Motion Picture Herald (Mar-Apr 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Mar-Apr 1945
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Mar–Apr 1945)
Leaf #:
00041
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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HIE HOLLYWOOD SCENE OMPLETED iGM iier Highness and the Bellboy ii'eekend at the Waldorf ONOGRAM orae Out Fighting <LO RADIO hose Endearing Young Charms MIVERSAL range Confession TARTED GM angerous Partners MONOGRAM Divorce PRC Highway to Hell Why Girls Leave Home (Sam Sax) RKO RADIO Falcon in San Francisco REPUBLIC Marshal of Laredo 20TH CENTURY -FOX Within These Walls SHOOTING COLUMBIA Blonde from Brooklyn Surprise in the Night Over 21 . Kiss and Tell (Sol Siegel) MGM Early to Wed Yolanda and the Thief Harvey Girls PARAMOUNT Follow That Woman (Pine-Thomas) Well-Groomed Bride You Came Along (Wallis) Masquerade in Mexico Cross My Heart RKO RADIO Mama Loves Papa First Man Into Tokyo Most Dangerous Game George White's Scandals of 1945 Man Alive Spanish Main Invisible Army REPUBLIC Scotland Yard Investigator Girls of the Big House Amazing Mr. M 20TH CENTURY -FOX Dragonwyck Junior Miss Don Juan Quilligan , (formerly "TwoFaced Quilligan") Dolly Sisters State Fair Captain Eddie (Eureka Pictures) Ten Little Indians (Popular Pictures, Inc.) UNITED ARTISTS Paris — Underground (Bennett) Captain Kidd (Borgeaus) Young Widow (Stromberg) UNIVERSAL Men in Her Diary Naughty Nineties Lady on a Train Night in Paradise WARNERS Stolen Life Shadow of a Woman Too Young to Know This Love of Ours Mildred Pierce Three Strangers Seven Films Are Started 19 Now in Production L oily wood Bureau Seven new attractions were launched during le week. Five features went to the cutting joms, which brought the total number in work » 49, a slight increase over last week's total 47. The first of the Kay Francis productions got nder way at Monogram. Titled "Divorce," it ars Miss Francis, who is also co-producer ith Jeffrey Bernerd. William Nigh is directlg, and the cast includes Bruce Cabot, Helen lack, Jerome Cowan, Reed Kilpatrick, Ruth '.ee and Virginia Wave. The story tells of a aphisticated divorcee, and the havoc she •reaks on a visit to her old home town. "Dangerous Partners" went before the imeras at MGM. It's a melodrama adapted |y Marion Parsonnet from the novel by Oliver V'ild Bayer, and stars James Craig and Signe lasso, with Audrey Totter and Edmund iwenn. Edward Cahn is directing; Arthur "ield producing. At Twentieth Century-Fox, work started on PWithin These Walls," with Thomas Mitchell, lary Anderson, Edward Ryan, Stephen Richrds, Roy Roberts and B. S. Pully. Ben Silvey roduces ; H. Bruce Humberstone directs. IKO Puts New "Falcon" 7 Urn Into Production RKO Radio launched another in its "Falcon" eries of mystery-dramas, this one titled "The 'alcon in San Francisco." Tom Conway, Rita ^orday, Robert Armstrong, Fay Helm, Ed Brophy, George Holmes, Russell Hopton and 'rank Puglia are among the players. Maurice iieraghty produces ; Joseph H. Lewis directs. J Sam Sax launched his first production for >RC, "Why Girls Leave Home." Lola Lane, -heldon Leonard and Pamela Blake are in the ast ; William Berke is directing. Another PRC film started was "Highway to Jell," which Ben Newfield is directing for proucer Sigmund Neufeld. The cast includes lugh Beaumont, Charles D. Brown, Russell licks, Pierre Watkin, Bud Buster and Eva Novak. Republic brought "Marshall of Laredo" be:<re the cameras. It's a "Red Ryder" western ?ith Wild Bill Elliott, Bobby Blake and Alice rleming. R. G. Springsteen is directing; Sidey Picker is producing. John Patrick's play, "The Hasty Heart," now running on Broadway, has been acquired by Warners from Howard Lindsey and Russel Crouse. John Dall will have the lead in the film version. . . . Paramount has purchased "Lady Seventeen," an original screenplay by Ladislaus Fodor, set in England in the Victorian era. Karl Tunberg has been assigned to produce. . . . "Banned in Boston," a comedy by Craig Rice and Jerry Horwin, has been bought by MGM, and assigned to George Haight for production. . . . RKO Radio has purchased "Manhattan Miracle," a melodrama by Karl Felton. It will be prepared for immediate production by Sid Rogell, executive producer, with Ben Stoloff as producer. Republic has acquired "A Medal for Jim," by John Butler, and signed the author to prepare the screenplay. . . . Paramount producers William Pine and William Thomas have bought rights to Cornell Woolrich's murder mystery, "Nightmare." Byron Barr and William Gargan have been selected as male leads. Incidental News of Pictures-to-Come Arnold Pressburger's next for United Artists will star George Sanders in a comedy-adventure drama based on the life of "Vidocq," who was prefect of police of Paris in 1810. . . . Errol Flynn's next for Warners will be "The Adventures of Don Juan." . . . Deanna Durbin will co-star with Charles Laughton in "Catherine the Last," a comedy about a stage-struck girl and an actor. Felix Jackson will produce for Universal. . . . Sam Jaffe and Lloyd Bacon, who produced "The Sullivans" independently for Twentieth Century-Fox release, have formed a company to make "Glittering Hill," a story of copper-mining in the last century. One of the major distributing companies, not yet determined, is expected to release the attraction. Jess Barker has been signed to a term deal by Universal. His first under the new contract will be the male lead in "Serenade for Murder," with George Blake as the associate producer. . . . Bob Haymes has been selected for the romantic lead opposite Frances Rafferty in MGM's forthcoming comedy, "Abbott and Costello in Hollywood," which S. Sylvan Simon will direct. . . . Lew Landers has been signed to direct "Here Comes Trouble," a Monogram comedy starring Billy Gilbert, Shemp Howard and Maxie Rosenbloom. Merle Oberon and Charles Korvin will costar in "As It Was Before," which Bruce Manning has adapted from the Pirandello play. Frank Ryan will produce and direct. . . . Mary Martin will return to Hollywood to star in Mary Pickford's production of "One Touch of Venus." . . . Walter Goetz has been assigned to produce "The Inner Circle" for Republic. Personnel Intelligence About Hollywood Dorothy Sebastian makes her first screen appearance in more than three years in RKO Radio's current production, "George White's Scandals of 1945." . . . Dennis Morgan has been given a new contract by Warners. His first assignment under the pact will be opposite Jane Wyman in "Time, Place and the Girl," which David Butler will direct and Alex Gottlieb produce. . . . Nathaniel Shilkret, who has. been associated with MGM for several years, has signed a new contract with that studio as composer and musical director. George "Dink" Templeton has been appointed by Henry Ginsberg to produce and direct Paramount's musical featurettes next season. Louis Harris, who has been producing them, has been promoted to production of features. . . . B. D. Bender has taken over as comptroller of RKO Radio Studios, following the resignation of G. B. Howe, whose assistant he had been. . . . Brenda Joyce has been signed by Universal to a term contract, and assigned the feminine lead in "Hear that Trumpet Talk." Ripley-Monter's second production for Vanguard Films will be a comedy based on Merle Armitage's novel, "Post Caviar." . . . Fred Brady, radio comedian, has been signed by Columbia to play the male lead opposite Marguerite Chapman in "Song of Broadway." 20th-Fox Plans Feature On Cadet Nurse Corps Republic has exercised its option on Jane Frazee. . . . William Girard's next for Twentieth Century-Fox will be a story of the Cadet Nurse corps, titled "Angels in White." Lynn Bari has been selected for the feminine lead. . . . Peggy Knudsen and Don McGuire have been added to the cast of the current Warner production, "Shadow of a Woman," which is based on Virginia Perdue's best selling novel. Benedict Bogeaus has signed Reginald Owen for a featured role in support of Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton in "Captain Kidd," which Bogeaus is making for United Artists. . . . Lloyd Nolan will appear in Twentieth Century-Fox's "Command to Embezzle" ; Walter Morosco producing. /lOTION PICTURE HERALD, MARCH 3, 1945 33