Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1947)

Page scan 000165 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Apr-Jun 1947
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000165
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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Friday, April 25, 1947 Motion Picture Daily 9 Production in Hollywood Remains at 39 Shooting News." Hollywood, April 24. — For the third week in succession, the number of nurtures in work totals 39, as six were started and another six V, T to cutting rooms. The production scene follows : Columbia Finished: "Destiny," "Sweet Genevieve." Started: "Two Blondes and a Redhead," with Jean Porter, Jimmy Lloyd, June Preisser, Judy Clark; "Smoky River Serenade," with Billy Williams, Paul Campbell, Ruth Terry, Hoosier Hot Shots. Shooting : "Son of Rusty," "Blondie in the Dough," "The Man from Colorado," "Assigned to Treasury" ( Kennedy-Buchman ) . Eagle-Lion Shooting: "Love from a Stranger." M-G-M "The Pirate," "Good Monogram Shooting: "The Hunted," "Song of the Wasteland." Paramount Finished: "The Big Clock." Started: "Whispering Smith," with Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall; "Shaggy" (Pine-Thomas) with Brenda Joyce, Robert Shayne. PRC Finished: "Gas House Kids Go West." _ -4 Shooting : "Bury Me Dead," "Ghost Town Renegades." RKO Radio Shooting: "Memory of Love," '"Dick Tracy vs. the Gruesome Gang," "Mourning Becomes Electra," "Fighting Father Dunne," "Tycoon." Republic Shooting : "Robin Hood of Texas " "Along the Oregon Trail," "The Outcast." Screen Guild Shooting: "Dark Bullet" (Fortune). Selznick Shooting : "Portrait of Jennie." 20th Century-Fox Finished: "Captain from Castile." Started: "The Foxes of Harrow" with Maureen O'Hara, Rex Harrison. Shooting: "Kiss of Death," "Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay." United Artists Started : "Untitled Hopalong" (Hopalong Cassidy Productions). Shooting: "Atlantis" (Nero). Universal-International Finished: "Brute Force" (Hellinger). _ Shooting : "Singapore," "Something in the Wind," "Secret Beyond the Doors" (Diana) ; "Lost Moment" (Wanger). Tradeshow Dates Set For Three by MGM M-G-M will tradeshow three new pictures in May: "Cynthia," in Los Angeles and New York on May 12 and elsewhere on May 15; "Fiesta" in Los Angeles and New York on May 19 and elsewhere one day later; "Romance of Rosy Ridge" on May 26 in New York and Los Angeles and all other exchanges a day later. "Gone With the Wind" will be re-tradeshown at the New York exchange on Mon day. Release dates have not yet been set for any of the films. Key City Grosses FOLLOWING are estimated picture grosses, exclusive of Federal tax, for current engagements in key cities as reported by Motion Picture Daily correspondents. Film Interests Seek Cleveland Church Cleveland, April 24. — Out-oHown film interests are trying to lease the Euclid Ave. Baptist Church for a first-run downtown theatre. Delegates of the Baptist Church Association, representing 31 churches, are unable to reach a decision on the offer and have postponed final word on the deal for 30 days pending a poll of the congregations of the Association's member churches. Under the plan, Sunday services would still be held in the reconverted church. Files Patent Suit A patent infringement suit has been filed in U. S. District Court here by Ernest Stern against RKO Radio, charging violation of a sprocket patent for. sound projection. The plaintiff seeks an injunction and accounting of profits, presumably from 1935 when, Stern says, he notified RKO of his patent. The company continued to employ the sprocket after the notification, he alleges. Name RKO Drive Winners Winners of first quarter prizes in the "Phil Reisman Four Seasons Drive," named in honor of RKO Radio's vice president in charge of foreign distribution, are: China, managed by Arno Kerske ; Switzerland, headed by Armand Palivoda ; Brazil, Art Simon ; Cuba, Pedro Saenz ; Adelaide, Bill Downs and Hubert McNally's branch in Dublin. • Meet on Conservation Kansas City, April 24.