The Film Daily (1948)

Record Details:

Title:
The Film Daily
Date:
1948
Publisher:
Wid's Films and Film Folk, inc.
Volume:
The Film Daily (Jan-Mar 1948)
Leaf #:
000494
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
This leading industry publication, published out of New York, was founded in 1915 by Wid Gunning (who called his publication Wid's Daily until 1922). The Film Daily documented the rise of the Hollywood studios, the transition to sound, and the evolution of the American film industry (the paper finally shuttered in 1970). The Film Daily included feature reviews, news stories, and advertisements, but its extensive coverage of short films in the 1920s and 30s distinguished it from other trade papers of the period. -- Eric Hoyt, 2011/2013
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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Monday, March 29,1948 Denver Trust Suit Continued Wilmington, Del. — At the call of the calendar for the March term in U. S. District Court, John Van§runt, Jr., of the Wilmington law firm of Killoran and VanBrunt, representing Cinema Amusement, Inc., operator ,of the Broadway Theater, Denver, Colo., plaintiff in an anti-trust suit against Loew's, Inc., RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., and 20th Cent.-Fox Film Corp., asked that the case be continued pending a decision by the U. S. Supreme Court in the Federal Government's anti-trust suit against Paramount, et al. An injunction in the Federal District Court at Dallas, Tex., an appeal from which is now pending before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals at New Orleans, has halted the Delaware Federal Court antiTrust action of Tivoli Realty, Inc., operator of the DelmafrTheater, Dallas, against Texas Consolidated Theaters, the . Interstate Circuit, Paramount, Loew's, RKO, Warners, 20th Century-Fox, Columbia, United Artists and Universal. The Wilmington law firm of Killoran and VanBrunt represents Tivoli Realty as well as Cinema Amusements. Park-In Theaters of Camden, N. J., flWJ POSTS ROBERT JUCKETT, day manager. Senate, Detroit. VERNON E. CARLSON, manager, Kramer, Detroit. THOMAS BEETON, manager. Rex, Detroit. CHARLES COLLINS, manager, Senate, Detroit. T. A. ASPELL, soies conract. Jam Handy, Detroit. JACK STEPHENSON, Commonwealth manager, Columbia, Mo. DUREX BARRETT, manager, Fort Wood Theater, Waynesville, Mo. ED KIRK, manager, Boone, Columbia, Mo. DAVE PRESSNEl, manager. Plaza, Mount Vernon, III. DONALD FOSS, assistant manager, Lincoln. Springfield, III. JERRY StuAL, manager. Lyric, Asbury Park. LOUIS FOLEY, student assistant manager, Majestic, Perth Amboy. MICHAEL McANDREW, manager. Strand Theater, Springfield, Mass. J. A. ALLERMAN, manager, Alameda and Guild Tieaters, Crystal City, Tex. HARRIS DUDELSON, manager. United Artists, Cleveland. BEN WACHNACHSKY, general manager, Sam Hass-Ed Strong Drive-In Theaters, Cleveland. represented by Wilmington attorney, Arthur G. Connolly, is plaintiff in two actions pending in the Delaware Federal District Court, charging patent infringement. An action against Flexer Drive-In Theaters, Memphis, Tenn., is pending, and another, against Paramount-Richards Theaters, Inc., New Orleans, La., is scheduled for argument in April. Flexer is represented by Wilmington attorney, Thomas Cooch, and ParamountRichards Theaters by William S. Potter. IT'S COMING... FROM EAGLE LION! A PRODUCING ARTISTS Production REVIEWS Of REUl FILMS State off the Union (MGM 12UMins.) Heavy audience turnout ie in the cards and stars for this one ... Courageous , pungent story plus over all fine performance and Class A pr"^ duction places it in the "can't missH category1." ...Has great natural exploitation tie-in (the forthcoming presidential nominating conventions) to set up plenty tickethuyers.. ..Performances have excellence engendered by names,. .Capra has turned in an award size, slick directing job certain to click... Cast includes Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Angela Lansbury, Van Johnson and Adolphe Menjou. Mr.Blandings Builds Hit Dream House (BZO-SBO 9U Mins.) Should make a strong bid for the comedy business...Light and laughable situations run the full range from titters to uproariousness... Cast ably handles humor which projects into oqfners and places where it's least expected... Well plotted screenplay given fine interpretation by Gary Grant, Mjrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas and assorted support ...Where laughter and lightness is in demand "Blandings" will more than do the trick. Ends on a smart gag note...H. C. Potter directed. Tarzan and the Mermaids (BKO 68 Mins.) Top number in series... Mexican background has authenticity... Pull complement of action deriving from colorful fiction in script.. .Calypso songs lend rhythmic relief... Tarn deals with pearl traders deluding natives by posing as gods. . .Weissmuller topples setup when he looks into Linda Christians' problem. . .Latter plenty pulchritudinous...This plus aquatic spectacle, many extras, full scenic values ...Singly or doubled it's a good number ...Robert Florey directed. The Bie City (MGM , 103 Mins.) Surrounded by a competent cast, Meg O'Brien delivers what her fans and followers want, are accustomed to, require, expect... Here she is. -an. orphan adopted by Danny Thomas, Robert Preston, George Murphy. . .Also Lotte Lehmann... Locale is Hew Tork...Pirst of three fosterfathers to wed gets moppet on adoption.. .Murphy marries Betty Garrett.. .It is solved at length by Xdw. Arnold . . .Production very good. . .Songs aplenty. . . Should do well in the long, subsequent run haul