Walter Wanger has ordered his accounting department to' write into the ledger book a budget of $2,000,000 for a technicolour epic to be known simply as "California." Suling over the story idea k AYE Grover Jones, the author, has
years and expects to spend the next Six months putting into screen farm ihe history of the Golden State from the days of the gold rush to the San Francisco World's Fair in 1939.
Wanger plans to photograph it on a Scale surpassing in spectacle and lavishness such munificent films of the West as "Covered Wagon," "Iron Horse" and "Cimarron" and intends to devote at least six months to the filming of the story.
Much of the action will be shot ow of doors and played against many of California's scenic spots. The players will be drafted from "Wanger's star' list, including Charles Boyer, Madeleine Carroll, Sylvia Sidney, Joan Bennett and Henry Fondi The director has not yet been named.
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