Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood (120 page)

Cast: John Barrymore (Oscar Jaffe), Carole Lombard (Mildred Plotka/Lily Garland), Walter Connolly (Oliver Webb), Roscoe Karns (Owen O’Malley), Ralph Forbes (George
Smith), Charles Levison (Max Jacobs), Etienne Girardot (Matthew J. Clark), Dale Fuller (Sadie), Edgar Kennedy (McGonigle), Billie Seward (Anita), Clifford Thompson (Lockwood), James P. Burtis (conductor), Gigi Parrish (Schultz), Edward Gargan (sheriff), Snowflake (porter), Herman Bing (first beard), Lee Kohlmar (second beard), Pat Flaherty (Flannigan), Mary Jo Matthews (Emmy Lou), Fred Kelsey (detective
on train), Ky Robinson (detective), Nick Copeland (treasurer), Howard Hickman (Dr. Johnson), Arnold Gray (stage actor), James Burke (Chicago detective), George Reed (Uncle Remus), Anita Brown (stage show girl), Irene Thompson (stage actress), Buddy Williams (stage actor), Clarence Geldert (Southern colonel), Lillian West (charwoman), Gaylord “Steve” Pendleton (brother in play), George Offerman
Jr. (page boy), Frank Marlowe (stage carpenter), Lynton Brent (train secretary), Harry Semels (artist), King Mojave (McGonigle’s assistant).

Barbary Coast
(Samuel Goldwyn Productions for United Artists)

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur. Cinematographer: Ray June. Editor: Edward Curtiss. Music: Alfred Newman. Art director: Richard
Day. Costumes: Omar Kiam. Sound: Frank Maher. Assistant director: Walter Mayo. Running time: 91 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, June– August 1935. Released September 27, 1935.

Cast: Miriam Hopkins (Mary Rutledge), Edward G. Robinson (Louis Chamalis), Joel McCrea (James Carmichael), Walter Brennan (Old Atrocity), Frank Craven (Col. Marcus Aurelius Cobb), Brian Donlevy (Knuckles), Harry Carey (Slocum),
Matt McHugh (Bronco), Clyde Cook (Oakie), Donald Meek (McTavish), Rollo Lloyd (Wigham), J. M. Kerrigan (Judge Harper), Roger Gray (Sandy), Otto Hoffman (Peebes), Fred Vogeding (captain), Cyril Thornton (steward), Dave Wengren (quartermaster), Anders von Haden (McCreaty), Jules Cowles (pilot), David Niven (Cockney sailor).

Ceiling Zero
(Cosmopolitan Productions and First National for Warner
Bros.)

Producer: Harry Joe Brown. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Frank Wead (and Morrie Ryskind, uncredited), from his play. Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson. Editor: William Holmes. Music: Leo F. Forbstein. Art director: John Hughes. Wardrobe: B. W. King, Mary Dearry. Sound: Oliver Garretson. Asssistant director: Lee Selander. Technical advisor: Paul Mantz. Running time: 95 minutes. Filmed
in Hollywood, October–November 1935. Released January 16, 1936.

Cast: James Cagney (Dizzy Davis), Pat O’Brien (Jake Lee), June Travis (Tommy Thomas), Stuart Erwin (Texas Clark), Barton MacLane (Al Stone), Henry Wadsworth (Tay Lawson), Martha Tibbetts (Mary Lee), Isabel Jewell (Lou Clark), Craig Reynolds (Joe Allen), Richard Purcell (Smiley Johnson), Carlyle Moore Jr. (Eddie Payson), Addison Richards
(Fred Adams), Garry Owen (Mike Owens), Edward Gargan (Doc Wilson), Robert Light (Les Bogan), James H. Bush (Buzz Gordon), Pat West (Baldy Wright), Gordon “Bill” Elliott (transportation agent), Mathilde Comont (Mama Gini), Carol Hughes (Birdie), Frank Tomick, Paul Mantz (stunt fliers).

The Road to Glory
(20th Century–Fox)

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Associate Producer: Nunnally Johnson. Director:
Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Joel Sayre, William Faulkner (and Johnson, uncredited), from the film
Les Croix de Bois
(Pathé-Nathan, 1932), directed by Raymond Bernard, adapted from the novel by Roland Dorgelès. Cinematographer: Gregg Toland. Editor: Edward Curtiss. Music: Louis Silvers. Art director: Hans Peters. Set decorator: Thomas Little. Costumes: Gwen Wakeling. Sound: George Leverett, Roger
Heman. Assistant director: Edward O’Fearna. Running time: 95 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, January– March 1936. Released June 2, 1936.

