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Director: Williom KeJghley, Original: James Webb,
Screenplay: Frank Davis.
• Unoble to have o boby of her own. Gene Tirney
decides to adopt a foundling, but her husband, Ray
Milland, is dubious obout the baby's heritage. He
discovers the child's mother is deod and the father
is a cnminol about to be executed. Convinced there
IS no inherent weakness in the child, he arranges
for the odoption to go through.
COME FILL THE CUP (Oromo). Stars: James Cagney,
Phyllis Thoxter, Gig Young. Producer: Henry Blanke.
Director: Gordon Douglos. Original: Harlan Ware.
Screenploy: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts.
• Newspaperman Jomes Cagney, o rehabilitated
alcoholic, is given the ossignment of trying to
straighten out his publisher's nephew, Gig Young,
o drunk who is married to Cagney's former girl
friend. Cagney successfully accomplishes the mission
end reunites Young with his wife, who has
left him in disgust.
THE CRIMSON PIRATE (Costume Droma). Stars: Burt
Loncaster, Torin Thatcher, Nick Cravat. Producer:
Harold Hecht (Norma Productions). Director; Robert
Siodmok. Originol Screenplay: Not set.
• Burt Lancaster stars as a swashbuckling buccaneer
in this Technicolor subject, filmed on location
in Italy and England.
DISTANT DRUMS (Historicol Dramo). Stors: Gary
Cooper, Man Aldon, Richard Webb. Producer;
Milton Sperling. Director: Raoul Walsh. Original:
Don Totheroh. Screenplay: Martin Rackin, Niven
Busch.
• The Seminole Indian war in Florido has been
raging for seven years when, in 1840, a daring
operation to end the conflict is initiated. Gory
Cooper, deadly swamp fighter, and a picked crew
lead the redskins into a trap where they are captured
by an army brigode. Filmed in Technicolor.
FOUR CHAPLAINS (Drama). Stars; Not set. Producer;
Louis F. Edelmon. Director: Gordon Douglos. Originol:
Daniel Poling. Screenplay: Seymour Gomberg.
• Concerns four heroic navy chaplains who gave
their lives in the South Pacific in World War II.
GETTING MOTHER MARRIED (Comedy). Stars: Not
set. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: Not set.
Original: Mildred S. Topp. Screenplay: Devery
Freeman, Robert Riley Crutcher.
• Concerns the experience of a woman photog-
ropher in a small southern town early in the
century.
THE GRACE MOORE STORY (Droma With Music).
Stars: Not set. Producer:: Henry Blanke. Director:
Not set. Original Screenplay: John Monks jr.
• A biography of the singing star, from her childhood
in Tennessee to success in night clubs, musical
comedy, motion pictures and the Metropolitan
Opera.
THE HELEN MORGAN STORY (Drama With Music).
Stars: Doris Day (incomplete). Producer: Robert
Arthur. Director: Not set. Original Screenplay:
Dean Reisner, Lou Breslow.
• A biography of the noted torch singer and
cabaret entertainer.
HERE COME THE GIRLS (Comedy With Music). Stars:
Not set. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: H.
Bruce Humberstone. Original Screenplay: Francis
Swann, Leonard Proskins.
• Two actresses entertain GIs in the Philippines
offer World War II.
I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS (Musical). Stars: Doris
Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy. Producer:
Louis F. Edelman, Director: Michael Curtiz. Original
Screenplay: Not set.
• This costs Danny Thomas as Gus Kahn in a
film biography of the songwriter. He marries Doris
Day, employed by a music publishing firm, who
guides him to success in his field. The market crash
of 1 929 wipes him out, but with Dons to give
him courage and inspiration he again hits his
stride in Hollywood.
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (Comedy Fantasy). Stars:
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Boer. Producer:
Alex Gottlieb. Director: J eon Yorbrough. Original:
Fairy tale. Screenplay: Not set.
• This fantasy in Supercinecolor costs Lou Costello
as "Jack" of the Mother Goose tale.
THE JAZZ SINGER (Drama With Music). Stars; Danny
Thomas (incomplete). Producer: Louis F. Edelman.
Director: Michael Curttz. Original Screenplay: Lewis
Meltzer.
• This is a new version of the film which, in 1927,
starred the late Al Jolson ond demonstrated the
commercial practicability of talking pictures.
