Goldwyn's £2,000,000 Schedule For This Year

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 16

Goldwyn's £2,000,000 Schedule For This Year

SAMUEL GOLDWYN has launched what is to be the greatest moviemaking schedule.in all the years of hits history as an independent producer. Whereas Goldwyn in the past has confined himself to three or four pictures a year, during 193 S he wi-11 make at least six, at a total budgeted cost of approximately £2,000,000. The first is “The Hurricane,” from the novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, authors of “Mutiny on ,the Bounty,” in which Joel McCrea and Margo are starred. Much of this picture will be “shot” in its original setting in Samoa. Following in the list is “Dead End,” from the great New York stage success for which Goldwyn paid 105,000 dollars for the screen rights. William Wyler, whose “Dodisworth” of last year was nominated for an Academy Award will direct it. Later in the year will come “The Goldwyn Follies,” a lavish, spectacular musical show, in which representatives of every phase of entertainment will be featured. This picture is budgeted at 1,000,000 dollars, and George Balanchine and iris American Ballet, Adolphe Menjou, the Ritz. Brothers, Bobby Clark, Phil Baker, Zorina and Helen Jepson, have been engaged already. Gary Cooper’s first picture under his new contract with Goldwyn will be “The Adventures of Maijco Polo,” which Douglas Fairbanks, Jun., will co-pro-duce. The script has been completed by Robert E. Sherwood, playwright, and will/introduce Sigrid Guide, Goldwyn’s Norwegian discovery. Rounding out the schedule will be the co-starring picture of Cooper and Merle Oberon entitled “Spring in My Heart,” which Frederick Lonsdale isputting into movie form from an original story by 100 MeOarey and Frank R. Adams; and “The Duchess of Broadway.”