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NORTHWEST PASSAGE (BOOK I—ROGERS’ RANGERS)

Producer: Hunt Stromberg. Director: King Vidor (uncredited: Norman Foster, Jack Conway). Based upon the novel by Kenneth Roberts. Screenplay: Laurence Stallings, Talbot Jennings. Music: Herbert Stothart. Photography: Sidney Wagner, William V. Skall (Technicolor). Editor: Conrad A. Nervig. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 23, 1940. Rereleased: 1956 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 125 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Major Robert Rogers), Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Louis Hector, Robert Barrat, Lumsden Hare, Donald McBride, Isabel Jewell, Douglas Walton, Addison Richards, Hugh Sothern, Regis Toomey, Montagu Love, Lester Matthews, Truman Bradley.

EDISON, THE MAN

Producer: John W. Considine, Jr. Associate producer: Orville O. Dull. Director: Clarence Brown. Story: Dore Schary, Hugo Butler. Screenplay: Talbot Jennings, Bradbury Foote. Music: Herbert Stothart. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: May 10, 1940. Running time: 111 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Thomas A. Edison), Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart, Henry Travers, Felix Bressart, Peter Godfrey, Guy D’Ennery, Byron Foulger, Milton Parsons, Arthur Aylesworth, Gene Reynolds, Addison Richards, Grant Mitchell, Paul Hurst, George Lessey, Jay Ward, Ann Gillis.

Note: Tracy is seen in a promotional announcement for this film at the end of Young Tom Edison (1940).

BOOM TOWN

Producer: Sam Zimbalist. Director: Jack Conway. Montage sequences: John Hoffman. Based upon the story “A Lady Comes to Burkburnett,” by James Edward Grant. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin (uncredited: Lawrence Hazard). Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Blanche Sewell. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: August 30, 1940. Rereleased: 1946, 1956 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 117 minutes. Cast: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy (Square John Sand), Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, Chill Wills, Marion Martin, Minna Gombell, Joe Yule, Horace Murphy, Roy Gordon, Richard Lane, Casey Johnson, Baby Quintanilla, George Lessey, Sara Haden, Frank Orth, Frank McGlynn, Sr., Curt Bois.

MEN OF BOYS TOWN

Producer: John W. Considine, Jr. Director: Norman Taurog. Screenplay: James K. McGuinness. Music: Herbert Stothart. Photography: Harold Rosson. Editor: Frederick Y. Smith. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: April 11, 1941. Running time: 106 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Father Edward Flanagan), Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson, Larry Nunn, Darryl Hickman, Henry O’Neill, Mary Nash, Lee J. Cobb, Sidney Miller, Addison Richards, Lloyd Corrigan, Robert Emmett Keane, Arthur Hohl, Ben Weldon, Anne Revere.

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

Producer: Victor Saville. Director: Victor Fleming. Montage sequences: Peter Ballbusch. Based upon the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Screenplay: John Lee Mahin (uncredited: John L. Balderston, Paul Osborn). Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg. Editor: Harold F. Kress. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: September 5, 1941. Rereleased: 1954 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Running time: 127 minutes. Cast: Spencer Tracy (Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde), Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, Barton MacLane, C. Aubrey Smith, Peter Godfrey, Sara Allgood, Frederic Worlock, William Tannen, Frances Robinson, Denis Green, Billy Bevan, Forrester Harvey, Lumsden Hare, Lawrence Grant, John Barclay.

WOMAN OF THE YEAR

Producer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director: George Stevens. Screenplay: Ring Lardner, Jr., Michael Kanin (uncredited: Garson Kanin, John Lee Mahin). Music: Franz Waxman. Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release date: February 13, 1942. Running time: 112 minutes. Cast: