Motion Picture Herald (Nov-Dec 1944)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Nov-Dec 1944
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Nov-Dec 1944)
Leaf #:
000234
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 29, 2022
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THIS WEEK the Camera reports Coast Guard Photo-Acnip STILL A STAR. Lew Ayres, about whose refusal to fight, some three years ago, there was embittered talk in Hollywood — now all forgiven — is shown at Leyte, Philippines, with ' some of the men he helps, as a corporal with a medical detachment. Mr. Ayres, fighting in his own manner, has been in the Army two and one-half years, overseas eight months. GUESTS. Irene Dunne and Charles Vidor, star and director of Columbia's "Together Again" at the luncheon party in the Radio City Music Hall, New York, where their picture will play, with G. S. Eyssell, the theatre's managing director. "BETWEEN TWO WORLDS". At a special performance of the Warner film, in London, Max Milder, the company's British managing director, left, greets Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, a leading figure In British spiritualism. The picture is derived from the previous picture and play, "Outward Bound". SUCCESSORS, right. Edward Hyman, seated, and Max Fellerman, his new assistant, pose at the Paramount home office, where Mr. Hyman this week was appointed to succeed Sam Dembow, Jr., as head of northern operations for the circuit. Mr. Fellerman, formerly with RKO In distribution and in theatre operations, will be Mr. Hyman's assistant. 10 SAM DEMBOW, JR., who leaves Paramount December I for presidency of the new Golden Productions, Inc. Mr. Dembow, a theatre and film sales executive since 1913, when he entered the Industry by joining William Fox, Is resigning as head of northern theatre operations for Paramount. By Staff PhotographeS MOTION PICTURE HERALD, NOVEMBER 18. 1944