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 #:
000175
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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Money does not necessarily mean stupidity there. One of the most charming hostesses I have ever known anywhere lives in Hollywood — Mrs. Antonio Moreno, wife of Antonio Moreno, the screen star. Mrs. Moreno's parties, whether she gives them in her immense and perfectly appointed Hollywood home or in her suite at the Ritz in New York or Paris or in Spain are lovely. Her guests are carefully chosen. (Chorus of my best friends: "Hey, how do you get in?"). The food is grand. The entertainment stimulating. But then, Mrs. Moreno did not depend on sudden Hollywood wealth for her background. OTHER exceptions in Hollywood are the little sets which remain curiously aloof from the taint of sudden movie gold. These are usually Eastern actors and actresses or writers who have come to Hollywood to make money and are making and saving it and who, while they {Continued on page 116) The average parties given by movie stars, says Mrs. Winslow, are as extravagantand asimpossible — and as dull — as the parties you see on the screen. The stars, as hosts and hostesses, and as guests, too, are bad-tempered and stupid. Each star acts as if he or she had an individual spotlight. The famous film folk, says Mrs. Winslow, never forget their stardom. 51