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Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1936)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Jul-Aug 1936
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1936)
Leaf #:
000274
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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July 18, 1936 BOX OFFICE CHAMPIONS for June (1) Bullets or Ballots: Directed by William Keighley. Assistant director, Chuck Hanson. Photographed by Hal Mohr. Art director, Carl Jules Weyl. Film editor, Jack Killifer. Supervisor, Lou Edelman. Screen play by Seton I. Miller. From a story by Martin Mooney and Seton I. Miller. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, Joseph King, Richard Purcell, George E. Stone, Joseph Crehan, Henry O'Neill, Henry Kolker, Gilbert Emery, Herbert Rawlinson, Louise Beavers. Released June 6, 1936. (2) The King Steps Out: Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Associate director, Wilhelm Thiele. Screen play by Sidney Buchanan. Story by Gustav Holm, Ernst Decsey, Hubert Marischka and Ernest Marischka. Music by Fritz Kreisler. Lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Ballet by Albertina Rasch. Photographed by Lucien Ballard. Film editor, Viola Lawrence. Art director, Stephen Goosson. Cast: Grace Moore, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly, Victor Jory, Raymond Walburn, Elizabeth Risdon, Nana Briant, Frieda Inescourt. Released May 28, 1936. (2) Showboat: Produced by Carl Laemmie, Jr. Directed by James Whale. Stage play, screen play and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Cinematographer, John J. Mescall. Art director, harles D. Hall. Film editors, Bernard Burton and Ted Kent. Dance numbers staged by Le Roy Prinz. Sound supervisor, Gilbert Kurland. Music by Jerome Kern. Special cinematography, John P. Fulton. Musical director, Victor Baravelle. Assistant director, Joseph A. McDonough. Sound recorders, Mike McLaughlin (music) and William Hedgecock (production). Cast: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Paul Robeson, Helen Westley, Sammy White, Hattie McDaniel, Patricia Barry, Marilyn Knowlden, Arthur Hohl, J. Farrell MacDonald, Charles Wilson, Charles Winninger, Helen Morgan, Queenie Smith, Donald Cook. Released May 17, 1936. (3) The Great Ziegfeld: Produced by Hunt Stromberg. Directed by Robert Z. Leonard. Story and screen play by William Anthony McGuire. Dance numbers by Seymour Felix. Special music by Walter Donaldson. Special lyrics by Harold Adamson. Ballet music by Con Conrad. Ballet lyrics by Herb Magidson. Musical direction by Arthur Lange. Orchestrations by Frank Skinner. Photographed by Oliver Marsh, Ray June, George Folsey and Merritt B. Gerstad. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice, Virginia Bruce, Reginald Owen, Ray Bolger, Ernest Cossart, Joseph Cawthorne, Nat Pendleton, Harriet Hoctor. BULLETS OR BALLOTS First National THE GREAT ZIEGFELD MGM (4) Private Number: Directed by Roy Del Ruth. Associate producer, Raymond Griffith. Screen play by Gene Markey and William Conselman. Based on a play by Cleves Kinkead. Photographed by Peverell Marley. Art director, Mark-Lee Kirk. Settings by Thomas Little. Assistant director, William J. Scully. Film editor, Allen McNeil. Costumes by Gwen Wakeling. Sound, Eugene Grossman, Roger Heman. Musical director, Louis Silvers. Cast: Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, Basil Rathbone, Patsy Kelly, Joe Lewis, Marjorie Gateson, Paul Harvey, Jane Darwell, Paul Stanton, John Miljan, Monroe Owsley, Billy Bevan, Frank Dawson, George Irving, May Beatty, Alex Pollard, Jack Pennick, John Van Eyck, Kane Richmond, Lilyan Irene, Maxine Hicks, Betty Morris. Released June 5, 1936. (5) Fury: Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Directed by Fritz Lang. Screen play by Bartlett Cormack and Fitz Lang. Based on a story by Norman Krasna. Musical score by Franz Waxman. Recording director, Douglas Shearer. Art director, Cedric Gibbons. Associates, William A. Horning, Edwin B. Willis. Wardrobe by Dolly Tree. Photographed by Joseph Ruttenberg. Film editor, Frank Sullivan. Assistant director, Horace Hough. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis, Walter Brennan, Frank Albertson, George Walcott, Arthur Stone, Morgan Wallace, George Chandler, Roger Gray, Edwin Maxwell, Howard Hickman, Jonathan Hale, Leila Bennett, Esther Dale, Helen Flint. Released June 5, 1 936.