In the schedule of six new Fox pictures announced by Sol Wurtzel for the completion of his 1933-34 production season, Peggy Wood will play opposite Will Rogers, a screen reunion between James Dunn and Sally Eilers will be effected, and Mitchell and Durant will be introduced to film audiences as featured players.
William Counselman and Kubec Glasman now are completing the adaption of “Merry Andre”, from the play by Lewis Beach, which will introduce Peggy Wood opposite Will Rogers. The production will go before the cameras on March 1.
“Gold Rush of 1934” will start soon, with a cast including Claire Trevor, Harry Green, Roger Imhof, Jane Barnes, Suzanne Kaaren, Wini Shaw and Blanca Vischer. George Marshall will direct.
This program also will being together the screen team of James Dunn and Sally Eilers in another co-starring film to be known as “Always Honest”. March 5 is the starting date. Edward Paramore is writing the screen play.
Three other films will be started March 15. These are “Call It Luck”, a comedy in which Herbert Mundin and Pat Paterson will be starred, by Joe Cunningham and Marry McCoy; “Charlie Chan’s Courage” being adapted by Seton I. Miller, with Walter Connolly in the role of Char, and the tentatively titled comedy “On The High Seas”, with the vaudeville abd musical comedy favorites Mitchell and Durant, the only players yet cast. Joel Sayre, author of “Rackety Rax” is writing the script.