HUGE SCHEDULE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 3

HUGE SCHEDULE

TOTAL COST ENORMOI S GOLDWYN’S PLANS Samuel Goldwyn has launched what . will be the greatest movie-making schedule in all the years of his his-, lory as an independent producer. Whereas Goldwyn in the past has confined himself to" three or four pictures a year, during 1938 he will make at least six, at a total budgeted cost of approximately £2,000,000. The first of these is "The Hurricane," from the great novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty,” in which Joel McCrea and Margo" are starred. Much of this piclure will be “shot" in its original setting in Samoa. Following in the list is “Dead End,” from the great New York stage success for which Goldwyn paid 165.000 dollars for the screen rights. William Wyler, whose "Dodsworth” of last year was nominated for an Academy Award, will direct. Later in the year will come “The Goldwyn Follies,” a lavish, spectacular musical show, in which representatives of every phase of entertainment will be featured. This picture is budgeted at 1,000,000 dollars, and already signed are George Balanchine and his American Ballet, Adolphe Men.jou. the Ritz Brothers, Bobby Clark. Phil Baker, Zorina and Helen Jepson. Gary Cooper's first picture under his new contract with Goldwyn will be "The Adventures of Marco Polio,” which Douglas Fairbanks, jun., will co-produce. The script has been completed by Robert E. Sherwood, famed playwright, and will introduce Sigrld Gurie. Goldwyn’s new Norwegian discovery. Rounding out the schedule will be the co-starring picture of Cooper and Merle Oberon entitled “Spring in My Heart,” which Frederick Lonsdale is putting into movie form from an original story by Leo McCarey and Frank R. Adams; and "The Duchess of Broadway.” Sam Goldwyn has promised John Ford that he shall have Gary Cooper as the leading man for “The Stage to Lordsburgh.”