THE LION AND THE HORSE (Outdoor Drama). Stars;
Steve Cochron, Roy Teal, Bob Steele. Producer:
Bryan Foy Director: Louis King. Original Screenplay:
Crane Wilbur.
• Steve Cochran coptures a magnificent wild stallion
which is later sold for use in rodeos. Subsequently
Cochran regains possession of the animal,
breaks it ond uses it in ranch work. An
escaped circus lion terrorizes the community, but
in o fierce battle the stallion kills it. Filmed in
color.
A LION IS IN THE STREETS (Drama), Stars: James
Cagney (incomplete). Producer: William Cagney.
Director: Not set. Original: Adria Locke Langley.
Screenplay; Charles Bennett.
• A one-time peddler rises to the position of
governor of the mythical state of Magnolia through
the use of slogans ond tricks. His wife, like others,
IS foscinated by his rise but not forever blind
to the faults which eventually result in his downfoll.
MAN WITH A GUN (Costume Drama). Stars: Rondolph
Scott, Patrice Wymore, Philip Carey. Producer:
Robert Sisk. Director: Felix Feist. Originol:
Robert Buckner. Screenplay: John Twist.
• This historical drama has eorly-day Los Angeles
OS its background.
MARA MARU (Drama). Stars: Errol Flynn, Ruth
Roman, Paul Picerni. Producer: David Weisbort.
Director: Gordon Douglas. Original: Philip Yordon,
Sidney Harmon, Hollister Noble. Screenplay: Ivan
Goff, Ben Roberts, Richard Nash.
« With a Philippine Islonds background, this concerns
the adventures of a group of men who endeavor
to recover a treasure lost at sea aboard
a PT boot which was sunk while attempting to
escape thot area during World War II.
THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA (Religious
Drama). Stars: Not set. Producer: Bryan Foy.
Director: Jonn Brahm. Original Screenplay: Crone
Wilbur, James O'Hanlon.
• Based on miracles reported in the village of
Fotimo, Portugol, where in 1917 three shepherd
children claimed the Virgin Mary appeared before
them and prophesied the coming of World War II
and the spread of Communism. A surviving child,
now a cloistered nun, wrote down a third prophecy
which is not to be disclosed until 1960.
MY FINE FEATHERED FRIEND (Musical). Stars: Jo
Stafford, Dennis Morgon. Producer: Howord Welsch
(Fidelity Pictures), Director; Not set Original:
Alan Campbell, Hunt Stromberg jr. Screenplay;
Dorothy Parker, Jerome Chodorov.
• This tunefilm, one of a multiple-picture commitment
between Fidelity Pictures and this company,
will be lensed in Technicolor. It stars Jo
Stafford, radio and resording vocalist.
PAWNEE BILL (Historical Western). Stars: Not set.
Producer: Robert Sisk. Director: Not set. Original
Screenplay; John Twist.
• In Technicolor, this highlights the career of
Pawnee Bill, the Indian fighter ond scout, who was
born Gordon Lillie in Illinois.
RETREAT, HELL! (Drama). Stars; Frank Lovefoy, Anito
Louise, Richord Carlson. Producer: Milton Sperling
(United States Pictures). Director; Joseph Lewis.
Original Screenplay: Martin Rackin, Ted Sherdeman.
• A story of the Korean war, this deols principally
with the heroic First Morine Division and
its bitterly-fought retreat from the Chongjin reservoir,
during which the division commander declared;
"Retreot, hetl! We're just advancing in another
direction"
ROOM FOR ONE MORE (Drama). Stars: Cory Grant,
Betsy Drake, Ins Mann. Producer; Henry Blanke.
Di rector: Norman Taurog. Original; Anno Perrott
Rose. Screenplay: Mel Shovelson, Jock Rose.
• Alreody the parents of three healthy, uninhibited
youngsters, Cory Grant and Betsy Droke adopt another
girl and o crippled boy, although over Grant's
protests. But the realization that he has a family
that loves and honors him convinces Grant that
the ideo is worthwhile, even though it ties him down,
THE SAN FRANCISCO STORY (Droma). Stars: Joel
McCreo, Yvonne DeCorlo, Sidney Blockmer. Producer:
Howard Welsch (Fidelity Pictures). Director;
Robert Parrish. Original; Richard Summers. Screenploy:
Harold Shumate.
