Motion Picture Herald (Sep-Oct 1936)

Page scan 000434 from Motion Picture Herald

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Sep-Oct 1936
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Sep-Oct 1936)
Leaf #:
000434
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:
August 01, 2024
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16 MOTION PICTURE HERALD October 3, 1936 THE BOX OFFICE CHAMPIONS HIS BROTHER'S WIFE: MGM THE GREEN PASTURES: Warner Brothers TO MARY — WITH LOVE: 20th Century -Fox His Brother's Wife: Produced by Lawrence Weingarten. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke. Story by George Auerbach. Screen play by Leon Gordon and John Meehan. Photographed by Oliver T. March. Film editor, Conrad A. Nervig. Art director, Cedric Gibbons. Musical director, Franz Waxman. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt, Joseph Calleia, John Eldredge, Samuel H. Hinds, Phyllis Clare, Leonard Mudie, Jed Prouty. Released August 7, 1936. Mary of Scotland: Produced by Pandro S. Berman. Directed by John Ford. Screen play by Dudley Nichols. Based on play by Maxwell Anderson. Photographed by Joseph H. August. Art director, Van Nest Polglase. Associate, Carroll Clark. Musical director, Nathaniel Shilkret. Costumes by Walter Plunkett. Photographic effects by Vernon Walker. Recorded by Hugh McDowell, Jr. Assistant director, Edward Donahue. Set dressing by Darrell Silvera. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton, John Carradine, Robert Barrat, Gavin Muir, Ian Keith, Moroni Olsen, William Stack, Ralph Forbes, Alan Mowbray, Frieda Inescort, Donald Crisp, David Torrence, Molly Lamont. Released August 28, 1936. The Green Pastures: A fable by Marc Connelly, suggested by Roark Bradford's Southern Sketches, "Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun." Directed by Marc Connelly and William Keighley. Supervisor, Henry Blanke. Photographed by Hal Mohr. Art director, Allen Saalburg and Stanley Fleischer. Film editor, George Amy. Special photographic effects by Fred Jackman. Assistant director, Sherry Shourds. With the Hall Johnson Choir. Choral music arranged and conducted by Hall Johnson. Cast: Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Eddie Anderson, Frank Wilson, George Reed, Abraham Gleaves, Myrtle Anderson. Released August I, 1936. San Francisco: A. W. S. Van Dyke production, produced by John Emerson and Bernard H. Hyman. Screen play by Anita Loos. From the story by Robert Hopkins. Musical direction, Herbert Stothart. Song "San Francisco" by Gus Kahn, Bronislau Kaper and Walter