The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

Record Details:

Title:
The New Movie Magazine
Date:
Jan-Sep 1935
Publisher:
Tower Magazines, inc.
Volume:
The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)
Leaf #:
00047
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:
Relatively short-lived magazine that nonetheless played a crucial role in the gossip industry. Launched in 1929, it cost only ten cents, when the majority of high-end magazines sold for a quarter. It was also primarily sold through Woolworth’s five and dime stores; the combination of cost and accessibility led to its dominance, by 1933, over all other magazines (circulation: 650,000). As a result, the other magazines decreased their price to match New Movie’s. New Movie had less content and poorer quality drawings and illustrations, but the content similar in tone and quality to that of the high end magazines. Ceased publication in 1935. -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
June 06, 2024
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The picture George M. Cohan made in Hollywood was a failure, but it wasn't his fault. Cohan does a little bit of clowning between fakes on "Gambling," for Dorothy Burgess, Director Rowland V. Lee, and the vivacious Wynne Gibson. Left: Dorothy Burgess steps into a close-up with Broadway's own "song-and-dance man," who has been called the theater's most gifted jack-of-all-trades. Dancer, playwright, actor, song-writer, millionaire, Cohan is not too proud to lend a helping hand with a curling-iron. WILL THE STARS COME TO NEW YORK? Talent of all kinds is plentiful in the East. One player in "Once in a Blue Moon" is the rotund Nikita Balieff, of the famous Russian Ballet. Right: Jimmy Savo, whom the picture stars, also failed in Hollywood, though his fame in vaudeville is international. With him here is Whitney Bourne who co-stars in this production. The studios hinted they'd leave California if Upton Sinclair was elected governor. Would it be so awful? Take a look at these stiHs of pictures now shooting at the studios in the East The East goes in for realism. Needing gypsies for extras, the studio hired real ones. Lovely Edwina Armstrong's is a name you've never heard, yet she may steal the picture and stardom. The New Movie Magazine, January, 1935 39