— A public hearing will be held on Monday, before the State Public Service Commission, at Jefferson City, on the matter of possible limitation of air conditioning equipment operation in Kansas City because of the necessity of conserving power. Carolina House Burns Jacksonville, N. C, April 24.— All equipment was destroyed in a fire at the Onslow Theatre here, of which Otis Strickland is manager. The . 520seat house was serviced by Everett Enterprises of Charlotte. BOSTON Variable weather ranging from very warm to cold and rainy took its toll at box-offices here. Business continued uneven in the Hub. Estimated receipts for the week ended April 23 : THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE (RKO Radio)— BOSTON (2,900) (S0c-$1.10). Stage show, Frankie Carle and orchestra. Gross: $30,000. (Average: $31,000) THE LATE GEORGE APLEY (20th-Fox) and BACKLASH (20th-Fox) — FENWAY (1,700) (40c-80c). Gross: $5,100. (Average: $6,500) SONG OF SCHEHERAZADE (U-I) and -EWELS OF BRANDENBURG (20th-Fox) —MEMORIAL (2,900) (40c-80c) 5 days. Gross: $18,000. (Average: $27,200). THE IMPERFECT LADY (Para.) and FOR THE LOVE OF RUSTY (Col.)— METROPOLITAN (4,736) (40c-80c). Gross: $25,500. (Average: $26,000) THE MACOMBER AFFAIR (UA) and BLONDIES HOLIDAY (Col.)— ORPHEUM (3,200) (40c-80c). Gross: $28,000. (Average: $25,000) THE LATE GEORGE APLEY (ZOth-Fox) and BACKLASH (2ttth Fox) — PARAMOUNT (1,700) (40c-80c). Gross: $13,200. (Average: $14,900) THE MACOMBER AFFAIR (UA) and BLONDIE'S HOLIDAY (CoL) — STATE (2,900) (35c-80c). Gross: $16,000. (Average: $17,000) MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (U Reissue) arid 10fl MEN AND A GIRL (U Reissue) ST. LOUIS (4,000) (50c-60c-75c). Gross: $8,000. (Average: $12,400) THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (RKO Radio) — SHU BERT (2,000) (Ad vanced prices: 90c-$1.20) 2nd week, on a moverover from 3 weeks at the St. Louis. Gross: $8,500. (Regular admission prices40c-60c) BUFFALO The weather here has been cold, and indued an April snowstorm. Better than-average business was demonstrat ed by "The Sea of Grass" and Smash Up." Estimated receipts for the week ending April 26: THE MACOMBER AFFAIR (UA) — BUF FALO (3,489) (40c-50c-60c-70c). Gross: $19, 000. (Average: $19,000) THE LATE GEORGE APLEY (20th-Fox) GREAT LAKES (3,000) (40c -50c -60c -70c) 1st week. ' Gross: $18,000. (Average: $18,000) THE SEA OF GRASS (M-G-M)— HIPPODROME (2, 1C0) (40c -50c -60c -70c) 2nd week, on a moveover. Gross: $12,800. (Average $10,COO) SMASH-UP (U-I) and SECRET OF THE WHISTLER (Co!.) — LAFAYETTE (3,000) (40c-50c-60c-70c) 1st week. Gross: $18,000. (Average: $15,000) TO EACH HIS OWN (Para.) and WILD WEST (PRC) — TECK (1,500) (40c-50c-60cT)c) 1st week, re-engagement of "To Each His Own." Gross: $5,800. (Average 000) THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (RKO Radio) — TWENTIETH CENTURY (31,000) (Advanced prices: 90c-$1.5O) 5th week. Gross: $12,000. (Average at regular prices of 40c -50c -60c -70c: $16,000) KANSAS CITY It rained several days with temperatures mostly mild to cool. Estimated receipts for the week ended April 23 : THE EGG AND I (U-I)-ESQUIRE (800) (45c-65c) 3rd week. Gross: $11,000. (Average: $8,000) THE EGG AND I (U-I)-FAIRWAY (700) (45c-65c) 3rd week. Gross: $2,400. (Average: $1,750) JOHNNY O'CLOCK (Col.) and FOR THE LOVE OF RUSTY (Col.) — MIDLAND (3 500) (45c-65c). Gross: $18,000. (Average: $15,000) CALIFORNIA (Para.) — NEWMAN (1,900) (45c-65c) 3rd week. Gross: $11,000. (Average: $11,000) THE SEA HAWK (WB Reissue) and THE SEA WOLF (WB Reissue)— ORPHEUM (1,900) (45c-65c). Gross: $10,000. (Average$10,000). THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (RKO Radio)— TOWER (2,100) (Advanced prices: $1.00-$1.50) 3rd week. Gross: $12,000. (Average at regular prices: $9,000) THE EGG AND I (U-I) — UPTOWN (2,000) (45c-65c) 3rd week. Gross: $9,000. (Average: $6,000) OMAHA ST. LOUIS Reopen Bucklin Theatre Bucklin, Kans., April 24. — The DeLuxe theatre, operated by Dorothy Johnson, has reopened after being closed for redecorating and improvements. Warners Shooting : "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," "Whiplash," "Voice of the Turtle," "Two Guys from Texas," "Wallflower." The police circus, playing to 8,500 when it opened a 15-day nightly and four-a-week matineed schedule in the Arena, affected first-run grosses. Estimated receipts for the week ended April 23 : SONG OF SCHEHERAZADE (U-I) and MAGNIFICENT ROGUE (Rep,)— AMBASSADOR (3,514) (50c-60c-75c). Gross: $18,500. (Average: $17,800) CARNIVAL IN COSTA RICA (20th-Fox) and BACKLASH (20th-Fox) — FOX (5,000) (50c-60c-75c). Gross: $21,000. (Average: $20,000) THE MACOMBER AFFAIR (UA) and SUSIE STEPS OUT (UA)— LOEW'S STATE (3,500) (50c-6Oc-75c). Gross: $19,500. (Average: $20,000) KIT CARSON (PRC reissue) and THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (PRC Reissue)— LOEW'S ORPHEUM (2,000) (50c60c-75c). Gross: $10,000. (Average: $8,900) BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (WB) and THE BRUTE MAN (PRC)— MISSOURI (3.514) (50c-60c-75c) 2nd week. Gross: $9,000. (Average: $12,500) One first-run did record business, two others were better than average. The $18,100 mark set by the 1,200seat RKO-Brandeis was an all-time house record. The film was "The Best Years of Our Lives," at advanced prices. Weather was warm and mostly fair. Estimated receipts for the week ended April 23-24 : THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS (WB) and SHADOWED (Col.) split with PURSUED (WB) and BORN TO SPEED (PRC)— OMAHA (2,000) (50c-65c) 2nd week for "Pursued," on a moveover from the Paramount. Gross: $8,000. (Average: $8,500) THE SHOW-OFF (M-G-M) and LITTLE IODINE (UA)— ORPHEUM (3,000) (50c65c). Gross: $10,900. (Average: $9,300) PURSUED (WB)— PARAMOUNT (2,900) (S0c-65c) 5 days. Gross: $8,000. (Average: $10,600) THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (RKO Radio)— RKO-BRANDEIS (1,200) (Advanced prices: 74c-$1.20). Gross: $18,100. (Average at regular prices: $6,600) MINNEAPOLIS Balmy weather and the opening of the baseball season did not help business, which was mostly below average. "Best Years of Our Lives," in its sixth week, is still holding up strongly. Estimated grosses ~for the week ended April 24 : MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE (Para.)— CENTURY (1,500) (50c-70c) 3rd week (moved from Radio City). Gross: $6,800. (Average: $7,300) KING OF THE WILD HORSES (Col.)— GOPHER (1.000) (44c-50c). Gross: $3,800. (Average: $3,400) THE RAZOR'S EDGE (20th-Fox) — LYRIC (1,100) (50c-70c) 5th week. Gross: $5,000. (Average: $5,600) DEAD RECKONING (CoL)— RKO ORPHEUM (2,800) (50c -70c). Gross: $14,000. (Average: $14,500) IT HAPPENED IN BROOKLYN (M-G-M)— RADIO CITY (4,000) (50c-70c). Grpss: $16,000. (Average: $18,000) THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES (RKO Radio) — RKO PAN (1,500) (Advanced prices: 90c-$1.50) 6th week. Gross: $13,500. (Average at regular prices of 50c-70c: $8,500) STALLION ROAD (WB)— STATE (2,300) (50c-70c) 2nd week. Gross: $7,000. (Average: $13,000)