Motion Picture Daily (July–Sept 1938)

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 #:
000448
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:
August 27, 2022
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MOTION PICTURE DAILY Friday, August 26, I i No Superlatives Are Used in the Effort AMOTION PICTURE is a combination of the rarest talents — Author, director, actor, designer, cameraman — the representatives of 276 arts, crafts and professions join hands in the production of a motion picture . . . Thought, skill, effort, courageous investment go into it . . . If a great novel captures the attention of the world, it is dramatized for the screen . . . If a hit play is produced on the stage in London, Paris or New York, it is translated into a motion picture . . . The most successful authors are engaged to give their art to the movies — while outstanding composers contribute their most important music . . . America's best known writers of popular songs and librettos create screen musical comedies . . . Players are sought and tested, schooled in voice and pantomime and camera tests are made to secure the best characterizations . . . Expeditions are sent to the far corners of the globe for authentic atmosphere . . . artists, architects, historians, scientists engaged to make certain of the correctness of literary and pictorial details . . . In the laboratory endless care to insure perfect presentation . . . Previews before audiences to test public reaction . . . Everything is done to make the motion picture what it is today. For nearly fifty years the motion picture has been developing, improving. And never before in all its history has it offered you such glorious entertainment as now, on the eve of its Golden Jubilee. Fine pictures are coming to your favorite theatre one after the other — pictures that have called forth all the skill, all the imagination, all the resources of one of the world's great industries. Pictures that will give you relaxation and diversion. Pictures that will take you to distant lands, show you strange scenes and exotic peoples, unlatch for you the mansion doors of millionaires and the cottage doors of plain folks, turn back for you the pages of history, make great events live again. Pictures that will make you laugh and cry . . . pictures that will pull you to the edge of your seat, tense with excitement . . . pictures that will bring you adventure . . . romance . . . LIFE. Your theatre man, too, has caught the spirit of this new, exciting amusement season. With his great sense of showmanship he is introducing a contest which will make "going to the movies" still greater fun — a contest which will make your visit to his theatre not only entertaining but perhaps highly profitable as well. 250,000.00 5,404 CASH PRIZES LIST OF PRIZES! 1st Prize . . . $50,000 2nd Prize . . . 25,000 2 of $10,000 each, 20,000 5 of $5,000 each, 25,000 5 of $2,000 each, $10,000 10 of $1,000 each, 10,000 40 of $500 each, 20,000 40 of $250 each, 10,000 300 of $100 each, 30,000 5,000 of $10 each, 50,000 5,404 TOTAL $250,000 FREE! FREE! AT YOUR FAVORITE THEATREI Hvrryl Hurry! Beautiful 32-Pag« Book For a Limited Tim* Only) FREE — your copy of this 32-Page Movie Quiz Coolest Booklet at your fa>ontc theatre — contain* complete information about the $250,000 Mo>ie Quiz Cajh Prize Cornell PLUS all the new, of forthcoming hit, — picture, of your favorite star* — a cod ten entry blank. just tilt for it— IT'S FKiE— andTou'reoo your way to oocof the 5.404 cash prizes totaling 1250,000. Get y^u r copy today — at your local theatre. Watch for these new season's pictures at your favorite theatre: LITTLE MISS BROADWAY Shirley Temple, George Murphy MOTHER CAREY'S CHICKENS Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler. James Ellison PROFESSOR BEWARE Harold Lloyd. Phyllis Welch THE AMAZING DR. GLITTER HOUSE Edward