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Joan Bennett ''Lazy Legs'' Joan Bennett as seen m "Scarlet Street" The~ Stivt4-- and D~ of"Woman in the Window': ... JOAN BENNETT WITK DAN DURYEA The things she does to 1nen can only end in Mw.J.e1&.! A DIANA PRODUCTION Produced and Directed by FRITZ LANG A UNIVERSAL RELEASE ...___ ______, JESS BARKER • MARGARET LINDSAY· ROSALIND IVAN • SAMUEL S. HINDS Based on the novel "La Ch1enne" Screenplay by DUDLEY NICHOLS Art Direction by Alexander Gol itzen • • or1a • It is always difficult to speak of reconversion in our business because we are in a business not of machinery and tools essen­ tially, but one of ideas and talent. • We survive or die in relation to the number of good ideas and the amount of good talent that is made available to us. • Universal has always been typed as the company with diver­ sified ideas. That is why we often use the slogan, "Universally Entertaining." • Universal has been fortunate in the last few months in not only creating some extraordinary ideas for pictw·es, but also in implementing these ideas with the right talent. • This might be called, more or less, a process of re-tooling, if we were to use an industrial term. • When we look at the additions to om production roster, we realize that Universal is really on the way to bigger things. • In the next few pages you will see some evidence of produc­ . tion developments. In each issue of "Pictures" Magazine it is our hope to enlighten you about Universal product. • We believe that each issue will see additional and substantial evi­ dence that Universal iR moving forward. • We hope you like "Pictures" Magazine. If you have any thoughts about it, don't hesitate to write us. Just address and mai] to Editor, "Pictures" Magazine, c/o Universal Pictures Company, Inc., 1250 Avenue of the Americas, New York 20, New York. A Walter Wanger produc­ tion, spectacularly filmed in Technicolor, starring lovely Merle Oberon as a Persian Princess and Turban Bey as Aesop, with Thomas Gomez, Gale Sondergaard, Ray Collins, Ernest Truex and George Dolenz in the • supporting cast. Directed by Arthur Lubin. Taking the mi ssus to Florida? Then let Unive rsal 's st a rs give you an idea of what she ought to take along. 1. Slacks ... for coolness and comfort. They're attractive on Ella Raines. 2. A black dress ... with flowers and open back, to look like Louise Allbritton. 3. For travelling, this little outfit that Deanna Durbin wear . 4. Of course, a bathing suit, like Yvonne De Carlo sports. 5. White with black trimmings, and that's Susanna Foster's shoulder that you're looking at. 6. Maria Montez also makes a sim­ ple black dress look dramatic. 7. And Merle Oberon shows what can be done in the classic style, with a Grecian motif. After hectic days on the set and location for "Frontier Gal," blue-eyed Yvonne De Carlo re­ laxes over a leisurely lwicheon with Hank Daniels. Deanna Durbin, resting after completing "Because Of Him," keeps herself busy at home decorating the Christmas tree. AND Susan Hayward took advantage of the Oregon location while filming "Canyon Passage," to don her fishing togs and Maria Montez and her three sisters are join the Izaak Waltons. OFF selecting little knick-knacks to furnish the extra room for the little visitor she and hubby Jean Pierre Aumont are expecting soon. THE Ella Raines picks representatives of the army, navy and marine corps to take in the circus in Hollywood. LOT Deanna Durbin, as a stage-struck young waitress, plays another of those light, tongue-in-cheek comedy roles which she handles so superbly! Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone co-star with Miss Durbin in "Because Of Him" and Richard Wallace adds his magic touch with fine direction. TIGER SHARK SILVER DOLLAR THE AMAZ\NG DR. cuTTERHOUSE Degeneration et in when Chri (Edward G . Robinson) a faithful middle-class cashier and amateur artist who is corrupted by " Lazylegs" (Joan Bennett) realizes how com­ pletely he has been duped. " Lazylegs" and Johnny ( Dan Duryea ), her lover, scheme to steal Chris' paint­ ings and sell them as their own. I The once gentle and generous Chris, quickly deteriorates mentally under his guilt, ends up as a befuddled, poverty­ stricken old man. When "Lazylegs"' revolts against Warm lips kill a hounding Chris guilty conscience. into stealing more When "Lazylegs" money for her, senses that Chris is Johnny socks her troubled about steal­ into. ubmissron. ing for her, she turns on her voluptuous charm and further immeshes him. Walter Wanger presents a Fritz Lang production, "Scarlet Street" which re­ unites producer-director Fritz Lang and the fa­ mous stars of "Woman in the Window," Edward G. Robinson, Joan Ben­ nett and Dan Duryea. l 1 Johnny inter­ rupts "Lazylegs" while Chris is calling on her; threatens to ex­ pose her if she doesn't bleed Chris for money. "Lazylegs," posing as an unemployed, innocent girl, keeps Chris dangling until she and her lover Johnny, decide how best to use him. When Chris discovers Johnny and "Lazy­ lega" have played him for a sucker, he goes berserk. In a blind fury he mur­ ders the only person who has ever brought him happiness. ~- /er The inimitabl& Maria Montez stars in her most exotically glam­ orous role in this thrill­ ing spy story of modern Tangier. Robert Paige and Sahu play the male leads with Preston Foster, Kent Taylor, J. Edward Bromberg and Louise Allbritton featured. A worthy vehicle for the s econd starr i ng production of Yvonne Salome) De Carlo, with Rod Cameron shar ing t e honors. A Fessier­ p, gano production. Everybody's talking about the adorable six-year old Beverly Simmons, gun totin' daughter of pistol­ packin' parents in her screen debut . If it's heart-tugs they .:I want, this is it! If it's action they want, ~ this is it! 'Z - If it's love they want, ~ ~ this is it! ~ If it's excitement they $) want, this is it! -==----- If it's a new sensational ' <!!!§!§ child star they want this ~ is it! ' , / ~'<- £ ~ And this is really it! UNIVERSAL presents ont'"'Di«"" "'""''" b> C\\ARLF-' """" [.A>!ON1 "' '"''""' £><'"'"' br """" p,.a-'" F<>•'" \\OW ARD"' lim'"ntNEDlCT P.!"' WE'RE long ON shorts On the theory that all Americans like to sing together, Universal's Short Prorluct department has inaugurated a community sing idea in its Name Band two-reel musicals. The first, featuring Tommy Tucker and his Orchestra, titled "Hot and Hectic," invites the public to sing "Sweet and Lovely" when the band plays it. The words are super-imposed on the scene. The next Universal mu­ sical to carry the "community sing" idea is "Swing High, Swing Sweet," played by Jan Savitt and his Orchestra . • Nation-wide interest in ceramics has made possible very unusual promotion for a Universal single reel subject whose title is "Pottery Poets," a picture story of the making of exquisite clay products in the U.S. A national advertising company, representing a client in the pottery business, became interested and made available ex­ quisite samples of the art for theatre lobby display and has utilized special publicity in ads to department stores all over the country. When "Pottery Poets" played the Criterion Theatre in New York recently, cooperative ads appeared in the newspapers and an inter­ esting ceramic display was furnished for the theatre lobby . • "Poet and Peasant," a Walter Lantz Technicolor Cartune, is re­ ceiving enthusiastic comment wherever it plays. With Andy Panda, the leader of a fifty-piece symphony orchestra playing the overture, the results are a combination of fine music and good comedy. Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker are enthusiastically received everywhere they appear. • "The Scarlet Horseman" is an outstanding serial being awaited with anticipation. More than a dozen manufacturers of whistles, masks, holsters, costumes, etc., are already featuring their mer­ chandise in connection with this serial. Universal •s which, for has proved t News but also i presentation of it. Universal proudly a tire Newsreel staff her who week in and wee sourcefully maintain a fi e ard of news coverage wh1 makes the Universal News e matter of public service. I II MOTION PICTURE DRIVE t FIGHT JANUARY 24-30, 1946 INS'ANTILE PARALYSIS ' PRINTED IN U . S . A .
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