Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1932)

Page scan 0001042 from Motion Picture Herald

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Oct-Dec 1932
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Oct-Dec 1932)
Leaf #:
0001042
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:
Founded in 1915 by a Chicago printing company as a regional trade paper for Midwest exhibitors. In 1916, editor Martin Quigley bought out the owners, and over the next 15 years, he grew EXHIBITORS HERALD into one of the most important national, weekly trade papers in the film business. Quigley acquired MOTOGRAPHY in 1917 and MOVING PICTURE WORLD in 1927. In 1930, he acquired MOTION PICTURE NEWS and the new 'consolidated' publication became MOTION PICTURE HERALD. From the pulpit of his editorial page, Quigley preached the need to improve the motion picture industry and improve the quality of the films. He skillfully served as a mediator in disputes -- between distributors and exhibitors, between the film industry and the Catholic Church (Quigley was one of the architects of the Production Code). Quigley claimed that EXHIBITORS HERALD represented the 'independent exhibitor' and sections like 'What the Picture Did for Me?' certainly provided a forum for theater owners. But plenty of exhibitors viewed Quigley as a servant to the studios and large theater chains. In response, publications such as SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW, INDEPENDENT EXHIBITORS FILM BULLETIN, HARRISON'S REPORTS, and BOX OFFICE were either formed or grew significantly in the years following Quigley's brief moment of consolidation in 1930. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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20 MOTION PICTURE HERALD December 17, 1932 THE BOX OFFICE CHAMPIONS • With the exception of the top-ranking production, all pictures whose November grosses at the key theatres were high enough to list them as the "champions" of the month, share their positions. Metro-GoldwynMayer's "Red Dust," a Clark Gable starring picture, is the exception. This production outranks the same company's "Prosperity," in which Marie Dressier and Polly Moran again are teamed. The second position goes to "Prosperity," along with Warner Brothers' "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang." The motion picture's own satire on itself, Universale "Once in a Lifetime," is paired with RKO Radio's "The Conquerors," in third ranking, while the laurels of fourth place are divided between Columbia's "Washington Merry-Go-Round," Fox's "Too Busy to Work," and Paramount's "Trouble in Paradise." FOR NOVEMBER RED DUST M-C-M PROSPERITY M-C-M (1) Red Dust. Directed by Victor' Fleming. From the play by Wilson Collison. Screen play by John Mahin. Photographed by Harold Rosson. Cast: Clark Sable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond, Mary Astor, Tully Marshall. Released October 22, 1932. (2) Prosperity. Story by Sylvia Thalberg and Frank Butler. Screen play by Zelda Sears and Eve Greene. Directed by Sam Wood. Photographed by Leonard Smith. Cast: Marie Dressier, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Norman Foster, John Miljan, Jacquie Lynn, Henry Armetta, John Roche. Released November 18, 1932. (2) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Original story by Robert E. Burns. Screen play by Sheridan Gibney and Brown Holmes. Photographer: Saul Polito. Art director: Jack Okey. Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Preston Foster, Sheila Terry, Allen Jenkins, David Landau, Sally Blane, Oscar Apfel, John Wray, Hale Hamilton, C. Henry Gordon, Roscoe Karns, Robert Warwick, Noel Francis, Louise Carter. Released November 19, 1932. (3) Once in a Lifetime. Based on the stage play by Moss Hart and George Kaufman. Screen play by Seton I. Miller. Directed by Russell Mack. Photographed by George Robinson. Cast: Jack Oakie, Sidney Fox, Aline McMahon, Russell Hopton, Louise Fazenda, Gregory Ratoff, Zasu Pitts, Onslow Stevens, Robert McWade, Jobyna Howland. Released September 22, 1932. (3) The Conquerors. From the story by Howard Estabrook. Screen play by Robert Lord. Directed by William A. Wellman. Musical director: Max Steiner. Art director: Carroll Clark. Sound recorder: John Tribby. Film editor: William Hamilton. Ca meraman: Edward Cronjager. Assistant directors: James Anderson and D. M. Zimmer. Cast: Richard Dix, Ann Harding, Edna May Oliver, Guy Kibbee. Released November 18, 1932. (4) Trouble in Paradise. Directed by Ernest Lubitsch. From the play, "The Honest Finder," by Laszlo Aladar. Adapted by Grover Jones. Screen play by Samson Raphaelson. Photographed by Victor Milner. Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charlie Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, C. Aubrey Smith. Released October 21, 1932. (4) Too Busy to Work. From the story by Ben Ames Williams. Screen play by Barry Conners and Philip Klein. Directed by John Blystone. Photography by Charles Clarke. Sound recorder: Eugene Grossman. Art director: Max Parker. Cast: Will Rogers, Marian Nixon, Dick Powell, Frederick Burton. Released Nov. 13, 1932. (4) Washington Merry-GoRound. Directed by James Cruze. Story by Maxwell Anderson. Screen play by Joe Swerling. Photographed by Ira Morgan and Teddy Tetzlaff. Sound: Lodge Cunningham. Film editor: Richard Cahoon. Cast: Lee Tracy. Constance Cummings, Alan Dinehart, Walter Connolly. Released October 15, 1932.