LAT=LA Times; HR=Hollywood Reporter; BT=Bob Thomas; EJ=Erskine Johnson; HH=Hedda Hopper; JS=Jimmy Starr; LP=Louella Parsons; SS=Sidney Skolsky
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| LAT | 5/14/40 | Niagara Falls | Roach | 1941 Marjorie Woodworth (CL) & ZaSu Pitts (BB) |
Roach announces Niagara Falls w Billie Burke and CL |
| HCN | 7/17/40 | Broadway Limited | Roach | 1941 Marjorie Woodworth | Grover Jones is preparing the screenplay of Broadway, Limited for Hal Roach, with a September start planned. The picture, to be directed by Richard Wallace, will feature Victor McLaglen, Victor Mature; Carole Landis, and Marjorie Woodworth. |
| NYT | 9/29/40 | HR assigned John Hubbard and CL to the romantic leads in Bway Limited with Victor McLaglen ... deals with modern railroad operation. BL is scheduled for production following Roach's "Topper," and Richard Wallace has been engaged to direct it from a scenario by Rian James. | |||
| 10/6/40 | A train loaded with ... Producer HR, Victor McLaglen, Zasu Pitts, Patsy Kelly and CL, will spend the next two weeks shuttling between NY and Chicago over the Pennsylvania road. Mr McL and the Misses Pitts and Kelly are due in NY this morning from Hwd, and Miss L will join the party on one of its trips to Chicago. | ||||
| HR | 12/23/40 | Sis Hopkins | Republic | 1941 Susan Hayward / Katharine Alexander | Landis sought for 'Sis' / Republic is seeking two name players to appear with Judy Canova in 'Sis Hopkins' and has started negotiations with Hal Roach to borrow CL for one of the parts. |
| HR | 12/27/40 | Sun Valley | Fox | 1941 (Sun Valley Serenade) Lynn Bari | 20th Build-up for L; Headed for 'Sun Valley' / Twentieth is considering an initial buildup move for CL by assigning her a lead in Sun Valley, Sonja Henie feature slated to roll in February. |
| JS | 1/9/41 | Blood and Sand | Fox | 1941 Rita Hayworth (Dona Sol) | Flat refusal to dye her blonde hair black and affect a hairdo in the manner of Hedy Lamarr today cost Carole Landis one of Hollywood's most coveted roles-that of the seductive charmer in Blood and Sand, opposite Tyrone Power. / For weeks, 20th Century-Fox has been endeavoring to borrow the glamorous Hedy from MGM, but Miss Lamarr has been at odds with her home studio over salary and the number of pictures assigned her. This little difficulty put 20th Century-Fox on the spot for Tyrone's co-starring partner. Director Rouben Mamoulian got the bright idea of giving Carole Landis the role-if she would dye her hair. But Carole calmly chucked the plan with the line: "I made my reputation as a blonde. If I change now, people will dub me a copy-cat. That, I don't want." / So far, Blood and Sand is filming without its brunette vampire. |
| HR | 1/6/41 | Belle Starr | Fox | 1941 Gene Tierney | Landis eyed for 20th's Belle Starr / Twentieth Century-Fox is considering CL as the replacement for Alice Faye in the title role of BS, picture based on the exploits of the famous woman bandit to be produced by Kenneth Macgowan. Filming will be in Technicolor. |
| LAT (Schallert) | 1/8/41 | Blond CL, who still has two pictures to make for HT, has been signed by 20thcf. She will achieve stardom at that studio in 'Belle Starr,' the story of a female Jesse James. / BS will be produced in Technicolor. | |||
| NYT | 1/30/41 | Belle Starr tentatively scheduled for CL. | |||
| LAT (Schallert) | 2/25/41 | In Old Wyoming | Fox | NR | CL "In Old Wyoming" lead / Twentieth Century-Fox is on a keen lookout for further picture roles for CL, whose contract this company shares with HR. / Busy at present in Miami, Miss L will next do the feminine lead in the epic of migration, "In Old Wyoming," ... "In Old Wyoming" will mark a genuine departure from the sort of parts she has enacted thus far. |
| LP | 3/19/41 | Blondes are no Headache | Shubert (Bway) | not in IBdB | The Shuberts want CL for their Bway show, "Blondes are no Headache," and if C can persuade DZ to let her have a fling on the stage she'll travel to Bway. |