G. Robinson. Claire Trevor THE CHASER Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Morriss, Lewis Stone BAREFOOT BOY Jackie Moran, Marcia Mae J one* ALGIERS Charles Boyer, Hedy LaMarr. Sigrid Curie BULLDOG DRUM MO ND IN AFRICA John Howard, Heather Angel. H. B. Warner GATEWAY Don Ameche, Arleen Whclan I'M FROM THE CITY Joe Penner, Kicliard Lane, Lorraine Kruegcr LETTER OF INTRODUCTION AdoIpheMenjou, Andrea Leeds, Edgar Bergen THE CROWD ROARS Robert Taylor, Maureen OSullivan MR. CHUMP Johnny Davis, Lola Lane. Penny Singleton KEEP SMILING Jane Withers, Gloria Stuart PAINTED DESERT George O'Brien, Larainc Johnson RICH MAN— POOR GIRL Robert Young. Lew Ayres, Ruth Huasey THE MISSING GUEST Paul Kelly, Constance Moore THE TEXANS Joan Bennett, Randolph Scott, May Robson RACKET BUSTERS Humphrey Bogart, George Brent THE GLADIATOR Joe E. Brown, June Travis ALEXANDER'S RAGTIME BAND Tyrone Power. Alice Faye, Don Ameche BLOCK-HEADS Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy GIVE ME A SAILOR Martha Ftaye. Bob Hope. Betty Grable SMASHING THE RACKETS Chester Morris, Frances Mercer, Rita Johnson BREAKING THE ICE Bobby Breen, Charles Ruggles DARK RAPTURE African Jungle Feature MARIE ANTOINETTE Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power SPAWN OF THE NORTH George Raft, Henry Fonda. Dorothy Lamour SPEED TO BURN Michael Whalen, Lynn Bari BOY MEETS GIRL James Cagney, Pal O'Brien, Marie Wilson UNDER THE BIG TOP Anne Nagcl, Marjorie Main, Grant Richards CAREFREE Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers FOUR'S A CROWD Errol Flynn, Olivia de lUvHiand FRESHMAN YEAR Dixie Dunbar, William Lundigan I AM THE LAW Edward G. Robinson, John Beat. Wendy Barric MY LUCKY STAR Sonja Henie, Richard Greene SING YOU SINNERS Bing Crosby. Fred MacMurray. Ellen Drew THREE LOVES HAS NANCY Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery BOYS TOWN Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney IN OLD MEXICO William Boyd, Russell Ha yd en, George Hayes SAFETY IN NUMBERS The Jones Family. Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane THE AFFAIRS OF ANNABEL Jack Oakie, Lucille Bail THE COMET Wm. Gargan. Joy Hodges, Andy Devine SECRETS OF AN ACTRESS Kay Francis, George Brent, Ian Hunter THE LADY OBJECTS Lanny Ross, Gloria Stuart JUVENILE COURT Paul Kelly, Rita HayworLh, Frankie Darro HOLD THAT CO-ED John Barry more, George Murphy RENEGADE RANGER George O'Brien, Rita Hayworlh SONS OF THE LEGION Lynne Overman, Evelyn Keyes THE ROAD TO RENO Randolph Scott, Hope Hampton TOO HOT TO HANDLE Clark Gable. Myrna Loy. Walter Connolly VALLEY OF THE GIANTS Charles Bickford, Claire Trevor. Jack LaRue DRUMS Sabu. Raymond Massey. Valerie Hobson CAMPUS CONFESSIONS Hank Luisetti, Betty Grable FUGITIVES FOR A NIGHT Frank Albertson, Eleanor Lynn LISTEN DARLING Freddie Bartholomew, Judy Garland THE LAST EXPRESS Kent Taylor. Dorothea Kent, Barbara Read TIME OUT FOR MURDER Gloria Stuart. Michael Whalen FOUR DAUGHTERS Claude Rains, Priscilla, Rosemary, Lola Lane WANTED BY THE POLICE Frankie Darro GIRLS' SCHOOL Anne Shirley, Nan Grey KING OF ALCATRAZ Gail Patrick, Lloyd Notan. J. Carroll Naish MR. WONG, DETECTIVE Boris KarloB YOU CANT TAKE IT WITH YOU Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore ROOM SERVICE The Marx Brothers, Lucille Ball STABLEMATES Wallace Beery, Mickey Rooney SUBMARINE PATROL RichardGreene,NancyKelly,George Barter oft YOUTH TAKES A FLING Andrea Leeds, Joel McCrea, Dorothea Kent This advertising is sponsored by the leading Motion Picture Exhibitors, Distributors and Producers of the United States and Canada Your opinions, criticisms or suggestions about motion pictures will be genuinely appreciated. Kindly address them to Motion Picture Industry Campaign, P. O. Box 4 50, General Post Office, New York City. MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT MM6535 8-24-38 P4 Ad No. 1$ 6 cols, x 2 1 5 lioss