FROM FOUR STUDIOS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19503, 9 December 1937, Page 17

FROM FOUR STUDIOS

AMALGAMATED FILMS NEW LINE-UP FOR 1938 BIG STARS IN BIG FILMS “An outstanding year of film attractions tor New Zealand audiences is assured,” said Mr. J. P. Moodabe, managing-director of Amalgamated meaires, limited, in an interview ,vnh the Auckland Star, commenting on the new line-up of pictures to be presented in 1938 at cinema houses unaer control of his organisation, which includes the King’s Theatre, Gisborne. Amalgamated Theatres, said Mr. Moodabe, had bought for screening tnroughout ns entire New Zealand circuit, comprising nearly 70 theatres, me forthcoming product of torn studios —United Artists, 20th Century Pox, Gaumont-British and Dominions, arid R.K.0.-Radio. These four offered some of the outstanding productions on which the industry wouid rely loi t 938, among them being:— Twentieth Century-Fox. Eddie Cantor’s “Ali Baba Goes to Town”; Zonja lienie’s “Thin Ice” (with Tyrone Power) and “Happy Ending” (with Don Ameche); Shirley Temple's Heidi” and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm”; “Jean.” featuring Don Ameche opposite Annabeila in Iter Hollywood debut; “Alexander’s Ragtime Band"; “Career in C Major,” with Myrna Loy and Warner Baxter; “Lancer Spy’ (Dolores Del Rio); “Sally, Irene and Mary." G.B.D. —Grade Fields and Victor McLaglen in “He Was Her M:in”; Annabeila in “Dinner at the Ritz”; Jack Buchanan and Maurice Chevalier in “Break the News"; Jack Buchanan in “The Sky’s the Limit”; Jessie Matthews in “Sparkles”; Jessie Matthews in “Sailing Along"; George Arliss in “Doctor Syn”; John Gielgud in “Richard of Bordeaux” (in Tcchnicolour). R.K.0.-Radio.—“Victoria the Great,” Herbert Wilcox’s lavish production, filmed at Denham studios at a cost of T. 140,000 and starring Anna Neagle with Anton Walbrook; Irene Dunne and John Barrymore in “Joy of Living”; Ginger Rogers in “Irene”; Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn in “Stage Door”; Lily Pons in “Born to Sing”; three Bobby Breen productions; Nino Martini in “Music for Madam”; Miriam Hopkins in “The Happy Fellow”; Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a Pandro S. Berman production, with music by Irving Berlin; Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall in “Breakfast for Two"; Ginger Rogers and Charles Boyer in “Perfect Harmony.” In addition, R.K.0.-Radio is handling Joe E. Brown, Richard Dix and Wheeler and Woolsev productions and George O'Brien “Westerns.” R.K.0.-Radio has secured Walt Disney’s “Micky Mouse” and “Silly Symphonies” cartoons, and will feature in Technicolour a full-length Walt Disney cartoon entitled “Snowwhite and the Seven Dwarfs.” “March of Time” series also come under the banner of R.K.0.-Radio. United Artists.—Headed by “The Hurricane,” with an all-star cast, United Artists’ product includes all films made by Samuel Goldwvn, Alexander Korda and Walter Wanger; Gary Cooper in “The Adventures of Marco Polo”; Fredric March in “Nothing Sacred” (in Technicolour); Madeleine Carroll in “Arabian Nights” (in Technicolour), “I Love As I Please,” and in "A Kiss in Paris"; Snbu (of “Elephant Boy” fame) in "Mutiny in the Mountains” (Technicolour); Merle Oberon in “Divorce of Lady X”; Robert Donat in “Four Feathers”; “A Man With Ten Models” and “52nd Street,” both fashion films by Walter Wanger, famous for his ‘Vogues of 1938”; several other Technicolour films, namely, “Gaiety Girls,” “Over the Moon” and “Spring in My Heart.” In addition, United Artists are handling “Skippy” carloons, in Technicolour.