Boxoffice-Febuary.28.1953

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STUDIO PERSONNEUTIES
Barnstormers
Metro
Plugging "I Love Melvin," in which she stars with
Donald O'Connor, DEBBIE REYNOLDS takes off early
next month on a cross-country personal oppearonce
tour. Stopovers are planned in New York, Des
Moines, Minneapolis, Cleveland, St. Louis, Chicogo
and other cities.
Cleffers
Columbia
Producer Stanley Kramer's "The Wild One" will
be scored by LEITH STEVENS.
Loanouts
United Artists
Howard K. Koch Productions borrowed JOAN
TAYLOR from Paromount for the femme lead opposite
Robert Stack in "War Paint," historical western
being directed by Lesley Selander.
Meggers
Paramount
MITCHELL LEISEN wos booked to direct "Red
Garters," upcoming musical to be filmed in the
Paravision 3-D process, with Rosemary Clooney, Anno
Mono Alberghetti and Joanne Gilbert in the leading
roles.
Universal-International
Promoted from assistant director, JESSE HIBBS will
pilot "All- American," football yarn to star Tony
Curtis. Parenthetically, both Hibbs and Producer
Aaron Rosenberg ore former cll-Americans, having
been grid notobles at the University of Southern
California.
Options
Columbia
Set to stor in "The Man Who Lived Twice," o crime
drama being produced by Wallace MacDonold, were
EDMOND O'BRIEN and AUDREY TOTTER. Lew
Lenders directs.
Cost as a police officer in "The Wild One" was
ROBERT KEITH.
Set to star in Producer Robert Arthur's "The Big
Heat" wos GLENN FORD. The cops-and-robbers yarn
will be directed by Fritz Lang.
JUDY HOLLIDAY will be starred in "A Nome for
Herself," from an originol screenplay by Ruth Gordon
and Garson Konin, which will be directed by
George Cukor.
Inked for the femme Iced opposite George Montgomery
in "Fort Ti" wos JOAN VOHS. The Technicolor
western is being produced in the Natural
Vision 3-D process by Sam Kotzmon, with William
Castle directing.
Independent
Cast in "Steel Boyonets," being produced for
Jock Broder Productions by Jerry Thomas, were
JOHN IRELAND and JILL HOLLINGSHEAD. Si Roth
is
directing.
Metro
CYRIL CUSACK of Ireland's Abbey Theatre was
cost in "Saadio," the Albert Lewin production, which
is shooting on location in French Morocco with o
cost headed
Gam.
by Mel Ferrer, Cornel Wilde and Rita
Paramount
Set to topline Producer Mel Epstein's "Alaskan
Seas" were ROBERT RYAN, JAN STERLING and
BRIAN KEITH. Shooting will begin in June, with
Jerry Hopper megging.
Actor-Director RICHARD HAYDN wos set for o
tophne in the new Deon Mart in- Jerry Lewis comedy,
"Money From Home," which George Marshall
will meg for Hoi WoMis Productions.
RKO Radio
Wolf Disney Productions booked GLYNIS JOHNS,
British octress, to star with Richard Todd in the
Technicolor live-oction costumer, "Rob Roy." The
feature will be produced on location in Scotland
with Horold French directing.
20th Century-Fox
ROBERT WAGNER and TERRY MOORE will star
in Producer Robert Bossier's "Twelve Mile Reef,"
oction-dramo of sponge-diving off the Florida coast,
which Robert Webb will direct.
CLIFTON WEBB will portroy Henry Bcrgh, founder
of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, in the upcoming Leonard Goldstein production,
"S.P.C.A."
Tagged for the mole lead in "VIcki," in which
Jeanne Crain ond Jean Peters ore the femme topliners,
wos ELLIOTT REID. The suspense dramo will
be directed by Harry Horner tor Producer Leonard
Goldstein.
Inked for "Inferno," the 3-D western toplining
William Lundigan, Rhondo Fleming and Robert Ryon,
wos HENRY HULL. Roy Boker megs the Williom
Bioom production.
Universal-International
MAUREEN O'HARA will star with Jeff Chandler in
"Brady's Bunch," Technicolor western to be produced
by John Rogers and directed by George
Shermon.
Warner Bros.
FRANK LOVEJOY will star with Guy Madison in
the Notural Vision 3-D western, "Burning Arrow,"
which Gordon Douglas will direct for Producer
Dovid Wcisbort. Femme lead will be VERA MILES.
Nine-yeor-old MICHAEL KANNER will portray
George JcsscI as a boy in "The Eddie Contor Story,"
the Kecfe Brosselle storrer bemg produced by
Sidney Skolsky and megged by Alfred E. Green.
LON CHANEY jr. was cost os a cowhond in "The
Boy From Oklahomo."
Set for o character role in the Jane Wymon
storrer, "So Big," was ROLAND WINTERS. Robert
Wise is megging the Henry Blonke production.
