Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1958)

Page scan 000111 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1958
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000111
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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sday, October 21, 1958 Motion Picture Daily 15 ► PEARHEADING the 20th Century-Fox program | of blockbuster releases for the immediate future ' are six productions with built-in or presold ues apparent to any showman. Scenes from these, ng with a listing of the assets which guarantee m success at the box office, are shown on these > pages. THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS. A Buddy Adler production, starring Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens and the late Robert Donat, this story of indomitable courage and sacrifice is based on the story of Gladys Aylward, Englishwoman who earned the love and respect of the people of a Chinese province before and during the Japanese invasion. Direction was by Mark Robson, a master of this type of material. The three principals are shown in the scene at right. RALLY ROUND THE FLAG, BOYS! Leo McCarey, master of comedy since "The Awful Truth" has produced this screen adaptation of the hilarious Max Shulman novel. Starting from that best-selling point, McCarey assembled a masterful cast starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Joan Collins and Jack Carson, all except the latter new to comedy but not to acting honors. It rates as a fun picture of the first order. THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK. This George Stevens production comes to market with an extraordinary measure of advance word-of-mouth expectation. Based on an authentic story of Jewish refugees in Amsterdam, and the subject of a tremendously successful stage play, it introduces Millie Perkins as the sensitive heroine and stars Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Lou Jacobi and Ed Wynn. It is awaited as another box office winner from the maker of "A Place in the Sun," "Giant" and "Shane."