Cast: Fredric March (Lt. Michel Denet), Warner Baxter (Capt. Paul Larouche), Lionel Barrymore (Papa Larouche), June Lang (Monique), Gregory Ratoff (Bouffiou), Victor Kilian (Régnier), Paul Stanton (relief captain), John Qualen (Duflous), Julius Tannen (Lt. Tannen),
Theodore von Eltz (major), Paul Fix (Rigaud), Leonid Kinsky (Ledoux), Jacques Lory (courier), Jacques Vernaire (doctor), Edythe Taynore (nurse), George Warrington (old soldier).

(Incorporates considerable battle footage from
Les Croix de Bois
.)

Come and Get It
(Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and Howard Productions, for United Artists)

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Associate producer: Merritt Hulburd.
Directors: Howard Hawks, William Wyler. Director for logging sequences: Richard Rosson. Screenplay: Jane Murfin, Jules Furthman, from the novel by Edna Ferber. Cinematographers: Gregg Toland, Rudolph Maté (logging sequences). Additional second-unit photography: Chet Lyons. Editor: Edward Curtiss. Music: Alfred Newman. Art director: Richard Day. Costumes: Omar Kiam. Sound: Frank Maher. Special-effects
photography: Ray Binger. Running time: 105 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, June–September 1936, with logging footage filmed in Idaho, Wisconsin, Canada. Released October 29, 1936.

Cast: Edward Arnold (Barney Glasgow), Joel McCrea (Richard Glasgow), Frances Farmer (Lotta Morgan/Lotta Bostrom), Walter Brennan (Swan Bostrom), Andrea Leeds (Evvie Glasgow), Frank Shields (Tony Schwerke), Mady Christians
(Karie), Mary Nash (Emma Louise Glasgow), Clem Bevans (Gunnar Gallagher), Edwin Maxwell (Sid Le Maire), Cecil Cunningham (Josie), Harry Bradley (Gubbins), Rollo Lloyd (Steward), Charles Halton (Hewitt), Phillip Cooper (chore boy), Al K. Hall (Goodnow), Robert Lowery (young man), Leoncie Rouy-Dementis part he played is missing.

(Reissued as
Roaring Timber
.)

Bringing Up Baby
(RKO)

Producer
and director: Howard Hawks. Associate producer: Cliff Reid. Screenplay: Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde, from a story by Wilde. Cinematographer: Russell Metty. Editor: George Hively. Music: Roy Webb. Art director: Van Nest Polglase. Associate art
director: Perry Ferguson. Set decorator: Darrell Silvera. Costumes: Howard Greer. Sound: John L. Cass. Special effects: Vernon L. Walker. Assistant director:
Edward Donahue. Running time: 102 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, September 1937–January 1938. Released February 18, 1938.

Cast: Cary Grant (David Huxley), Katharine Hepburn (Susan), Charles Ruggles (Maj. Horace Applegate), Walter Catlett (Constable Slocum), Barry Fitzgerald (Gogarty), May Robson (Aunt Elizabeth), Fritz Feld (Dr. Lehmann), Leona Roberts (Mrs. Hannah Gogarty), George Irving (Peabody),
Tala Birrell (Mrs. Lehmann), Virginia Walker (Alice Swallow), John Kelly (Elmer), Jack Carson (roustabout), Richard Lane (circus manager), Ward Bond (motorcycle cop), George Humbert (Louis, the headwaiter), Ernest Cossart (Joe, the bartender), Stan Blystone (porter), Asta (George, the dog), Nissa (Baby, the leopard).

