Important Stars and Stories

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 290, 7 December 1938, Page 11

Important Stars and Stories

BIG FILM DEAL FOR 1939 One of the most important film deals of recent years was completed recently when the 1939 output of motion pictures from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ltd., studios was secured by Fuller Theatre Corporation, Ltd., and John Fuller and Sons, Ltd., J. C. Williamson Picture Corporation, Ltd., and New Zealand Theatres, Ltd.

In 1939 Metro-Goidwyn-Mayer will have an array of outstanding productions. Among the famous and popular performers will be Norma Shearer, who has returned to the screen after a rather long absence since the untimely death of her producer-husband, Irving Thalberg, and who will be seen in the spectacular production, “Marie Antoinette,” in which Tyrone Power, Robert Morley, John Barrymore, Anita Louise, Joseph Sehildkraut and Gladys George also appear. Other stars who will bo seen in a wide variety of films are Jeannette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Robert Donat, Robert Taylor, Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Mickey Rooney, Wallace Beery, Freddie Bartholomew, Margaret Sulla van, Melvyn Douglas, Maureen O’Sullivan; also such well-known players as Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Henry Hull, Cecilia Parker, Robert Young, James Stewart, Walter Pidgeon, Francliot Tone, Janet Gaynor, Walter Connolly, Reginald Owen, Mary Astor v Paulette Goddard, H. B. Warner, Nat Pendelton, Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Denis O’Keefe and Herbert Marshall. » Every possible kind of entertainment is embraced by the productions whicn Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will present. Ia addition to “Marie Antoinette,’'’ major attractions will include “ Sweethearts, ” with Jeannette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Florence Rice, Misclia Auer; “Too Hot to Handle,” with Clark Gable and Myrna Loy; “The Great Waltz,” with Luise Rainer and Fernand Gravet; and “Tho Crowd Roars,” an exciting boxing story and successor to “A Yank at Oxford,” with tbe same stars, Robert Taylor and Maureen O’Sullivan ana (Frank Morgan. In view of the sensation caused by I Dr. Cronin ’s book, a special interest ■attaches to tho film version of “The i Citadel,” with Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell in the principal roles. An* 'other highly-important feature, which (breaks clean away from the usual, is (“Boy’s Town,” with that ace of character actors, Spencer Tracy, playing, for tho second time in his career, the role of a priest (the first occasion being in “San Francisco”). “Boy’s Town” is the actual story of Father (Flanagan’s vast camp for homeless boys in Nebraska. It was founded 21 years ago by Father Flanagan, who insisted that the boys should govern themselves. From among their number they elect a Mayor and commissioners; they appoint their own punishments (to fit the crime), and their own rewards. | As Father Flanagan is still alive, Spen-