Motion Picture Herald (July-Aug 1935)

Page scan 000590 from Motion Picture Herald

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
July-Aug 1935
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (July-Aug 1935)
Leaf #:
000590
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:
June 06, 2024
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32 MOTION PICTURE HERALD OX OFFICE CHAMPIONS for first six months of 1935 Thirteen oecomes a symbol of good _ fortune with the determination of the productions meriting the name of Box Office Champion for the first half of 1935. Thirteen is the number of feature pictures so appointed by the nation's key theatre box offices. Examination of these lucky thirteen shows that four principal types were sufficient for their classification. Comedy-drama led with five titles. There were three musicals, and a like number of straight dramatic type. Of melodramas there were two, including one of a new cycle of crime stories based on the activities of the federal department of investigation. Each of the three dramas were based on long established literary classics — -one English, one French, one American. The thirteen pictures were produced by six American companies and one British. • (3) LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER: Produced by Louis D. Lighten. Directed by Henry Hathaway. Original, Francis Yeats-Brown. Adaptation, Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt. Screen play by Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston and Achmed Abdullah. Art directors, Hans Dreier and Roland Anderson. Photographed by Charles Lang. Cast: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Crnmwell. Sir Guy Standing, C. Aubrey Snaith, Monte Blue, Kathleen Burke, Colin Tapley, Douglas Dumbrille, Akim Tamiroff, Jameson Thomas. Released January 18, 1935. ^(4) FORSAKING ALL OTHERS: Producer. Bernard H. Hyman. Assistant to the producer, Frank Davis. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Screen play by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. From the play by Frank Morgan Cavett and Edward Barry Roberts. Art director, Cedric Gibbons. Photographers: Gregg Toland, George Folsey. Film editor, Tom Held. Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Clark Gable, Billie Burke, Charles Butterworth, Frances Drake, Rosalind Russell, Ted Healy. Released December 28, 1934. 9(1) ROBERTA: Producer, Pandro S. German. Directed by William A. Seiter. Screen play by Jane Murfin, Sam Mintz and Allan Scott. Music by Jerome Kern. Books and lyrics by Otto Harbach. Additional lyrics by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh. Musical' director, Max Steiner. Production associate, Zion Myers. From play "Roberta." Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Helen Westley, Claire Dodd. Released March 8, 1935. 9 (4) NAUGHTYMARIETTA: Produced byHunt Stromberg. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Book and lyrics by Rita Johnson Young. Screen play by John Lee Mahin, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. Music by Victor Herbert. Added lyrics by Gus Kahn. Photographed by William Daniels. Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester, Douglas Dumbrille, Joseph Cawthorne, Cecilia Parker, Walter Kingsford, Greta Meyer. Released March 29, 1935. 9 (2) DAVID COPPERFIELD: Produced by David O. Selznick. Directed by George Cukor. Based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Adaptation by Hugh Walpole. Screen play by Howard Estabrook. Photographed by Oliver T. Marsh. Art director, Cedric Gibbons. Film editor, Robert J. Kern. Cast: W. C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Madge Evans, Edna May Oliver, Lewis Stone, Frank Lawton, Freddie Bartholomew, Elizabeth Allan, Roland Young, Basil Rathbone, Elsa Lanchester. Released January IB, 1935. 9 (3) LES MISERABLES: Produced by Twentieth Century. Darryl Zanuck, producer. Directed by Richard Boleslawski. Associate producers, William Goetz, Raymond Griffith. Screen play by W. P. Lipscomb. Photographed by Gregg Toland. Film editor, Barbara McLean. Art director, Richard Day. Assistant director, Eric Stacey. Cast: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Rochelle Hudson, Frances Drake, John Beal, Florence Eldridge, Jessie Ralph, Mary Forbes, Florence Roberts. Released April 21, 1935. 9 (5) BROADWAY BILL: Produced by Harry Cohn. Directed by Frank Capra. Original story by Mark Hellinger. Screen play by Robert Riskin. Photographed by Joseph Walker. Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Lynne Overman, Raymond Walburn, Margaret Hamilton, Helen Vinson, George Meeker, Jason Robards, Helen Flint, Helen Millard, Harry Holman, Charles Levinson, Ward Bond, Edmund Breese, Harry Todd, George Cooper, Charles Wilson, Paul Harvey, Edward Tucker, Frankie Darro. Released December 27, 1934. 0 (5) LIFE BEGINS AT 40: Produced by Sol M. Wurtzel. Directed by George Marshall. Screen play by Lamar Trotti. Suggested by the book by Walter B. Pitkin. Photographed by Harry Jackson. Art directors, Duncan Cramer and Albert Hogsett. Contributing dialogue by Robert Quillen. Cast: Will Rogers, Richard Cromwell, George Barbier, Rochelle Hudson, Jane Darwell, Slim Summerville. Sterling Holloway, Thomas Beck, Roger Imhof, Charles Seilon, John Bradford, Ruth Gillette. Released March 22, 1935. August 10, 1935 Goin' to Town: Paramount |. If