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STUDIO PERSONNELITIES
Barnstormers
Republic
VICTOR McLAGLEN oppeared at ttie Mastbaum
Theatre in Philadelphia Wednesdoy (1) in connection
with the opening of "The Quiet Man."
Cleifers
Metro
Handed the music direction assignment on "Young
Bess" was MIKLOS ROZSA.
Republic
Inked to a two-picture contract was VICTOR
YOUNG, composer-conductor, who will score "Fair
Wind to Java" and "The Sun Shines Bright."
Meggers
Lippert Productions
Producer T. Frank Woods booked ELMO WILLIAMS,
film editor, to moke his directorial bow on "The
Toll Texan," a western starring Lloyd Bridges ond
Marie Windsor. It is being lensed on locotion in
New Mexico.
Metro
"King Arthur and the Round Table," which Pandro
S. Ber man will produce in England next spring, will
be megged by RICHARD THORPE.
Cinema Productions booked TAY GARNETT to direct
"Main Street to Broadwoy," the all-star entry being
produced by Lester Cowan in cooperation with the
Council of the Living Theotre.
RKO Radio
inked HOWARD KOCH,
Aubrey Schenck Productions
veteran assistant director, as on associate producer
and director, his first assignment to be the upcoming
"Beach Head."
Warners
DAVID WEISBART was handed the production reins
on "The Boy From Oklahoma," which will star Will
Rogers jr.
AL GREEN was booked to direct "The Eddie Cantor
Story," starring Keefe Brasselle, which will be produced
by Sidney Skolsky in Technicolor.
Options
Allied Artists
HELEN WESTCOTT and PEGGIE CASTLE will enact
the feminine leads in "Cow Country." Producer Scott
R. Dunlap signed EDMOND O'BRIEN to star in the
film, sagebrusher being directed by Les Selander.
Columbia
Singing stor DICK HAYMES will have a top role
in "Melancholy Baby." Singer BILLY DANIELS will
appear in the picture. The BELL SISTERS—Cynthia
and Kay—will make their film debuts in Producer
Jonie Taps' upcoming Technicolor musical, to be
directed by Richard Quine.
Replacing Mary Pickford, who withdrew from the
assignment, BARBARA STANWYCK will star in Producer
Stonley Kramer's "Circle of Fire."
ALDO RAY will teom with Jane Wyman in Oscar
Soul's Technicolor production, "Love Song." The
romantic comedy with music will be megged by
Alexander Hall.
Metro
MICHAEL V/ILDING was booked to join Lono
Turner and Fernando Lamas in "Latin Lovers," Technicolor
romantic drama which Mervyn LeRoy will
direct for Producer Joe Pasternak.
ELAINE STEWART was cast in "A Slight Case of
Larceny," the upcoming Henry Barman production,
starring Mickey Rooney, Carleton Carpenter and
Marilyn Erskine. Don Weis will direct.
Paramount
JAMES BARTON, veteran stage and screen actor,
joined the cast of "Here Come the Girls," Technicolor
musical comedy starring Bob Hope, Arlene Dahl
and Tony Martin. It will be megged by Claude
Binyon for Producer Poul Jones.
role wos JOHNNY DOWNS.
Honded a featured
Veteran character actor JAMES GLEASON was cast
in "Forever Female," the Ginger Rogers-William
Holden-Paul Douglas starring comedy, which will be
produced by Pot Duggon ond megged by Irving
Rapper. Ending a four-year retirement, MARJORIE
RAMBEAU was inked for the film. Pacted for a
supporting role wos GEORGE REEVES.
RKO Radio
Lex Barker's co-star in Sol Lesser's upcoming
"Tarzan ond the She-Devil" will be JOYCE MAC
KENZIE.
20th Century-Fox
HELMUT DANTINE was inked for a character lead
Ethel Merman starrer,
which Walter Long directs for Producer Sol C. Siegel.
in "Call Me Madam,
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Joining Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck in the
cast of Producer Charles Brockett's "Neorer My God,
to Thee" was THELMA RITTER.
Universal-International
Booked for the leading heavy role in "Vermilion
O'Toole," starring Ann Sheridan and Sterling Hoyden,
wos PHILIP REED. The Technicolor western is being
produced by Ross Hunter and directed by Douglas
Sirk. Pacted for the picture were DOROTHY NEU-
MANN and ANN TYRELL.
Warners
STEVE COCHRAN, currently before the cameras in
"She's Bock on Broadway," wos given a contract
extension for another year.
