Showmen's Trade Review (Oct-Dec 1941)

Record Details:

Title:
Showmen's Trade Review
Date:
Oct-Dec 1941
Publisher:
[New York, etc.]
Volume:
Showmen's trade review
Leaf #:
000530
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:
November 03, 2022
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£eadUt(f Pnaductio+U These are the pictures theatremen gave votes in sufficient numbers to make them candidates for the top brackets as Leaders, in the national poll of exhibitor estimates of box-office strength as displayed right at their theatres. There are twenty-five of these Leading candidates in the listing given on this and the following two pages. It will be recognized at once that there is exceptional value attaching to all of these outstanding productions by reason of star, story and production values. Combined with the twenty-five productions in the top section of the Leaders group, these feature pictures show that the studios have turned out a total of fifty films of exceptional merit, as gauged by box office performance, during the period covered by this poll. MELODY RANCH Republic Sol C. Siegel Associate Producer Directed by Joseph Santley Principal Players Gene Autry Jimmy Durante Ann Miller Barton MacLane Barbara Jo Allen Jerome Cowan George "Gabby" Hayes Mary Lee Joseph Sawyer Horace MacMahon Production Credits Screen Play Jack Moffitt, F. Hugh Herbert, Bradford Ropes and Betty Burbridge Special Comedy Effects Sid Kuller and Ray Golden Photography Joseph August Art Director John Victor Mackay Musical Director Raoul Kraushaar Songs Gene Autry, Fred Rose, Billy Hill, Johnny Marvin, Ray Whitley, Paul Dresser ALOMA OF THE SOUTH SEAS Paramount Monta Bell, Associate Producer Directed by Alfred Santell Principal Players Dorothy Lamour Esther Dale Jon Hall Pedro de Cordoba Lynne Overman John Barclay Philip Reed Norma Jean Nelson Katherine DeMille Evelyn Del Rio Fritz Lieber Scotty Beckett Production Credits Screen Play Frank Butler, Seena Owen, Lillie Hayward Story Seena Owen, Kurt Siodmak From the Play by LeRoy Clemens and John B. Hymer Photography Karl Struss Associates . . . Wilfred M. Cline, William Snyder Special Photographic Effects . . Gordon Jennings Process Photography Farciot Edouart Color Director Natalie Kalmus Associate Morgan Padelford Musical Direction Andrea Setaro THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D. Warner Brothers Produced by William Cagney Directed by William Keighley Principal Players James Cagney William Frawley Bette Davis Edward Brophy Stuart Erwin Harry Holman Eugene Pallette Chick Chandler Jack Carson Keith Douglas George Tobias Herbert Anderson Harry Davenport William Newell Production Credits Screen Play Julius J. and Philip G. Epstein Story Kenneth Earl, M. M. Musselman Photography Ernie Haller Film Editor Thomas Richards Music Max Steiner CHARLEY'S AUNT 20th Century-Fox Produced by William Perlberg Directed by Archie Mayo Principal Players Jack Benny Richard Haydn Kay Francis Ernest Cossart James Ellison Morton Lowry Anne Baxter Lionel Pape Edmund Gwenn Will Stanton Reginald Owen Montague Shaw Laird Cregar Claud Allister Arleen Whelan William Austin Production Credits Screen Play George Seaton Based on Play by Brandon Thomas Music Alfred Newman Photography Peverell Marley Art Direction .... Richard Day and Nathan Juran F.lm Editor Robert Bischoff Cc»tumes Travis Banton ROAD TO ZANZIBAR Paramount Produced by Paul Jones Directed by Victor Schertzinger Principal Players Bing Crosby Douglass Dumbrille Bob Hope Lionel Royce Dorothy Lamour Buck Woods Una Merkel Leigh Whipper Eric Blore Ernest Whitman Iris Adrian Joan March Production Credits Screen Play. .. .Frank Butler and Don Hartman Based on Story by Sy Bartlett and Don Hartman Photography Ted Tetzlaff Art Direction .... Hans Dreier and Robert Usher Costumes Edith Head Musical Direction Victor Young Musical Adviser Arthur Franklin Lyrics and Music Johnny Burke and Jimmie Van Heusen Musical Numbers Staged by LeRoy Prinz SANTA FE TRAIL Warner Brothers Hal B. Wallis, Executive Producer Robert Fellows, Associate Producer Jack L. Warner in charge of production Directed by Michael Curtiz Principal Players Errol Flynn Moroni Olsen Olivia De Havilland David Bruce Raymond Massey Hobart Cavanaugh Ronald Reagan Charles D. Brown Alan Hale Joe Sawyer William Lundigan Frank Wilcox Van Heflin Ward Bond Gene Reynolds Russell Simpson Guinn Williams Charles Middleton Spencer Charters Alan Baxter John Litel Production Credits Original Screen Play Robert Buckner Dialogue Director Jo Graham Special Effects . . Byron Haskin, H. F. Koenekamp Photography Sol Polito Art Director John Hughes TOBACCO ROAD 20th Century-Fox Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck Directed by John Ford Principal Charley Grapewin Marjorie Rambeau Gene Tierney William Tracy Elizabeth Patterson Players Dana Andrews Slim Summerville Ward Bond Grant Mitchell Zeffie Tilbury Production Credits Screen Play Nunnally Johnson Adapted From Stage Play by Jack Kirkland and Novel by Erskine Caldwell Photography Arthur Miller Art Direction. . . .Richard Day and James Basevi Page 7.0 SHOWMEN'S TRADE REVIEW Presents