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Back Door to Heaven (Odessco Productions, Paramount release) is an awkward attempt to crash the back door of the cinema industry. It is notable as the first effort of a new producing company headed by Bernard Steele and Stanley Odium (son of Investment Truster Floyd Bostwick Odium, whose Atlas Corp. has a large stake in Radio-Keith-Orpheum and who reportedly put up part of the $350,000 it cost to make the picture in Astoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Astoria, L.I. at Eastern Service Studios, two new independent companies were hard at work on two new feature pictures for Paramount release. The companies: Odessco (for Odium Steele Co.), backed by Stanley Odium, son of Tycoon Floyd Odium; Triple A (for Associated Artists of America), backed by Broker Harold Orlob. Odessco's picture: Home Town, with Wallace Ford and Stuart Erwin, directed by William K. Howard (Transatlantic). Triple A's picture: "...one-third of a nation," first WPA play to be adapted for cinema, with Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erikson, directed by Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Items | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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