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 #:
000313
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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Ince There Were 3 Irishmen \{nd Some Academy Awards ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS Following are the winners of the Awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 1944, announced at informal, wartime ceremonies at Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood Thursday evening, March 15. Bob Hope, master of ceremonies, received a life membership in the Academy. Best motion picture of the year — "Going My Way", Paramount. Best performance by an actor — Bing Crosby in "Going My Way", Paramount. Best performance by an actress — Ingrid Bergman in "Gaslight", Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Best performance by an actor in a supporting role — Barry Fitzgerald in "Going My Way", Paramount. Best performance by an actress in a supporting role — Ethel Barrymore in "None But the Lonely Heart", RKO Radio. Best achievement in directing — "Going My Way", Paramount; Leo McCarey. Best written screenplay — "Going My Way", Paramount. Screenplay by Frank Butler and Frank Cavett. Best original screenplay — "Wilson", 20th Century-Fox. Screenplay by Lamar Trotti. Best original motion picture story — "Going My Way", Paramount. Original story by Leo McCarey. Best achievements in art direction — Black-and-white: "Gaslight", MGM. Cedric Gibbons and William Ferrari. Color: "Wilson", 20th-Fox. Wiard Ihnen. Certificates of merit to interior decorators of productions receiving awards for art direction — Black-and-white: "Gaslight", MGM. Edwin B. Willis and Paul Huldschinsky. Color: "Wilson", 20th-Fox. Thomas Little. Best achievements in cinematography — Black-and-white: "Laura", 20th-Fox. Joseph LaShelle. Color: "Wilson", 20th-Fox. Leon Shamroy. Best achievemetn in sound recording — "Wilson", 20th-Fox. E. H. Hansen. Best achievement in film editing — "Wilson", 20th-Fox. Barbara McLean. Best achievement in special effects — "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", MGM. A. Arnold Gillespie, Donald Jahraus, and Warren Newcombe, photographic effects. "Wilson", 20th-Fox. Roger Heman, sound effects. Best short subjects: One-reel — "Who's Who in Animal Land", Paramount; Jerry Fairbanks, producer. Two-reel — " I WonH 3lay", W.B.; Gordon Hollingshead, producer. Cartoon — 'Mouse Trouble", MGM; Frederick C. Quimby, producer. Best scoring of a musical picture — "Cover Girl", Columbia. By Morris Stoloff and Carmen Dragon. Best music score of a dramatic or comedy picture — "Since You Went Away", Selznick International, U.A. By Max Steiner. Best original song — "Swinging on a Star" from "Going My Way", Paramount. Music by James Van Heusen; lyrics by Johnny Burke. Distinctive achievements in documentary production: Features — "The Fighting Lady", 20th-Fox and U. S. Navy. Short Subjects— "With the Marines at Tarawa", U. S. Marine Corps. Special Awards — Irving Thalberg award to Darryl F. Zanuck for outstanding production during 1944. Best child actress of the year — Margaret O'Brien. Scientific and Technical Awards — Plaque to Stephen Dunn and the RKO sound department for design, and to RCA for additional development of an electronic compressor-limiter. «7ILLIAM R. WEAVER 10 wood Editor CE there were two Irishmen — " but last :here were three Irishmen who put their 5 and their talents together and came up, ,» eek, with the seventeenth annual Awards me Academy of Motion Picture Arts and :»ces pretty well monopolized, and with j fellow-professionals thundering their satItion with the whole thing. |j Bing Crosby, Number One Money-Makfctar of 1944 in Motion Picture Herald's tal poll of exhibitors, went the Academy's ir for the best performance of the year, o Barry Fitzgerald, a winner in the Hers 1944 Stars-of-Tomorrow poll, went the demy's Oscar for the best supporting pernance of the year by an actor, c the third Irishman, Leo McCarey, went one but two Oscars — one for best direction one for best motion picture story — and to picture on which these three had bestowed i sum of their talents, "Going My Way," nt the Oscar denoting the ballotted opinion Ihe Academy's electorate that this was the standing picture of 1944. tx Office Sensation Also as Academy Sensation Ml in all — and the foregoing is by no means ( see complete tabulation of Academy win's in the space on your right) — "Going My ly," the box office sensation of 1944, turned : to be the sensation of the Academy's anil exercises, conducted this year, as last, at auman's Chinese theatre, with everybody 0 could get a ticket present and pleased, and h the ceremonies broadcast nationally over Blue Network and likewise to the armed ces around the world. Depending upon how one chooses to foot up total awards, it was a Paramount or a rentieth Century-Fox year, although Metroldwyn-Mayer and RKO Radio also took vn Oscars in the upper-level division. The ademy membership voted Ingrid Bergman statuette for the year's best performance an actress (in "Gaslight") and awarded : to Ethel Barrymore for the best supportperformance by an actress (in "None But Lonely Heart"). nuck Gets Thalberg Award »r Outstanding Production rhe Twentieth Century-Fox score accrued m a wide range of awards, starting at the 1 with Darryl F. Zanuck taking the Irving Thalberg Award for Outstanding Achievent in Motion Picture Production, a distincn voted him also in 1937. Hie Academy's annual awardings came this Lr midway in a week marred by Hollywood's ;t production-wide strike in many years, but ket lines and other ubiquitous implementans of what is delicately termed "economic acn" in no way marred the proceedings at the inese. The affair followed the war-imposed idition of "informal dress" as to men's wear, : the ladies — bless 'em — furnished their own lividual interpretations of the rule, the beais laced the skies as in pre-war years, the citizenry filled the bleachers and lined Holvood Boulevard for blocks to witness the arrival of the notability in its sleek, black, gasrationed conveyances, and all was a scene of beglamoured confusion befitting the event in hand. Der Bingle Crosby is the first Motion Pic ture Herald Money-Making Stars poll winner to take down the Academy's top honor the same year. This is likewise the first year nobody in Hollywood raised so much as a whisper of criticism of the Academy's awardings. )TION PICTURE HERALD, MARCH 24, 1945 45