Boxoffice-January.08.1955

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STUDIO PERSONNELITIES
Allied Artists
PAUL PRICE, former radio-TV editor for the
recently defunct Daily News, wos engaged as unit
pubhcibt on "Wichita."
Cleffers
Independent
The Hugo Haas production, "Hold Bock Tomorrow "
15 being scored by SIDNEY CUTNER.
Republic
Score for "The Admiral Hoskins Story" will be
composed and conducted by ELMER BERNSTEIN-
Universal-Intemational
FRANK SKINNER is composing the background
music for "The Shrike "
Songs for "The Second Greatest Sex" will be penned
by PONY SHERRELL ond PHIL MOODY.
Meggers
Columbia
Producer Som Katzman booked FRED F, SEARS to
pilot "Joil Bait," drama of juvenile delinquency, soon
to go before the cameras.
Paramount
MICHAEL CURTIZ will direct the Irving Asher
production, "The Mavericks," an outdoor action drama
which IS scheduled to hit the sound stages in March.
Broadway stage director ROBERT LEWIS will make
his bow OS a film pilot on "Anything Goes " tunefilm
starring Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor ond
Jeanmoire, which Robert Emmeft Dolan will produce.
Universal-International
"The Navy Gets Francis," next in the comedy series
'^^ "talking mule," will be directed
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LUBIN.
Warner Bros.
STUART HEISLER was signed to direct "The
Jagged Edge," crime drama starring Jack Palance
which Willis Goldbeck will produce in CinemaScope
and WornerColor.
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Allied Artists
VERA MILES was inked for the femme lead opposite
Joel McCrea in "Wichita," which is being produced
in CinemaScope by Walter Mirisch, with Jocaues
Tourneur directing.
WALTER SANDE,
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ROBERT WILKE,
EDGAR BUCHANAN and JACK ELAM drew supporting
roles in "Wichita."
KEITH LARSEN was booked for a topline in the
Joel McCrea starrer, "Wichita," being directed by
Jacques Tourneur and produced in CinemoScope by
Walter Mirisch.
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JEANNE DEAN and ANNA NAVARRO.
Columbia
*'^"- C/.REY will team with Von Heflin and Joan
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Woodward m Copo Productions' "The Calico Pony "
which will be lensed in CinemaScope and Technicolor
with George Sherman directing and Ted Richmond
as the producer.
r ^V, '?/, '!}E '°Pj'r"^ '1 producer Fred Kohlmor's "The
Gentle Wolfhound," which Richard Murphy will direct
on location in Tokyo, was ALDO RAY.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
British actor WILLIAM TRAVERS was cast with
Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger in producer Pandro
s. Hermans Bhowani Junction," which George Cukor
will direct on location in Pakistan.
Paramount
Broadway dancer PHYLLIS NEWMAN was signed
for Q role in the VistoVision musical, "The Voga-
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