• A tale of Son Francisco at the turn of the
century, this is adopted from "Vigilante," a novel
by Richard Summers.
THE SEA CHASE (Action Dramo) Stars: John Wayne
(incomplete). Producer: Robert Arthur. Director: Not
set. Original: Andrew Geer. Screenplay: James
Warner Belloh.
• This moritime adventure drama, to star John
Wayne, is from a novel by Andrew Geer.
SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE
(Musicol Comedy). Stars; Virginio Moyo, Ronald
Reagan, Gene Nelson. Producer: Louis F. Edelman.
Director: Bruce Humberstone. Original; Irving Woltace,
Screenploy: I. A. L. Diamond, Mac Benoff.
• Virginia Moyo earns her way through college
by working—unbeknownst to the educational institution—OS
o burlesque queen.
SPRINGFIELD RIFLE (Historical Western). Stars: Not
set. Producer; Louis F. Edelman. Director: Not
set. Original Screenplay: Sloon Nibley, Charles
Marquis Warren.
• Deals with the pioneers who pushed the American
frontier westward, and the importont part
played in their lives by the Springfield rifle.
STARLIFT (Musical). Stors: Doris Day, Ruth Roman,
Dick Wesson. Producer: Robert Arthur. Director:
Roy Del Ruth. Original Screenplay: John Klorer,
Karl Komb.
• This is Q fictionalized version of the trips mode
by Hollywood players to the Travis oir base ot
Fairfield, Colif ., to entertain troops being shipped
to Korea and the wounded Gl's returning from the
bottlefront. The trips hove been dubbed "Operation
Storlift."
STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME (Comedy With Music).
Stars, not set. Producer: Louis F. Edelman. Director,
Roy Del Ruth. Originol Screenplay; Henry
Gorson,
• This is a mystery comedy with musical interludes.
THE STORY OF EDDIE CANTOR (Drama With Music).
Stars: Not set. Producer; Sidney Skolsky. Director;
Not set- Original: Sidney Skolsky. Screenplay: Ted
Sherdemon.
• The career of one of the greats of show business
will come to the screen in this biography of Eddie
Cantor, who has been successful in every entertainment
medium—the stage, motion pictures, radio,
ond television,
THE TANKS ARE COMING (War Drama). Stars: Steve
Cochran, Philip Corey, Paul Picerni, Producer:
Bryan Foy, Director: Lewis Seiler. Original: Joseph
I, Breen jr. Screenplay; Samuel Fuller.
• The U.S. third armored division begins its big
push into Nozi-dominoted Europe in July, 1944,
reoches Mons in September ond there fights o
battle against German convoys which changes the
c;urse of World Wor II. This is the story of one
tank plotoon and how it does its port m smashing
the vounted Siegfried line.
TARGET ZERO (Drama). Stars; Not set. Producer;
Robert Sisk, Director: Not set Original Screenplay:
James Warner Belloh.
• A story of the Korean war, this has o woman
correspondent as its pnncipol character.
THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS (Drama) Stars: Joan
Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian. Producer:
Robert Sisk, Director: Felix Feist. Original: Bernard
Girord. Screenplay; Karl Komb, Don Moinworing,
George W. Yates, Ted Sherdeman.
• Joan Crawford, leader of o holdup gong, falls
in love with Dennis Morgan, on eye specialist, after
he operates to save her failing eyesight. Her
leolous boy friend, David Brian, sets out to trail
and kill Morgan, but is captured by the low os
Joan, wounded, faces o joil term, knowing Morgan
will wait for her.
WHERE'S CHARLEY? (Comedy With Music). Stars:
Ray Bolger, Allyn McLerie. Producer; Not set. Director;
David Butler, Original: Brandon Thomas,
George Abbott. Screenplay: John Monks jr.
• Film version of the stage musical, on adaptation
of the perennial force, "Charley's Aunt," this was
produced in England
THE WILL ROGERS STORY (Drama). Stars: Will Rogers
jr., Jane Wymon (incomplete). Producer: Robert
Arthur. Director; Michael Curtiz, Original Screenplay:
Frank Davis.
• Biography of the one-time cowboy who become
Q Ziegfeld Follies star, screen celebrity and one of
America's most beloved humorists. In Technicolor.
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