Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1938)

Page scan 000511 from Motion Picture Herald

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Jul-Aug 1938
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1938)
Leaf #:
000511
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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August 6, 193 MOTION PICTURE HERALD 37 Box office Champions for June Michael Curtiz, director "Robin Hood," Warner-FN Lewis Seiler, director "Crime School," Warner-FN THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD: Produced by Warner-First National. Associate producer, Henry Blanke. Original screen play by Norman Reilly Raine and Seton I. Miller. Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. Assistant directors, Leeman Katz and Jack Sullivan. Photographed by Sol Polito and Tony Gaudio. Film editor, Ralph Dawson. Music by Eric Wolfgang Korngold. Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Claude Rains, Basil Rathbone, Patric Knowles. Released May 14, 1938. CRIME SCHOOL: Produced by Warner -First National. Associate producer, Brian Foy. Directed by Lewis Seiler. Original screen play by Crane Wilbur. Photographed by Arthur Todd. Film editor, Terry Morse. Art director, Charles Novi. Unit manager, Lee Hugunin. Cast, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Gabriel Dell, Huntz Hall, Bernard Punsley. Released May 28, 1938. HOLIDAY: Distributed by Columbia. Produced by Everett Riskin. Directed by George Cukor. Scr,een play by Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman. Musical director, Morris Stoloff. Film editors. Otto Meyer and Al Clarke. Photographed by Franz Planer. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan, Lew Ayres, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon. Released May 26, 1938. JOSETTE: Produced and distributed by Twentieth CenturyFox. Associate producer. Gene Markey. Director, Allan Dwan. Screen play by James Edward Grant. Music and lyrics by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel. Film editor, Robert Simpson. Photographed by John Mescall. Cast: Don Ameche, Simone Simon, Robert Young, Joan Davis, Bert Lahr, Paul Hurst. Released June 3, 1938. George Cukor, director "Holiday," Columbia Allan Divan, director "Josette," 20 th-F ox KENTUCKY MOONSHINE: Produced by Twentieth Century-Fox. Associate producer, Kenneth MacGowan. Directed by David Butler. Screenplay by Art Arthur and M. M. Musselman. Original story by M. M. Musselman and Jack Lait, Jr. Photographed by Robert Planck. Art directors, Bernard Herzbrun and Lewis Creber. Edited by Irene Morra. Musical director, Louis Silvers. Cast: Ritz Brothers, Tony Martin, Marjorie Weaver, Slim Summervllle. Released May 13, 1938. THREE BLIND MICE: Produced and distributed by Twentieth CenturyFox. Associate producer, Raymond Griffith. Director, William A. Selter. Screen play by Brown Holmes and Lynn Starling. Music and lyrics by Lew Pollack and Sidney D. Mitchell. Photographed by Ernest Palmer. Film editor, James Morley. Cast: Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, David NIven, Stuart Erwin. Released June 17, 1938. THREE COMRADES: Distributed by MGM. Produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Director, Frank Borzage. Screen play by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edward A. Paramore. From the book by Erich Marie Remarque. Music by Franz Waxman. Lyrics by Bob Wright and Chet Forrest. Montage by Slavko Vorkaplch. Film editor, Frank Sullivan. Photographed by Joseph Ruttenberg. Cast: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young. Released June 3, 1938. VIVACIOUS LADY: Distributed by RKO. Produced and directed by George Stevens. Screen play by P. J. Wolfson and Ernest Pagano. Musical score by Roy Webb. Assistant director, Argyle Nelson. Film editor, Henry Berman. Photographed by Robert de Grasse. Cast: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi, Charles Coburn, Frances Mercer, Phyllis Kennedy. Released May 13, 1938. David Butler, director, "Kentucky Moonshine," 20 th-F ox William Seiter, director "Three Blind Mice," 20th-Fox Frank Borzage, director "Three Comrades," MGM George Stevens, director "Vivacious Lady," RKO