Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1959
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00056
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
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:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
December 02, 2023
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"Best" Producer Brings "Infidel" to Town Celebrities, press and top motion picture names turned out last evening at the 20th Century-Fox home office for a special screening of Jerry Wald's "Beloved Infidel" and a cocktail party in the producer's honor. Twentieth vice-president Charles Einfeld chats with (I. to r.) RKO Theatres president Sol A. Schwartz, producer Wald and Mrs. Schwartz. Twentieth president Spyros P. Skouras greets Mary Patricia Cameron who won for herself a special role in Wald's "The Best of Everything" and thereby gained national fame. "Beloved Infidel" relates the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald, famous American writer, and columnist Sheila Graham. Top magazine editor Jay Brennan of the widely circulated "Saturday EveningPost" (shown here with Wald) was among the guests who braved torrential rain to see "Beloved Infidel." Socialite Sharman Douglas (left) and Rona Jaffe, authoress of "The Best of Everything," chat before seeing Gregory Peck-Deborah Kerr starrer. Glamorous Arlene Dahl, one of the stars of "Journey to the Center of the Earth," attends with husband Fernando Lamas, one of Hollywood's top romantic leading men. Bob Evans, young actor who has a key role in "The Best of Everything," is seen with socialite (left) Danielle Loder and "Cosmopolitan Magazine" entertainment editor Lyn Leavitt. Mrs. Wald chats with another of the film's stars, Eddie Albert. Henry King directed the CinemaScope-De Duxe Color "Infidel," which will bow on Broadway shortly.