Only Angels Have Wings
(Columbia)

Producer and director: Howard Hawks.
(Additional scenes directed by Charles Vidor, Norman Deming, uncredited). Screenplay: Jules Furthman (and Eleanore Griffin, William Rankin, Anne Wigton, John Trainor Foote, uncredited, based on the uncredited stories “Plane Number Four,” by Wigton and “Plane Four from Baranca,” by Hawks). Cinematographer: Joseph Walker. Aerial cameraman: Elmer Dyer. Second-unit director: Richard Rosson. Second-unit
cameraman: Russell Metty. Editor: Viola Lawrence. Music: Dimitri Tiomkin. Musical director: M. W. Stoloff. Art director: Lionel Banks. Gowns: Robert M. Kalloch. Sound: Lodge Cunningham. Special effects: Roy Davidson (miniatures), Edwin C. Hahn. Technical advisor and chief pilot: Paul Mantz. Assistant director: Arthur S. Black. Running time: 121 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, December 1938–March
1939, with flying footage filmed in California, Nevada, Utah. Released May 11, 1939.

Cast: Cary Grant (Jeff Carter), Jean Arthur (Bonnie Lee), Richard Barthelmess (Bat McPherson), Rita Hayworth (Judy), Thomas Mitchell (Kid Dabb), Allyn Joslyn (Les Peters), Sig Ruman (The Dutchman), Victor Kilian (Sparks), John Carroll (Gent Shelton), Donald Barry (Tex Gordon), Noah Beery Jr. (Joe Souther), Maciste
(singer), Melissa Sierra (Lily), Lucio Villegas (Dr. Lagorio), Pat Flaherty (Mike), Pedro Regas (Pancho), Pat West (Baldy), Candy Candide (musician), Charles Moore (servant), Inez Palange (Lily’s aunt), Rafael Corio (purser).

His Girl Friday
(Columbia)

Producer and director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Charles Lederer (and Ben Hecht, Morrie Ryskind, uncredited), from the play
The Front Page
, by Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Cinematographer: Joseph Walker. Editor: Gene Havlick. Musical director: M. W. Stoloff. Art director: Lionel Banks. Gowns: Robert M. Kalloch. Second-unit
director: Arthur Rosson. Assistant director: Cliff Broughton. Running time: 92 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, September–November 1939. Released January 11, 1940.

Cast: Cary Grant (Walter Burns), Rosalind Russell
(Hildy Johnson), Ralph Bellamy (Bruce Baldwin), Gene Lockhart (Sheriff Hartwell), Helen Mack (Mollie Malloy), Porter Hall (Murphy), Ernest Truex (Bensinger), Cliff Edwards (Endicott), Clarence Kolb (mayor), Roscoe Karns (McCue), Frank Jenks (Wilson), Regis Toomey (Sanders), Abner Biberman (Diamond Louie), Frank Orth (Duffy), John Qualen (Earl Williams), Alma Kruger (Mrs. Baldwin), Billy Gilbert
(Joe Pettibone), Pat West (Warden Cooley), Edwin Maxwell (Dr. Egelhoffer).

(
The Front Page
was previously filmed in 1931, produced by Howard Hughes for United Artists and directed by Lewis Milestone, and was remade in 1974 by Universal, directed by Billy Wilder.
Switching Channels
, a sex-change version à la
His Girl Friday
set at a television news station, was made in 1988 by Tri-Star Pictures,
directed by Ted Kotcheff.)

Sergeant York
(Warner Bros.)

Producers: Jesse L. Lasky, Hal B. Wallis. Director: Howard Hawks. (Additional scenes directed by Vincent Sherman, uncredited.) Screenplay: Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch, John Huston, from
Sergeant York: His Own Life Story and War Diary
, edited by Tom Skeyhill (and
War Diary of Sergeant York
, edited by Sam K. Cowan,
Sergeant
York and His People
, by Cowan, and
Sergeant York: Last of the Long Hunters
, by Skeyhill, uncredited). Cinematographer: Sol Polito. Cinematographer for battle sequences: Arthur Edeson. Editor: William Holmes. Music: Max Steiner. Musical director: Leo F. Forbstein. Art director: John Hughes. Set decorator: Fred MacLean. Sound: Oliver S. Garretson. Second-unit director: B. Reeves Eason. Technical
advisers: Donoho Hall, Paul Walters, Capt. F. A. R. William Yetter. Assistant director: Jack Sullivan. Unit manager: Eric Stacey. Running time: 134 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, San Fernando Valley, Santa Susanna Mountains, February–May 1941. Released July 1, 1941.

