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Box Office Digest (1941)
feojc Office (Zep&itd.: 'High Sierra' Week's Money Pic i>ee Pacje 5 * -i; r&; ?v^ • . -VT£i < - : -& % W 1 617 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeies, Calif. Subscription Rate, #10.00 Per Year. .he Hex Ojfjfice DIGEST "HONOR BOX” The Biggest Grossing Release Of The Past Week This Week WARNERS wins with 'HIGH SIERRA' 115% Vice-Prcs. in Charge of Production Executive Producer Associate Producer Director JACK L. WARNER HAL WALLIS MARK HELLINGER RAOUL WALSH IDA LUPINO HUMPHREY BOGART Screenplay Featured ALAN CURTIS JOHN HUSTON ARTHUR KENNEDY W. R. BURNETT JOAN LESLIE HENRY HULL JEROME COWAN From Novel MINNA GOMBELL by BARTON McLANE W. R. BURNETT ELIZABETH RISDON CORNEL WILDE DONALD MacBRIDE PAUL HARVEY Photographer ISABEL JEWELL TONY GAUDIO WLLIE BEST SPENCER CHARTERS HENRY TRAVERS — ^Ue &Q4C Ofjfjice. ^JUe OnAuAisuyL DIGEST l/UeeJzhf, ENTERTAINMENT An Editorial by ROBERT E. WELSH The modest Editor last week murmered about the fact that it is release of life’s problems through zanie laughs, or complete the picture industry needs no legislative chiding—Senatorial abandonment of today’s calendar by adventure into glorious or otherwise—to tell it that heavy-handed propaganda, no mat- history, the first requirement of money-making entertainment ter for what side of an argument, is not selling theater tickets. is to take the customer away from his own daily problems. He just invited the attention of the pundits to the box office Above all, don’t aggravate those problems by preaching figures. And mentioned some of the pictures that were proving and especially sermonizing so effectively about the tragedies of the surprises. -
September 8, 2009 (XIX:2) Raoul Walsh HIGH SIERRA (1941, 100 Min)
September 8, 2009 (XIX:2) Raoul Walsh HIGH SIERRA (1941, 100 min) Directed by Raoul Walsh Screenplay by John Huston and W.R. Burnett Cinematography by Tony Gaudio Ida Lupino...Marie Humphrey Bogart...Roy Earle Alan Curtis...'Babe' Arthur Kennedy...'Red' Joan Leslie...Velma Henry Hull...'Doc' Banton Henry Travers...Pa Jerome Cowan...Healy Minna Gombell...Mrs. Baughmam Barton MacLane...Jake Kranmer Elisabeth Risdon...Ma Cornel Wilde...Louis Mendoza George Meeker...Pfiffer Zero the Dog...Pard RAOUL WALSH (11 March 1887, NYC—31 December 1980, Simi Valley, CA), directed 136 films, the last of which was A Distant Trumpet (1964). Some of the others were The Naked and the Dead (1958), Band of Angels (1957), The King and Four Queens (1956), officials they kept it under lock and key for 25 years because they Battle Cry (1955), Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952), Along the Great were convinced that if the American public saw Huston’s scenes of Divide (1951), Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.(1951), White American soldiers crying and suffering what in those days was Heat (1949), Cheyenne (1947), The Horn Blows at Midnight called “shellshock” and “battle fatigue” they would have an even (1945), They Died with Their Boots On (1941), High Sierra more difficult time getting Americans to go off and get themselves (1941), They Drive by Night (1940), The Roaring Twenties (1939), killed in future wars. One military official accused Huston of being Sadie Thompson (1928), What Price Glory (1926), Thief of “anti-war,” to which he replied, “If I ever make a pro-war film I Baghdad (1924), Evangeline (1919), Blue Blood and Red (1916), hope they take me out and shoot me.” During his long career he The Fatal Black Bean (1915), Who Shot Bud Walton? (1914) and made a number of real dogs e.g. -
Picture Show Annual (1942)
PS HIM fkf *1(5 /«rA W/’hen we think of the heroism of the Fighting Services, the Mercantile Marine, the Fire fighters, the A.R.P., the many Corps of Women’s Auxiliary Services, Doctors, Nurses and staffs of Hospitals, and, above all, the heroism and spirit of self-sacrifice shown by the women and children of cities, towns and hamlets which have been bombed incessantly by the Nazi murderers, it may sound Raymond Massey (right) and not only presumptuous but downright swank to ” suggest that films Eric Postman in 49th the have played any really important part in the War. Parallel.” Eric Portman is a World But I have hesitation in saying that the screen U-boat officer who attempts no has played a very important part. I think to escape from Canada to the we may divide, roughly, the part the films have played into United States but is out- manoeuvred by Raymond showing us, firstly, what Nazism really means and Massey. what we are fighting against, and, secondly, how we are fighting the greatest menace to Civilisation since Democracy was established as the keystone of the arch of Civilisation. Democracy is easily explained. The great Lincoln. President of the first really United States of America, described it as Govern- ment of the People, by the People, for the People. The emblem of Republican France was Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. In England, and later in the British Empire, the meaning was Freedom of speech and action, Una Merkel and W. C. Fields in so long as it did not interfere with the " The Bank Detective.” Freedom of others. -