Scripters
Allied Artists
"Annopolis '53." o story of the U.S. novel ocodemy,
will be penned by DAN ULLMAN, It will be
produced in Technicolor this summer by Walter
Mirisch, with navy cooperation.
Columbia
"Scourge of the Southwest," planned gs a Technicolor
western, is being written by BARRY SHIPMAN
as a Sam Kotzmon production.
Independent
Dowling Productions booked HUGH BROOKE to pen
"Chnstobal," o story of intrigue on a volcanic island
in the Caribbeon, which will be the company's second
film, following the current "Donovan's Broin."
Century-Fox
20th
"The Fifth Rider," an original western by Fred
Freiberger ond William Tunberg, is being adapted
by JESSE L. LASKY JR. It will be produced by
Robert Bossier.
DANIEL TARADASH is developing "Desiree,"
romantic drama, for Producer Julian Blaustein.
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Playwright-scenarist MOSS HART is adopting "Prince
of Players," a biography of actor Edwin Booth, which
will be produced by Sol C. Siegel.
"No Business Like Show Business," Technicolor
musical based on the song by Irving Berlin, is being
scripted by HENRY and PHOEBE EPHRON, The CinemoScope
entry will be produced by Sol C. Siegel.
"The Big Fight," a boxing story, is being penned
by JAMES MOSER. Otto Long will produce.
GABRIELLE UPTON is developing "Eighth and Elm,"
from her own original, as a Frank Rosenberg production.
Story Buys
Columbia
"Sunburst," on original western by Ronald Mac-
Dougoll, was purchased and assigned to MocDougoll
to produce. Charles Peck jr. will write the screenplay,
dealing with on Indian boy adopted and raised
by a white family in the 1870s.
20th Century-Fox
"The Last Man in Wogon Mound," on original
western by Morgorct Fitts, wos acquired, and the
author was booked to develop the screenplay.
"The Camp Follower," a comedy by Albert Beich,
was added to Leonord Goldstein's production schedule.
Beich is writing the script.
Universal-International
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Acquired for early filming was "Tacey
historical novel by Conrad Richter.
Cromwell,"
Technically
Allied Artists
WILLIAM AUSTIN will edit "Annapolis '53."
DAVID MILTON will handle the art direction
chores on "Loose in London. "
Republic
Handed o new term ?rm ticket as a cinemotographer
ING.
was REGGIE LANNING.
Warner Bros.
RUSS LLEWELLYN will be the ossistant director
on "Burning Arrow," a Noturol Vision 3-D entry.
to be photographed by PEVERELL MARLEY. Assigned
OS ort diretcor was STANLEY FLEISCHER.
Title
Changes
Allied Artists
"The Annapolis Story" to ANNAPOLIS '53.
Metro
"See How They Run" to BRIGHT ROAD.
Universal-International
"The Prince of Bagdad" to THE VEILS OF
BAGDAD.
West: Spyro.s Skouras. president, of 20th-
Fox, was expected in from his New York
headquarters for conferences with Darryl P.
Zanuck, vice-president in charge of production,
and other studio executives. Principal
topic: Cinemascope, 20th-Fox's 3-D device,
and production plans for films which
will utilize the process.
East :
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S. Berman, Metro producer.
will take off for England late in March to
complete final preparations for production of
a Robert Taylor starrer in Britain. Berman
will return in approximately five weeks.
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West: Harold Mirisch and G. Ralph Branton,
Allied Artists vice-presidents, checked in
from Gotham after a two-week business trip.
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East: William C. Thomas, partner of William
Pine in Pine-Thomas Productions,
headed a group leaving for Aspen, Colo., to
begin location filming on a Rhonda Fleming
starrer being made for Paramount. Thomas
was accompanied by Lewis R. Foster, director;
Earl Hedrick. art director, and Charles
Woolstenhulme, unit manager.
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East: Pi-oducer Samuel Goldwyn plans to
journey to New York next week on a brief
business trip.
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East: Fred Schwartz, New York circuit
operator and executive of the independent
unit. Cinema Productions, returned to Manhattan
after huddles here with Lester Cowan,
who is producing "Main Street to Broadway"
for the company.
Industry a Red Target.
Says AFL Council Head
HOLLYWOOD—That Coniniuni.sts still regard
the film industry as an infiltration target
was stressed at an anti-Red rally staged
under the auspices of the Hollywood AFL
Film Council, w'ith Roy M. Brewer, council
chairman and lATSE international studio
representative, presiding.
Speakers included scenarist Martin Berkeley,
William White, state commander of the
American Legion; Pat Somerset of the Screen
Actors Guild; Ai't Arthur, representing the
Motion Picture Industry Council, and William
Parker, Los Angeles police chief. Berkeley
urged that the AFL. CIO and Congress cooperate
in protesting Soviet persecution of
minorities and that the U.S. government
order a boycott of Soviet-made merchandise.
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: February 28, 1953