Showmen's Trade Review (Jan-Mar 1949)

Record Details:

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.

THANKS, MISTER SHOWMAN! ^jcb^P ^ ^ I You will see below that ; I-G-M is far ahead in the trade press annual survey of motion picture leadership. We are proud, but wish to share this acclaim with our customers whose cooperation made it possible. lifll BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE-^BAROMETER' M-G-M tops all others in "Money Hits", in BoxoflFice Stars, in New Faces and in Shorts. (Issue of Nov. 20) M-G-M hos more than twice as many Ail-Time Blue Ribbon Awards as any other company, more place-winning stars, more awards in 10 Best Short Series Group. (Issue of Jan. 5, 1949) A-G-hA leads all companies with 3 tut of 7 "Golden Circle" Top Grosstrs of 1948, and out of 93 leading Mctures of the year M-G-M is first vith 20. M-G-M's George Sidney \^ins the year's Top Director honors ind Joe Pasternak wins Top Prolucer honors. Out of the 64 allime "Golden Circle" Top Grossers A-G-M leads the industry with 25, learest competing company 1 1. MOTION PICTURE DAILY (Issue of Dec. 20) "M-G-M leads 1948 Honor Roll with nine pictures!" M-G-M tops all companies in poll of nation's critics with: "A Date With Judy" "The Bride Goes Wild" • "Cass Timberlane" • "Easter Parade" • "Green Dolphin Street" • "Homecoming" "Julia Misbehaves • "The Search" "The Three Musketeers". (Issue of Dec. 24) ''M-G-M has two out of the First Three in topgrossing pictures of 1947'48 season, 'Cass Timberlane' and 'Green Dolphin StreetV