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Housewife Turns 'Tiger' in 'Too Late for Tears' about securing it by every possible means. Alaa Ladd costars with Betty Field, Macdonald Carey, Rutk Hussey, Barry Sullivan and Howard Da Silva. Shelley Winters is featured. as though th party would last for bootlegging, the bath-tub gin and the tinsel and glitter of "the jazz provide a colorful setting for the story of a man who thinks money is the, key to success and opening today at Paramount Hollywood, and. Downtown theaters, is a novel by F.

Scott Fitzgerald (dealing with the roaring i Irresponsibility of the money-to-burn set who tore through life Roaring Era Recaptured Basis for the dramatic romance of "The Great Gatsby," film drama BY PHILIP K. SCHEUER The display of too many guns, as I remarked in a review some weeks ago, gives a movie a faintly preposterous air. It also connotes, as I am about to remark in a review of "Too Late for Tears," can't drag the dough away from her. Neither can her law-abiding husband, Arthur Kennedy; a small-time chis-eler, Dan Duryea, or the Los Angeles police force, as represented by Barry Kelley. It remains for dapper Don De-Fore, a gent with an angle of his own, to turn the trick and he does that only over her dead body.

By then there have been two murders by bullet and by poison tosanscItsCimes tours, juiy 28, iMS-Pani 21 and any number of attempted 'Eagle and Hawk" Stars Payne, Fleming, O'Keefe; O'Brien Sleuths Again BY EDWIN SCIIALLERT Pine and Thomas will launch "The Eagle and' the Hawk" Aug. 5 at Sedona, with John Payne, Rhonda Fleming and Dennis O'Keefe as the stars, I learned yesterday from William Pine. ones, jane, or Liz, is living on borrowed time and so are Hug-gins, Producer Hunt Stromberg, Director Byron Haskin, the actor and the audience. Duryea Meets Master Miss Scott is hardly a Class A femme fatale, but she gives the role everything she does have WZk lit1 ti- Wr VJ -x now at the Music Halls, a kind of desperation on the part of a film's makers, as though they were trying to cover up an indecision about what to do next by revealing still another cache of firearms or having someone, or several someones, brandish them threateningly. Screen Play Writer Roy Hug-gins' next moves were all mapped out for him by Serial Writer Roy Huggins in the Saturday Evening Post, so it is doubly surprising to find his script bumping from wall to wall as aimlessly and exasper-atingly as a trapped horsefly.

He had a provocative premise, too: the effect upon a self-centered but apparently harmless housewife of several hundred $20 and $50 bills, contained in a leather satchel which is tossed mysteriously into her and her husband's car. Possession Nine Points Jane Palmer, or Llzabeth Scott, is the housewife and from then on wild horses It to be a gala-gala outdoor J' with a growling, unvarying intensity. She even has meanie Dan Duryea calling her "tiger" and quaking in his boots which is something that must be seen to be believed. Unless, of course, you'd rather take my word for it. I must say I liked Kristine IN picture because Miss Fleming is to have Travis Banton costumes, and the location at the lame site wher "Copper Canyon" was made by Paramount will be extensive.

Lewis It. Foster will direct tlv, "film, which he wrote in colfcK'oratlon with Geoffrey Homes. The production, which has had many changes of title during the preparatory stages it started as "A Message From Gen. Houston" will have historical trimmings. Miller, a pretty and self-contained girL who seemed comparatively I I ,77 -'Mr i rv r-, x.

uncomplicated as Arthur Kennedy's sister. ''Tod Late for Tears" might yjljff fib Jf- J. Arthur Rank presents have been more, but I'm afraid we'll just have to take it for the rather routine specimen of crime melodrama that it is. JEAN SIMMS DONALD IIOIISTOi'l Pine and William Thomas i v. are to go to the location dur- X.

1 1 JSl I 1 XI Ml Several shorts are also on the program. IN Y2 Brenda Joyce Stars in Play SANTA' ANA, July 27 "Mr. and Mrs. North," this week's holiday stage production at Tustin, involves a scatterbrained young couple in. a nasty imbroglio with a corpse two corpses, in fact.

Though melodramatic excitement is by no means absent, the real interest in Owen Davis' play, from the Frances and Richard Lockridge detective story, lies in the character of the Norths, especially who is whimsical and vague and not altogether 4 ins me inming, ana mere win be a personnel of 193. James Rhonda Hemmg Wong Howe, ace cameraman, has been engaged to photograph the feature, which is in the big-time class for these movie-makers. EDMOXD O'BRIEN AGAIN INSURANCE INVESTIGATOR "Dead on Arrival," Harry Popkin feature, will, I understand, claim Edmond O'Brien for its leading role of the insurance This will echo one of the best parts to which O'Brien was ever assigned while under contract to Universal-International In "The Killers." That, in fact, was what brought him stellar stature in moviedom. 1 "Dead on Arrival" is set for United Artists release, in addition to various other germinating projects like "Champagne for Caesar," om -r ANNE A BAXTER uth Seas) mid the glory (Actually filmed a truthful. Sprightly Playing Ronald Colman starred, Seymour Nebenzal's which is all set up now, "By Hook or by Crook," the W.

