Motion Picture Herald (Jan-Feb 1945)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
Jan-Feb 1945
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (Jan-Feb 1945)
Leaf #:
000115
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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GIFT, for collec-tion of the largesf single amount in Oregon's 1944 March of Dimes. Mrs. J. J. Parker, owner of the circuit of that name, presents the gift to Grover Hanley, manager of the United Artists theatre, Portland, where he collected $2,422. AT A $2,500,000 Bond premiere in Oregon's state capital, at Salem: Jesse Jones, exhibitor; Governor Earl Snell; Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, Jr.; O. J. Miller, state Bond drive chairman; Ray Grombacker, exhibitor, and, in the can, MGM's "Meet Me in St. Louis". NEW YEAR'S EVE, left. At the ninth annual party by the Texas Variety Club, Dallas. On the coast-to-coast Mutual Network broadcast, Bill Slater, left, Interviews Bob Fenimore, football star. INTERBORO Circuit manpower. New York. At a holiday party for the circuit's staff in the home office are Morris Straussberg, Lew Preston, Samuel Straussberg, owner, Stanley Kolbert, Maurey Ashmann and Samuel Handler. LAUNCHING of a destroyer, by Paramount. The scene is from "Practically Yours", in Block Three. Claudette Colbert is about to christen the ship, and the country is listening, by radio. Watching are Fred MacMurray, Cecil Kellaway, Gil Lamb, Tom Powers and Robert Benchley, all starred or featured in the cast. STAR, right. Faye Emerson, now Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, is one of six contract players elevated by Warners to stardom on the "basis of performances in 1944". She appeared in "The Very Thought of You". Her first starring vehicle will be "Catch a Falling Star". By Staff PhotoirraphOT MOTION PICTURE HERALD, JANUARY 13, 1945