Variety (May 1955)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
May 1955
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (May 1955)
Leaf #:
000230
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Recorded Sound",Vaudeville,Theatre,Broadcastin
Collection:
Theatre and Vaudeville, Early Cinema, and Hollywood Studio System
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 28, 2022
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Wednesday, May 25, 1955 Ufi&iEfr 17 it ft looks at M- LOVE ME OR LEAVE / and loves it! In its issue , out May 31st, LOOK Magazine runs a 2-page spread with beautiful color art on "LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME.” Be sure to display it in your lobby. It will help sell tickets. With permission of LOOK we reprint the following: A true story of a singer and a gangster makes a fine film* •LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME’ is based on the life of a singer of the 1920$, Ruth Etting. This M-G-M film tells a story of her marriage to a racketeer, Martin u (the -Gimp’) Snyder, and the real names of both are used. The 'Gimp’ is shown promoting Ruth's career by strong-arm tactics.Their relationship is, dramatized with such explosive realism that audiences are never sure how the picture will end — a novelty for bio- graphical movies. Under director Charles Vidor, Doris Day and James Cagney give dazzling performances as the mismated pair.” Typical of LOOK’S dramatic photo captions: •’111 kill you if 1 ever catch you hanging around her!” The "Gimp” (James Cagney) bursts into the house of a musician friend (Cameron Mitchell), looking for runaway Ruth (Doris Day). All three participants in this show-business tragedy are still living. ME> And loves it! (Available in Magnetic Stereophonic, Perspecta Stereophonic or 1-Channel Sound) Song Hit Records Fill The Airwaves l Publicity Breaks Every Day! Terrific Ad, Radio, TV Campaign ! M-G-M presents in CINEMASCOPE and COLOR DORIS JAMES DAY * CAGNEY "LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME” Co-Starring CAMERON MITCHELL With ROBERT KEITH > TOM TULLY Scr«n Play by DANIEL FUCHS and ISOBEL LENNART Story by Dantol Fuchs • Photographed In EASTMAN COLOR Directed by Produced by CHARLES VIDOR * JOE PASTERNAK