Showmen's Trade Review (Jan-Mar 1940)

Page scan 000135 from Showmen's Trade Review

Record Details:

Title:
Showmen's Trade Review
Date:
Jan-Mar 1940
Publisher:
[New York, etc.]
Volume:
Showmen's trade review
Leaf #:
000135
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:
Established in 1933 by Charles 'Chick' Lewis, who previously edited the 'Manager's Round Table' section in Quigley's MOTION PICTURE HERALD. Lewis originally called his new publication SHOWMEN'S ROUND TABLE, but after a lawsuit from Quigley, he changed the title to SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW (STR). Over the next two decades, STR proved to be a formidable competitor to Quigley's HERALD and steadily grew in circulation. It's easy to see why exhibitors wanted to subscribe. STR's editorial voice, reviews of features and shorts, 'Box Office Slant' tips for how to promote movies, and concise and well organized 'Booking Guides' made it a trustworthy and highly useful magazine for exhibitors. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
August 15, 2024
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GEORGE ARTHUR Our Leading Citizen (Para.) HENRY BLANKE *Juarez (W.B.) *Daughters Courageous (W.B.) *The Old Maid (W.B.) SAM BISCHOFF *Angels With Dirty Faces (W.B.) *The Oklahoma Kid (W.B.) HARRY JOE BROWN fThe Rains Came (20th-Fox) f Hollywood Cavalcade (20thFox) FRANK CAPRA Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Col.) LESTER COWAN You Can't Cheat An Honest Man (Univ.) JACK CUMMINGS Honolulu (M-G-M) CECIL B. DeMILLE Union Pacific (Para.) E. B. DERR The Girl From Rio (Mono.) B. G. DeSYLVA Bachelor Mother (RKO) LOUIS EDELMAN *Wings Of The Navy (W.B.) *Dust Be My Destiny (W.B.) JOHN FORD Stagecoach (U.A.) BRYAN FOY Heart 0£ The North (W.B.) SIDNEY FRANKLIN On Borrowed Time (M-G-M) ARTHUR FREED Babes In Arms (M-G-M) BENJAMIN GLAZER *Yes, My Darling Daughter (W.B.) SAMUEL GOLDWYN Cowboy And The Lady (U.A.) Wutherino Heights (U.A.) The Real Glory (U.A.) i! GEORGE HAIGHT Story Of Vernon and Irene Castle (RKO) CACH year it becomes increasingly important ^ that you know quickly and accurately the pictures made by the various producers or associate producers as they are called in some studios. The reason why this is important is simple. When a group of pictures are offered you are told they will be made by certain producers. When this happens, take the producers, one at a time, and find what money-making pictures they produced during the past year. In this way you will know whether they are real money-producers or just "also-rans." The box office always tells the true story. The hell with "art." Exhibitors want pictures that will make money for them. On this page you will find listed every producer responsible for the money making pictures released last season. HOWARD HAWKS Only Angels Have Wings (Col.) ARTHUR HORNBLOW, JR. Man About Town (Para.) NUNNALLY JOHNSON tjesse James (20th-Fox) fRose Of Washington Sq. (20th-Fox) WILLIAM T. LACKEY Streets Of New York (Mono.) GREGORY LA CAVA Fifth Avenue Girl (RKO) MERVYN LEROY Stand Up And Fight (M-G-M) Wizard Of Oz (M-G-M) Marx Bros. At The Circus (M-G-M) DAVID LEWIS *Dark Victory (W.B.) *Each Dawn I Die (W.B.) ROBERT LORD *The Dawn Patrol (W.B.) Dodge City (W.B.) Confessions Of A Nazi Spy (W.B.) KENNETH MACGOWAN fStory Of Alexander Graham Bell (20th-Fox) fYoung Mr. Lincoln (20th-Fox) fStanley and Livingstone (20th-Fox) PAUL MALVERN Wolf Call (Mono.) JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (M-G-M) * Hal Wallis, Executive Producer t Darryl F. Zanuck, Executive Producer GENE MARKEY fSubmarine Patrol (20th-Fox) {Kentucky (20th-Fox) fThe Little Princess (20th-Fox) {Second Fiddle (20th-Fox) GABRIEL PASCAL Pygmalion (M-G-M) JOSEPH PASTERNAK Three Smart Girls Grow Up (Univ.) The Under-Pup (Univ.) WILLIAM PERLBERG Golden Boy (Col.) HARRY RAPE Ice Follies Of 1939 (M-G-M) J. WALTER RUBEN Thunder Afloat (M-G-M) ARMAND SCHAEFER S. O. S. Tidal Wave (Repub.) Storm Over Bengal (Repub.) HERMAN SCHLOM Pride Of The Navy (Repub.) SOL C. SIEGEL Man Of Conquest (Repub.) She Married A Cop (Repub.) Woman Doctor (Repub.) EDWARD SMALL Man In The Iron Mask (U.A.) JOHN M. STAHL When Tomorrow Comes (Univ.) GEORGE STEVENS Gunga Din (RKO) HUNT STROMBERG Sweethearts (M-G-M) The Women (M-G-M) RAOUL WALSH The Roaring Twenties (W.B.) WALTER WANGER Stage Coach (U.A.) WILLIAM A. WELLMAN Beau Geste (Para.) SOL M. WURTZEL Frontier Marshal (20th-Fox) SAM ZIMBALIST Tarzan Finds A Son (M-G-M) LEADERS of the MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY Page 45