Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1954
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000428
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:
December 02, 2023
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4 MOTION PICTURE DAILY Friday, December 17, 1954 Warid Premiere af "Shatv Business Pictured to the left at a gala pre-premiere dinner party here, left to right, Mrs. Charles Einfeld, Jack Bean, Mitzi Gaynor, who is Mrs. Bean, and Charles Einfeld, vice-president of 20th Century-Fox. Above, left to right, are George Jessel, Marilyn Morrison and singing star Johnnie Ray. A smiling trio. Dan Dailey, starred in the Darryl F. Zanuck presentation, is here flanked on the left by W. C. Gehring, executive assistant general sales manager of 20th Century-Fox, and Warren Munsell, right, secretary of the Actors Fund of America. Sol t. Siegel, left, producer of the CinemaScope musical, is shown here with the celebrated composer, Irving Berlin. George Jessel, right, is here shown with Arthur Silverstone, assistant general sales manager of 20th Century-Fox, left, and Murray Silverstone, president of 20th Century-Fox International, center. Grouped together in the red-carpeted lobby, are, left to right, William Moclair, managing director of the Roxy; Ethel Merman, one of the stars of the film, and Frank H. Ricketson, Jr., vice-president and Eastern regional head of National Theatres.