Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1936)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul - Dec 1936
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1936)
Leaf #:
00019
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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BY RUTH WATERBURV J GAVE the Photoplay Medal for the picture you voted as the best of 1935, "Naughty Marietta," to Nelson Eddy one recent warm spring evening in Manhattan. It was the night of his final broadcast for the season. The next day he was returning to Hollywood to resume his picture career, so the occasion had special meaning for him. Only the week before he had fainted just as he signed off the air, the whole six feet of him sprawling out upon the carpet under the microphone. He had collapsed that evening from overwork and fatigue, though the immediate cause was his stopping to give dozens and dozens of autographs to the great crowd of fans who had rushed into the room. He stood there writing in that dead, oppressive air of a radio studio until he couldn't take it any more. But the evening of the medal award he was feeling fit and gay and after we had gone through the inevitable formality of taking pictures of I he event, he began to be natural and went bounding all over the studio, hi! ting the medal on things to make sure it was really gold. (It really is.) Nelson Eddy rece:ves, for M G-M. Producer Hunt Stromberg (left). Jeanette MacDonald. Mr. Eddy's co-star, and others of the cast of "Naughty Marietta," Photoplay's Medal for the best picture of 1935. ^^TATCHING him, beaming upon him if the t nil li must be told, I realized that here is the best example of the public's intuitive response to the genuine personality of an actor. The public senses instantly what a thoroughly hue, thoroughly unspoiled person this Eddy man is, and reacts accordingly. Since "Naughty Marietta" no other man has in any way approached his record for Ian letters received, even though the screen is yet to present him to the best possible advantage.