Motion Picture Herald (May-Jun 1946)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
May-Jun 1946
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (May-Jun 1946)
Leaf #:
000820
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 03, 2022
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

• REVIEWED ■ Title Company Way Ahead, Th« (British) 20th-Fox Wadding Night (Reissua) Film Classics t Weekend at the Waldorf (Spcl.) MGM Welcome, Stranger Para. Well Groomad Bride, The (Bl. 4) Para. West of the Alamo Mono. What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (Block 14) MGM While Nero Fiddled (Brit.) Bacon-Bell Whirlwind of Paris (French) Hoffberg Whistle Stop UA Wicked Lady, The (Br.) Eagle-Lion Wife of Monte Cristo PRC Wild Beauty Univ. Wilson (color) (Special) 20th-Fox Without Dowry (Russian) Artkino Without Reservations RKO Woman Chases Man (Reissue) Film Classics Woman on the Beach RKO (formerly Desirable Woman) Woman Who Came Back, The Rep. YANK in London. A (Br.) Yearling, The (color) Years Between, The (British) Yolanda and the Thief (color (Block 14) Young Widow You're for Me tZIEGFELD Follies of (color) (Special) 1946 20th-Fox MGM GFD ) MGM UA 20th-Fox MGM M. P. Product Advance Servici Prod. Release Running Herald Digest Synopsis Data Number SI (lis Date Time Ittu* Page Page Page 606 David Niven-Stanley Holloway Aug. ,'45 106m June I7,'44 2626 2523 Gary Cooper-Anna Stan June IS, '46 83m Feb. 23, '35 605 Ginger Rogers-Lana Turner-Walter Pidgeon Oct.,'45 130m July 28,'45 2627 2242 3018 Kin f r R a t i a p a 1 Din^ wro5Dy~Darry i iTx^oraiu 2939 4519 Rav MllUnr^.OIIvU DaHAViliAnfJ i\a y ivi Ilia nu~^^iiT iw \j vii aTiiisnu Mav 17 '4& 75 m Fab. 2, '46 2829 2786 573 Jimmy Wakely-Lee "Lasses" White Apr. 20,'46 58m May 25,'46 3006 2883 606 l\UI.^Cll TTal KVI "IxWOliail TTyilll Nov -Dec '45 96m Nov. I7,'45 2717 2710 2975 Tommy Trinder-Frances Day Apr. 29,'46 65 m May II, '46 2986 Charpin-Marguarite Perry Feb. 9.'46 88m Feb. 23, '46 2859 George Raft-.Ava Gardner Jan.25,'46 84m Jan. I2,'46 2793 2744 2930 Margaret Lockwood-James Mason Not Set 103m Dec. 1S.'45 2757 John Loder-Lenore Aubert Apr. 23, '46 80m Mar. 30,'46 2918 2895 3018 545 Don Porter-Lois Collier Aug. 9,'46 ^ . . . 3076 602 Alexander Knox-Charles Coburn Aug.,'45 154m Aug. 5.'44 2094 1676 2342 Olga Pyshova-Nina Alisova Apr. 6,'46 81m Apr. 27,'46 2962 621 wiauaeTTo woiDerr-jonn wayne DIOCK 9 107m May 1 1,'46 2985 2884 Miriam Hopkins-Joel McCrea May I5,'46 70m May l.'37 :::: Joan Bennett-Robert Ryan Not Set :::: 2883 507 Nancy Kelly-John Loder Dee. I3,'45 68m Dec. 22,'45 2765 2555 .... 622 Anna Neagle-Dean Jagger Mar.,'46 106m Feb. 23,'46 2858 Gregory Peck-Jacqueline White Not Set 2883 Michael Redgrave-Valerie Hobson Not Set lobm Apr. 20,'46 2949 . . . 610 Fred Astaire-Lucille Bremer Nov.-Dec.'45 108m Oct. 20,'45 2685 2354 2930 Jane Russell-Louis Hayward Mar. ['46 98m Feb. 23.'46 2857 2454 Vivian Biaine-Harry James Not Set or\AA 617 MGM Contract Stars Mar..'46 1 lOm Aug. 25,'45 2638 1913 Feature Product, including Coming Attractions, listed Company by Company in Order of Release on pages 3056 and 3057. ADVANCE SYNOPSES THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF FRANCIS MACOMBER (UA Award Productions) PRODUCERS: Benedict Bogeaus and Casey Robinson. DIRECTOR: Zoltan Korda, PLAYERS: Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston, Reginald Denny, Jean Gillie, Garl Harbord. TRIANGLE DRAMA. On a safari in Africa, the wife of a millionaire becomes infatuated with a guide. She scorns her husband, who proves himself a coward when confronted by a lion. Later, however, on a bufTalo hunt, the husband displays courage. During the course of the hunt, his wife shoots and kills him. The guide files a police report, claiming that the death was an accident. The wife, spurred by her conscience, confesses that she does not know whether she killed her husband accidentally, or on purpose, and goes off to stand trial. STEP BY STEP (RKO Radio) PRODUCER: Sid RogeU. DIRECTOR: Phil Rosen. PLAYERS : Lawrence Tierney, Anne Jeffreys, Lowell Gilmore, Myrna Dell, Jason Robards. MELODRAMA. A group of Nazi refugees, having murdered an F.B.I, man, are about to escape from this country in a submarine when they are thwarted by an ex-marine, who uncovers the Nazi ring and brings its members to justice. 3076 THE BLACK ANGEL (Universal) PRODUCERS: Roy William Neill and Tom McKnight. DIRECTOR: Roy William Neill. PLAYERS: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling and Wallace Ford. MURDER MYSTERY. A woman is murdered shortly after she and her husband have separated. Another man is accused. His wife stands by him despite his philandering. The murdered woman's husband meets this woman and he agrees to assist her in clearing her husband. During the process they m_eet a night club owner who appears to be mixed up in it. While drunk, the murdered woman's husband recalls that he himself had committed the crime while drunk. He gets to the prison in time to save the other man. WILD BEAUTY (Universal) PRODUCER DIRECTOR: Wallace Fox. PLAYERS: Don Porter, Lois Collier, Robert Wilcox, Robert "Buzz" Henry, George Cleveland, Eva Puig, Dick Curtis. HORSE STORY. A_ school-teacher, employed on an Arizona Indian reservation, compels a young Indian orphan to stop riding his pinto. He runs away to the desert to join a wild colt, and is rescued by a veterinarian, who is in love with the school-teacher. A former sweetheart of the teacher comes on the scene with a plan to slaughter the wild horses on the reservation and ship their hides to his shoe factory. The scheme boomerangs, and he returns East, leaving the veterinarian and the schoolteacher to face the future together. (Additional synopses on page 3066) BELLA DONNA (Inlerna+ional-Unlted World) PRODUCER: Edward SmaU. DIRECTOR: Irving Pichel. PLAYERS: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas, Lenore Ulric, Robert Capa, Arnold Moss. MELODRAMA. A woman of uncertain virtue meets and marries an archaeologist several years her senior. She accompanies him to Egypt, where she soon becomes bored with her life and her companions. She meets and becomes infatuated with a bogus prince. When the latter threatens to marry an American girl for her money, the archaeologist's wife agrees to help poison her husband, in order that she and the bogus prince can obtain money. When she discovers, however, that her husband has known all along about her shady past, she has a change of heart and poisons the bogus prince instead. She accompanies her husband to England. A year later the pair return to Egypt, where she is promptly arrested by the police and accused of the murder of the bogus prince. She kills herself. THE BEGINNING OR THE END (MGM) PRODUCER: Sam Marx. DIRECTOR: Norman Taurog. PLAYERS: Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Audrey Totter, Beverly Tyler, Kurd Hatfield, Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorhead. DOCUMENTARY DRAMA. This is a more or less factual account of the development of the atom bomb, with romance provided by scenes between one of the young scientists and a general's secretary. The scientist, however, is killed by exposure to rays from the radioactive material, and the girl is left alone with her memories. PRODUCT DIGEST SECTION, JUNE 29, 1946