BATTY BASEBALL. Loew's Inc., c1944. 594 ft., sd., color. (A_Motion pictures, 1940-1949

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon)

Credits: Director, Tex Avery; animation, Ray Abrams, Preston Blair,

Ed Love; music, Scott Bradley. Technicolor.

BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE. SEE Hi Beautiful.

BE ON YOUR GUARD FOR CARD CHEATERS.

MU14770.

BE PATIENT, PATIENT. c1944. Presented by Columbia. 625 ft., sd.,

color. (A Fox and Crow)

Credits: Director, Bob Wickersham; story, Dun Roman; animation, Chic

Otterstrom, Phil Duncan; music, Eddie Kilfeather. Technicolor.

BE YOUR AGE. Jam Handy Organization, Inc. Presented by Metropolitan

Life Insurance Co. in cooperation with the American Heart Assn. 1

reel, sd., b&w, 35mm.

prints, 14Feb47; MU1656.

BEACH COMMAND. Paramount Pictures, Inc., c1943. 1 reel, sd. (Grantland

Rice Sportlight)

Credits: Narrator, Ted Husing.

BEACH DAYS. c1946. 10 min., sd., color, 35mm. (The Sports Parade)

Credits: Director, Andre De La Varre; narration, Saul Elkins;

narrator, Knox Manning. Technicolor.

THE BEACH NUT. c1944. Presented by Universal. 1 reel, sd., color. (A

Walt Lantz Swing Symphony) (A Walt Lantz Cartune)

Credits: Producer, Walt Lantz; director, James Culhane; story, Ben

Harlaway, Milt Schaffer; animation, Dick Lundy, Les Kline; music,

Darrell Calker. Technicolor.

31Aug44; MP15239.

BEACH POLKA. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1945. 1

reel, sd.

BEACHHEAD TO BERLIN. The Vitaphone Corp. in cooperation with the

United States Coast Guard, c1945, 20 min., sd., color.

Credits: Narration, Charles Linton Tedford; photographers, the

United States Coast Guard; film editor, Louis Hesse. Technicolor.

BEANSTALK JACK. Terrytoons, Inc., c1946. 7 min., sd., color, 35mm.

(Terrytoon)

Credits: Director, Eddie Donnelly; story, John Foster; music, Philip

A. Scheib.

THE BEAR AND THE BEAN. Loew's Inc., c1948, 7 min., sd., color, 35mm.

(An MGM Cartoon)

Credits: Producer, Fred Quimby; directors, Michael Lah, Preston

Blair; animation, Ray Abrams, Don Patterson, Ed Barge, Gil Turner;

music, Scott Bradley.

THE BEAR AND THE BEAVERS. Loew's Inc., c1942. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 782 ft., sd., color. (An MGM Cartoon) A Rudolph

Ising production.

Credits: Technicolor.

THE BEAR AND THE HARE. Loew's Inc., c1948. 1 reel, sd., color, 35mm.

(An MGM Cartoon)

Credits: Producer, Fred Quimby; animation, Don Patterson, Ray

Abrams, Irving Levine, Gil Turner; music, Scott Bradley.

BEAR FACTS. SEE Variety Views, no. 141.

BEAR FEAT. Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., c1949. 7 min., sd., color,

35mm. (Merrie Melodies)

Credits: Director, Charles M. Jones; story, Michael Maltese;

animation, Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan, Ken Harris, Phil Monroe.

BEAR MOUNTAIN GAME. SEE Variety Views, no. 134.

BEAR RAID WARDEN. Loew's Inc., c1944. 614 ft., sd., color. (A

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon)

Credits: Animation, Arnold Gillespie, Michael Lah, Ed Barge, Jack

Carr; music, Scott Bradley. Technicolor.

BEARCAT MOUNTAIN GAL. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1942. 1 reel, sd.

THE BEAR'S TALE. The Vitaphone Corp., c1940. 1 reel, sd. (Merrie

Melodies)

Credits: Story, J. B. Hardaway; animation, Rod Scribner.

THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1947. 88

min., sd., b&w, 35mm. A Warner Bros.-First National picture. From

the story by William Fryer Harvey.

Credits: Producer, William Jacobs; director, Robert Florey;

screenplay, Curt Siodmak; music, Max Steiner; music director, Leo F.

Forbstein; orchestral arrangements, Hugo Friedhofer; film editor,

Frank Magee.