Cast: Gary Cooper (Sgt. Alvin C. York), Walter Brennan (Pastor Rosier Pile), Joan Leslie (Gracie Williams), George Tobias (Michael
T. “Pusher” Ross), Stanley Ridges (Maj. Buxton), Margaret Wycherly (Mother York), Ward Bond (Ike Botkin), Noah Beery Jr. (Buck Lipscomb), June Lockhart (Rosie York), Dickie Moore (George York), Clem Bevans (Zeke), Howard da Silva (Lem), Charles Trowbridge (Cordell Hull), Harvey Stephens (Capt. Danforth), David Bruce (Bert Thomas), Charles Esmond (German major), Joseph Sawyer (Sgt. Early), Pat Flaherty
(Sgt. Harry Parsons), Robert Porterfield (Zeb Andrews), Erville Alderson (Nate Tompkins), Frank Wilcox (sergeant), Donald Douglas (Capt. Tillman), Lane Chandler (Cpl. Savage), Frank Marlowe (Beardsley), Jack Pennick (Cpl. Cutting), James Anderson (Eb), Guy Wilderson (Tom), Tully Marshall (Uncle Lige), Lee “Lasses” White (Luke, the target keeper), Charles Middleton (mountaineer), Victor Kilian
(Andrews), Theodore von Bitz (prison camp commander), Jane Isbell (Gracie’s sister), Frank Orth (drummer), Arthur Aylesworth (Martar, the bartender), Elisha
Cook Jr. (piano player), William Haade (card player), Joseph Girard (Gen. John Pershing), Jean Del Val (Marshal Foch), Douglas Wood (Mayor Hylan), Ed Keane (Oscar of the Waldorf), Ray Teal (soldier), Si Jenks, Herbert Heywood, Eddy Waller,
Henry Hall (mountaineers), Pat West (sergeant).

Ball of Fire
(Samuel Goldwyn Productions for United Artists)

Producer: Samuel Goldwyn. Director: Howard Hawks. Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, from the story “From A to Z,” by Wilder and Thomas Monroe. Cinematographer: Gregg Toland. Editor: Daniel Mandell. Music: Alfred Newman. Art director: Perry Ferguson. Associate art director:
McClure Capps. Set decorator: Howard Bristol. Miss Stanwyck’s costumes: Edith Head. Sound: Frank Maher. Second-unit director: Arthur Rosson. Assistant director: William Tummel. Running time: 111 minutes. Filmed in Hollywood, August–October 1941. Released January 15, 1942.

Cast: Gary Cooper (Prof. Bertram Potts), Barbara Stanwyck (Sugarpuss O’Shea), Oscar Homolka (Prof. Gurkakoff), Dana Andrews
(Joe Lilac), Dan Duryea (Duke Pastrami), Henry Travers (Prof. Jerome), S. Z. Sakall (Prof. Magenbruch), Tully Marshall (Prof. Robinson), Leonid Kinsky (Prof. Quintana), Richard Haydn (Prof. Oddly), Aubrey Mather (Prof. Peagram), Allen Jenkins (garbageman), Ralph Peters (Asthma Anderson), Kathleen Howard (Miss Bragg), Mary Field (Miss Totten), Charles Lane (Larsen), Charles Arnt (McNeary), Elisha
Cook Jr. (waiter), Alan Rhein (Horseface), Eddie Foster (Pinstripe), Aldrich Bowker (justice of the peace), Addison Richards (district attorney), Pat West (bum), Kenneth Howell (college boy), Tommy Ryan (newsboy), Tim Ryan (motorcycle cop), Will Lee (Benny the Creep), Otto Hoffmann (stage doorman), Pat Flaherty, George Sherwood (deputies), Geraldine Fissette (hula dancer), Gene Krupa and His Orchestra.

(Remade as
A Song Is Born
by Goldwyn and Hawks in 1948.)

The Outlaw
(Howard Hughes Productions for United Artists)

Producer: Howard Hughes. Director: Howard Hughes (and Howard Hawks, un-credited). Screenplay: Jules Furthman (from an uncredited story treatment by Ben Hecht and Hawks). Cinematographer: Gregg Toland. Editor: Wallace Grissell. Music: Victor Young. Special effects: Roy Davidson.
Assistant director: Sam Nelson. Running time: 121 minutes, later cut to 103 minutes. Filmed in Arizona (by Hawks), November– December 1940, in Hollywood (by Hughes), December 1940–spring 1941. Released February 5, 1943, San Francisco; withdrawn, rereleased in 1946; rereleased again (by RKO) in 1950.