BIG FILM DEAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 16

BIG FILM DEAL

M.G.M. PRODUCTIONS IMPORTANT STARS AND STORIES One of the most important film deals of recent years was completed last week 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-Goldwyn-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 Schildkraut, and Gladys George also appear. Other stars who will be seen in a wide variety of films are Jeannete 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 Sullivan, 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, Franchot Tone, Janet Gaynor, Walter Connolly, Reginald Owen, Mary Astor, Paulette Goddard, H. B. Warner, Nat Pendelton, Dw Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Denis O’Keefe, and Herbert Marshall.

Every possible kind of entertainment is embraced by the productions which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will present. In addition to “Marie Antoinette,” major attractions will include “Sweethearts,” with Jeannette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Florence Rice, Mischa Auer; “Too Hot to Handle,” with Clark Gable and Myrna Loy; “The Great Waltz,” with Luise Rainer and Fernand Gravet; and “The Crowd Roars,” an exciting boxing story and successor to “A Yank at Oxford,” with the same stars, Robert Taylor and Maureen O'Sullivan and Frank Morgan.

Special interest attaches to the film version of “The Citadel,” with Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell in the principal roles. Another highly-impor-tant feature, which breaks clean way from the usual, is “Boy’s Town,” with that ace of character actors, Spencer Tracy, playing, for the 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. There will also be “Love Finds Andy Hardy,” one of the increasingly-popular, and wholesome “Judge Hardy’s Children” series, with Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, and Celilia Parker. “The Shining Hour” will have a great cast in Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullivan, Melvyn Douglas, and Robert Young, likewise “Three Loves Has Nancy,” with Robert Montgomery, Janet Gaynor, Franchot Tone, Claire Dodd, Reginald Owen, and Guy Kibbee. “Stablemates” will star Wallace Beery, Mickel Rooney, and Margaret Hamilton, “Shopworn Angel” Margaret Sullivan, James Stewart, and Walter Pidgeon, “Listen Darling” Freddie Bartholomew, Judy Garland, Walter Pidgeon, and Mary Astor, “Rich Man, Poor Girl” Robert Young, Lew Ayres, and Ruth Hussey, and “Fast Company” Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice. In addition to “The Great Waltz,” Luise Rainer will be seen in “Dramatic School,” in which she is supported by Alan Marshall and Paulette Goddard, and in the big success “Toy Wife,” in which Melvyn Douglas is her leading man, and there also appear Robert Young, Barbara O'Neil, and H. B. Warner. Other features will be “Young Doctor Kildare” (Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore), “Xmas Carol” (Reginald Owen, Terry Kilburn, Lynne Carver), “Vacation for Love” (Denis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Reginald Owen), “Spring Dance” (Maureen O'Sullivan