© Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.; 10Nov41; MP1_Motion pictures, 1940-1949

WHY DON'TCHA KISS ME. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1946. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Dave Gould.

WHY DREAM OF LOVE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1946. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, William Forest Crouch.

WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME. P.R.C. Pictures, Inc., c1945. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Sam Sax; director, William Berke; original story,

Fanya Foss Lawrence; screenplay, Fanya Foss Lawrence, Bradford

Ropes; music director, Walter Green; film editor, Carl Pierson.

WHY IS IT? Loew's Inc., c1948. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Pete Smith

Specialty) An MGM picture.

Summary: Pete encounters some of life's minor annoyances—the alarm

clock that doesn't go off, the broken shoe string, and the pests in

the public library.

Credits: Producer and narrator, Pete Smith; director, David Barclay;

original story and screenplay, Joe Ansen, David Barclay; film

editor, Joseph Dietrick.

Cast: Dave O'Brien.

WHY KICK. c1942. 1 reel.

Appl. author: Castleman De Tolly Chesley.

WHY PLAY LEAP FROG? John Sutherland Productions, Inc., c1949. 10 min.,

sd., color, 16mm.

Summary: Demonstrates the relationship between wages and prices, and

concludes that only with increased productivity can wages outstrip

prices. An animated cartoon.

WHY PUNCTUATE. Centron Corp., c1948. 11 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: The film illustrates how good punctuation is essential in

writing, and summarizes basic rules for use of the most important

punctuation marks. For junior-senior high school English classes.

Credits: Adviser, Hardy R. Finch.

WHY RADIO WORKS. 3 reel, sd.

Appl. author: Jam Handy Organization, Inc.

prints, 21Mar44; MU14617.

WHY STUDY FOREIGN LANGUAGES? Coronet, c1949. 11 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: Demonstrates that the study of foreign languages

contributes to the enjoyment of travel, the success of commerce, the

appreciation of literature, and the understanding of people both at

home and abroad. For high school, college, and adult groups.

Credits: Educational collaborator, Henry Grattan Doyle.

WHY THOMAS WAS DISCHARGED. Marshall Grant-Realm Television Production,

c1949. 2 reels, sd., b&w, 16mm. Based on a story by George Arnold.

Summary: After courting two heiresses unsuccessfully, a pair of

fortune-hunting young blades are chagrinned when their valet marries

a rich wife. Setting, a sea-side resort in the gay nineties.

Credits: Producer, Stanley Rubin; director, Sobey Martin;

screenplay, Millard Kaufmann; editor, Jodie Copelan.

THE WICKED LADY. Released by Universal-International, c1946. Presented

by J. Arthur Rank. 11 reels, sd., 35mm. A Gainsborough Picture. From

the novel "The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton" by

Magdalen King-Hall.

Credits: Producer, R. J. Minney; direction and screenplay, Leslie

Arliss; music director, Louis Levy; editor, Terence Fisher.

A WICKY, WACKY ROMANCE. Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film

Corp., c1939. Presented by Paul Terry. 1 reel, sd., color. (A

Terrytoon)

Credits: Producer, Paul Terry; director, Mannie Davis; story, John

Foster; music, Philip A. Scheib; Technicolor.

WIDE OPEN SPACES. Walt Disney Productions, c1947. 7 min., sd., color,

35mm. (A Walt Disney Donald Duck)

Credits: Director, Jack King; story, MacDonald MacPherson, Jack

Huber; animation, Don Towsley, Paul Allen, Emery Hawkins, Sandy

Strother; music, Oliver Wallace. Technicolor.

WIDE OPEN TOWN. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1941. 8 reels, sd. Based on

characters created by Clarence E. Mulford.

Credits: Producer, Harry Sherman; director, Lesley Selander;

screenplay, Harrison Jacobs, J. Benton Cheney; music direction,

Irvin Talbot, John Leipold; photographer, Russell Harlan; film

editor, Carroll Lewis.

WIFE DECOY. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1945. 2 reels, sd.

Credits: Director, Harry Edwards.

THE WIFE OF MONTE CRISTO. c1946. 8 reels, sd. PRC Productions, Inc.

Suggested by the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

Credits: Director, Edgar G. Ulmer; adaptation, Franz Rosenwald,

Edgar G. Ulmer.

