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8 New Features, 4 Reprints<br />
On MGM's 4-Month Lineup<br />
Five of 8 New Films Are in<br />
CinemaScope<br />
NEW YORK—The emphasis will be on<br />
drama in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lineup<br />
of product to be released in the first four<br />
months of 1956. There will be eight new features<br />
and four Masterpiece Reprints—to<br />
provide, among other themes, two stories set<br />
In the Old West, a musical, a romance of the<br />
16th Century and a comedy starring the "I<br />
Love Lucy" couple, Lucille Ball and Desi<br />
Arnaz.<br />
The lineup Is generously endowed with<br />
color—seven in Eastman Color and three in<br />
Technicolor—and all 12 are for widescreen<br />
projection, with six in CinemaScope. In its<br />
early 1956 product, MGM is introducing new<br />
talent along with some of its established<br />
stars. Leslie Nielson. a newcomer on whom<br />
the studio places great hope, will be seen in<br />
two of the pictures, while other new talents<br />
include Irene Papas, Lillian Montevecchi and<br />
John Kerr.<br />
For its entries in the Masterpiece Reprint<br />
series, the company has picked four pictures<br />
which were top boxoffice winners when first<br />
— released. Three of them "The Stratton<br />
Story." "The Three Musketeers" and "The<br />
Yearling"—won the BOXOFFICE Blue Ribbon<br />
Award for general excellence and for<br />
providing wholesome entertainment for the<br />
entire family, while the fourth, "Northwest<br />
Passage," was one of the three top pictures<br />
in the BOXOFFICE-Barometer ratings in the<br />
year it was released.<br />
The first two releases in the new year will<br />
bring contrasting stories. One, "Diane," starring<br />
Lana Turner, Pedro Armendariz. Roger<br />
Moore and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. and produced<br />
in CinemaScope, is the story of a<br />
woman who ruled the heart of Henry II of<br />
Prance in the 16th Century. The second feature,<br />
"Ransom," is based on a successful<br />
United Steel Hour television show of some<br />
months back, dealing with the kidnapping<br />
of the son of a well-to-do business executive,<br />
and the father's efforts to gain the son's release<br />
without aid of the police. Starred are<br />
Glemi Ford, Donna Reed, Juano Hernandez.<br />
Leslie Nielson.<br />
The release .schedule for the remaining<br />
months will include:<br />
FEBRUARY—"Forever, Darling," the second<br />
Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz comedy, with<br />
James Mason and Louis Calhern, in a story<br />
about a pair of honeymooners who find themselves<br />
escorted by a guardian angel to smooth<br />
over the rough spots (Eastman Color and<br />
widescreem: "The Last Hunt," starring Robert<br />
Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan.<br />
Debra Paget, based on a novel by Milton Lott<br />
dealing with the last big buffalo hunt in the<br />
early west (CinemaScope, Eastman Color)<br />
"The Three Musketeer.-^." Ma.sterpiece Reprint.<br />
staiTing Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, Van<br />
Heflin, June AUyson, and "The Stratton<br />
Story," also Masterpiece Reprint, with June<br />
AUyson and James Stewart.<br />
MARCH— "Meet Me in Las Vegas," starring<br />
Dan Daily, Cyd Charisse, Liliane Montevecchi,<br />
story of a dance team behind the scenes in<br />
the gambling casinos (CinemaScope, Eastman<br />
Color); "Forbidden Planet," starring Walter<br />
Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielson, story<br />
of space travel in 2100 A.D.. and two Ma.sterpiece<br />
Reprints, "Northwest Passage" with<br />
Spencer Tracy, Robert Young. Walter Brennan,<br />
and "The Yearhng," starring Jane<br />
Wyman, Gregory Peck, Claude Jarman jr.<br />
APRIL — "Tribute to a Bad Man," starring<br />
James Cagney, Irene Papas and Stephen Mc-<br />
Nally, the story of one of the last of the<br />
great horsebreeders who specialized in raising<br />
fast steeds for the express stagecoaches<br />
(Cinemascope. Eastman Color<br />
i<br />
with<br />
Leslie Caron, John Kerr, Sir Cedric Hardwicke,<br />
the life and romance of a Paris<br />
dancer (CinemaScope, Eastman Color).<br />
The Masterpiece Reprints have been edited<br />
and prepared for widescreen projection.<br />
"It's a Dog's Life," formerly titled "The Bar<br />
Sinister" and "Wildfire." which was previously<br />
scheduled for September release, will<br />
be available under its final title after December<br />
23.<br />
RANSOM<br />
Jonuary Release<br />
Stars Donna Reed, Glenn Ford, Juono Hernandez<br />
FOREVER, DARLING February Release<br />
Stan Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Mason<br />
TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN April Release<br />
Stars James Cagney, Irene Papas, Stephen McNolly<br />
GABY April Release<br />
S(Ofs Leslie Caron, John Kerr, Cecil Hardwicke<br />
THE LAST HUNT February Rclcose<br />
Stan Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger, Lloyd Nolan<br />
MEET ME IN LAS VEGAS<br />
Stars Dan Doily and Cyd Charisse<br />
March Release<br />
BOXOFTICE :<br />
: December 17, 1955 19
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