PRODUCTION PARS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 June 1939, Page 6

PRODUCTION PARS

| With '.'Three Smart Girls Grow Up" and "All Quiet on the Western Front” j placing Universal prominently in the • scene with current attract.oris. interjest will attach to the release schedule. Y Y Y Y j "The Sun Never Sets" is a dramatic j subject of the British Empire. with such stars as Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Lionel' Atwill and Virginia Field "1 Stole a Million” as a George Raft , starrer. while "East Side of Heaven” and 'You Can t Cheat an Honest Man" arc currently rocking up "Deanna Durbin box-office business" throughout America, despite that that country, gen- ' orally, is passing through a slump . period in theatre attendances •Y 1 Y ■¥■ “ ; Eddie Cantor, set to star in a I'orth--2 ; coming M.G.M. production and Fred 1 Astaire, already assigned to co-star " | with Eleanor Powell in M.G.M.’s “ i "Broadway Melody of 1940.” have found ” j their places on the newest official star i j rosier issued from the Metro-Goldwyn-l' Mayer Studios. Previous to this, the i; new additions to the M.G.M. star, list r 1 incluuded Mickey Rooney, Judy Gari i land and Hedy Lamarr. As it now s \ stands, the list of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer s stars is as follows: Fred Astaire, Lionel !. ; Barrymore. Freddie Bartholomew, v | Wallace Berry. Eddie Cantor. Joan ; Crawford Robert Donat. Nelson Eddy. \ Clark Gable. Greta Garbo. Judy Gar--1 land. Hedy Lamarr. Myrne Loy. J'anette MacDonald. Marx Brothers, Rf>bert Montgomery. Eleanor Powell. Wil- “ i liam Powell. Mickey Rooney, Rosalind S | Russell. Norma Shearer. Margaret SuL ! la van. Robert Taylor. Spencer Tracy. Y Y Y *Y* The third picture of the trio to be \ directed by Alfred Hitchcock for David \ 1 0. Selznick has ben announced ns j “Flashing Stream.” from the London i stage play of the same name. The j other two productions are “Rebecca.” | 1 from the best seller by Daphne du j ; Mauricr, and "Titanic.” which deals c ! with the story of one of the greatest ! I maritime disasters of our time - the | isinking of the ill-fated trans-Atlantic j liner "Titanic” on her maiden voyage | to America.

" i Paulette Goddard has been cast with " j Bob Hope in “The Cal and the Canary.” e Elliott Nugent will direct. Y Y Y Y A questionnaire put to some thousands of British exhibitors by "The Moc lion Picture Herald” (New York) has h rerouted in Gene Autry topping the . poll in the western star’s popularity 1 competition The same actor had pret viouslv, headed a similar vote in Am- ” erica. Autry’s latest fi'”! to arrive her* for release by Associated-B.E.F. is - ‘Public Cowboy No. I.’ I Y Y Y Y Robert Taylor and Hedy Lamarr will > bo co-starred in Mctro-Goldwyn-May-er's "Lady of the Tropics.” scheduled to go before the camera in the near - future. Sam Zimbalist will be the 1 producer and Jack Conway the dirccr tor. Taylor has just completed work j 5 in "Lucky Night” in which he is co- j 1 starred with Myrna Loy. * *r* * * Advices received from C. V Hake. ( 1 managing director of 20th Century-Fox ! t (Aust.) Ply. Ltd. now visiting America - disclose that Hollywood's screen drama* / tisation of ’The Rains Came.” one of the r costliest films ever to go before the I •ameras. got under way early this mont> . with Tyrone Power. Darryl F. Zanuck 1 1 20th Century-Fox production chieftain . who has been preparing the scenario - and casting the film for the last two . I years, has budgeted the screen version -i( Louis Bromfield's best seller at 2.500- - poo dollars. 1 * *Y- Y Yr When tiie final scene was filmed by Howard Hawks for "Only Angels Have Wings.” it marked the completion of ? what is considered one of the most spcc--1 locular productions ever produced by s Columbia. Director Hawks and a corni of film editors arc nearing the final e stages of editing the picture. Us first ’ presentation, acoreding to present plans j will be made within the near future sJ to a group of American and foreign t'[corespondents covering magazines and e ! newspapers throughout the world. "Only c j Angels Have Wings” co-stars Cary c* I Grant and .lean Arthur in the romantic j leads