App. author: P.R.C. Pictures, Inc.

THE WIFE OF THE MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE. Soundies Distributing Corp.

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

THE WIFE TAKES A FLYER. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1942. 9 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, B. P. Schulberg; director, Richard Wallace;

story, Gina Kaus; screenplay, Gina Kaus, Jay Dratler; music, Werner

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

Havlick.

WIFE TAMES WOLF. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1947. 17 min., sd., b&w,

35mm.

Credits: Producer, George Bilson; director and author of screenplay,

Hal Yates; film editor, Edward W. Williams.

Cast: Leon Errol, Dorothy Granger, Eddie Kane.

WIFE TO SPARE. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1947. 16 min., sd., b&w,

35mm.

Credits: Director, Edward Bernds; story and screenplay, Elwood

Ullman.

Cast: Andy Clyde.

WIFE WANTED. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1946. 8 reels, sd., 35mm.

Suggested by the novel by Robert Callahan.

Credits: Producers, Jeffrey Bernerd, Kay Francis; director, Phil

Karlson; screenplay, Caryl Coleman, Sidney Sutherland; music

director, Edward J. Kay; photographer, Harry Newmann.

WIGGLES. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1944. 1 reel,

sd.

WIGWAM WHOOPEE. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1948. 8 min., sd., color,

35mm. (Popeye the Sailor Cartoon)

Credits: Director, I. Sparber; story, I. Klein, Jack Mercer;

animation, Tom Johnson, William Henning.

WILBUR THE LION. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1947. 10 min., sd., color,

35mm. (Puppetoon) Story based on an idea by William E. Molett.

Credits: Director, George Pal; screenplay, Jack Miller.

WILD AND WOODY. Walter Lantz Productions, Inc. Released through United

Artists, c1948. 6 min., sd., color, 35mm. (Walter Lantz Cartune)

Credits: Director, Dick Lundy; story, Ben Hardaway, Heck Allen;

animation, Ed Love, Pat Matthews; music, Darrell Calker.

WILD AND WOOLFY. Loew's Inc., c1945. 698 ft., sd., color. (A

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon)

Credits: Director, Tex Avery; story, Heck Allen; animation, Ed Love,

Ray Abrams, Preston Blair, Walt Clinton; music, Scott Bradley.

Technicolor.

THE WILD AND WOOZY WEST. Distributed by Columbia Pictures Corp.,

c1942. 666 ft., sd. (Phantasy, no. 16)

Credits: Direction and animation, Allen Rose, Lou Lilly; music, Paul

Worth.

WILD BEAUTY. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1946. 6 reels, sd., 35mm.

Credits: Producer and director, Wallace W. Fox; original screenplay,

Adele Buffington; music director, Paul Sawtell; cinematographer,

Maury Gertsman; film editor, D. Patrick Kelly.

WILD BILL HICKOK RIDES. Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., c1942. 82

min., sd.

Credits: Associate producer, Edmond Grainger; director, Ray Enright;

original screenplay, Charles Grayson, Paul Gerard Smith, Raymond

Schrock; music, Howard Jackson; film editor, Clarence Kolster.

WILD BOAR HUNT. The Vitaphone Corp., c1940. 10 min., sd. (Hollywood

Novelties) (Bow and Arrow Adventures)

Credits: Written by De Leon Anthony; narrator, Knox Manning.

WILD CALENDAR. SEE Caught.

WILD COUNTRY. PRC Pictures, Inc., c1947. 57 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Credits: Producer, Jerry Thomas; director, Ray Taylor; original

screenplay, Arthur E. Orloff; orchestration, Walter Greene; film

editor, Hugh Winn.

Cast: Eddie Dean, Flash, Roscoe Ates, Peggy Wynne, Douglas Fowley.

THE WILD FRONTIER. Republic Productions, Inc., c1947. 59 min., sd.,

b&w, 35mm.

Credits: Associate producer, Gordon Kay; director, Philip Ford;

original screenplay, Albert DeMond; music director, Mort Glickman;

film editor, Les Orlebeck.

Cast: Allan "Rocky" Lane, Black Jack, Jack Holt, Eddy Waller.

WILD GEESE CALLING. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1941, 7,100

ft., sd. Based on the novel by Stewart Edward White.

