Motion Picture Herald (May-Jun 1947)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Herald
Date:
May-Jun 1947
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Quigley Pub. Co.]
Volume:
Motion Picture Herald (May-Jun 1947)
Leaf #:
000598
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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THE HOLLYWOOD SCENE Studio Activity Zooms Upward with 51 Films In Work for Week Hollywood Bureau A sharp and long awaited rise in production activity last week, which saw 15 new pictures going before the cameras on six major lots, jumped the index to the largest shooting total since the start of the year, from 40 to 51, with four sent to the cutting room. At Columbia, shooting started on three — "When a Girl's Beautiful," with Adele Jergens, Stephen Dunne and Mark Piatt, with Frank McDonald directing for producer Wallace MacDonald; "Last Days of Boot Hill," a Durango Kid adventure, with Charles Starrett and Smiley Burnett as costars and Colbert Clark producing, and "The Mating of Minnie McGonigle," with Evelyn Keyes. Casey Robinson is producing the latter with Henry Levin directing. Universal and Warners Each Start Three . Universal-International and Warners also gave the "go" signal to three each. U-I started "Tap Roots," a Walter WangerGeorge .Marshall production in Technicolor, with Wanger producing and Marshall directing. The others were "Imagination," a Michael Kanin production, with Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso and Edmond O'Brien, and "Adventures of Black Bart," with Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea and Jeffrey Lynn. George Cukor directs "Imagination" and George Sherman the other. The trio to get the starting gun at Warners were the Shirley Temple-Ronald Rea gan film, "Mary Hagen," with Alex Gottlieb producing and Peter Godfrey directing ; "Head Over Heels," featuring Robert Hut ton, Joyce Reynolds and Cecil Kellaway, with Frederick deCordova directing and the Michael Curtiz Technicolor musical, "Romance in High C." The two at 20th-Fox were "Green Grass in Wyoming," with Peggy Cummins, Burl Ives, Lloyd Nolan and Geraldine Wall heading the cast; Louis King directing for producer Robert Bassler, and a new Sol Wurtzel production, "Roses Are Red," with Don Castle, Peggy Knudsen and Patricia Wright. James Tinling is directing. MGM also got two started. One is a Joe Pasternak production with Richard Thorpe directing, "On an Island With You," starring Esther Williams with Peter Lawford and Ricardo Montalban. The second is Mickey Rooney's vehicle, "Killer McCoy," with a supporting cast including Elizabeth Taylor, Brian Donlevy and James Dunn which Richard Rowland is directing for producer Sam Zimbalist. "Big Town Scandal" Gets Gun at Paramount Paramount and United Artists added to the production upswing with one each. "Big Town Scandal," co-starring Philip Reed and Hillary Brooke, a Pine-Thomas production, started at Paramount. U-A put a Hopalong Cassidy, "Without Honor" before the lenses. Two major budget productions and a new Trucolor Western are announced as going before the cameras at Republic this month. The fulfilling of that schedule will give the studio five shooting simultaneously. The new films are headed by the screen version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," starring Orson Welles, as the second in the Charles K. Feldman Productions group. Welles has closed his stage version of "Macbeth," after a run in Seattle, and reported to the studio for his role. The others include Edmund Grainger's "The Fabulous Texan," starring William Elliott, John Carroll and Catherine McLeod, with Edward Ludwig directing, the third being "Under Colorado Skies," to star Monte Hale. Republic has purchased an original screen play, "The Gay Ranchero," to again team Roy Rogers and Tito Guizar. . . . Mass production of films to be written, directed, acted and photographed especially for television starts this week at the Jerry Fairbanks studio. Patterned on the radio formula, the films are designed to play, serially or individually, each to average 15 minutes in length. Director To Get Italian Film Festival Award Paramount director George Marshall received word this week that he will be honored at the International Film Festival, to be held at Venice, Italy, August 14 to September 10. Marshall is one of four at Paramount thus selected as outstanding directors by the Festival committee. The others are , Cecil B. De Mille, Mitchell Leisen and John Farrow. . . . Delmer Daves has been set by Warners to direct "To the Victors," a postwar European drama, with Viveca Lindfors in the lead role. Jerry Wald will produce. . . . Bretaigne Windust, director of the stage success, "Life With Father," has checked in at Warners to begin work under his recently signed directorial contract. MGM's screen version of the Dumas classic "The Three Musketeers" will have Gene Kelly playing the role of the swashbuckling D'Artagnan. To be produced by COMPLETED EAGLE LION A Texas Story MGM Good News REPUBLIC On Old Spanish Trails SCREEN GUILD The Burning Cross STARTED COLUMBIA When a Girl's Beautiful Last Days of Boot Hill The Mating of Minnie McGonigle MGM Killer McCoy On an Island with You PARAMOUNT Big Town Scandal (Pine-Thomas) 20TH CENTURY-FOX Green Grass of Wyoming Roses Are Red (Wurtzel) UNITED ARTISTS Without Honor (Hopalong Cassidy Productions) UNIVERSALINTERNATIONAL Tap Roots (Wanger Marshall) Imagination (Kanin Productions) Adventures of Black Bart WARNERS Mary Hagen Head Over Heels Romance in High C SHOOTING COLUMBIA The Last Round-Up The Sea Hound The Double Take It Had To Be You The Prince of Thieves The Man From Colorado EAGLE LION Adventures of Casanova ENTERPRISE They Passed This Way MGM If Winter Comes The Kissing Bandit Cass Timberlane Alias a Gentleman The Pirate PARAMOUNT Whispering Smith Dream Girl RKO RADIO I Remember Mama Return of the Bad Men Mourning Becomes Electra Memory of Love The Bishop's Wife REPUBLIC Driftwood The Red Pony (Feldman) SELZNICK Portrait of Jennie SCREEN GUILD The Burning Cross (Colmes) 20TH CENTURY-FOX Gentleman's Agreement Nightmare Alley Off to Buffalo Foxes of Harrow UNITED ARTISTS Intrigue (Bischoff) The Time of Your Life (Cagney) Sleep My Love (Triangle) UNIVERSALINTERNATIONAL Ride the Pink Horse Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap The Exile WARNERS Ever the Beginning Treasure of Sierra Madre Silver River ran ,n,i miiiAiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiii im 30 MOTION PICTURE HERALD, JUNE 14, 1947