| LAT (Schallert) | 6/17/41 | Bowery Nightingale | Fox | NR | CL is getting her "break-in" at 20thcf with the singing and dancing beauties on that lot. ... she will be teamed with Alice Faye in Bowery Nightingale. Wonder what that spells for her future? |
| LAT (Schallert) | 7/22/41 | The Hunted Woman | Fox | NR | 20thcf now is doing "Wild Geese Calling," while "The Hunted Woman" is planned for CL. |
| LP | 8/31/41 | Weekend in Havana | Fox | 1941 Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda | The BG-CL feud isn't a gag. The two 20th blondes won't make any more pictures together after 'Week end in Havana' |
| NYT | 9/17/41 (2 arts) |
Highway to Hell | Fox |
1942 (To the Shores of Tripoli) Maureen O'Hara & John Payne (P O'B)
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CL and CR have joined the cast of Hway to Hell,
which Twentieth Century-Fox is making with Pat O'Brien and Linda Darnell in
the lead roles. CL will be seen with PO in Hway to Hell |
| 10/2/41 | Nancy Kelly has replaced LD in Hway to Hell with PO, CL and CR | ||||
| HCN | 10/2/41 |
At Twentieth Century-Fox, Nancy Kelly will have the feminine lead in Highway to Hell, starring Pat O'Brien with Carole Landis and Cesar Romero. |
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| LAT (Schallert) | 10/2/41 | Nancy Kelly has been cast by 20thcf in "Highway to Hell," starring Pat O'Brien, and it's her first noteworthy role in quite a long while. CL and CR have the second leads. | |||
| 10/11/41 | VM & will appear in Highway to Hell & as Louis the gangster. HtH has P O'B as star, and Nancy Kelly and CL as feminine leads. | ||||
| 10/18/41 | CR steps into the shoes vacated by VM in HtH, on account of M going into Song of the Islands. Meanwhile Harry Bratsburg [Morgan], & also joins this cast with PO, CL and NK. | ||||
| NYT | 12/10/41 | Flying Showboat | Fox | NR | Also at Fox, Kerry Sackheim is writing Flying Showboat as a vehicle for CL and Dale Evans. Robert Siodmak will direct the photoplay, which deals with the troupes which fly to Army camps to entertain the soldiers. |
| LAT (Schallert) | 2/6/42 | Hello, Frisco, Hello | Fox | 1943 Alice Faye, Lynn Bari, June Havoc | Hello, Frisco, Hello will star femme trio / we're due to see three in "Hello, Frisco, Hello," They're the daughters of a policeman, with BG and CL so far assigned, and a housewifely type sought for the third duty. & / The primary ladies of HFH ... will severally be shown as a lady of easy virtue, to be portrayed by Miss L, and the girl who marries a millionaire by Miss G. The third ... is the plain and simple kind. Joe [sic] Swerling, ... did the original screen play, and Milton Sperling will produce the film. |
| HCN (JF Crow) | 3/2/42 | Pieces of Silver | Fox | NR | [T]he studio got busy today with those simple little box-office numbers. One of them, the studio announced today, will be the picture called Pieces of Silver. It is not expected to win any Academy Award (the studio didn't say this: I say it)-but it IS expected to make some easy money. CL and Cesar Romero, who have made money at the box office before for the studio, will have the leading roles. The film will tell the story of a man who is wrongfully convicted of a crime, and who escapes from prison, only to be turned over to the authorities again by a girl who double-crosses him... |
| HCN (JF Crow) | 3/27/42 | Lady In a Quandary | Fox | ??? 1942 (Careful, Soft Shoulders) Virginia Bruce |
Washington is now almost as popular as New York as a big city film locale. Twentieth Century-Fox has two Washington photoplays in the making. The one that figured in the news today is called Lady In a Quandary. It is to be a comedy with a capital locale, the studio said, in announcing that CL would have the lead. |