DIANA LYNN was inked by Wayne-Fellows Productions
to star with Glenn Ford and Patricia Medina
in "Plunder m the Sun." The picture will be filmed
on location in Mexico, with John Farrow megging.
Scripters
RICHARD
science-fiction subject,
England next year.
Lippert Productions
LANDAU
penning "Spaceways," a
which will be produced in
Metro
A treotment of Cole Porter's stage musical, "Kiss
Me Kate," is being developed by DOROTHY KINGS-
LEY. Jock Cummings will produce.
RKO Radio
Producer Sol Lesser booked KARL KAMB for a
polish job on the screenplay of "Tarzan and the
She-Devil."
Huntington Hartford Productions tagged JAMES
AGEE to screenplay "The Blue Hotel."
West: Steve Broidy, president of Allied
Artists; Harold Mirisch and G. Ralph Branton,
vice-presidents, and Walter Mirisch, executive
producer, returned from Chicago after
attending the company's annual national sales
convention. Harold Wirthwein, AA's western
sales manager, also headed west, planning
stopovers in Des Moines and Omaha en route.
West: Norman Moray, Warners' short subjects
sales chief, arrived from Gotham for
conferences with Jack L. Warner, Cedric
Francis, shorts production head, and Edward
Seltzer, cartoon producer.
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West: Arthur Ki'im. president of United
Artists, is expected in from New York at midmonth
for conferences with filmmakers releasing
through his company.
West: M. A. Lightman, Memphis circuit
operator and president of Cinema Productions,
checked in for parleys with Producer
Lester Cowan on the company's initial film
ventm-e, "Main Street to Broadway," which
is due for an early camera start for MGM
release.
East: George Glass, vice-president of the
Kramer Co. in charge of advertising and publicity,
trained to Gotham for conferences with
Columbia home office officials.
North: Producer-Director Cecil B. DeMille
left for San Francisco to attend the sixth annual
meeting of the American Cancer Society,
of which he is a board member.
Universal-International
"Atomic Monster/' a science-f Jction dromo, is
being developed by RAY BRADBURY for Producer
William Aiiond.
Technically
Metro
RAY GARNER, explorer and archeologist, was inked
to serve as technical adviser on "Volley of the
Kings," which wilt be filmed in Egypt next spring.
EDWARD MOEHLER will be the unit production
manager on "Young Bess."
Crew assembled for "Remains to Be Seen" includes
JACK GREENWOOD, assistant director; ROBERT
PLANCK, cinematographer, and WILLIAM KAPLAN,
unit manager.
Paramount
On loan from Samuel Goldwyn, HARRY STRADLING
will photograph "Forever Female."
Title
Chcmges
20th Century-Fox
"Sailor of the King" to SINGLE HANDED.
Jack L. Warner Leaves
Academy Membership
HOLLYWOOD—For reasons which, at midweek,
remained undisclosed. Jack L. Warner,
vice-president in charge of Warner Bros, production,
has tendered his resignation from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Warners was one of the organization's founding
members more than 25 years ago.
Exhibit Some 16min Films
About 10 per cent of the regular theatres
in Algeria exhibit 16mm films on a very irregular
basis.
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West: Al Lichtman, 20th-Fox general sales
manager, came in from New York for studio
huddles with Darryl F. Zanuck. vice-pKesident
in charge of production, and Joseph M.
Schenck.
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East: William C. MacMillen jr., president
of Chesapeake Industries, returned to his
Manhattan headquarters after a brief stay
at the Eagle Lion studios, which his company
controls. While here he also huddled with
local executives of Pathe Laboratories, another
Chesapeake subsidiary.
* * *
West: Timothy O'Conner. Chicago police
commissioner, and Robert Raleigh, chief of
traffic, checked in at Republic for conferences
with President Herbert J. Yates anent an
upcoming film dealing with the Windy city
police department. Yates. Jack E. Baker,
vice-president in charge of production, and
Producer-Director John H. Auer have been
appointed honorary police officers of the city
of Chicago.
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West: Producer Jerry Wald and Milton
Pickman, vice-president of Wald-Krasna Pi'oductions.
returned to their RKO desks after a
six-day, 4,500-mile tour of Texas in advance
of the September 30 world premiere of "The
Lusty Men" in Fort Worth. They met with
exhibitors, drama critics and newspapermen.
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East: Sam Katzman. who produces for Columbia
release, headed lor New York for a
week of busines di.scu.ssions with Columbia
home office executives on his 15-picture 1953
schedule.
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