Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1956)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1956
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1956)
Leaf #:
000501
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema, Fan Magazines, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
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 BEVERLY OTT • Those who know in Hollywood say that 1956 will he Doris Day’s year. This fact was confirmed the morning it was announced that she had been signed to star in M-G-M’s new musical version of “Anna Christie,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning play and former Garbo film. Musical or no, the role calls for an actress of great capability and sensitivity, and everyone is saying the new Doris Day will do that role full justice. However, those in Hollywood who know even more say that — not just 1956 — but every year is Doris Day’s year. For proof, they point to the record of her growth as an actress; to her emergence as one of Hollywood’s best-loved citizens; and to her unlimited faith in the future. When Doris first stepped from a bandstand onto the Warner Brothers soundstages, {Continued on page 110)