Motion Picture Daily (July–Sept 1938)

Page scan 00021 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
July–Sept 1938
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Daily (July–Sept 1938)
Leaf #:
00021
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:
July 18, 2024
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AUG. 5... Paramount comes through with another vacation special ... a picture that'll pull 'em in — and how! Martha Raye and Bob Hope topping their previous comedy triumphs! The sort of picture the kids will go for in a big way . . . and we mean the kids from eight to eighty ! Plenty of production value in this! The cast lineup proves that! MARTHA RAYE, BOB HOPE, Betty Grable, Jack Whiting, J. C. Nugent, Clarence Kolb. Directed by Elliott Nugent. Screen Play by Doris Anderson and Frank Butler. AUG. 12... Par amount comes through with another outdoor action epic of the Southwest . . . the kind of box-office smash Paramount has all the answers to ... a picture to rank with "Wells Fargo," "The Plainsman" and "The Texas Rangers." The prairie fire scene alone puts "The Texans" among the top thrill shows of the year! Look at this cast. . JOAN BENNETT, RANDOLPH SCOTT, May Robson, Walter Brennan, Robert Cummin gs, Raymond Hatton, Robert Barrat, Harvey Stephens. A LUCIEN HUBBARD Production. Directed by James Hogan. Screen Play by Bertram Millhauser, Paul Sloane and William Wister Haines. Based on a Story by Emerson Hough. AUG. 26 ... Paramount comes through with one of the truly big pictures of the past decade. Henry Hathaway has topped his "Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and his "T^ives of a Bengal Lancer." This heart-sock action drama of America's last frontier . . . the adventurous coast of far Alaska . . . has everything those famed Hathaway hits had and more! What a cast! GEORGE RAFT, HENRY FONDA, DOROTHY LAMOUR and featuring Akim Tamiroff, John Barrymore, Louise Piatt, Lynne Overman. Directed by Henry Hathaway. Produced by Albert Lewin. Screen Play by Jules Furthman. Based on a Story by Barrett Willoughby.