Cast: Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J.

Carrol Naish.

BEAT ME DADDY. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1943. 1

reel, sd.

BEAT ME DADDY, EIGHT TO THE BAR. Soundies Distributing Corp. of

America, Inc., c1941. 1 reel, sd.

BEAT ME, DADDY, EIGHT TO THE BAR! Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1940.

2 reels, sd.

Credits: Associate producer, Will Cowan; director, Larry Ceballos;

music director, Charles Previn; orchestrations, Milton Rosen; film

editor, Paul Landres.

BEAT THE BAND. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1947. 67 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. Based on the musical stage play by George Abbott, with music

and lyrics by John Green and George Marion, Jr.

Credits: Producer, Michael Kraike; director, John H. Auer;

screenplay, Lawrence Kimble; adaptation, Arthur Ross, Lawrence

Kimble; music, Leigh Harline; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff; film

editor, Samuel E. Beetley.

Cast: Frances Langford, Ralph Edwards, Phillip Terry, Gene Krupa.

BEAU TIES. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1945. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, Seymour Kneitel; story, Carl Meyer, Joe Stultz.

LA BEAUTÉ DU DIABLE (THE BEAUTY OF THE DEVIL). Presented by

Universalia Productions. 10 reels, sd.

Summary: A retelling of the old legend in which Faust, the aging

professor, sells his soul to the devil in exchange for youth and

love.

Credits: Producer, Salvo d'Angelo; screenplay, René Clair, Armand

Salacrou.

Cast: Michel Simon, Gerard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Simone Valere,

Carlo Ninchi.

13Dec49; LU2664.

BEAUTIFUL BALI. c1940. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 772 ft., sd.,

color. (James A. FitzPatrick's Traveltalks)

Credits: Producer and narrator, James A. FitzPatrick; music score,

Nat Finston, C. Bakaleinikoff; photographer, Bob Carney.

Technicolor.

BEAUTIFUL BALI. Vitaphone Corp., c1946. 1 reel, sd., color, 35mm.

Warner Bros.

Credits: Directed and written by Deane Dickason; narrator, Knox

Manning.

THE BEAUTIFUL BLONDE FROM BASHFUL BEND. Twentieth Century-Fox Film

Corp., c1949. 77 min., sd., color, 35mm. Based on a story by Earl

Felton.

Summary: A slapstick musical about a trigger-happy gambling-hall

queen. Setting, the West in 1885.

Credits: Produced, directed, and written by Preston Sturges; music,

Cyril Mockridge; film editor, Robert Fritch.

Cast: Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee, Olga San Juan,

Sterling Holloway.

BEAUTIFUL BRITISH COLUMBIA. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1940. 953 ft.,

sd., color. (Columbia Tour, s. 4, no. 6)

Credits: Producer, Leon C. Shelly; narration, Gayne Whitman; music,

James Dietrich; photographer, Ray Fernstrom; film editor, Ed Taylor.

Cinecolor.

BEAUTIFUL BUT BROKE. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1944. 8 reels, sd.

Based on a story by Arthur Housman.

Credits: Producer, Irving Briskin; director, Charles Barton;

screenplay, Monte Brice; adaptation, Manny Seff; music director, M.

W. Stoloff; film editor, Richard Fantl.

THE BEAUTIFUL CAVERNS OF LURAY, VIRGINIA. c1941. 800 ft., color, 16mm.

Credits: Kodachrome.

Appl. author; Robert C. Harnsberger.

THE BEAUTIFUL CAVERNS OF LURAY, VIRGINIA. Luray Caverns Corp., c1947.

1 reel, sd., color, 16mm.

Credits: Director, LeRoy Anderson; script, Kelli Williams; narrator,

Dan Donaldson.

THE BEAUTIFUL CHEAT. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1945. 59 min., sd.

Credits: Producer and director, Charles Barton; original story,

Manny Seff, Fritz Rotter; screenplay, Ben Markson; film editor, Ray

Synder.

BEAUTIFUL CLOTHES (MAKE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS). Soundies Distributing Corp.

of America, Inc., c1941. 1 reel, sd.

BEAUTIFUL MERMAID. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1944. 1 reel, sd.

BEAUTIFUL OHIO IN ITS MAKING. si., color, 8mm.

Credits: Kodachrome.

20Mar42; MU12521.

BEAUTIFUL ONTARIO. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 852 ft., sd.

