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Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1948)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Apr-Jun 1948
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00025
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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Monday, April 5, 1945 MOTION PICTURE DAILY 3 Reviews "Homecoming" (m-^-m) CLARK GABLE'S best since he left the service, "Homecoming" is a strong attraction and also a war film with shot, shell and death much in the foreground. It's the first of its hind in approximately two years. But intelligence in production and direction as well as bei'^vability of story' and strength of performance by a gilt-edged cast are the ponderables which the exhibitor must weigh. He'll get a full measure and so will his audiences. Gable is a successful surgeon who finds he has to go through the war to adjust his values to himself as an individual and as a healer for the sick. The war does this, but not alone. Lana Turner, his nurse, is the human and emotional factor who becomes responsible. They fall in love, but she is hilled. Gable returns to Anne Baxter, his wife, to pick up the interrupted threads on a different and more useful level with her and his college doctorfriend, John Hodiah, Mervyn Le Roy's direction is excellent. Sidney A. Franklin produced in association with Gottfried Reinhardi from an original by Sidney Kingsley and a script by Paul Osborn, Running time, 113 minutes. General audience classification. Release date; April. Red Kann "Arthur Takes Over" (Wurtzel — 20th Century-Fox) ALL SORTS of farcical complications develop for a homecoming , smalltown girl when she decides to prepare her pa rents for the knowledge that she is married. A Sol M, Wurtzel production, it proceeds along routine lines, churning up innocent mirth and antics. Despite the handicap of a tepid theme, the characters turn out to be pleasing people. They include Lois Collier, Skip Homeier, Richard Crane, Ann E. FILMACK special traitors ■teal the spotlight! That's why they're so popular with showmen every / where Notice MOTION PICTURE DAILY'S normal appearance is being affected by a work stoppage in a dispute between t he typographical union and the employing printer. Todd and Jerome Cowan, En route to the finale, the Mauri Grashin screenplay and story has the girl's brother Arthur taking the situation over and steering matters to a happy conclusion, Mai St. Clair derected. Running time, 63 minutes. General audience classification. Release datei May, Mandel Herbstman B & K Garrick to First Run CHICAGO, April 4 United Artists' "Man of Evil" . has been booked for a two-week run starting Friday to test first run policy at B & K's Loop Garrick, which has been a third-run, double and single feature policy at reduced admissions . Lower admission scale of 80 cents top will continue. RKO Radio's "The Farmer's Daughter" will play a repeat engagement in the Loop, opening at the Grand Wednesday for one or possibly two weeks .The film played the Palace here last summer, Chicago Censors Snipped 31 CHICAGO, April 4 — Four foreign-made and one Hollywood picture were placed, in adult classifications by the Chicago censor board during the month of March. 118 films were reviewed and 31 cuts made, Taylor Again Heads Alliance HOLLYWOOD, April 4 — Robert Taylor has been reelected president of the Motion Picture Alliance. 3t LAUGH HIT FROM EAGLE LION PILMS