Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1960)

2 Motion Picture Daily ! Tuesday, December 20, 196i PERSONAL MENTION A MERICO ABOAF, Universal Pictures vice president and foreign general manager, has returned to New York from a three-week trip to Europe. • Roger H. Lewis, United Artists vice president in charge of advertising, publicity and exploitation, will be in Dallas from New York tomorrow for the premiere of "Exodus." Otto Preminger, producer, and Nat Rudich, his representative, also will attend. • Martin H. Poll, president of Gold Medal Enterprises, left here yesterday for Hollywood. • Joseph E. Levine, president of Embassy Pictures, who is convalescing at his home in Newton, Mass., following minor surgery, will leave there shortly with his family for a vacation in Florida. Mrs. Richard Graff has given birth in Detroit to a daughter, Shelley Robin. Father is Universal's branch manager there. • Sig Shore who, with Joseph Harris, is co-presenting Valiant Films' "The Angry Silence," has returned to New York from Hollywood. • Gerald Plano, of "22" Productions, left New York by plane yesterday for the Coast. O'Brien Readies 'Touch9 HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 19.-Edmond O'Brien, set to do three pictures for Paramount under his own independent banner, Tiger Productions, will confine his activities to producing and directing and seek a top star to handle the acting chores. The first of O'Brien's films to go before the cameras at Paramount after New Year will be "The Soft Touch," adapted by Edward Watters from a Cosmopolitan Magazine novelette. NEW YORK THEATRES i — RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL — Rockefeller Center • Ci 6-4600 DEBORAH ROBERT PETER KERR • MITCHUM • USTINOV IN FRED ZINNEMANN'S PRODUCTION OF "THE SUNDOWNERS" A WARNER BROS. PICTURE in TECHNICOLOR ' and THE MUSIC HALL'S GREAT CHRISTMAS STAGE SHOW Cohen Here for Anglo Amalgamated Distribution Deals for Britain and U.S. By WILLIAM PAY LONDON, Dec. 19.— Nat Cohen, managing director of Anglo Amalgamated Film Distributors, left here yesterday for a three-week business trip to America where he will negotiate for the distribution of several Anglo Amalgamated pictures in the U. S. In an interview with Motion Picture Daily he said: "Following the recent success of our films in the States our confidence in British pictures in the U.S. can be measured by our biggest-ever line-up of productions. I am convinced that this will be the biggest year ever in the States, not only for Anglo Amalgamated, but also for other British companies specialising in the American field." While in New York and Hollywood, Cohen will also be completing negotiations for the distribution in Britain of a large batch of American productions and for making of several large-scale co-productions here. Commenting on current successes in America, he said that the Peter Rogers production "Carry on Nurse" had created an entirely new audience for British comedies. He will have discussions with executives of Governor Films who distribute "Carry on Nurse," in America and hopes to set up plans for the release of "Carry on Constable" early next year. In addition to the other titles in the "Carry On" series-"Carry on Sergeant" and "Carry on Teacher"-he will also complete plans for the distribution of two further Peter Rogers comedies, "Watch Your Stern" and "No Kidding." In Hollywood, Cohen will meet James Nicholson and Samuel Arkoff of American International Pictures— whose entire product is distributed by Anglo in this country— with whom he expects to finalize further co-production and distribution deals. Entertainment Heads to See 'Pepe' Bow Tonight "Pepe," the George Sidney-Posa International production, will have a star-studded invitational premiere at the Criterion Theatre here tonight, with film industry leaders, entertainment world notables and top representatives of all communications media slated to attend. Following the invitational black-tie premiere there will be the world premiere on Wednesday night, as the Columbia release begins its roadshow engagement at the newly redecorated Criterion. Among the exhibition leaders attending tonight's preview will be William and Harry Brandt, Eugene Picker, Sol A. Schwartz, Si Fabian, Meyer Schine, Walter Reade, Jr., Russell Downing, John Murphy, Harry Kalmine, Edward Hyman, and Sam Rosen. Joining producer-director George Sidney and his wife, Lillian Burns, at the preview will be associate producer Jacques Gelman, "Pepe" star Cantinflas, Kim Novak, Maurice Chevalier, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Edward G. Robinson and Zsa Zsa Gabor of the cast, Joan Crawford and Desi Arnaz. 