With twelve features recently completed, four others under production and six being adapted, Columbia Pictures is far ahead of its 1933-34 production schedule.
In the first group is the Capra production, “It Happened One Night,” starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, which is now being shown, and “No Greater Glory,” which will be presented shortly. Other productions in this division are “The Ninth Guest,” with Genevieve Tobin and Donald Cook; “The Social Register,” with Colleen Moore and Alexander Kirkland; Sisters Under the Skin,” with Elissa Landi, Joseph Schildkraut and Frank Morgan; and “The Lady is Willing,” with Leslie Howard.
“Twentieth Century,” Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur comedy, in which John Barrymore is starred with Carole Lombard and Walter Connelly, is one of the four pictures now in production.
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