Credits: Director, John Brahm; screenplay, Horace McCoy; music

director, Alfred Newman.

A WILD HARE. The Vitaphone Corp., c1940. 1 reel, sd., color. (Merrie

Melodies)

Credits: Producer, Leon Schlesinger; story, Rich Hogan; animation,

Virgil Ross; music direction, Carl W. Stalling. Technicolor.

WILD HARVEST. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1947. 92 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Based on a story by Houston Branch.

Credits: Producer, Robert Fellows; director, Tay Garnett;

screenplay, John Monks, Jr.; music score, Hugo Friedhofer; editor,

George Tomasini.

Cast: Alan Ladd, Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston.

WILD HONEY. Loew's Inc., c1942. 758 ft., sd., color. (A

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon) A Rudolf Ising production.

Credits: Story, Henry Allen; animation, Michael Lah, Rudy Zamora,

Don Williams; music, Scott Bradley. Technicolor.

WILD HORSE MESA. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1947. 65 min., sd., b&w,

35mm. Based on Zane Grey's novel.

Credits: Producer, Herman Schlom; director, Wallace A. Grissell;

screenplay, Norman Houston; music, Paul Sawtell; music director, C.

Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Desmond Marquette.

Cast: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Richard Powers, Jason

Robards.

WILD HORSE PHANTOM. P.R.C. Pictures, Inc., c1944. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sam Newfield; original

story and screenplay, George Milton; film editor, Holbrook N. Todd.

WILD HORSE RANGE. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1940. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Harry S. Webb; director, Raymond K. Johnson;

story, Tom Gibson; screenplay, Carl Krusada; music directors, Lange

& Porter; photography, Edward A. Kull, William Hyer; film editor,

Robert Golden.

WILD HORSE ROUNDUP. SEE Northwestern Stampede.

WILD HORSE RUSTLERS. c1943. Presented by Producers Releasing Corp. 6

reels, sd., 35mm.

Credits: Producer, Sigmund Neufeld; director, Sam Newfield; original

screenplay, Steve Braxton; music, Leo Erdody; film editor, Holbrook

N. Todd.

Appl. author: P.R.C. Pictures, Inc.

WILD HORSE STAMPEDE. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1943. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, Robert Tansey; director, Alan James; original

story, Frances Kavanaugh; screenplay, Elizabeth Beecher; music

director, Frank Sanucci; photography, Marcel Le Picard; film editor,

Fred Bain.

WILD HORSES. Loew's Inc., c1943. Presented by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 713

ft., sd., b&w. (A Pete Smith Specialty)

Credits: Screenplay, Jameson Brewer, Irwin Braun; film editor,

Philip Anderson.

THE WILD MAN OF BORNEO. Loew's Inc., c1941. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 8 reels, sd., b&w. Based on the play by Marc

Connelly and Herman J. Mankiewicz.

Credits: Director, Robert B. Sinclair; screenplay, Waldo Salt, John

McClain; music score, David Snell; film editor, Frank Sullivan.

WILD TURKEY. RKO Pathe, Inc., c1947. 8 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

(Sportscope, no. 8)

Credits: Producer, Jay Bonafield; director, Joseph Walsh; written by

Burton Benjamin; narrator, Andre Baruch; music, Nathaniel Shilkret;

editor, David Cooper.

WILD WEST. c1946. Presented by PRC Pictures, Inc., c1946. 8 reels,

sd., color, 35mm.

Credits: Producer and director, Robert Emmett Tansey; original

screenplay, Frances Kavanaugh; music director, Karl Hajos;

orchestral arrangements, Walter Greene; film editor, Hugh Winn.

Cinecolor.

WILD WEST CHIMP. SEE Variety Views, no. 160.

WILDCAT. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1942. 7 reels, sd.

Credits: Producers, William H. Pine, William C. Thomas; director,

Frank McDonald; original story, North Bigbee; screenplay, Maxwell

Shane, Richard Murphy; photographer, Fred Jackman, Jr.; film editor,

William Ziegler.

WILDCAT BUS. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1940. 64 min., sd.

Credits: Producer, Cliff Reid; director, Frank Woodruff; story and

screenplay, Lou Lusty; editor, George Crone.

THE WILDCAT OF TUCSON. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1940. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Director, Lambert Hillyer; original screenplay, Fred Myton;

film editor, Charles Nelson.

WILDFIRE. SEE Red Canyon.

WILEING AWAY THE TIME. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1943. 1 reel, sd.

WILFUL WILLIE. Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1942.

Presented by Paul Terry. 1 reel, sd. (A Terrytoon)

Credits: Director, Connie Rasinski; story, John Foster; music,

Philip A. Scheib.

WILL IT HAPPEN AGAIN. American Film Producers, c1948. Presented by

Navy Club of the United States, Rockford, Illinois. 7 reels, sd.,

b&w, 35mm.

Summary: A picture designed to show the personal degradation of the

Nazi leaders and the decadence of their regime. The last reel

emphasizes the need for military preparation in the United States.

Made from captured German film.

WILL YA BE MY DARLIN'. Distributed by Soundies Distributing Corp. of

America, Inc., c1946. Presented by R.C.M. Productions, Inc. 1 reel,

sd.

Credits: Producer, Ben Hersh; director, Dave Gould.

A WILLIAM DAMON CHALK TALK. William Damon Productions, c1946. 1 reel,

si., 16mm.

MP1207.

WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1944. 1 reel, sd.

WILLIE AND THE MOUSE. Loew's Inc., c1941. Presented by

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 986 ft., sd., b&w. (John Nesbitt's Passing

Parade)

Credits: Director, George Sidney; original story and screenplay,

Julian Hochfelder; film editor, Albert Akst.

WILLIE, THE WINDOW WASHER. Featurettes, Inc., c1941. 1 reel, sd.

Appl. author; Roy Mack.

WILLIE WILLIE. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1943. 1

reel, sd.

WILLIE, WILLIE, WILL YA? Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.,

c1941. 1 reel, sd.

WILLOUGHBY'S MAGIC HAT. Distributed by Columbia Pictures Corp., c1943.

659 ft., sd. (Phantasy, no. 25)

Credits: Producer, Dave Fleischer; director, Bob Wickersham;

animation, Phil Duncan, Howard Swift; music, Paul Worth.

WILSON. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1944. 13,861 ft., sd.

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

Alfred Newman.

WIMMIN HADN'T OUGHTA DRIVE. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940. 1 reel,

sd.

Credits: Director, Dave Fleischer; story, George Manuell.

WIMMIN IS A MYSKERY. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1940. 1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, Dave Fleischer; story, Ted Pierce; animation,

Willard Bowsky, Joseph D'Igalo.

WIND, CURVES, AND TRAP DOOR. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1948.

Presented by Albert Mitchell. 10 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. (Answer Man

Series, no. 1–B)

Credits: Producer, Harry A. Kapit; director, Benjamin R. Parker;

film editor, Charles R. Senf.

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. SEE The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

THE WINDBLOWN HARE. Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc., c1949. 7 min., sd.,

color, 35mm. (Bugs Bunny Special)

Credits: Director, Robert McKimson; story, Warren Foster; animation,

Charles McKimson, Phil DeLara, Manny Gould, John Carey.

THE WINDOW. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1949. 73 min., sd., b&w, 35mm.

Based on the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" by Cornell Woolrich.

Summary: A drama of terror. When an imaginative boy gives an

eye-witness account of a murder, no one believes him except the

murderers, who decide to kill him. Filmed in a tenement district in

New York.

Credits: Producer, Frederic Ullman, Jr.; director, Ted Tetzlaff;

screenplay, Mel Dinelli; music, Roy Webb; music director, C.

Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Frederic Knudtson. Cast: Bobby Driscoll,

Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman.

WINDOW CLEANERS. Walt Disney Productions, c1940. 1 reel. (A Walt

Disney Donald Duck)

WINDOW-SHOPPING. 300 feet.

Summary: A presentation of outstanding window displays by such

stores as Gimbel's, Saks', and Best's in New York City.

Appl. author: Samuel Momrod Lewton.

WINDOW SHOPPING NEWSREEL, no. 1. 400 ft.

Summary: A television film program designed to show and describe

fashionable apparel displayed in the shop windows of New York.

WINDOW WASHERMAN. Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc., c1946.

1 reel, sd.

Credits: Director, William Forest Crouch.

WINDS AND THEIR CAUSES. Coronet, c1948. 12 min., sd., b&w, 16mm.