Motion Picture Reviews (1939)
MOTION PICTURE REVI m WOMEN'S UIIIWMirmUB LOS ANGELES CALIE Vo l. XIII 1939 MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS JANUARY 19 3 9 CONTENTS A Christmas Carol The Dawn Patrol Exposed The Girl Downstairs Going Places Heart of the North His Exciting Night Kentucky Little Orphan Annie Little Tough Guys in Society Pacific Liner Paris Honeymoon Pygmalion Ride a Crooked Mile Secrets of a Nurse Sweethearts Swing That Cheer Thanks for Everything Tom Sawyer, Detective Trade Winds Zaza THE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY CLUB LOS ANGELES CALIF ORNIA 10c Per Copy $1.00 a Year Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 with funding from Media History Digital Library https://archive.org/details/motionpicturerev00wome_8 — MOTION PICTURE REVIEWS Three MOTION * PICTURE * REVIEWS Published, monthly by THE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY CLUB LOS ANGELES BRANCH AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN Mrs. Palmer Cook, General Co-Chairman Mrs. John Vruwink, General Co-Chairman Mrs. Chester A. Ommanney, Preview Chairman Mrs. Thomas B. Williamson, Assistant Preview Chairman Mrs. Francis Poyas, Subscription Chairman Cooperating Branches Long Beach Glendale Santa Monica Whittier EDITORS Mrs. Palmer Cook Mrs. J. Allen Davis Mrs. George Ryall Mrs. John Vruwink Address all communications to The Women’s University Club, 943 South Hoover Street, Los Angeles, California 10c Per Copy - - $1.00 Per Year Vol. XIII JANUARY, 1939 No. 1 Copyright 1938 by Women's University Club of Los Angeles FEATURE FILMS A CHRISTMAS CAROL O O THE DAWN PATROL O O Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Errol Flynn, David Niven, Basil Rathbone, Lockhart, Terry Kilburn, Barry Mackay, Donald Crisp, Melville Cooper, Barry Fitz- Lynne Carver, Leo G. -
WRAP THESIS Pillai 2012.Pdf
University of Warwick institutional repository: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of Warwick http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap/50024 This thesis is made available online and is protected by original copyright. Please scroll down to view the document itself. Please refer to the repository record for this item for information to help you to cite it. Our policy information is available from the repository home page. The Happy Couple: American Marriages in Hollywood Films 1934-1948 Nicolas Pillai A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Film Department of Film and Television Studies University of Warwick April 2012 Table of Contents List of illustrations………………………………………………….6 Acknowledgements…………………………………………………7 Abstract……………………………………………………………..9 Introduction……………………………………………………….10 Review of the literature Cavell’s couples……………………………………………………20 Challenging Cavell: David R. Shumway…………………………..24 The problem of happiness………………………………………….26 Spaces of comedy and melodrama…………………………………31 Spaces of performance……………………………………………..35 Couples and cycles…………………………………………………38 Performance: Virginia Wright Wexman…………………………...42 Performance: James Naremore……………………………………..45 Performance: Andrew Klevan……………………………………...48 Defining ‘chemistry’……………………………………………….51 Marriage and its contexts: Kathrina Glitre…………………………54 1. Partners in Crime: marriage and mystery in film series…..58 The seduction of crime……………………………………………..61 Watching the detectives…………………………………………….64 -
National Box Office Digest Annual (1943)
