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FILM DISTRIBUTION

M.G.M. PRODUCTIONS. FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS. Proof of the fact that there is to be no shortage of excellent motion picture entertainment in New Zealand in the coming year is contained in the announcement of an arrangement recently completed between Mr David Lake, general sales manager for Australia and New Zealand of Metro-Goldwyn-' Mayer Ltd., Mr P. W. Maddock, New Zealand general manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ltd., and Mr J. H. Mason, managing director of Theatre Management Ltd., representing the J. C. Williamson Picture Corporation Ltd., Fullers Theatre Corporation Ltd., John Fuller and Sons, Ltd., and New Zealand Theatres Ltd.

Many outstandirig productions are to be distributed under this arrangement, among them being “Northwest Passage,” a screen adaptation of the Kenneth Roberts novel, photographed in technicolour and starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Young and Walter Brennan at the head of a cast of thousands; “The New Moon,” the well-known musical comedy success with a cast headed by Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy and Mary Boland; “1 Love You Again,” starring William Powell and Myrna Loy; “Boom Town," with Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy. Claudette Colbert and Hedy Lamarr; “Bitter Sweet,” I Noel Coward’s musical, starring Jeani ette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; “Suj san and God,” adapted from the stage success and starring Fredric March and I Joan Crawford; “Waterloo Bridge,” ’featuring Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh; “Pride and Prejudice,” the Jane Austen classic, starring Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver and Maureen O’Sullivan; “Andy Hardy Meets a Debutante,” with Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone and others in the popular Hardy family; “Strike Up the Band,” a spectacular musical with Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Paul Whiteman and his Band; “Dr. Kildare Goes Home,” starring Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore; “Escape,” starring Norma Shearer and Robert Taylor; “Forty Little Mothers,” featuring Eddie Cantor; “The Mortal Storm,” Phyllis Bottome’s bestseller, starring Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young and Frank Morgan; “Sporting Blood,” with Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan and Lewis Stone; “Philadelphia Story.” from the stage success and starring . Cary Grant, James Stewart and Katherine Hepburn; “Golden Fleecing,” starring Lev/ Ayres; “Go West,” with the Marx Brothers; “Third Finger, Left Hand,” starring Melvyn Douglas and , Myrna Loy; “Little Nelly Kelly,” with Judy Garland and George Murphy; i “And One Was Beautiful.” starring ! Laraine Day and Robert Cummings; . “The Phantom Raiders,” with Walter ( Pidgeon and Florence Rice; “The Captain is a Lady,” with Charles Coburn . and Beulah Bondi; “Gold Rush Maisie,” with Ann Sothern; two spectacular Wallace Beery attractions. “Twenty : Mule Team” and “Bad Man From Wyoming;" “Daley,” starring Ann So- ! them and Robert Young, and “We Who are You,” starring Lana Turner and : John Shelton.

From British studios will come three outstanding feature productions, “Night Train to Munich," starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Lockwood; “Contraband,” starring Conrad' Veidt and Valerie Hobson, and “Busman’s Honeymoon,” the Dorothy Sayers story and play brought to the screen with Robert Montgomery as Lord Peter Wimsey. Also to be distributed throughout this country are the MetroGoldwyn -Maver short subjects, including the M.G.M. Miniatures, the Pete Smith specialities, the Our Gang comedies. the Passing Parades, the JamesFitzpatrick technicolour traveltalks, the M.G.M. technicolour cartoons, and the Crime Does Not Pay featurettes. An excellent news service will be supnlied by the Metrotone News, which is now flown to this country by the Pan-American clipper service. In an interview Mr Lake slated that, despite adverse conditions, and the loss of foreign markets, the studios of his company were continuing at full strength, and 32 of the 50 pictures scheduled for the new season had been completed or were in production. The production budgets had not been lowered: and Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr would continue to uphold the standard which they had set in film-making. “The new season gives prospect of being an outstanding one in the history of our company,” concluded Mr Lake.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1940, Page 8

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FILM DISTRIBUTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1940, Page 8

FILM DISTRIBUTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1940, Page 8

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