The Exhibitor (1956)

The Editor Speaks The 1955-56 Laurel Awards of Motion Picture Exhibitor was our most impor¬ tant Laurel Edition to date. The Studio Survey department of this trade paper, creator and director of this vital poll of theatremen throughout the world, is particularly proud of the steadily rising value of this annual “bed rock” rating of motion pic¬ tures, of the talented people who make them, and of the players who appear in them. Laurel Award selections are usually in sharp contrast to the selections made by such august bodies as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, New York Film Critics Awards, etc., etc. The down-to-earth selections of exhibitors, based as it is upon straight boxoffice appeal of individual films, players, pro¬ ducers, directors, indicate a wide differ¬ ence of opinions. Being a trade paper, and the word trade meaning “business,” our voters subscribe to the theory that top honors should be those who bring that Yankee dollar to the U. S. boxoffices, and that lira, peseta, shilling, mark, or what have you, to theatres abroad. Therefore, this department would once again like to congratulate such splendid artists as Cecil B. DeMille, Joseph Mankiewicz, Walt Disney, Gary Cooper, Doris Day, Susan Hayward, Frank Sinatra, Samuel Engel, Henry Koster, and the other distinguished Laurel Award win¬ ners, for their splendid contributions to our motion picture industry, which have merited this all-industry tribute. Paul Manning iluUIO SURVbY appeuti every fourth Wednesday at a regular MOTION PICTURE EXHIBITOR department The section is devoted exclusively lo the arts, people creative ability, and physical properties which make up the production side of the motion pictu>e industry Edited from the west coast, all information relating to editorial contents should be directed to Paul Man ning, 8141 Blackburn Ave., Los Angeles 48, California. For other information, address MOTION PICTURt EXHIBITOR, published weekly by Jay Emanuel Pub lications, Inc. Publishing offices: 246-48 North Clarion Street, Philadelphia 7, Pennsylvania. New York office: 229 West 42nd Street, New York 36 Representatives may be found in every film center Paul Manning, editorial director Vol. 9, No. 10 September 26, 1956 Motion Picture Exhibitor Idurei A wards Nominations ALLIED ARTISTS’ ’FRIENDLY PERSUASION n starring GARY COOP DOROTHY RICHARD co-starring with lUlRE and MARJORIE MAIN ig ANTHONY PERKINS ^ and featuring Q IeRT MIDDLETON, PHYLLIS LOVE, WALTER CATLETT ,£r^uced and directed by William Wyler. e^xF’rom the book hy Jessamyn West Music composed and conducted by Dimitri Color by De Luxe. MGM’s l&THE OPPOSITE SEX'S starring JUNE ALLYSON JOAN COLLINS, DOLORES GRAY, ANN SHERIDAN, ANN MILLER co-starring LESLIE NIELSEN, JEFF RICHARDS, AGNES MOOREHEAD, CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD, JOAN BLONDELL, SAM LEVENE Produced by Joe Pasternak. Directed by David Miller. Screen play by Fay and Michael Kanin. Adapted from a play by Clare Boothe. New songs by Nicholas Brodszky and Sammy Calm. A CineinaScope production. Color by Metrocolor. RKO’s feRAVE ONE rr '■ introducing MICHEL RAY with RODOLFO HOYOS, ELSA CARDENAS, CARLOS NAVARRO, JOl LANSING, Produced by Maurice King and Frank King. Directed by Irving Rapper. Screen play by Harry Franklin and Merrill G. White. Based on a story by Robert Rich. Music by Victor Young. A CineinaScope production. Color by Technicolor.