Motion Picture Daily (Apr-Jun 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Apr-Jun 1959
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000122
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:
November 10, 2022
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8 Motion Picture Daily Friday, April 1 Texas Council Bans Closed Pay-TV Plan Special to THE DAILY GALVESTON, Tex., April 16.-The City Commission here has dismissed an application for a franchise to operate a closed circuit pay television network here after a hearing at which exhibitors voiced opposition. The application was filed by Closed Circuit of Galveston, Inc., a firm headed by Lee Cook of Houston. At the hearing exhibitors were represented by R. J. O'Donnell, John Q. Adams, Van Holloman and John Browning of Interstate; and Sonny Martin of Martini Theatres. The Commission indicated its firm opposition to "using the city as a guinea pig." Sam Goldwyn Profiled "Reader's Digest," in its May issue, will feature a story titled "The Last of the Hollywood Moguls," recounting the life and achievements of Samuel Goldwyn, with special emphasis on his production of "Porgy and Bess." Sheridan to Seattle Mark Sheridan, formerly district manager in Dallas for 20th CenturyFox, has been named Seattle branch manager for the company. REVIEW: Horrors of the Black Museum American International — CinemaScope Strikingly mounted in CinemaScope and Eastman Color, this Britishmade honor drama has ample shock values for audiences liking such films. In addition, it features an exploitable 12-minute prologue in "Hypno-Vista," which is designed to condition audiences into actually feeling and experiencing some of the honor and thrills on the screen. It may be questionable whether this gimmick can have any psychological effect on audiences, but it does provide a few chuckles and an elementary insight into techniques of hypnotist Emile Franchel. The villain of the stoiy is Michael Gough, an author and journalist who commits the most fiendish murders to supply material for his own writings. Though planned bv Gough, who is a cripple, the murders are actually carried out bv his young assistant Graham Curnow, who has his Jekyll and Hvde moments. During the course of the Aben Kandel— Herman Cohen screenplay, Gough and Curnow execute five murders, each more ghastly than the one before it. All this time, Gough is in constant contact with Scotland Yard, in his role as mystery writer, and it is almost impossible to believe that that fabled institution could not have tripped him up sooner than it does. It is ironic, too, that Gough's death is not half so cruel as any of his victims'. Three of these victims are attractive young women, and they provide plenty of sex-appeal in their tight-fitting, low-cut costumes. Unfortunately, they are not very good actresses. Gough and Curnow are convincing enough and Beatrice Varlev is good as an elderly antique dealer. Produced by Herman Cohen and directed bv Arthur Crabtree, "Horrors of the Black Museum" is being released here by American International as a James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff production. It has enough excitement to satisfy most fans of this genre of film-making. Running time, 95 minutes. General classification. Release, in May. Warren G. Harris Fox Schedu (Continued from page 1 Mistress Mine"; "The Alaskan: Jack Cummings' production of Door." May: Jerry Wald's "The I Everything"; Walter Wanger's patra"; Charles Brackett's "Sal Samuel Engel's "The Story of "Sink the Bismarck"; and Powell's "Bachelor's Baby." Three in June June: Darryl F. Zanuck's "D Tour"; Charles Brackett's "Jou: the Center of the Earth" anc Wald's "Beloved Infidel." July: Samuel Engel's "Th( Must Die"; Mark Robson's "Fr Terrace"; and Jerry Wald's "Sc Lovers." August: Jack Cummings' Can" and Jerry Wald's "The S Page One." September: Jerry Wald's White Collar" and "The Jung ' October: Jerry Wald's "Re1 Peyton Place"; "John Brown's and Darryl F. Zanuck Prodi "Requiem for a Nun." Planning for Months Ahej Set for distribution by Fox next several months are "A Obsessed," "Say One for Me, Man Who Understood WJ "Warlock," "Holiday for Lovejl Private's Affair," "Blue Deniifll "The Blue Angel." ORDER YOUR TICKETS NOW Hospital Benefit Performance of Broadway's Newest Musical Comedy FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1959 AT 8:30 P.M. " DESTRY RIDES AGAIN" ANDY GRIFFITH • DOLORES GRAY • SCOTT BRADY Sponsored by the SPECIAL ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE of WILL ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FUND ORCHESTRA @ $25.00 IMPERIAL THEATRE NEW YORK MEZZANINE @ $20.00 Admission $ 8.26 Fed. Tax .73 City Tax .41 CONTRIBUTION 15.60 Admission 6.61 Fed. Tax .56 City Tax .33 CONTRIBUTION 12.50 TOTAL J 25.00 TOTAL $20.00 Admission Price and Contribution are TAX DEDUCTIBLE Make Checks Payable to: WILL ROGERS MEMORIAL FUND, S. H. FABIAN, Treas. To Special Activities Committee Date . Thomas Rodgers and Irwin Freedman, Co-Cbairmen WILL ROGER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH LABORATORIES 1501 Broadway, New York 36, N. Y. ENCLOSED PLEASE FIND MY CHECK FOR $ WHICH IS FOR ZZZZ= □ MEZZANINE 1 1 20 SEATS AT THE IMPERIAL THEATRE FOR THE WILL ROGERS BENEFIT PERFORMANCE of DESTRY RIDES AGAIN FRIDAY EVENING. MAY 22, 1959 at 8:30 Please Send Ticket to: NAME. FIRM STREETCITY -ZONE -STATE COMMITTEE ADVISES IMMEDIATE PURCHASE — SEATS ARE LIMITED