Motion Picture Daily (Jan-Mar 1960)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Jan-Mar 1960
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000433
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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MOTION PICTURE DAILY 7. NO. 55 NEW YORK, U.S.A., TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1960 TEN CENTS eet Held or Slated G Marking e Pending [PFs Reply se Is Seen Affecting de of IATSE Board y SAMUEL D. BERNS LYWOOD, March 21. The Actors Guild today began the eek of its strike against the roducers, with the only comi>tainable from a guild spokesIng: "We are still waiting to om the producers." Came as an echo to the organlast statement, issued Friday, association of Motion Picture i-rs negotiators were given a •proposal to consider as a baits subsequent meeting. ; were no producer negotiating :ee meetings in evidence at eadquarters today, and no inof when the next joint meetbe held, complete secrecy of any prog[Continued on page 2) ressure Tactics' ! Pay-TV Scored television networks and the ents of Pay-TV have so mistited and obscured the real 8 the controversy over pay-TV in intelligent decision ( about ) has been made almost im; for millions of set owners the FCC itself." according to [Continued on page 6) <ct Vote Tomorrow Classification Bill Special to THE DAILY fVNY, N. Y., The Assembly this on postponed until Wednesday pn the Younglove film classifi bill. The companion Duffy appeared on the Senate gentier calendar, but it was not " to third reading, aal action was delayed, there p >rts of increased pressure by Continued on page 6) Fox Sets Drive to Restore Patronage to Pre -TV Days Twentieth Century-Fox has begun an all-out drive to restore motion picture patronage "to its pre-television proportions." How the company plans to accomplish this is spelled out for exhibitors by Spyros P. Skouras, president, and other company heads in a special, 88 -Scale Drive For *U' Reissues Johnston Says: Censorship Is No Answer to Films' Faults Spyros Skouras Alex Harrison page edition of The Dynamo, company house organ, containing a report on activities contemplated for the next (Continued on page 8) Ry SAUL OSTROVE (Picture on Page 3) Universal Pictures announced here yesterday its intention to follow up "planned distribution" re-release of "The Glenn Miller Story" with several other of its most important backlog films — "Magnificent Obsession," "Battle Hymn" and "To Hell and Back." The reissue pattern for these films will approximate the one used for "The Glenn Miller Story," which today begins its second national goround at the Palace Theatre here. By (Continued on page 3) Supreme Court to Hear Times Film, Chi. Case Dawson: Renegotiation No Remedy in TV Trial From THE DAILY Bureau WASHINGTON, March 21. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear argument in the case of Times Film, Inc., against the City of Chicago. The case turns upon Chicago's censorship ordinance, which demands viewing of films prior to public exhibition. The Supreme Court's schedule precludes any early consideration of the case. Its acceptance of the appeal from a lower court simply means that (Continued on page 2) Renegotiation does not seem an "appropriate remedy" for the government's "block-booking" suit against six film and television companies, now in its third week. Judge Archie O. Dawson said in New York Federal Court yesterday. His statement followed notice to the court by Leonard Posner, Department of Justice trial attorney, that (Continued on page 6) REVIEW: Please Don't Eat the Daisies Euterpe — M-G-M — Cinema Scope M-G-M has the good fortune to be able to count its Easter eggs before they've been hatched. "Please Don't Eat the Daisies," the company's stvlish spring holiday release, is an entertaining picture for members of the family of all ages. It envelops nearly all of the frantic fancies of American domestic life in both city and country. The characters include David Niven and Doris Day, parents of four very young, mischevious sons; Miss Day's irrepressible mother, played by Spring Byington; a sexy Broadway actress, Janis Paige, who goes on(Continued on page 6) Tells Conference Parents Must Accept Responsibility Censorship is not the answer to faults found in some motion pictures by its most vocal critics, Eric Johnston, Motion Picture Association president, yesterday told a conference on the Impact of the Mass Media o n Children a n d Family Life sponsored by the Child Study Assn. of America at the Statler Hilton Hotel here. J oh nston urged instead parental responsibility (Continued on page 7) Eric Johnston Join 3 NT&T Circuits As Single Subsidiary From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, March 21.-A new theatre subsidiary to be known as NT & T Theatres, Inc., is being formed by National Theatres & Television, Inc., parent company, to operate the company's theatres in the Intermountain, Midwest and West Coast divisions. Legal steps for the merging these companies as the new NT & T Theatres, Inc., has been (Continued on page 6) Hal Roach, Sr., Plans Return to Production From THE DAILY Bureau HOLLYWOOD, March 21. Hal Roach, Sr., will announce his active return to production in both the motion picture and television fields tomorrow at an informal luncheon in the Hal Roach studios. Roach will have two bank sources for securing production finance, according to advance reports.