The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The New Movie Magazine
Date:
Dec 1929-May 1930
Publisher:
Tower Magazines, inc.
Volume:
The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)
Leaf #:
000174
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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do the things they think are the most elegant — but there are new standards in Hollywood. For this incredible colony has a source of elegance. A guide. In the smarter motion pictures there are examples of how to act in society. THE HOLLYWOOD SET WHICH EARNS FABULOUS SUMS ACTING IN THE MOVIES GOES TO THESE SELF-SAME MOVIES TO FIND OUT HOW TO ACT IN "SOCIETY". THE average parties given by movie stars are, therefore, as extravagant and as impossible — and as dull — as the parties you see on the screen. In the future perhaps the conversation will be helped by the talkies. Up to now, the parties have been following the silent 50 films and the talk concerns itself wholly, conceitedly and illiterately with the motion-picture industry. The stars, as hosts and hostesses, and as guests, too, are bad-tempered and stupid. They have assumed the ridiculous and laughable manners of "the best people" — as portrayed on the screen — and they have added bad manners of their own. They are almost entirely without training, breeding or culture, as we have been taught to recognize it, and almost bereft of gentler feelings and instincts. Actual wild life exists, I believe, in a still lower layer, which I was luckily spared. The scandals are relatively mild — those of any newly-rich class that has about a moron's mental attainment. There are, of course, exceptions even in Hollywood.