Variety (Dec 1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Variety
Date:
Dec 1937
Publisher:
New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company
Volume:
Variety (December 1937)
Leaf #:
000271
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Trade Magazine",Vaudeville,Theatr
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Early Cinema, and Theatre and Vaudeville
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library, Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Founded in 1905 by Sime Silverman, Variety is the best known and most important trade paper in the history of American entertainment. Variety began as a New York weekly publication covering vaudeville, however, its scope expanded over time to include legitimate theatre, burlesque, motion pictures, radio, and television (transitions that the MHDL will eventually document within this record). In 1933, Daily Variety was launched in Los Angeles to offer in-depth coverage of the motion picture industry and serve as a competitor to The Hollywood Reporter, which was founded 'on the Coast' in 1930. In March 2013, Variety's owner ended the print edition of Daily Variety, though as of this writing, the weekly publication and a website offering non-stop news updates still exist. Variety may ultimately be best remembered for its integration of show business slang into entertainment trade coverage. Boffo. Hokum. Quickies. Svelte. Climaxer. Tenpercenter. Coastlander. Skein. We're still feeling zowied. -- Eric Hoyt, 2013
Date Added:
August 29, 2022
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22 VARIETY Wednesday, December 29, 1937 HOLLYWOOD HOTEL is a cinch to cop new box-office records—a knockout show for any man's theatre!" —Hollywood Reporter "Push HOLLYWOOD HOTEL for all it's worth - - it's a picture that's headed for top grosses everywhere!"-Motion Picture Daily HOLLYWOOD HOTEL is smash entertainment with box-office draw from first-runs to the smallest theatres!"-Foriefv "... There's no room for doubt that HOLLYWOOD HOTEL wdl live up to Its bdlmg and beyond !"-Mo//o,« Picture Hemid DIGK POWELL ROSEMARY UNE HUGH HERBERT LOLA LANE • GLENDA FARRELL JOHNNIE DAVIS •ALAN MOWBRAY MABEL TODD • AllYN JOSUN • EDGAR KENNEDY THE HOLLYWOOD HOTEL PROGRAM with LOUELLA PARSONS FRANCES LANGFORD • JERRY COOPER KEN NILES • DUANE THOMPSON RAYMOND PAIGE & HIS ORCHESTRA BENNY GOODMAN & HIS SWING BAND Directed by BUSBY BERKELEY Screen Play by Jerry Wald, Maurice Leo and Richard Macauley • Original Story by Jerry Wald and Maurice Leo - A First National Picture Packed with Hit-Paraders by Dick Whiting and Johnny Mercer, composers of "Have You Got Any Castles?^* ''I'VE HITCHEP MY WAGON TO A STAR'^ V'SILHOUETTEO IN THE MOONUGHr^"Ln THAT BE A LESSON TO YOU " 'TM LIKE A FISH OUT OF WATER" and ''HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD" • "CANT TEACH MY OLD HEART NEW TRICKS"*''rVE GOT A HEARTFUi OF MUSib" • "SING YOU SON OF A GUN" is Warner Bros: Answer to the Exhibitors' Dream!" —Hollywood Reporter