Lee Wilder feature, which may have June Havoc and Steve Cochrane, as stars. Mrs. North, played with eager sprightliness by Brenda Joyce, Screw play to does a bit of sleuthing which al "Dead on Arrival." but RKO promises to keep him pretty busy. 1 JIAGNOLIAS HAVE THORNS' SHAPED FOR GABLE RAMft UUNOCft JOHN BA1HS KHWa M0GAN Directed by FRANK UUNDtS AN INDIVIDUAL PICTURE fieleased by UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL ternately confuses and impedes justice but ultimately saves her obviously innocent husband from iuagnonas nave morns looms as a picture ior uiarK uaDie as a result of something that happened 10 years ago. It was -it ANNE KtVtRE SHARI ROBINSON originally a radio script which Robert Riley Crutcher wrote for the actor in 1939.

Gable liked it and suggested that it be turned HIT-TEMPTATION HARBOR" J-A cvvuui iW. lilC WCLl lUkCllCiCU J. Hi, SiaiJ. XJUb lUilg ago Crutcher exhumed it and developed a screen play which, it I AIICONDlTTO N0 fOt tOUft COMFOfl irn tm seems, now intrigues Z. Wayne Griffin, who is producing "Key to Don Hartman's 7-year-old son Tim will make his debut in ''Christmas Gift," which will star Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh and Wendell Corey.

It's a very justifiable casting because Hart- man, a producer-director-writer at RKO, used his son as a model NOWI-Mi biam Bt ntnumi ior many or the scenes played by uordon Uebert, who appears In the pivotal role of the son of Janet Leigh. Tim's assignment la not a hefty one, but it's a break anyway. a bad spot. Her warm-hearted, disassociated, highly intuitive outlook on life, as applied to the more somber details of crime detection, are the light ingre- dients of an amusing mystery There are no trap- doors, clutching hands or complicated lethal methods-Just Mrs. North, who handles a situation which might have incommoded any hostess with such tact and graciousness that even the police succumb to her social leadership.

Impressive Cast John Alfin is impressive as Mr. North, whose -patience with his wife is so beautiful a phenomenon. As the police lieutenant, Peter Adams proves the rising grade of culture in the police force and Glen Wells' dry humor helps out Playwright Davis by making a GUIDO CANTELLI MANAGER HERE FOR 'ITALL1N STORY "The Italian Story" plans are beginning to take definite form due to the visit of Alex Merovitch, manager for GuidO' Cantelli, who is conferring with Bob Roberts of Roberts Productions about the feature to star John Gar i 3 Gfi 0 QLTLTD field. Roberts is to dispatch a company representative to confer with Cantelli in Milan where he is conducting at La Scala Opera House. Cantelli, both a composer and conductor, was sponsored in this country by Arturo Toscanini.

Richard Richonne, born In France and educated in Cambridge and a star with the Habimah Company of Palestine, Joins "The Knife" in the featured role of a New York character of the detective. Joe Wallace, June Lewis, Leon Burton, Delia Salvi, Charles Har grove, Robert bcott, uemert Ten- Oflll)(DllllMlooo ney, Rita Riggs, Bennie May, Ernest Mauk, William McGraw, John Dutra, Richard McCurdy and Stanton Fox complete the cast. c. tt- i- a 1 languages fluently. Marcia Mae Jones will play AW, me oiaer or June naver iwo Marcia Mae Jones sisters in "The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady," Debbie Reynolds, new Warner find, being the younger.

STUDIO BRIEFS tAST TIMES TOO AY i WARNER'S "THE GIRl from JONES BEACH" IMInn Vnrh nnw in Phlracn for TTn tha Rlrv Yiaa voroiveA Cited VltSii-i 1 VV 7 I bid to appear in "The King's General" for Sir Alexander Korda as of Nov. 1, and will read the 1 eerlpt which is being sent to her ii ftl.aJM 'i 'J i Of from England. Robert Stlllman, former partner of Stanley Kramer, who is to produce independently, is consider- 1nT a nrnflnptlnn hiiilt. arnntirf thp WARNER BROS. long-fought case of Albert Goodman concerning workmen's compensation.

It was in the courts in tht '30s. Goodman was credited for his work in securing proper 4 HiiiiiS 1 adjustment of claims, though it became a legal Issue in which he was the respondent Lyle Bettger is hailed as a new COLUMBIA PICTURES presenfs atar by Paramount because of his work in "The Lie." He has been signed on a term contract and Is arranging to bring his wife, Mary Rolfc, actress, and their two children to Hollywood. TO itMISJ ANY W0r.lBEIt t-iin PLnv- with JOHN IRELAND BEULAH BONDI PERCY "KILBRIDE Screenplay by ORIN JANNINGS Direcfed by HENRY LEVIN ami GORDON DOUGLAS Produced by MILTON HOLMES rrw HCTUt HANK MORGAN MAKT AST0 LEWIS STONE AIY SUUWAN EOGA BUCHANAN A KERVYN UROY PRODUCTION rr-mvr jl rr n. fmm tmtmtt, tOwAlO KAMI Km PincM WtRVYN UROV ipmiVENOiSEW A'tt Jia' Charli RUGGLES Rosemary DeCAMP S. I SAKALL omeTWWDAYID BUTLER PR0DUCED 8 WM.

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