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Film Bulletin (11/Jan/1941) - Studio Size-Ups: RKO Radio

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The long delayed RKO shake-up has not yet materialized, but with the scheduled arrival of George Schaefer on January 15, something of the sort is anticipated. . .The Coast premiere of Walt Disney's "Fantasia" will take place next month. Frank Braden, Ringling Brothers circus press agent, has been signed by Walt Disney to handle the nation-wide exploitation of the film. Braden will rejoin the circus in the Spring . . . Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride will continue their show business series, according to the terms of contracts recently signed with the players for four pictures annually. . .RKO has tentatively lined up Burgess Meredith, George Murphy and James Ellison as the "Tom, Dick and Harry" ol the next Ginger Rogers' starrer. . .Randolph Scott will headline "True to Form". . .Rosemary Lane and Dennis O'Keefe have been cast in "Hang Out the Moon" and Joan Fontaine will move over to RKO for the femme lead in "Before the Fact," in which Alfred Hitchcock will direct Cary Grant. . .RKO and Stephens-Lang are discussing a renewal of the Dr. Christian series... The war has knocked the pins out from under Walt Disney whose "Pinocchio" gross represents a substantial loss... John Carroll will be seen opposite Anna Neagle in "Sunny."

Three pictures are shooting here: "They Met in Argentina" (Jimmy Ellison-Maureen O'Hara), "The Devil and Miss Jones" (Jean Arthur-Robert Cummings-Charles Coburn) and "Show Business" (Alan Mowbray-Donald MacBride),