Martin Quigley (publisher)
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Martin Joseph Quigley Sr. (May 6, 1890 – May 4, 1964)''Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''.
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publisher, editor and film magazine journalist. He founded '' Exhibitors Herald'', which became an important national trade paper for the film industry. He was also the founder of Quigley Publishing.


Publishing and journalism career

Born in
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, Quigley began his career as a police reporter in Chicago in 1910. He purchased the film trade journal ''Exhibitors Herald'' in 1915. Two years later, he acquired and merged ''
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''. In 1927, he acquired and merged ''
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'' and began publishing as ''Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World'', later shortened to ''Exhibitors Herald World''. After acquiring ''
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'' in 1930, he merged these publications into the ''
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''. Quigley followed this shortly after with the merger of his remaining three publications, ''Exhibitors Trade Review'', ''Exhibitors Daily Review'', and ''Motion Pictures Today'' to form ''
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''. In 1929, ''
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'' was first published and was published annually.


Role in Motion Picture Production Code

Quigley was an active proponent and co-author of the
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, which governed the content of Hollywood movies from the 1930s to the 1960s. A devout Catholic, he began lobbying in the 1920s for a more extensive code that not only listed material that was inappropriate for movies, but also contained a moral system that the movies could help to promote – specifically a system based on Catholic theology. He recruited Father Daniel Lord, a Jesuit priest and instructor at the Catholic
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, to write such a code and on March 31, 1930 the board of directors of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association adopted it formally. This original version especially was once popularly known as the Hays Code, but it and its later revisions are now commonly called the Production Code.


Personal life and death

Quigley held staunch conservative views particularly in the film industry. His son,
Martin Quigley Jr. Martin Quigley Jr. (November 24, 1917 – February 5, 2011) was a publisher of film magazines, an author and a politician twice elected mayor of Larchmont, New York. Journalism and publishing He was the son of Martin Quigley (1890–1964). His f ...
, who shared his views, became active in the editing and publication of the various periodicals established by his father, but had far less impact due to the changing times and the decline of the Code. Quigley Sr. died at
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in
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in 1964, two days before his 74th birthday.


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