(Columbia Tour, no. 10)

Credit: Commentator, John Martin.

BEAUTY AND THE BANDIT. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1946. 8 reels, sd.,

35mm. Based on the character "Cisco Kid" created by O. Henry [pseud.

of Wm. Sydney Porter]

Credits: Producer, Scott R. Dunlap; director, William Nigh; original

story and screenplay, Charles S. Belden; music director, Edward J.

Kay; photographer, Harry Neuman; film editor, Fred Maguire.

BEAUTY AND THE BEACH. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1941. 1 reel, sd. (A

Paramount Headliner)

Credits: Producer and director, Leslie Roush; continuity, Justin

Herman; photographer, William Steiner.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE). André Paulve, France,

c1946. Released in the U.S. by Lopert Films, Inc., 1947. 90 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm. In French with English titles. Based on the tale by

Madame Leprince de Beaumont.

Summary: A fantasy in which a household drudge is delivered into the

hands of a monster who falls in love with her and is eventually

revealed as a handsome prince.

Credits: Director of production, Emile Darbon; director, story,

dialogue, Jean Cocteau; music, Georges Auric; editor, Claude Iberia.

Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André, Mila Parely, Nane

Germon.

BEAUTY AND THE BLADE. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1949. 9 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm. (Sports Review)

Summary: A demonstration of the ice-skating skill of the Olympic

champions, Barbara Ann Scott and Dick Button, in the six types of

School Figures and Figure Skating.

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; narrator, Ed Thorgersen; music,

Lucio Agostini; film editor, Arthur Lincer.

MP4350.

BEAUTY AT THE WINDOW. Jam Handy Organization, Inc. Presented by Kirsch

Co. 1 min., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: Shows an interior decorator's study in which women shoppers

are watching a Kirsch SunAire venetian-blind demonstration.

26May48; MU3037.

BEAUTY FOR SALE. RKO Pathe, Inc., in collaboration with the editors of

This Week Magazine, c1946. 17 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (This Is

America, no. 1)

Credits: Producer, Frederic Ullman, Jr.; director, Larry O'Reilly;

written by Phil Reisman, Jr., Jerome Brondfield; narrator, Dwight

Weist; music, Nathaniel Shilkret; editor, David Cooper.

BEAUTY HULA. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1945. 1

reel, sd.

Credits: Director, William Forest Crouch.

BEAUTY IN FOCUS. Jam Handy Organization, Inc. Presented by Chevrolet

Motor Division, General Motors Corp. 1 min., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: After posing for her picture, a young girl is taken by her

escort for a ride in a Chevrolet convertible.

23Apr48; MU3025.

BEAUTY IN THE ROOM. Jam Handy Organization, Inc. Presented by Kirsch

Co. 1 min., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: Women shoppers observe a Kirsch SunAire venetian-blind

demonstration in a decorator's studio.

26May48; MU3038.

THE BEAUTY OF IT. Jam Handy Picture Service, Inc.

prints, 3Nov41; MU11707.

THE BEAUTY OF THE DEVIL. SEE La Beauté du Diable.

BECAUSE I LOVE YOU. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1942. 1 reel, sd.

BECAUSE OF HIM. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1946. 9 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Felix Jackson; director, Richard Wallace;

original story, Edmund Beloin, Sig Herzig; screenplay, Edmund

Beloin; music score, Miklos Roza; film editor, Ted J. Kent.

BEDELIA. John Corfield Productions, Ltd., England, c1947. 85 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on Vera Caspary's novel.

Credits: Director, Lance Comfort; screenplay, Vera Caspary, Herbert

Victor, I. Goldsmith.

BEDLAM. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1946. 79 min., sd., 35mm. Suggested

by the William Hogarth painting "Bedlam," plate no. 8, "The Rake's

Progress."

Credits: Producer, Val Lewton; director, Mark Robson; screenplay,

Carlos Keith, Mark Robson; music, Roy Webb; music director, C.

Bakaleinikoff; editor, Lyle Boyer.

BEDS AND APPLIANCES. Presented by The Bureau of Aeronautics for the

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. sd.

Appl. author: James P. Prindle.

17Jul43; MU13769.

BEDSIDE MANNER. Released through United Artists, c1945. Presented by

Andrew Stone. 72 min., sd. From the Saturday Evening Post story by

Robert Carson.

