Variety (December 1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
December 1954
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (December 1954)
Leaf #:
00018
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Recorded Sound",Vaudeville,Theatre,Broadcastin
Collection:
Theatre and Vaudeville, Hollywood Studio System, and Early Cinema
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Founded in 1905 by Sime Silverman, Variety is the best known and most important trade paper in the history of American entertainment. Variety began as a New York weekly publication covering vaudeville, however, its scope expanded over time to include legitimate theatre, burlesque, motion pictures, radio, and television (transitions that the MHDL will eventually document within this record). In 1933, Daily Variety was launched in Los Angeles to offer in-depth coverage of the motion picture industry and serve as a competitor to The Hollywood Reporter, which was founded 'on the Coast' in 1930. In March 2013, Variety's owner ended the print edition of Daily Variety, though as of this writing, the weekly publication and a website offering non-stop news updates still exist. Variety may ultimately be best remembered for its integration of show business slang into entertainment trade coverage. Boffo. Hokum. Quickies. Svelte. Climaxer. Tenpercenter. Coastlander. Skein. We're still feeling zowied. -- Eric Hoyt, 2013
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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19 Wednesday, December 1, 1954 ; w , f^SjkEtx CHEERFUL EARFUL! GOOD NEWS FROM M-G-M! The tentative line-up of Big M-G-M attractions below is just a sample of what's to come. They've been screened in various stages of completion' and are assured hits! Following right after “THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS" and the great Christmas-New Years musical “DEEP IN MY HEART/' showmen may happily depend oil a consistent flow of top product from M-G^M. THRIVE IN '55! JANUARY BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK’’ (CinemaScope^( M-G-M presents in CinemaScope • Spencer Tracy • Robert Ryan in “BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK’* • co-starring Anne Francis Dean Jagger • Walter Brennan • John Ericson • Ernest Borgnine Lee Marvin • Russell Collins • Screen Play by Millard Kaufman Adaptation by Don McGuire • Based on a Story by Howard Breslin * Photographed in Eastman Color • Directed by John Sturges • Produced by Dore Schary 91 (CinemaScope—Color) JANUARY "GREEN M-G-M presents in CinemaScope •Stewart Granger • Grace Kelly Paul Douglas in “GREEN FIRE*' • co-starring John Ericson with Murvyn Vye • Written for the Screen by Ivan Golf and Ben. Roberts • Photographed in Eastman Color • Directed by Andrew Marton • Produced by Armand Deutsche MARCH Hit the deck' (CinemaScope — M-G-M presents in CinemaScope “HIT THE DECK” starring Jane Powell • Tony Martin • Debbie Reynolds Walter Pidgeon Vic Damone • Gene Raymond • Ann Miller. • Russ Tamblyn with Kay Armen • J. Carrol Naish • Richard Anderson • Jane DarWell • Written by Sonya Levien<and William Ludwig ♦ Based On the Musical Play “Hit the Deck” by Herbert Fields •Presented On the Stage by Vincent Youmans • From “Shore Leave” by Hubert Osborne • Music by Vincent Youmans • Lyrics by Leo Robin, Clifford Grey and Irving Caesar Choreography by Hermes Pan Photographed. in Eastman Color • Directed by Roy Rowland • Produced by Joe Pasternak MARCH "INTERRUPTED MELODY" (CinemaScope^— Color) M-G-M presents in CinemaScope “INTERRUPTED MELODY” starring Glenn Ford • Eleanor Parker • with Roger Moore * Cecil Kellaway •. Screen Play by William Ludwig and Sonya Leyien Based On Her Life Story by Marjorie Lawrence • Photographed in Eastman Color • Directed by Curtis Bernhardt • Produced by Jack Cummings FEBRUARY "MANY RIVERS TO CROSS' ’ / ( CinemaScope — Color) M-G-M presents in CinemaScope “MANY RIVERS TO CROSS” starring Robert Taylor • Eleanor Parker • with Victor McLaglen Russ Tamblyn • Jeff Richards • James Arness • Screen Play by Harry Brown and Guy Prosper Based on a Story by Steve Ffazee • Photographed in Eastman Color • Directed by Roy Rowland • Produced by Jack Cummings "JUPITER’S DARLING'(cmoScccM M-G-M presents in CinemaScope - “JUPITER'S DARLING” starring Esther Williams • Howard Keel • Marge , and Gower Champion George Sanders with Richard Haydn • William Demarest • jScreen Play by Dorothy Kingsley • Based on the Play “Road to Rome” by Robert E. Sherwood • Songs: Burton Lane and Harold Adamson • Photographed in Eastman Color • Directed. by George Sidney • Produced by George Wells APRIL THE GLASS SLIPPER” (Color) M-G-M presents “THE GLASS SLIPPER” starring Leslie Caron • Michael Wilding • With Keenan Wynn •Estelle Winwood Elsa Lanchester • Barry Jones • Written for the Screen by Helen Deutsch • Ballets by Roland Petit • Featuring Ballet de Paris Photographed in Eastman Color • Directed by Charles Walters Produced by Edwin H. Knopf APRIL 'BEDEVILLED' (CinemaScope — Color) M-G-M presents “BEDEVILLED” in CinemaScope • starring Anne Baxter • Steve Forrest • with Simone Renant • Maurice Teynac • Robert Christopher • Joseph Tomelty and Victor Francen Based on an Original Story and Screen Play by Jo Eisinger • Photographed in Eastman Color • Directed by Mitchell Leisen * Produced by Henry Berman 1955-THE YEAR OF M-G-M’s ’’THE PRODIGAL”