Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1940)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1940
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00019
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:
November 03, 2022
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DEAR MISTER EXHIBITOR: This is 1940 writing to you. I've just arrived and while I find this world a bit screwy I was delighted to discover one outfit with chin up, full of smiling optimism and courage that's admirable. I refer, of course, to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. I have looked over the M-G-M pictures that the Big Year of 1939 gave you, such as "The Women", "Thunder Afloat", "Babes in Arms", "Ninotchka", "Another Thin Man", "Judge Hardy and Son", "Balalaika" and others. They're great, but I assure you 1940 will do even better! This M-G-M outfit is your best bet. To start my new year, two pictures just previewed, are sensational: "THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER" (another Lubitsch hit starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart); "EARL OF CHICAGO" (starring Robert Montgomery), Then there's "BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940" (starring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell); "STRANGE CARGO" (starring Clark Gable, Joan Crawford); "NORTHWEST PASSAGE" (in Technicolor, starring Spencer Tracy). That's just the start. I'll be seeing you. (Signed) 1940 AN M-G-M YEAR