Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1943)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Jul-Aug 1943
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Jul-Aug 1943)
Leaf #:
000437
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:
November 17, 2022
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MOTION PICTURE HERALD July 3 1, 1943 THE GIRL FROM LENINGRAD (United Artists) Russian Melodrama PRODUCER: Eugene Frenlte. DIRECTOR: Fedor Ozep. PLAYERS: Anna Sten, Kent Smith, Mimi Forsythe, Alexander Granach, Paul Guilfoyle, Katherine Frye, Jack Gardner, Manart Kippen. SYNOPSIS: Although a fictional narrative embodying _ a romance is carried through this production, its principal objective is a presentation of the valor with which a group of volunteer Russian nurses served their country on the fighting front, including the manner in which they wielded arms when need came, during the siege of Leningrad. Scenes of the siege, photographed by the Soviet photographers, are utilized for purposes of authenticity, merged with the footage produced in Hollywood. GUADALCANAL DIARY (20th CenturyFox) The Solomons Action PRODUCER: Islin Auster. Directed by Lew Seiler. PLAYERS: Preston Foster, William Bendix, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Lionel Stander, Anthony Quinn, Miles Mander, Richard Jaeckel, Reed Hadley, John Archer, Ralph Byrd. SYNOPSIS Like the Book-of-the-Month Club selection by Richard Tregaskis, the 20th-Fox film version of the best-seller, "Guadalcanal Diary," actually is a factual, day-by-day account of the historic fighting in the Solomons, climaxed by the capture of Guadalcanal by the Yanks and the elimination of the Japanese from bases there. SHINE ON, HARVEST MOON (Warner Brothers) Life of Nora Bayes PRODUCER: William Jacobs. Directed by David Butler. PLAYERS: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Jack Carson, S. Z. Sakall, Marie Wilson. SYNOPSIS The golden days of show business is recreated by Warners in "Shine On, Harvest Moon," a dramatization of the life and career of Nora Bayes, which takes its title from the song she immortalized. The time of the story is around 1907, the year in which Miss Bayes made her greatest success. It follows her through girlhood, her early music hall days, into vaudeville and finally the stage. Surrounding her are the people of that era : Jack Norwood, who managed her to success ; Tony Pastor and the others. THE CROSS OF LORRAINE (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Subjugation of France PRODUCER: Edwin Knopf. Directed by Tay Garnett. PLAYERS: Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Joseph Calleia. SYNOPSIS "A Thousand Shall Fall" depicts the vain attempts by the Nazis to subjugate the people of France and the patriotic French spirit after the fall of the Republic in 1940. It shuws how the Nazis attempt to make tools of Frenchmen, shipping them to the Reich for work in war factories, etc. ; how they are mistreated and shot for acts of sabotage. Finally, it promises to show that the militant French spirit cannot be broken, that even before a firing squad the seeds of a later, stronger open revolt are sown. AROUND THE WORLD (RKO) Kyser Band on World Camp Tour PRODUCER: Allan Dwan. Directed by Allan Dwan. PLAYERS: Kay Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge, Joan Davis, Marcy McGuire, Mischa Auer, Alan Carney, Wally Brown, Georgia Carroll. SYNOPSIS Kay Kyser and his troupe set out on a world tour to entertain U. S. troops in foreign lands. Their plane is forced down in a wild jungle and the comedy plot is built around the trouble that ensues when the entertainers meet up with the African natives. Finally, the plane gets safely out of the jungle and on its way around the world again. COBRA WOMAN (Universal) Tropical Intrigue PRODUCER: George Waggner. Directed by Robert Siodmak. PLAYERS: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Sabu, Lon Chaney, Jr., Elisabeth Risdon, Sam Hinds. SYNOPSIS Maria Montez plays the dual role of twin sisters in this romance laid on a mythical island. One girl is a good one, one is bad ; both are in love and battle for the affections of Jon Hall. The bad sister is queen of the island and sentences her good sister to death. Sabu appears as Jon Hall's Boy Friday. Lon Chaney, Jr., plays a deaf mute. In the supporting cast of the Technicolor production are panthers, cobras, chimpanzees, monkeys and tropical birds. PASSPORT TO SUEZ (Columbia) Lone Wolf vs. Nazi Spies PRODUCER: Wallace MacDonald. Directed by Andre de Toth. PLAYERS: Warren William, Ann Savage, Robert Stanford, Sheldon Leonard. SYNOPSIS Columbia's "Lone Wolf" goes to Alexandria, Egypt, for his latest adventure. There, at an international hotel, he runs afoul of international spies. There is a secret mission involving a secret invention. 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SYNOPSIS At core this is the story of an emigrant from "Slovenia" who arrives in America in 1898, progresses through employment in the mining, steel and automobile industries to the manufacture of ships and bombers for use in the present war. In purpose it's a documentation of the rise of America's industrial power during the 45 years covered in the action. The script has been two years in preparation and the picture is to have 36 principal players, additions to the cast being made as production progresses. It's in Technicolor. UP IN ARMS (RKO-Goldwyn) Musical Comedy about Draftee PRODUCER: Samuel Goldwyn. Directed by Elliott Nugent. PLAYERS: Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews, Constance Dowling, Louis Calhern, Kenny Baker, the Goldwyn Girls. SYNOPSIS Samuel Goldwyn's filming of the long-run Broadway hit, "Up in Arms," will keep intact the plot about the young hypochondriac, Danny Kaye, who is drafted, and the trials and tribulations that beset him in the Army. Dana Andrews plays his friend, while Dinah Shore and Goldwyn's new discovery, Constance Dowling, play Army nurses. The plot takes the group to an island in the South Seas, where much of the action, none of it serious, takes place. RAIDERS OF SUNSET PASS (Republic) Modern Range Drama PRODUCER: Lou Gray. Directed by Jack English. PLAYERS: John Paul Revere, Smiley Burnette, Jennifer Holt, Roy Barcroft. SYNOPSIS To meet the wartime manpower shortage in the cattle country and save a prime herd x)f beef from being run off by black market rustlers, special state investigator Johnny Revere organizes a group of hard-riding gal punchers into a Women's Army of the Plains. They clean up the gang who have been stealing the "stakes" so the Armed forces and civilians may get plenty of beef. ALI.BABA AND THE 40 THIEVES (Universal) Fantasy Adventure PRODUCER: Paul Malvern. Directed by Arthur Lubin. PLAYERS: Jon Hall, Maria Montez, Turhan Bey, Andy Devine, Fortunio Bonanova, Moroni Olsen, Frank Puglia, Kurt Katch, Scotty Beckett. SYNOPSIS In the fourth of the Jon Hall-Maria Montez series — and the first one without Sabu, now replaced by Turhan Bey — the scene again is Baghdad. The city is overrun with Mongols under the leadership of the Great Khan. Ali Baba, an adventurous youth, is in love with Amara, daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad. But a marriage of state to the Khan looms for her. She sends word through her faithful bodyguard that she will always love Ali, and he leads a revolt on Baghdad. TORNADO (Paramount-Pine-Thomas) Melodrama of the Coal Mines PRODUCER: William Pine-William Thomas. Directed by William Berke. PLAYERS: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, William Henry, Gwenn Kenyon, Marie McDonald, Morgan Conway, Joe Sawyer. SYNOPSIS Morris plays a young miner who falls in love with the mine-owner's daughter and incurs her parent's _ opposition. When affairs of the individuals involved reach a climax, Nature, in the form of a tornado, closes a mine-shaft, the hero going to the rescue of the entombed at risk of his life and with, of course, appropriate romantic reward. Product Digest Section | 457