Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1959)

Page scan 000127 from Motion Picture Daily

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1959
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000127
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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L January 26, 1959 Motion Picture Daily W: larine Seahawk j-lnt'l. Hartford, Jan. 25 James H. Nicholson-Samuel Z. production, listing Alex Gordon fucer; Lou Rusoff, as executive Br; and Spencer G. Bennett as r. working from a story and Llay by the aforementioned Ru\d Owen Harris, tells an ab; enough treatment of subwarfare harking back to the global conflict. The AIP use lively unknown names and counts goes a long way, in this into imply logic and believability, Iarly in combat sequences. Bejnknown performers are in the nints, the audience isn't necesmticipating a course of events, o, villain, et al. Bentley, a Naval Academy ! instructor, is given command lighlv-specialized mission with ^marine Seahawk. The crew, in* executive officer Paul Maxwho had been in line for the .nd prior to Bentley's assignand Brett Halsey, is apprehent best, over Bentley's appointmd by the time the underwater 3 jioves into enemy waters, tension Br are assuming greater hold on pel. r spotting Japanese aircraft if, Bentley gives orders to mered by, a turn of events that meets onsternation by the now alert [t's soon learned, however, that y has to await oncoming U.S. for eventual participation in a c maneuver. The submarine is Oll( dental in destroying an aircraft itself and then heads anew for Harbor, the crew and Bentley IgjH jeh/ appreciative of each other gnizant of the submarine's battle col|rness. lucer Gordon has enhanced the pr(i >il battle footage with adroit use rid War II library shots, flg time, 83 minutes. General cation. Release, in January. A. M. W. ^ Sales Meet ( Continued from page 1 ) bs at the meeting, arrives here. ■J «he Coast today. nding from the home office beIgjty flartin will be F. J. A. McCarthy, at general sales manager; James dan, circuit sales manager; G. ilafronte, manager of branch ions and maintenance and Irving r, print department manager, ional sales managers participatrill be Joseph B. Rosen who jarters in New York; P. F. , who headquarters in CleveR. N. Wilkinson, who headquarDallas and Barney Rose who jarters in San Francisco, 'rtising, publicity and promotionutives participating besides Lip11 be Charles Simonelli, Eastern ising and publicity department er; Philip Gerard, Eastern pubmanager; Jeff Livingston, EastIvertising manager and Herman Eastern exploitation manager. National Pre -Selling << TMITATION of Life" begins its A pre-selling campaign in an article on Hollywood's Central Casting Bureau which appears in the Jan. 24 issue of "The Saturday Evening Post." A full color production still of this new U.I. film is the lead off photo appearing with the article by Lee Edson. It is interesting to read how this no-fee talent agency operates. Some former silent-screen stars have been doing extra work since 1933, such as Snub Pollard, a star of the Hal Roach comedies, and an original Keystone Cop, and Franklyn Farum, brother of Dustin and William Farnum. In another photo in this Hollywood story Rod Steiger plays Al Capone in a barroom scene in which the extras had to drink real beer although the scene was shot at breakfast time. • "Ben Hur Rides a Chariot Again," is a fitting headline for "Life's" essay on this new MGM production. The pictorial story appears in the Jan. 19 issue. The film is being made in Italy at a cost of 14 million dollars. The essay opens on a two page spread photo in which Ben Hur and the Roman soldier Messala are racing their four horse chariots. They are shown driving their chariots, with the horse's hooves skidding on turns, their wheels making the sands sing. These careening charioteers are after the richest crown of laurel leaves in movie history. • Pat Boone, star of 20th-Fox's "Mardi Gras," will be spotlighted in a series of ads appearing in national magazines advertising Helbros Watches. The first ad will appear in "Life" on April 20. • Dolores Hart, featured in Dore Shary's "Lonelyhearts," is profiled in "Seventeen's" February "The Hollywood Scene" column. The article traces her career from minor roles in two Elvis Presley films to her recent work in "Lonelyhearts" with Montgomery Clift and in the Broadway comedy with Cyril Ritchard. The March 15 issue of "Pictorial Review" will have a full color front cover with caricatures of Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon and George Raft, stars of "Some Like It Hot," done in the Kapralik manner. • "Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys" is every bit as funny on the screen as it was in Max Shulman's uproarious novel, reports Ruth Harbert in the January issue of "Good Housekeeping." Ruth says "for adults who enjoy bright, spicy dialogue and situations in the spirit of fun, it's hilarious." Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman play their first screen husband and wife roles. Walter Haas BULLETI N INVITATION MONDAY FEB. 2ND WARNERS' SPECIAL THEATRE SCREENINGS FOR THE TRADE! 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