Goldwyn’s £2,000,000 Schedule

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 39, 16 February 1938, Page 11

Goldwyn’s £2,000,000 Schedule

SIX PRODUCTIONS PLANNED FOR 1938. Samuel Goldwyn has launched what will be the greatest moviemaking schedule in all the years of his history as an independent producer. Whereas Goldwyn in the past has confined himself to three or four pictures a year, during 1938 he will make at least six, at a total budgeted cost of approxibately £2,000,000. The first of these is “The Hurricane ’’ from the great 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 165,000 dollars for the screen rights. William Wyler, whose “Dodsworth” of last year was nominated for an Academy Award, will direct. Later in the year will come “The Goldwyn Follies,” & lavish, spectacular musical show, iu which representatives of every phase of entertainment will be featured. This picture is budgeted at 1,000,000 dollars, and already .-igned are George Balanchine and his American Ballet, Adolphe Menjou, the Kit z Brothers, Bobby Clark, Phil Baker, Zorina and Helen Jepson. Gary Cooper’s first picture under his new contract with Goldwyn will be “The Adventures of Marco Polo,” which Douglas Fairbanks Jun. will coproduce. The script has been completed by Robert £. Sherwood, famed playwright, and will introduce Higrid Gorie, Goldwyn’s new Norwegian discovery. .Rounding out the schedule will be tire co-starring picture of Cooper and Merle Oberon entitled “Spring in my Heart,” which Frederick Lonsdale inputting into movie form from an . «,rfei nal story by Leo McCarey and Frank B. Adams; and “The Duchessj •f Broadway.”