Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan - Jun 1943
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1943)
Leaf #:
00014
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Early Cinema, Fan Magazines, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The leading Hollywood fan magazine of the 1920s and 1930s. Photoplay offered readers portraits of their favorite movie stars and stories about their personal lives. The magazine played an important promotional function for the Hollywood industry, but its editors and reviewers could also be highly critical of Hollywood. Beginning in 1921, Photoplay bestowed its annual 'Medal of Honor' for the film readers voted as the best of the year. -- Eric Hoyt, 2011.
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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a: REVIEWING MOVIES OF THE MONTH A reliable guide to recent pictures. One check means good; two checks, outstanding ^T Snappy little movie:. Victor Mature, Lucille Ball in "Seven Days Leave" ^ Seven Days Leave (RKO-Radio) It's About: An Army private who has seven days to meet and marry a girl. HUNK of man Mature takes leave of pictures for the Coast Guard in a lively, jivey, tuneful, snappy, little mojvie. Vic learns through a radio show he's a missing heir. But in order to collect his money, according to his grandfather's will, he must meet and marry a certain girl. Vic has seven days leave to perform the miracle and, being Vic, he dood it. Lucille Ball is the girl who spurns Vic's gall and then falls for it. Little Marcy McGuire makes her screen debut and clicks solidly. Mapy Cortes is another newcomer who shows great promise. Freddy Martin furnishes the swell music and Hal Peary's (the Great Gildersleeve) laugh is everywhere. A homely little thing labeled Arnold Stang, who plays a pal of Vic's, is a riot. Peter Hayes, another pal. is terrific in his imitations. Ginny Simms simply wows with her rendition of "Can't Get Out Of This Mood." Your Reviewer Says: It just oozes good fun. Laugh riot: Irresistible Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour in "Road To Morocco" ^ Road To Morocco (Paramount) It's About: Two scallawags in the Orient. HERE they are again, those irrepressible, irresponsible, irresistible B boys of the screen — Bing and Bob — in another laugh riot. Out to kid themselves, their studio, the customers and the picture, Hope and Crosby start out on a raft and end up on a raft, but, oh boy, what goes on in between! Stranded in Morocco, hungry and broke, Crosby sells Hope to a sheik for a cozy bunch of mazuma. When Crosby is warned in his dream by a favorite aunt, a Hope impersonation, to locate Bob, he does. And guess where the plump little rascal is? In Dorothy Lamour's boudoir! When Dorothy's sheik lover gets wind of the goings-on, Hope tries to slough her off on Bing. All three get caught, however, and from there on in it's a series of calamities, with talking camels putting in their two cents' worth. What a picture! We're still laughing. Dona Drake is a cutie; Anthony Quinn makes an alarming sheik. Your Reviewer Says: It's a howl. Colorful romance: Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara in "The Black Swan" ^ The Black Swan (20th Century-Fox) It's About: The love-making of a reformed pirate. TALK about rowdy, gusty, colorful stories of romance — this, my friends, is it. It's a man's tale that women will love. Tyrone Power scores mightily as Jamey Boy, a pirate who casts his lot with Laird Cregar, former pirate who has become Governor of Jamaica. With the aid of Thomas Mitchell. Tyrone Power and the rest of his plunderers set out to clear the seas of three former comrades, including George Sanders in the most magnificent red wig and beard imaginable. Enamored of the beautiful Maureen O'Hara, daughter of the former governor, and spurned constantly by his lady fair, Tyrone kidnaps her on his way to the sea. Need we say she eventually scorns her former and traitorous suitor, Edward Ashley, for Jamey Boy. Miss O'Hara is wondrously beautiful. Power comes forth with one of his best performances. In fact, the whole cast is top-notch. Your Reviewer Says: A gorgeous riot. (Continued on page 81) For Best Pictures of the Month and Best Performances See Page 82 For Complete Casts of Current Pictures See Page 94 For Brief Reviews of Current Pictures See Page 14 PHOTOPLAY COr IVIE MIRROR