Hollywood Studio Magazine (December 1971)

Page scan 00028 from Hollywood Studio Magazine

Record Details:

Title:
Hollywood Studio Magazine
Date:
December 1971
Publisher:
San Fernando Valley Pub. Co.
Volume:
Hollywood Studio Magazine (December 1971)
Leaf #:
00028
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Recorded Sound",Vaudeville,Theatre,Broadcastin
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Hollywood Studio System
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Hollywood Studio Magazine was published out of the San Fernando Valley in various iterations (and various titles) from 1966 until 1992. What started as a local organ aimed at the workers of Hollywood ended as a nostalgic fan magazine about Hollywood Then and Now. The various title changes and revisions to its mission reflect not just the economic realities of magazine publishing, but a changing relationship to Hollywood and the industry itself. The earliest issues of Studio Magazine read like a house organ of a steady, entrenched industry documenting the comings and goings and notable events of the San Fernando Valley, with special emphasis on Universal. Fandom first became part of the discourse of the magazine through collecting. The Collectors’ Column page beginning in the early 1970s allowed memorabilia collectors to advertise their wares to each other. In 1983, the founder of the magazine, Dorothy Denny gave over the reins to Ralph Benner, the founder of Tiger Beat. This marks the clear separation between the original publication and its focus on Hollywood production culture and the move toward a publication centered on star narratives and fan culture. In covering the two and a half decades from the collapse of the system to the point where classical movie stars were phantoms instead of living people, the magazine offers insight into the transformation of old Hollywood from a lived reality to a memory to a myth.
-- Luci Marzola
Date Added:
February 15, 2024
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BARBARA SNEED, comedian Godfrey Cambridge, Henry and Shirlee Fonda, and Belafonte himself at the post-opening supper dance of Belafonte’s smash show at Los Angeles’ Pavillion. *** ROBERT GOULET, singer Tony Bennett, Totie Fields and Don Rickies, giggling over San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, frosting on the cake for Bennett s opening at the Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, after a six-year absence. *** was with them during Tony’s stint at the Riviera. Hard to believe it’s been 20 years since an insecure 24-year-old boy turned calypso-folk singing into an open market for new sex symbols. Harold George Belafonte, Jr. was born in Harlem of a Jamaican mother and Martinique father (on both sides he had white grandparents). A high school dropout, he joined the Navy in 1944 and when he was discharged tried unsuccessfully to be an actor. He switched to singing because “Broadway had only Uncle Tom parts for me.” His engagement at the Music Center Pavilion racked up $275,956, the biggest gross of a single topliner in the theatre’s history. He’s not only making records - he’s breaking them. Opening night Harry’s business associate and friend of 17 years, Mike Merrick and his pretty Diane gave a postshow supper-dance upstairs in the Eldorado Room. Harry switched from open shirt and tight pants to black tie and dinner jacket and still looked ten years younger than his age (44). Naturally, his wife of 14 years, Julie, was by his side. Lena Horne, probably the most beautiful woman in the world (and 1 should probably cut “probably”), made her first public appearance since the death of her husband. Others were Harry’s friend from the days of struggle at the American Negro Theatre, Sidney Poitier with Joanna Shimkus; Jane and Edward G. Robinson, taciturn and twangy Henry Fonda with his young, fifth wife, Shirlee; Dolly and Dick Martin, Gail Fisher with her estranged husband, John Levy, Janet (Leigh) and Bob Brandt, and Marilyn Reiss (the hosfs business partner). Turn to Page 35 been one of them.” Ironically, the reluctant comedienne was so successful, she was brought to Hollywood for the movie version. But after a less than spectacular screen career, the robustious lady-Hamlet returned to Broadway to star in “Look "Ma, I’m Dancin’,” “On the Town,” and other hits. Following a brief marriage to Gar Moore, Nancy married music coach David Craig. They moved here last year from the East with their daughter Miranda, 18, who was with them at an opening night cast party. 29