| HH | 5/19/42 | Through Thick and Thin | Fox | 1943 (Something to Shout About) Cobina Wright Jr. | Picture that started as "Winter Garden" then became The Gang's All Here, underwent a permanent change. & New title is now "Through Thick and Thin," which is also the title of one of the songs Cole Porter has written for it. Janet Blair gets the lead & Jack Oakie, Don Ameche, CL and William Gaxton will also be in this picture. |
| HR | 5/27/42 | China Girl | Fox | 1942 Gene Tierney | CL'll probably go into Ben Hecht's "China Girl," and the night club cutie in the pic will be played by Ann Pennington |
| LP | 12/8/42 | Something for the boys | Fox | 1944 Carmen Miranda | CL, in NY, getting a laugh out of the title of her next movie, "Something for the boys." |
| SS | 7/12/44 | Frankie & Johnny (Huston) | Bway (Richard Krakeur) | not in IBdB | Captain John Huston's play version of "Frankie and Johnnie" will be produced on Bwy by Richard Krakeur, and they are trying to interest Carole Bruce or CL to play in it.. |
| LAT (Schallert) | 8/3/44 | There Goes Lona Henry (novel by Polan Banks) | Ben Bogeaus | NR | CL is a candidate for "There goes Lona Henry," which Ben Bogeaus is to produce, if she will hearken to the persuasions of this independent film-maker. He is trying to reach her on her tour of the South Pacific through Australian representatives, and is desirous of having her read the novel while touring. / This would be a powerful role for the star who is by now renowned for her work in entertaining the armed forces in the far places. |
| Centennial Summer | Fox | 1946 Jeanne Crain | C will also probably play the feminine lead in "Centennial Summer," story of early Philadelphia at 20thcf, where she hasn't worked since 4JiJ. | ||
| SS | 9/4/44 | White Collar Girl | Fox | NR | CL' picture, when she returns from her overseas tour, will be "White Collar Girl." |
| LAT (Schallert) | 9/22/44 | GI Joe | Lester Cowan (UA) | 1945 (Story of GI Joe) CL referred to in film by soldier who asks about her bosom | Lester Cowan has ideas abut extra glitter for his picture "GI Joe," taken from "Here is your war"--namely securing celebrated overseas entertainers for the fighting front USO sequences. He's endeavoring to make deals with Bob Hope, Jack Benny, CL, Frances Langford, Al Jolson, Freddie March and others for guest-starring. |
| SS | 10/2/44 | Too Many Wives | Fox | NR | CL' next picture is "Too Many Wives." |
| SS | 1/8/45 | Doll Face (the Naked Genius) | Fox | 1945 Vivian Blaine | CL will return to the movies, leaving her stage play, to do the lead in "The Naked Genius," which George Jessel is producing. |
| EJ | 4/23/45 | a two year absence from the screen ends for CL. She'll be starred by 20thcf in "Doll Face." | |||
| LP | 4/27/45 | "The Naked Genius" all polished bright and cleaned up, is going to be produced by George Jessel under the title of Doll Face. & There is a chance that CL, who comes back here May 17, may be put into one of the singing parts by her former boy friend, Georgie. | |||
| LP | 6/7/45 | Doll Face Chosen as Next Picture for CL : CL' first picture after her divorce will be "Doll Face," that little opus known as "The Naked Genius," when Joan Blondell starred in it on Bway. | |||
| LAT (Schallert) | 6/8/45 | Jackie Gleason will be the principal comedian in "Doll Face," film adaptation of "The Naked Genius," which will have CL and Perry Como as romantic leads. | |||
| 6/13/45 | Allyn Joslyn will join CL and Perry Como for a comedy interpretation in "Doll face." | ||||
| LP | 6/25/45 | CL has just told 20th that she cannot be among those present when Doll Face goes before the cameras. ... the erstwhile Joan Blondell play "The Naked Genius ... that caused such an uproar when it opened on Bway. | |||
| HCN (Lowell Redelings) | 2/1/45 | It Never Rains | Louis Jean Heydt | in IBdB only 1929-32 | What a paradox for Louis Jean Heydt, the actor-playwright, to pick today to announce he's paging Carole Landis for star role in It Never Rains, a comedy with a California locale! |