Credits: Producer and director, Andrew Stone; screenplay, Frederick

Jackson, Malcolm Stuart Boylan; music director, Emil Newman; film

editor, James Smith.

BEDTIME FOR SNIFFLES. The Vitaphone Corp., c1940. 1 reel, sd. (Merrie

Melodies)

Credits: Story, Rich Hogan; animation, Robert Cannon.

BEDTIME STORY. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1941. 9 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, B. P. Schulberg; director, Alexander Hall; story,

Horace Jackson, Grant Garrett; screenplay, Richard Flournoy; music,

Werner R. Heymann; music director, M. W. Stoloff; film editor, Viola

Lawrence.

THE BEE-DEVILED BRUIN. Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., c1949. 7 min.,

sd., color, 35mm. (Merrie Melodies)

Credits: Director, Charles M. Jones; story, Michael Maltese;

animation, Ken Harris, Phil Monroe, Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan.

BEER BARREL POLECATS. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1946. 2 reels, sd.

Credits: Director, Jules White; story and screenplay, Gilbert W.

Pratt.

BEER BARREL POLKA. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1941. 1 reel, sd.

BEES A' BUZZIN'. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., c1944. 10 min., sd.

(Vitaphone Variety)

Credits: Narrator, Lou Marcelle.

BEES AND HONEY. 920 ft., color, 16mm.

Summary: Shows various stages in the life of a bee, and explains how

to raise honey successfully.

BEFORE I HANG. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1940. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Wallace MacDonald; director, Nick Grinde; story,

Karl Brown, Robert D. Andrews; screenplay, Robert D. Andrews; music

director, M. W. Stoloff; photography, Benjamin Kline; film editor,

Charles Nelson.

BEFORE THE DOCTOR COMES. Presented by The American Red Cross. 4 reels,

sd. A William J. Ganz production.

BEFORE THE FACT. SEE Suspicion.

BEGGARS ARE COMING TO TOWN. SEE I Walk Alone.

BEGIN THE BEGUINE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1943. 1 reel, sd.

THE BEGINNING OR THE END. Loew's Inc., c1947. 112 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. An MGM picture.

Credits: Producer, Samuel Marx; director, Norman Taurog; original

story, Robert Considine; screenplay, Frank Wead; music score,

Daniele Amfitheatrof; film editor, George Boemler.

Cast: Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake.

BEGINNING TUMBLING. c1946. 1 reel, sd., b&w, 16mm. Revised version.

Appl. authors: Karl W. Bookwalter, Otto Ryser.

BEHIND CITY LIGHTS. c1945. Presented by Republic Pictures. 7 reels,

sd.

Credits: Associate producer, Joseph Bercholz; director, John

English; screenplay, Richard Weil; adaptation, Gertrude Walker;

music director, Richard Cherwin; photographer, William Bradford;

film editor, Fred Allen.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

BEHIND GREEN LIGHTS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1946. 7 reels,

sd.

Credits: Director, Otto Brower; original screenplay, W. Scott

Darling, Charles G. Booth; music direction, Emil Newman.

BEHIND LOCKED DOORS. ARC Productions, Inc. Released by Eagle Lion

Films, Inc., c1948. 61 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Summary: A private detective is committed to a mental hospital in

order to apprehend an ex-judge who is hiding there.

Credits: Producer, Eugene Ling; director, Oscar Boetticher; original

story, Malvin Wald; screenplay, Malvin Wald and Eugene Ling; film

editor, Norman Colbert.

Cast: Lucille Bremer, Richard Carlson, Douglas Fowley; Ralf Harolde;

Tom Brown Henry.

BEHIND PRISON WALLS. Producers Releasing Corp., c1943. 7 reels, sd.

Based on an original story by W. A. Ullman, Jr.

Credits: Producer, Arthur Ripley; director, Steve Sekely;

screenplay, Van Norcross; music director, David Chudnow; film

editor, Holbrook N. Todd.

BEHIND THE BIG TOP. c1943. 20 min., sd., color.

Credits: Producers, Blumenthal, Heilner; director, Andre De Lavarre;

narrator, Art Gilmore. Technicolor.

BEHIND THE 8–BALL. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1941. 1 reel, sd.

BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1942. 6 reels,

sd.

Credits: Director, Edward F. Cline; original story, Stanley Roberts;

screenplay, Stanley Roberts, Mel Ronson.

