Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1956)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1956
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000327
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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av. November 27, 1956 Motion Picture Daily \iramount Sees Big '57 iith 20 Releases Slated i.mount's 1957 releases are expected to total 19 or 20, which is approxif the same number as in each of the past few years, amount looks forward to 1957," according to George Weltner, president EY HEPBURN looks archly at Fred Astaire in this scene from the i Funny Face." imount Film Distributing Corp. ^jbrldwide sales head, "confident e company's contribution to the h and prosperity of the motion ' }\ industry during the twelve , will be substantial and endur :;ii£ner said that the attractions : punt "has 'in the can' and in the tages of production, together >roperties that are in various j of production, represent one &tl J richest, if not the richest array . ures we have been privileged L'-er to the exhibitors of the States and the world." igements of Cecil B. DeMille's _; :tion of "The Ten Commandi ' are expected to have opened in ■ qV U. S. and Canadian cities '.J 1957. q rapidly developing 1957 Para: ^ release lineup will consist enaf pictures filmed in VistaVias was the case this year, v musicals, comedies, adveni nance, mystery thrillers, biogall will be included in the ros. preponderance of Paramount s will be in color bv Techni 1 'Hollywood' in January ary will mark the release of the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis com||Hal Wallis' "Hollywood or : in Technicolor, and an historic . "n drama, "Three Violent Peoalso in Technicolor, starring m Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert and Tom Tryon. r "uary will bring release of the . second Hal Wallis production, Rainmaker," starring Burt Lanand Katharine Hepburn. This 3 followed in March by "Fear Strikes Out," starring newcomer Anthony Perkins, Karl Maiden and Norma Moore, another performer for whom a bright Hollywood future is predicted. Subsequent months' releases will include the following, although not necessarily in the order named: Frank Freeman, Jr.'s "Omar Khayyam," in Technicolor, starring Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek and Raymond Massey; Hal Wallis' "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" teaming Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, which also is in Technicolor; "Funny Face," a Technicolor musical top-billing Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Also, Jack Palance and Anthony Perkins in "The Lonely Man"; Melville Shavelson-Jack Rose's film biography of New York Mayor Jimmy Walker in Technicolor, "Beau James," with Bob Hope in the title role; Bruce Odium's "Flamenca," shot for the most part in Spain in Technicolor and starring Richard Kiley and the famous Spanish actress, Carmen Sevilla; "The Buster Keaton Story," Technicolor film biography of the famous silent screen comedian, starring Donald O'Connor in the title role, and Ann Blyth and Rhonda Fleming, and "The Delicate Delinquent," Jerry Lewis' first solo vehicle, co-starring Darren McGaven and Martha Hyer. The foregoing pictures are finished or in final stages of production. The following are being filmed or soon will go before the cameras: William Perlberg-George Seaton's "The Tin Star," top-billing Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins; Samuel Briskin's "The Joker Is Wild," starring Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor and Jeanne Crain and co-starring Eddie Albert— in Technicolor; Alfred Hitchcock's James Stewart starrer, "From Amongst the Dead," in Technicolor; Clark Gable and Doris Day in Perlberg-Seaton's "Teacher's Pet"; Don Hartman's production of Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms"; Hartman's "The Matchmaker," starring Shirley Booth, Anthony Perkins and Shirley MacLaine; Yul Brynner in the musical version of "The Buccaneer," in Technicolor, and produced under the supervision of Cecil B. DeMille. CHARLTON HESTON as Moses, lifts the tablet of stone containing "The Ten Commandments" in this scene from the Cecil B. DeMille production. Visible at left are John Derek, Debra Paget and Yvonne DeCarlo. KIRK DOUGLAS and Burt Lancaster are teamed in Hal Wallis' "Gunfight at the O. K. Corral" shown above. ABOVE: Burt Lancaster is on his knees before Katharine Hepburn in Hal Wallis' "The Rainmaker," while AT LEFT Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are having their troubles in a scene from Wallis' "Hollywood or Bust." A