Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1939)

Page scan 000237 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Apr-Jun 1939
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000237
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:
May 30, 2024
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A MINIMUM OF 40-A MAXIMUM OF 52 The following is a tentative prospectus. From these and others, M-G-M's 1939-1940 releases will be drawn. NORTHWEST PASSAGE, to resume production on location in May; based on Kenneth Roberts' famed best-seller; King Vidor director; Spencer Tracy, Robert Taylor. THE WOMEN, sensational Claire Boothe stage hit of Park Avenue's wives and sweethearts, starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell and an all-female cast of about 40 players; George Cukor, director. GONE WITH THE WIND, Margaret Mitchell's most discussed book of our time; Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia De Havilland, directed by Victor Fleming. In Technicolor. A SelznickInternational Picture. Produced by David O. Selznick IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE, based on Sinclair Lewis' famed novel of upheaval in America. ZIEGFELD FOLLIES. Gigantic new type of musical entertainment, as pretentious as Ziegfeld would have made it if he had had M-G-M's resources; multi-starred. SILENT NIGHT, an exciting and highly romantic co-starring vehicle for the screen's singing sweethearts, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. MADAME CURIE, starring Greta Garbo; famed novel by Eve Curie depicting the thrills, hardships, struggles and final triumph of the discoverer of radium. NINOTSCHKA, comedy by Melchior Lengyel; Parisian and Russian background,, starring Greta Garbo; Ernst Lubitsch director. THE WIZARD OF OZ. In Technicolor. Awaited by entire show world as the most amazing screen magic ever unfolded. Based on celebrated L. Frank Baum's book of globe-circling fame. Cast includes Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and thousands of others. Directed by Victor Fleming. TONIGHT AT 8:30 is among the newly acquired important properties; Noel Coward's sensational international stage hit in which it is planned to star Norma Shearer. GUNS AND FIDDLES (temporary title), spectacular drama with music; Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr, Miliza Korjus, Robert Young; by Walter Reisch and Samuel Hoffenstein. A DAY AT THE CIRCUS, Marx Brothers; to start shortly. ON BORROWED TIME, Lionel Barrymore, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Bobs Watson, the child sensation of "Boys Town" and "Calling Dr. Kildare"; stage hit by Lawrence Edward Watkins; director, Harold Bucquet. RETURN OF THE THIN MAN, by Dashiell Hammett; William Powell, Myrna Loy. BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940. Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell in the most sumptuous of this successful series; novel story treatment. BABES IN ARMS, musical drama novelty, based on Rodgers and Hart stage success; large cast includes Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, June Preisser, Betty Jaynes, Douglas McPhail; Busby Berkeley, director. (More great productions listed two bases beyond — ► )