BEHIND THE FOOTLIGHTS. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1946. 1

reel, sd., 35mm. (Movietone's Feminine World)

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; director, Vyvyan Donner; narrator,

Paul Douglas; music score, L. DeFrancesco; photography, William

Storz; film editor, Russ Sheilds.

BEHIND THE LENS.

Organization; title, descr., & 660 prints, 20Jul40; MU10360.

BEHIND THE MASK. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1946. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Joe Kaufman; director, Phil Karlson; original

story, Arthur Hoerl; screenplay, George Callahan; photographer,

William A. Sickner; film editor, Ace Herman.

BEHIND THE MEAT BALL. Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., c1945. 7 min., sd.,

color. (Looney Tunes)

Credits: Story, Melvin Millar; music director, Carl W. Stalling.

Technicolor.

BEHIND THE NEWS. c1940. Presented by Republic Pictures. 8 reels, sd.

Credits: Associate producer, Robert North; director, Joseph Santley;

original story, Dore Schary, Allen Rivkin; screenplay, Isabel Dawn,

Boyce De Gaw; music director, Cy Feuer; photography, Jack Marta;

film editor, Ernest Nims.

Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc.

BEHIND THE RISING SUN. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1943, 88 min., sd.

Based on the book by James R. Young.

Credits: Director, Edward Dmytryk; original screenplay, Emmet

Lavery; music, Roy Webb; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff; editor,

Joseph Noriega.

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE AIRPORT. Teaching Films, Inc., c1947. 1 reel,

sd., b&w, 16mm.

Credits: Writer, Hall.

BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE 29TH NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL GOLF ASSOCIATION

CHAMPIONSHIP. Florez, Inc., c1948. Presented by the Michigan Section

of the Professional Golf Association of America, 22 min., sd., b&w

and color, 16mm.

Summary: At the Plum Hollow Golf Club, Detroit, crowds gather for

the 1947 national championship contest. Henry Ransom defeats Bobby

Locke, the South African champion; such champions as Sammy Snead,

Jimmy Demaret and Chick Harbert show their skill.

Credits: Director, Al Bradish; script, John Kleene; narrator, John

Harrington.

BEHIND THE SHOP DRAWING.

16Jan43; MU13198.

BEHOLD THE MAN. SEE Ecce Homo.

BEL AMI. sd., b&w, 16mm.

Appl. author: Tobis Zeigt.

prints, 2Nov46; LU698.

BEL AMI. c1947. Presented by Levinson-Finney Enterprises, Inc. 10

reels, sd., b&w, 35mm. From the novel by Guy de Maupassant.

Credits: Director, Willi Forst; adapted for the screen by Willi

Forst and Axel Eggebrecht; music, Theo Mackeben.

Cast: Olga Tschechova, Ilse Werner, Hilde Hildebrand, Lizzi

Waldmueller, Willi Forst.

Appl. author: Tobis Zeigt.

BEL AMI. Released in Vienna, c1938. 10 reels, sd., b&w, 35mm. A Willi

Forst production. Based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant. In German

with English titles.

Credits: Director, Willi Forst; adapted for the screen by Willi

Forst, Axel Eggebrecht.

Cast: Olga Tschechowa, Ilse Werner, Hilde Hildebrandt, Lizzi

Waldmueller, Willi Forst.

BEL AMI. SEE The Private Affairs of Bel Ami.

BELL BOTTOM TROUSERS. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1945. 1 reel, sd.

A BELL FOR ADANO. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1945. 9,376 ft.,

sd. Based on the novel by John Hersey.

Credits: Director, Henry King; screenplay, Lamar Trotti, Norman

Reilly Raine; music director, Alfred Newman.

BELL HELICOPTER. Bell Aircraft Corp., Motion Picture Division. 17

min., sd., color, 16mm.

Credits: Directed and written by Norman Mathews, Julian Townsend;

cameramen, Julian Townsend, Edward Bollinger. Kodachrome.

BELLA DONNA. SEE Temptation.

BELLBOY DONALD. Walt Disney Productions, c1942. 1 reel, sd. (A Walt

Disney Donald Duck)

LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE. SEE Beauty and the Beast.

BELLE OF THE YUKON. Released by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1944.

Presented by International Pictures, Inc. 84 min., sd., color.

Credits: Director, William A. Seiter; story, Houston Branch; written

for the screen by James Edward Grant; music direction, Arthur Lang;

film editor, Ernest Nims. Technicolor.