Motion Picture Herald (Sep-Dec 1933)

Page scan 000385 from Motion Picture Herald

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Sep-Dec 1933
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Sep-Dec 1933)
Leaf #:
000385
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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October 28, 1933 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 25 Box Office of 1932-33 annual selection determined nation's key city theatres 42nd Street: Warner State Fair: Fox Tugboat Annie: MGM Snnilin' Through: MGM Bird of Paradise: RKO Radio Grand Hotel: MGM Love Me Tonight: Paramount Horse Feathers: Paramount • (5) BE MINE TONIGHT: Directed by Anatol Litwak. Story by I. V. Cube and A. Joseph. Adaptation and dialogue by John Orton. Music by Mischa Spoliansky. Lyrics by Frank Eyton. Cast: Jan Kiepura, Magda Schneider, Sonnie Hale. • (5) SMILIN' THROUGH : Play by Jane Cowl and Jane Murfin. Directed by Sidney Franklin. Photographed by Lee Garnnes. Cast: Norma Shearer, Fredric March, Leslie Howard, O. P. Heggie, Ralph Forbes. • (6) HORSE FEATHERS: Original story and screen play by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby and S. J. Perelman. Music and lyrics by Kalmar and Ruby. Directed by Norman McLeod. Photographed by Ray June. Cast: Four Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd. • (6) 70,000 WITNESSES: From the novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons. Screen play by Garrett Fort. Directed by Ralph Murphy. A Charles R. Rogers production. Additional dialogue by P. J. Wolfson and Allen Rivkin. Photographed by Henry Sharp. Cast: Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charles Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown, J. Farrell MacDonald, Lew Cody. • (6) TIGER SHARK: Story by Houston Branch. Screen play by Wells Root. Directed by Howard Hawks. Photographed by Tony Gaudio. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann, Leila Bennett, J. Carroll Naish, William Riccardi, Sheila Manners. • (6) GRAND HOTEL: Story by Vlck! Baum. American play version by William A. Drake. Directed by Edmund Goulding. Photographed by William Daniels. Film editor: Blanche Sewell. Cast: Greta Garbo. John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt. • (6) LOVE ME TONIGHT: Screen play by Samuel Hoffenstein, Waldemar Young and George Marion, Jr. Based on a stage play by Leopold Marchand and Paul Arment. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Music by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Photographed by Victor Milner. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Charlie Ruggles, Charles E. Butterworth, Myrna Loy, C. Audrey Smith, Elizabeth Patterson, Ethel Griffies and Blanche Friderici.