Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1949)

Page scan 00097 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jul-Sep 1949
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
00097
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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METRO INTO HIGH GEAR WINNER OF "EXHIBITOR MAGAZINE" POLL OF THEATRES FOR "BEST PRODUCT AND FAIREST TERMS!" From FILM DAILY July 11th Issue M-G-M Studios Hum With Peak Activity West Coast Bureau of THE FILM DAILY Hollywood — With 15 films being edited, five shooting and nine in preparation, the M-G-M studios and production personnel are acquitting themselves of one of the most ambitious schedules in years. The intensive program stems from the decision for a stepped up output made recently at conferences between Nicholas M. Schenck, Louis B. Mayer, Dore Schary and William F. Rodgers. Current activity is viewed as the turning of a new corner in the company's history on the eve of its 26th birthday. Company intends to maintain the three-a-month releasing stand taken recently. Currently before the cameras are: "On The Town," Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, VeraEllen. Producer: Arthur Freed. Directors: Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. Technicolor. "Ambush," Robert Taylor, John Hodiak, Arlene Dahl. Producer: Armand Deutsch. Director: Sam Wood. "Adam's Rib," Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen. Producer: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: George Cukor. "Nancy Goes To Rio," Ann Sothern, Jane Powell, Louis Calhern, Carmen Miranda, Barry Sullivan, Scotty Beckett. Producer : Joe Pasternak. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Technicolor. "East Side, West Side," Barbara Stanwyck, James Mason, Ava Gardner, Van Heflin, Cyd Charisse, Mary Astor. Producer: Voldemar Vetluguin. Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Completed or nearing completion of editing: "That Midnight Kiss," "The Forsyte Saga," "Challenge To Lassie," (all three Technicolor). Also: "Tension," "Madame Bovary," "Border Incident," "The Doctor And The Girl," "Maylaya," "Sidestreet," "Conspirator," "Battleground," "Red Danube," "Intruder In The Dust." Preparing for production in the near future: "Key To The City," Clark Gable, Loretta Young, James Gleason, Marilyn Maxwell, Pamela Britton, Lewis Stone, Clinton Sundberg, Raymond Walburn, Frank Morgan. Producer: Z. Wayne Griffin. Director : George Sidney. "Please Believe Me," Deborah Kerr, Van Johnson, Peter Lawford, Robert Walker. Producer: Val Lewton. Director: Norman Taurog. "The Yellow Cab Man," Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante. Producer: Richard Goldstone. Director: Jack Donahue. "Father Of The Bride," Elizabeth Taylor. Producer: Pandro S. Berman. Director: Vincente Minnelli. "Outriders," Joel McCrea. Producer: Richard Goldstone. Director: Roy Rowland. Technicolor. "The Knife," Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish. Producer: William H. Wright. Director: Richard Thorpe. "Devil's Doorway," Robert Taylor, Louis Calhern, James Mitchell, Producer: Nicholas Nayfack. Director: Anthony Mann.