Motion Picture Daily (Jul-Sep 1957)

Page scan 000395 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jul-Sep 1957
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000395
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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■JA Fetes the New Mirisch Organization i Q OME 200 industry leaders joined representatives of the press and TV-radio at a New York cocktail reception tendered by United Artists for the newly-formed Mirisch Company, which will produce at least 12 major features for UA release. Guests of honor were the principal executives of the multii million-dollar film-making organization: Harold i Mirisch, president; Walter Mirisch, vice-presi 1 dent in charge of production, and Marvin Mirisch, vice-president and general manager. Artists already under contract include proI ducer-director Billy Wilder and stars Gary Cooper, Tony Curtis, Doris Day, Audrey Hepit I burn, Joel McCrea, Audie Murphy and Lana Turner. os t UA welcomes the Mirisch brothers. Left to right: Arthur B. Krim, UA president; Walter Mirisch, production vice-president of the new company; Max E. Youngstein, UA vicei 1 president; Harold Mirisch, president of the Mirisch organization; Marvin Mirisch, vice president and general manager, and Bobert S. Benjamin, UA board chairman. » o k i pH 'id Picker, UA sales-promotion liaison; Eugene Picker, vice-president Sam Bosen (right), vice-president of Stanley Warner, has congratulations Loew's Theatres, and Marvin Mirisch discuss the multi-million-dollar for Harold Mirisch (left) and Arthur B. Krim. duction program. liam J. Heineman (right), UA vice-president in charge of distribution, guide the sales of the Mirisch Company product. Among the top-line stars already signed by Harold Mirisch and his brothers is Doris Day, who arrived with her husband, Martin Melcher.