| NYT | 6/9/45 | Goddess in Slacks | Rudolph Field | not in IBdB | Rudolph Field, who heads Field-Doubleday, is seeking CL for the lead in Allan Day's new play, "Goddess in Slacks," based on the author's book of the same name, to begin September. |
| LAT (Schallert) | 5/24/45 | The Spider | Fox | 1945 Faye Marlowe | When "The Spider" famous mystery melodrama with comedy slants, comes to the screen Richard Conte will be playing opposite CL. Miss L has just been chosen, and the film will probably prevent her return to Bway, which was predicted for early fall at one time. |
| HR | 5/28/45 | Carole Landis won't be in "the Spider." | |||
| SS | 7/16/45 | Dancing Through | Fox? | 1949 Dancing in the Dark?? | CL will have a leading part in the musical, "Dancing Through." |
| LP | 8/10/45 | Polonaise | Schmidlapp | 10/6/45 (Alvin & Adelphi Theaters) | Even if CL doesn't marry HS she will be in his next stage production, "Polonaise" |
| LP | 8/27/45 | Girl in the Moon | Fox | NR | now the curvaceous belle is heading back to Hwd for the top role in George Jessel's musical, "Girl in the Moon." |
| NYT | CL has been named by 20thcf to be starred in the proposed musical Girl in the Moon. The film to be photographed in Technicolor and produced by George Jessel, will have a Hwd background and deal with the studio's search for new talent. | ||||
| notes | 11/26/45 | Somewhere in the Night | Fox | 1946 Margo Woode (7th billed) | CL turns down role of Phyllis in Somewhere in the Night on the basis that it would be detrimental to my career |
| NYT | 1/18/46 | Strange Triangle | Fox | 1946 Signe Hasso (Anabel Shaw, Nancy Evans supporting) | Fox has announced that the suspension of the contract of CL, for asserted refusal to accept a part in Strange Triangle, will be lifted in time for her to appear in ISHD, starting Feb 4. |
| Martha Stewart | 1946 | I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now? | Fox | 1947 Martha Stewart | MS claims she replaced CL in role, 3d billed, after June Haver; in production 7/18-10/14/46 |
| SS | 6/3/46 | The Bandwagon | MGM | 1953 Nanette Fabray (??) | CL is being tempted to return to Hwd and pictures with one of the leads in "The Bandwagon." |
| NYT | 7/28/46 | Harry Delmar's "Revels" | Harry Delmar | not in IBdB | Harry Delmar's "Revels," in lights during the late Twenties, is heading back to Bway in a new edition. Not that Mr. D. has signed anyone yet; he would like to lie up Gypsy Rose Lee, Bert Lahr with some of his classic sketches, an attractive lass like CL and somebody like Harry Richman for nostalgia. |
| BT | 1/23/47 | Brute Force | Mark Hellinger/UI | 1947 Ella Raines? | Burt Lancaster will have an actor's paradise in "Brute Force." Mark Hellinger is trying to line up Ava Gardner, Yvonne De Carlo, CL and Susan Peters for Ann Blyth to appear with him. |
| SS | 7/2/47 | The Play's the Thing | Ross Hunter | on Bway 4-12/48 | Entertainment of the Week: CL will play a lead in "The Play's the Thing" when Ross Hunter presents it at his Tent Theater. |
| HH | 11/7/47 | Beggar's Choice | Eagle-Lion | NR | CL expects to be back from London by Christmas to begin "Beggar's Choice," for Eagle-Lion. This story is an adaptation of George Axelrod's novel, which kids the pants off Boston for banning so many books. . . [Film rumored for June Lockhart HH 1/13/48] |
| HC | 11/14/47 | Out of the Red | Eagle-Lion | NR | Carole Landis will be back in three weeks for her Eagle-Lion picture, Out of the Red. |
| SS | 11/18/47 | The Brass Monkey | Bway | not in IBdB | 11/18/47 CL will return from England and is considering going into the lead in "The Brass Monkey" on Bway |
| IMDb | The Amazing Mr. X (The Spiritualist) | Eagle-Lion | 1948 Lynn Bari | Carole Landis was originally scheduled to play the part taken by Lynn Bari [female lead], but she committed suicide a few days before shooting began. | |
| Jessel | memoirs | Dancing in the Dark | Fox | 1949 Betsy Drake | While C never did make a picture for me, I did want her to star in Dancing in the Dark. |
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