Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1956)

Motion Picture Daily Wednesday, October, 10 PERSONAL MENTION TAMES E. PERKINS, of the Para*J mount International directorate and manager in the British Isles, will arrive in New York on Friday from London via B.O.A.C. • Foster M. Blake, Universal Pictures Western sales manager, left here yesterday for the Coast by way of Chicago and other Midwest cities. • R. A. Colistra, Westrex Corp. comptroller, has returned to New York from the Coast. • James Larkin, theatrical sales representative for B.O.A.C, has returned to New York from Knoxville, Tenn. • Joseph Grant, owner of the Northwood Theatre, Baltimore, and Madelyn Rockfeld, of New York, were married here at the Savoy Plaza. • Ian Dalrymple, British producer, has arriv ed in New York from London via B.O.A.C. Sy Bartlett, producer, will leave Hollywood by plane tomorrow for New York, en route to Spain. • Norman Bialek, president of Allied Theatre Owners of Connecticut and executive of Sampson-SpodickBialek Theatres, New Haven, has left there for Europe. • J. J. Cohn, M-G-M studio executive, has arrived in New York from Hollywood. • Dilys Powell, film critic of the "London Sunday Times," has arrived in New York from England via B.O.A.C. Five New Films Start; Total Shooting Is 41 HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 9-Although World Series telecasts, which started at 9 A.M. in this westernmost section of tv bleachers, unquestionably slowed down the time-clock on many studio stages the over-all score stood fiveand-five at weekend, with start of five new pictures and completion of five others leaving the total a fine 41. Starters were: "Gun for a Town," Jerold Zukor Productions (Allied Artists); "The Bridge on the River Kwai," Horizon-American, and "The Cunning and the Haunted," (Columbia); "Kill Me Tomorrow" and "One Man's Secret," Amalgamated Productions, Inc., (Independent). Wall St. Aids Columbia In Promoting 'Cadillac' Bache & Co., national investment brokers, will join Columbia Pictures in a mutual advertising and promotional campaign in connection with the studio's current release, "The Solid Gold Cadillac." The motion picture-stock brokerage hook-up is said to be the first such promotional tie-in. Bache has been aiming its ads at women for many years, and the investment company plans to use "Solid Gold Cadillac" art and copy in its newspaper ads. Theatres in Bache cities will promote the Bache slogan "Dividends are a Girl's Best Friend" in their lobby displays. Plans are also set for Judy Holliday, star of "Solid Gold Cadillac," to participate in a Bache-sponsored stock market news radio program. End IPEAA Talks on Reciprocal Distribution A proposed reciprocal distribution deal between IFE and Allied Artists under which the latter would handle distribution of IFE releases in this country in return for distribution of AA films in Italy has ben abandoned due to "insurmountable complexities," Seymour Poe, president of IFE here, said yesterday. Poe recently returned to New York from the Coast where the reciprocal distribution proposal was discussed with Steve Broidy, AA president, and other AA officials. AA does not have a distribution organization of its own in Italy. Poe said that eight new releases are now available to IFE and the company will go ahead with its present personnel unchanged. Albert Cohen Dies PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 9.-Albert M. Cohen, 51, a leader in the development of motion picture law, died Saturday in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. A veteran of the U. S. Army, he was cited for work with the motion picture industry War Activities Committee during World War II. He was a charter member of the Variety Club of Philadelphia, and the Motion Picture Associates of Philadelphia; and a member of the Motion Picture Pioneers. Talent Agents Merge Jack Lenny and Nat Debin, talent agents, have merged their separate offices to organize Lenny-Debin, Inc., here. A Hollywood affiliate will soon be announced to represent their talent on the West Coast. Film Leaders to Attend Bow of 'Giant' Tonight A large group of industry leaders will be on hand at the Roxy Theatre tonight for the world premiere of George Stevens' production, "Giant." Full television and radio coverage will be given the opening festivities of the Warner Bros, release. The premiere is being held for the benefit of Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America, Inc. Industry leaders to attend include Jack L. Warner, president of Warner Bros.; Benjamin Kalmenson, WB executive vice-president; Serge Semenenko, David Baird and Charles Allen, Jr., all members of the WB board of directors; Major Albert Warner; Spyros Skouras, president of 20th CenturyFox; Barney Balaban, president of Paramount Pictures; George Skouras, president of United Artists Theatre Circuit; Jack Cohen, vice-president of Columbia Pictures. Also Milton Rackmil, president of Universal International; Daniel O'Shea, president of RKO Pictures; Thomas O'Neil, board chairman of RKO Pictures; Arthur Krim, president of United Artists; Robert Benjamin, board chairman of United Artists; Simon Fabian, president of Stanley Warner; Samuel Rosen, executive vice-president of Stanley Warner. Also Sol Schwartz, president and general manager of RKO Theatres; Arthur List, board chairman of RKO Theatres; Joseph R. Vogel, president of Loew's Theatres; Robert Kintner, president of American Broadcasting Co.; Herman Starr, president of Music Holding Publishers Corp.; Wolfe Cohen, president of Warner International. German Firm Shooting Exteriors in New York Berolina Film, a German production company, completed a week of shooting exteriors in New York yesterday and will spend another week filming 24 local landmarks for a semidocumentary spy feature entitled "The Gimpel Story." Kurt Ulrich, one of the top German producers, and his director, Werner Klingler, brought two of their stars to the U. S. for the brief shooting. Agreements were made with the Screen Actors Guild and other film employee unions for local supporting actors and technical crews to be used during the shooting of the New York sequences. Ernst Jaeger, former editor of Berlin Film-Kurier, is handling public relations for the company. N. Y. Date for 'Storm' Columbia's "Storm Center," a Phoenix Production, starring Bette Davis, will have its New York premiere at the Normandie Theatre on Oct. 20. Big U I Dri Set for 'Win David A. Lipton From THE DAILY Bureau . HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 9-UniJ International's "Written on the V which is scheduled for release next year lowing a of special release C m as er ments, wi' given one most int p r o m o t campaigns the histo the con David A. ton, UnJ vice pre; told the pany's advertising, publicity ar ploitation executives at yeste' session of its current week-Ions: ference at the U-I studios. Attending the meetings are C Simonelli, Eastern advertising publicity department manager; Ramsay, executive assistant to L Philip Gerard, Eastern publicity ager; Jeff Livingston, Eastern tising manager; Herman Kass, E exploitation manager; Jack Dia; studio publicity director; < Lait, assistant studio publicity tor; Archie Herzoff, studio ad ing and promotion manager; Raker, studio advertising depa head; Ben Katz, Midwest adve and publicity representative anc ert Gillham, vice-president of) ningham and Walsh, Universa vertising agency. NEW YORK THEAT i — RADIO CITY MUSIC HAL Rockefeller Center "TEA AND SYMPATH starring DEBORAH KERR • JOHN KER In CinemaScope and Metrocolor An M-G-M Picture and SPECTACULAR STAGE PRESENT*! Sbowplace of the B FOR YOUI SCREENIN MOTION PICTURE DAILY, Martin Quigley, Editor-in Chief and Publisher; Sherwin Kane, Editor; James D. Ivers, Managing Editor; Richard Gertner, News Editor; Floyd I Photo Editor; Herbert V. 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