TECHNICOLOR pictures place first and second in m3 according to BoxOfficePigest TECHNICOLOR MOTION PICTURE CORPORATION HERBERT T. KALMUS President and General Manager Productions [: For Paramount Preparing: "STORM" "RHYTHM RANCH" "ONE BODY TOO MANY" Root O^ice DIGEST Annual Buy MORE War Bonds Third Victory Loan Drive The Big Ten. TITLES AND DIST. ESTIMATED GROSS PRODUCER DIRECTOR STAR MRS MINIVER 1. Sydney Franklin $5,000,000 MGM William Wyler Greer Garson YANKEE DOODLE DANDY Hal Wallis 2. WAR Vi m. Cagney Michael Curtiz James Cagney S $4,500,000 ROAD TO MOROCCO Bing Crosby 3. PAR Paid Jones David Butler Bob Hope $3,750,000 Dorothy Lamour REAP THE WILD Ray Milland WIND John Wayne ! 4. PAR C. B. DeMille C. B. DeMille Paulette Goddard $3,500,000 BLACK SWAN 5. FOX Robert Bassler Henry King Tyrone Power $3,000,000 SOMEWHERE Clark Gable I’LL FIND YOU Pan Berman W esley Ruggles 6. MGM Lana Turner $2,500,000 HOLIDAY INN Bing Crosby 7. PAR B. C. DeSylva Mark Sandrich $2,225,000 Fred Astaire EAGLE SQUADRON Walter Wanger Arthur Luhin 8. $2,100,000 UNIV LOUISIANA PURCHASE 9. PAR B. C. DeSylva Irving Cummings Bob Hope $2,100,000 Harold Wilson PRIDE OF THE 10. RKO Samuel Goldwyn Sam W ood Gary Cooper YANKEES Names and Credits of the Box Office “Big Ten” for 1942 ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY j FEATURED FILM EDITOR CAMERAMAN WRITERS WRITERS Arthur Wimperas Walter Pidgeon George Froeshel Teresa Wright Jan Struther Harold Kress Joe Ruttenberg Reginald Owen James Hilton Richard Ney Claudine West Walter Huston Joan Leslie Robert Buckner Robert Buckner George Amy James Wong Howe ■ George Tobias Edmund Joseph Jeanne Cagney Frank Butler Frank Butler Anthony Quinn Irene Morra William Mellor Don Hartman Don Hartman Robert Preston Alan LeMay Victor Milner Susan Hayward Thelma Straybell Charles Bennett Anne Bauchens Raymond Massey Wm. -
Lobby Cards Gift of Professor Rennard Strickland
Strickland Collection of Law and Popular Culture Lobby Cards Gift of Professor Rennard Strickland Print Number Year of Image Movie Title Format Year Distributor Director Actors Notes Number in Set Gift Lobby Abandon Ship! 1957 Columbia Richard Sale Tyrone Power 57/71 1 title card 2011 Card Lobby Abandon Ship! 1957 Columbia Richard Sale Tyrone Power 57/71 2 2011 Card Print Number Year of Image Movie Title Format Year Distributor Director Actors Notes Number in Set Gift Lobby Abandon Ship! 1957 Columbia Richard Sale Tyrone Power 57/71 3 2011 Card Lobby Abandon Ship! 1957 Columbia Richard Sale Tyrone Power 57/71 4 2011 Card Lobby Abandon Ship! 1957 Columbia Richard Sale Tyrone Power 57/71 5 2011 Card Lobby Abandon Ship! 1957 Columbia Richard Sale Tyrone Power 57/71 6 2011 Card Lobby Abandon Ship! 1957 Columbia Richard Sale Tyrone Power 57/71 7 2011 Card Print Number Year of Image Movie Title Format Year Distributor Director Actors Notes Number in Set Gift Lobby Abandon Ship! 1957 Columbia Richard Sale Tyrone Power 57/71 8 2011 Card Lobby Universal- Dennis O'Keefe; Abandoned 1949 Joe Newman 49/461 2011 Card International Gale Storm Paul Newman; Lobby Absence of Malice 1981 Columbia Sydney Pollack Sally Field; Bob 810169 2 2011 Card Balaban Spring Byington; According to Mrs. Lobby Jean 1951 Monogram Anthony Caruso; 51/166 2013 Hoyle Card Yarborough Brett King Spring Byington; According to Mrs. Lobby Jean 1951 Monogram Anthony Caruso; 51/166 2013 Hoyle Card Yarborough Brett King Print Number Year of Image Movie Title Format Year Distributor -
{PDF EPUB} Blondie Goes to Hollywood the Blondie Comic Strip In
Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Blondie Goes to Hollywood The Blondie Comic Strip in Films Radio & Television by Carol Lynn Scherlin Blondie Goes to Hollywood: the Blondie Comic Strip in Films, Radio & Television. ndie, I Love Lucy, and The Twilight Zone all have in common? What did Chic Young, the cartoonist who created the Blondie comic strip, think of the films? Blondie Goes To Hollywood is the first and only book to answer these questions and tell the untold story of the Blondie films from their creation, their successes, and the tragedies of its stars, supporting cast, and crew. Author Carol Lynn Scherling chronicles the years that the Blondie comic strip was turned into a twenty-eight-film franchise at Columbia Pictures during 1938-1950. Discover how the story evolved into a long-running radio show and several short-lived American television series. Find out about the business venture involving Daisy, the canine co-star, and Arthur Lake, the actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the bumbling husband of Blondie, to life in films, on Old Time Radio, and on television. Learn little known trivia about the other actors and actresses, such as Penny Singleton as Blondie, Larry Simms as Baby Dumplings/Alexander Bumstead, Majorie Ann Mutchie as Cookie Bumstead, Jonathan Hale as Mr. Dithers, Danny Mummert as Alvin Fuddle, and Jerome Cowan as Mr. Radcliffe. Introduction by Will Hutchins, who starred as Dagwood in a Blondie CBS television series (1968-1969). Detailed synopses of each movie. Illustrated. 212 pages. KEYWORDS Blondie, I Love Lucy,