Summary: When his gasoline-powered model airplane crashes over a

bare field, Pete becomes interested in winds and obtains information

from personal observation, from books, and from an aviator.

Credits: Educational collaborator, Walter A. Thurber.

WING AND A PRAYER. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1944. 9,223 ft.,

sd.

Credits: Director, Henry Hathaway; story and screenplay, Jerome

Cady; music director, Emil Newman.

THE WINGED SCOURGE. Walt Disney Productions, c1943. 1 reel.

WINGED TARGETS, Columbia Pictures Corp., c1944. 1 reel, sd.

Credit: Commentator, Bill Stern.

WINGED VICTORY. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1944. 15 reels, sd.

Credits: Director, George Cukor; screenplay, Moss Hart; music, David

Rose.

WINGMEN OF TOMORROW. SEE Variety Views, no. 140.

WINGS AND THE WOMAN. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., c1942. 91 min., sd. A

Herbert Wilcox production. By Viscount Castleross.

Credits: Associate producer, Victor Hanbury; director, Herbert

Wilcox; scenario and screenplay, Miles Malleson; music score,

William Alwyn; photography, Mutz Greenbaum; editor, Geoffrey Foot.

WINGS FOR FREEDOM. SEE Variety Views, no. 108.

WINGS FOR THE FLEDGLING. Columbia Pictures Corp., c1942, 913 ft.

(Victory Short, no. 1)

Credits: Producer, B. K. Blake; continuity, George Blake; editor,

Leonard Weiss.

WINGS IN RECORD TIME. SEE Variety Views, no. 128.

WINGS OF COURAGE. Universal Pictures Co., Inc., c1946. 1 reel, sd.

(Person-Oddity, no. 149)

Credits: Producer, Thomas Mead; narration, Alois Havrilla.

WINGS OF DEFENSE. Movietone. Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Film

Corp., c1942. 1 reel, sd. (Adventures of the Newsreel Cameraman)

Credits: Continuity, Russ Sheilds; narration, Paul Douglas; music

score, L. De Francesco; photography. Jack Kuhne.

WINGS OF STEEL; Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. in cooperation with the

United States Army Air Corps, c1941. 20 min., sd., color.

Credits: Director, B. Reeves Eason; original screenplay, Owen Crump.

Technicolor.

WINGS OF THE WIND. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1947, 8 min.,

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

Summary: Sand-sailing on the beach; water-skiing in Florida;

skate-sailing and iceboating in Wisconsin: and flying in a glider,

supported by the "wings of the wind."

Credits: Producer, Edmund Reek; narrator, Mel Allen; music score, L.

DeFrancesco; film editor, Arthur Lincer.

WINGS OVER LATIN AMERICA. sd., color, 16mm.

Appl. author: Archer Winsten.

MU16434.

WINGS OVER THE PACIFIC. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1943. 6 reels, sd.

Credits: Producer, J. Bernard; director, Phil Rosen; original

screenplay, George Wallace Sayre; music director, Edward Kay;

photography, Mack Stengler; film editor, Carl Pierson.

WINGS TO NEW YORK. Charles D. Beeland for Pan American World Airways,

Atlantic Division. 1,145 feet, sd.

Summary: Arriving in New York by Pan American's Flying Clipper a

visitor sees many things of interest in the Wonder City.

21Dec48; MU3795.

WINKY THE WATCHMAN, c1945. 1 reel.

WINNER TAKE ALL. Monogram Pictures Corp., c1948. 64 min., sd., b&w,

35mm.

Summary: A prizefight melodrama in which Joe Palooka makes a

cross-country tour and wins the big fight.

Credits: Producer, Hal E. Chester; director, Reginald LeBorg;

screenplay, Stanley Rubin; music director, Edward J. Kay.

Cast: Joe Kirkwood, Elyse Knox, William Frawley, Stanley Clements,

John Shelton.

WINNER TAKE BOSCO. Cinepuppet Productions, Inc. 500 ft., color, 16mm.

(Bosco, Ciné Pup)

Summary: Bosco performs the three good deeds necessary to enter

Dog-Heaven.

Credits: Authors, Buell Fuller, John Fuller, Julian R. Seide.

prints, 3Nov48; MU3451.

THE WINNER'S CIRCLE. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., c1948. 70 min.,

sd., b&w, 35mm.

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