Andrew Jockson ond
his wife, Rachel. To be filmed in Technicolor.
THE PRIDE OF ST. LOUIS (Boseboll Dramo). Stars:
Don Doiley, Joanne Dru, Hugh Sanders. Producer;
Jules Schermer. Director: Hormon Jones. Original
Screenplay: Richard Murphy.
• This is Q biography of Jerome Herman "Dizzy"
Dean (portrayed by Don Doiley), who began his
coreer as a sondlot showoff in Arkonsos, was discovered
by a mcjor league tolent scout, and became
known, as a St. Louis Cordinol pitcher, as the
"strike-out king of the Notional League."
RED SKIES OF MONTANA (Action Dromo). Stars: Richard
Widmark, Constance Smith, Joseph Sawyer. Producer:
Samuel G. Engel. Director: Joseph Newman.
Original: Art Cohn. Screenplay: Harry Kleiner.
• This is a story of the "Smoke Jumpers," the
porachutc corps of the U.S. forest service. A
parotroop crew chief, Richard Widmork, is suspected
of cowardice, but in o heavy timberlond fire displays
courage and heroism ond is redeemed in the
eyes of his men, Filmed in Technicolor.
RETURN OF THE TEXAN (Western). Stars: Dole
Robertson, Joanne Dru, Wolter Brennon. Producer:
Frank P. Rosenberg. Director: Delmer Doves. Original:
Fred Gipson. Screenploy: Dudley Nichols.
• Adapted from "The Home Place," o novel by
Fred Gtpson, this tells the story of a young Texan
returning to his form with his motherless boys after
his beloved wife dies. After hard struggles, physical
and finonciol, he achieves success ond happiness
and the love of a neighboring form girl.
ROSE OF CIMARRON (Western). Stars: Jock Buetel,
Mala Powers, Bill Williams. Producer: Edword L,
Alperson. Director: Horry Keller. Original Screenplay:
Not set.
• This story of the early west was photographed ir.
the new Eastman three-color process.
SALLY, IRENE AND MARY (Musical). Stars; June
Hover, Mitzi Gaynor, Gloria DeHoven. Producer:
Fred Kohlmar, Director; Not set. Original; Eddie
Dowling, Cyris Wood. Screenplay; Bess Toffcl.
• Stemming from the Broadway musical which was
o hit in the eorly 1920s, this is a new version of
the property, which has been filmed twice previously
—once in 1925 as a silent, and again as o tunefilm
in 1938.
SNOW COVERED WAGONS (Historicol Western). Stars:
Not set. Producer: Edward L. Alperson. Director:
Not set. Originol: Julio Cooley Altrocchi. Screenplay:
Not set.
• This sago of the western pioneers is based on
the ill-foted Donner Party expedition to Colifornio
during the gold rush days.
SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (Action Dromo). Stars:
Gregory Peck, Susan Hoyword, Hildegorde Neff.
Producer: Darryl F. Zonuck. Director: Henry King.
Original: Ernest Hemingway. Screenploy; Casey
Robinson.
• Gregory Peck is the mole topliner in this Technicolor
film version of one of Ernest Hemingway's
tales of rornonce ond adventure in Africa.
THE STEEPER CLIFF (Dromo). Stors: Oscar Werner
(incomplete). Producer: Frank Rosenberg. Director:
Anotole Litvok. Originol: Dovid Dovidson. Screenplay:
Horry Kleiner.
• To be lensed on location in postwar Germony,
this concerns the estoblishment of democrotic
newspapers, under American supervision, in thot
country.
THE STORY OF ESTHER (Biblical Dromo). Stars: Not
set. Producers; Joseph Bernhard, Anson Bond. Director:
Not set. Original: Old Testament. Screenplay:
Frank and Doris Hursley.
• This contribution to the cycle of religious films
utilizes the Old Testament as it plot source and
will be produced in Technicolor.
VIVA ZAPATAI (Drama). Stars: Marlon Brando, Jean
Peters, Anthony Quinn. Producer; Dorryl F. Zonuck.
Director; Elia Kazan. Originol; Edgcumb Pinchon.
Screenplay; John Steinbeck.
• A biography of Emiliano Zopota, the Mexican
military leader and oily of Poncho Villa, who fought
untiringly to end the tryronnicol 34-year reign of
the dictator-president, Porfirio Diaz, but ultimately
wos bertayed and assassinated. Portraying the
revolutionory zeolot is Morion Brando.
WAIT TILL THE SUN SHINES, NELLIE (Romantic
Drama). Stars; David Woyne, Jeon Peters, Hugh
Morlow. Producer: George Jessel. Director: Henry
King. Original; Ferdinand Reyher. Screenploy:
Allon Scott.
• A smoll midwestern town is celebrating its 50th
anniversary. The town barber, David Wayne, thinks
bock over the post ho If -century, reviewing his
romance with Jeon Peters, who hated the ploce;
how, through the yeors offer she is killed in an
accident, Wayne successfully brings up his children
and becomes a happy grandfather.
THE WAY OF A GAUCHO (Drama). Stars: Rory Colhoun.
Gene Tierney, Everett Sloone. Producer:
Philip Dunne. Director: Jacques Tourneur. Original:
Herbert L. Chi Ids. Screenplay: Philip Dunne.
• This story of Argentina's famed cowboys wos
produced entirely on location in thot South American
country.
WHAT PRICE GLORY (Wor Drama). Stars: James
Cogney, Corinne Co I Don Dailey, Producer;
Sol C. Siegel. Director: John Ford. Original: Maxwell
Anderson, Lawrence Stollings. Screenplay:
Henry and Phoebe Ephron.
• This is o new version, in Technicolor, of the
famed ploy obout World War I, first filmed in
1926. Dan Doiley is Sergeant Quirt, James Cogney
is his orch-rivol Goptoin Flogg, and Corinne Colvet
is the French mademoiselle over whom they carry
out their fobulous feudin' ond fightin'.
WITH A SONG IN MY HEART (Blogrophicol Drama).
Stors: Susan Hoyward, Dovid Wayne, Thelma Ritter.
Producer: Lamar Trotti. Director: Walter Lang.
Original Screenploy: Lamor Trotti.
• Susan Hoyword portroys Jane Fromon in this
film biography of the singer who stoged a courageous
comeback after near-fatal injuries incurred
in a plane crash while en route to entertain GIs in
Europe in World War II. Believed hopelessly parolyzed,
she leorns to walk again and re-establishes
herself as a topflight entertoiner.
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