Movie Classic (Mar-Aug 1936)

Record Details:

Title:
Movie Classic
Date:
Mar-Aug 1936
Publisher:
Motion Picture Publications, inc.
Volume:
Movie Classic (Mar-Aug 1936)
Leaf #:
000207
Language:
English
Collection:
Fan Magazines
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Originally Motion Picture Classic (first issue 1915), renamed Movie Classic in September 1931. Sold as 'The Newsreel of the Newstands'; on par with Picture Play and Screenland in terms of content, quality, and circulation (solid but below that of Photoplay, et. al.) until it was absorbed by Motion Picture in 1937. -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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IRENE DU ALLANJONES BEYOND QUESTION THE GREATEST SHOW-EVENT OF THE YEAR FOR ALL AGES THIS 1936 version of Edna Ferber's superb story of the "SHOW BOAT/' compared with which every production of its type pales into insignificance, is characterized by GLAMOUR— FASCINATING ROMANCE — BEAUTIFUL, LONG-TO-BEREMEMBERED NEW MUSIC, new lyrics plus your old favorites, by the masters of melody, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, SCENIC MARVELS and ARTISTS OF RENOWN. We can't enumerate it s multitude of attractions. It will be a striking event in all theatres. A CARL LAEMMLE, JR, production — directed by JAMES WHALE, IT'S A UNIVERSAL, OF COURSE! Movie Classic for May, 1936 13