Plans for 1940

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23489, 28 October 1939, Page 10 (Supplement)

Plans for 1940

UNITED ARTISTS' SCHEDULE THE production schedule adopted by United Artists for its 1940 programme has been announced. The sum of £6,000,000 has been set aside for the making of the 28 pictures in the list. The films are as follows: Samuel Goldwyn will produce "Raffles," with David Niven and Olivia de Haviland; David 0. Sclznick, "Rebecca," from the novel by Daphne du Maurier, with Laurence Olivier, and "Intermezzo," with Leslie Howard, lngrid Bergman and Edna Best; Aloxnnder Korda, of London Films, "The Thief of Bagdad," with Sabu, Conrad Veidt and June Duprez; Walter Wanger, "The House Across the Bay," with Joan Bennett; "Eternally Yours," with Lcretta Young, David Niven and Billie Burke; "Send Another Coffin," directed by Tay Garnett from the novel by P. G. Presnqjl; Edward Small, "My Ron, My Son," from the novel by Howard Spring; "Two Years Before lh» Must," from thp novel by Richard Henry Dana; "Kit Carson, Avenger," "South of Pago Pago," "The House of Monte Cristo" and "Valentino." Hal Roach, "Tho Housekeeper's Daughter," with Joan Bennett; "Of Mice and Men," with Burgess Meredith, Charles Bickford and Lon Chaney, jun., from the novel by John Steinbeck; "Turnabout," from tho novel by Thorne Smith; "Captain Caution," from the novel by Kenneth Roberts, "1,000,000, 8.C.," and four Laurel and Hardy pictures, one of which has been titled "The Chump at Oxford';; Sol Lesser-Ernest Lubitsch Productions, "Our Town," the Pulitzer Prize play of 1938; Douglas Fairbanks Productions, "The Californian;" and Aldwych Productions, " An Englishman's Home," with Edmund Gwenn, Mary Maguire, from the stage play by Guy du Maurier. The list will be released through Amalgamated Theatres, Limited.