'CinderFellcC1 Big Here A smash $16,297 was registered by Jerry Lewis' "CinderFella" in its first three days ending Sunday at the Victoria Theatre here. The stand-out business was recorded despite poor weatiier conditions and the preChrismas shopping period, Paramount pointed out. Legion of Decency ( Continued from page 1 ) is boastfully circumvented on every possible occasion," and said that "humane societies agree that this is an exact description of both the eonduct and the attitude of an unconscionable part of both the motion picture and television industries. Humane societies have been increasingly disturbed for several years, Morse said, "because film makers have been more and more frequently inflicting outright cruelty on animals in the production of films and because they have put more and more apparent cruelty and violence on the screens." Not all producers are guilty, Morse emphasized, but he said that enforcement of the motion picture and television codes has been breaking down, largely because increasing numbers of independent producers and television stations flout the industry codes, confident that cruelty and violence will produce a profit. The Humane Society of the United States and affiliated societies of the World Federation for Protection of Animals agreed at the conference with the Legion of Decency to supply the Legion and other film-reviewing organizations with technical facts about cruelty to animals in film production. The Legion of Decency said that it will use the information from the humane societies in rating pictures. Morse and Myers also conferred this week with Ed Bronson, executive of the Television Code Review Board of the National Association of Broadcasters. Wometco Holds Benefits For Salvation Army Special to THE DAILY MIAMI, Dec. 19.-Wometco Thesi tres built up a "mountain of canne: foods" for the Salvation Army's hoi day pantry Saturday by admittin: children free to matinees at the Es sex, Rosetta, Surf and Tower the£ tres for a contribution of a can oj food. Teenage Decency Campaign Started From THE DAILY Bureau ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 19-An on ganization called the Teenagers' De cency Campaign is conducting a fight! in Stamford, Conn., against obscem ity on four fronts, one of which i I motion pictures. Targets of the drive are: 1) radi<| and television; 2) motion pictures 3) newspapers and magazines; 4 record covers, greeting cards, litera hire in general, and pocket-books. Each of the four fronts has ai elected chairman. The battle i waged by letter-writing efforts anc by refusal to buy. Father Francis Fenton, of Sacrec Heart Church in Bryam, Conn., i: moderator of the decency campaign The priest has trained the youngster: in public speaking, so that they ma) accept engagements outlining thtj campaign's purposes and results. The teenagers also have their own radii program over a Stamford station. A leading aim of the Teenagers Decency Committee is "to pave the way toward a better world, so thai we, as future citizens, and our children, will not grow up in an atmos phere of filth and corruption." The National Catholic Welfart Conference News Service recently released to members paper a stor\ on the Teenagers' Decency Cam' paign. Services Held for Jonas Rosenfield III Services for Jonas Rosenfield III 18-year-old son of Jonas Rosenfield Columbia Pictures vice president, were held yesterday afternoon at the Fairchild Chapel, Manhassett, L. Ii The youth was killed in the crash o\ a jet liner in Brooklyn last Friday while returning to his home from the University of Wisconsin for the holidays. A Jonas Rosenfield III scholarship fund has been begun in memory of the deceased, in care of John Auer bach, 181 Salem Rd., Roslyn Heights N. Y. 8 MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in-Chief _and Publisher; She Advertising Manager; Gus H. Fausel, Production Yucca-Vine Building, Samuel D. Berns, Manager. Cable address: "Quigpubco. New York" Martin Quigley, President^ Marti ? oSigl™ York 20, Circle 7-3100. Vice-President; Leo J. Brady, Secretary. Other Quigley Publications: Motion Picture Herald Better There's and Better Ref reshrnenf TrefUr\rf P*/*??"* GMasher, as a section of Motion Picture Herald; Television Today, published daily as part of Motion Picture Daily M<rtion P h,r, ^frc^ndlsl5' each Polished 13 t.mes a year class matter Sept. 21, 1938, at the Post Office at New York, N. 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