The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

Page scan 000753 from The New Movie Magazine

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 #:
000753
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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WHEN THE STARS WERE EXTRAS By ROSALIND SHAFFER Betty Bronson, relatively inexperienced, was selected because she was unknown for the name role in "Peter Pan." It seemed for a while as if she would be a great bet as a star. A few roles in ordinary clothes, in ordinary situations, and Betty seemed through. Now she is doing her best to build a career for herself. Olive Borden skyrocketed to dizzy heights after insufficient extra work and bit work. She was drawing a salary of twelve hundred a week at the Fox studio at the end of a year, mainly because of her beauty. When she asked for a salary increase, the studio did not renew its contract. It was a bitter lesson for Olive. She began to take stock like a sensible girl, went back to work and laid a foundation for a career. Now she is featured by Radio Pictures. ONE is bound to wonder when one hears stars recount their experiences as extras and bit players, how directors passed them up for so long. Alberta Vaughn, in her starring days at FBO was one day honored by the fact that Charley Farrell and Janet Gaynor worked as extras on her set. An assistant director got unbearably rude with his remarks to Charley and Janet and the other extras but, when Charley began to boil, and was getting ready to push him in the nose, Alberta scolded him and told him he must not do such a thing, as the assistant was a brother of the man who was one of the owners of the company. Can you imagine any director overlooking the wistful Janet, and bawling out the good-natured Farrell boy? In "Rosita" with Mary Pickford, Charley had to carry Most of the girls who played models in Leatrice Joy's "The Dressmaker From Paris" attained subsequent screen success. Top row, left to right: Olive Borden, Majel Coleman, Jocelyn Lee. Middle row: Thais Valdemar, Sally Rand, Clara Morris. Cecille Evans, Yola D'Avril, Etta Lee and Adalyn Mayer. Lower row: Sally Long, Eugenie Gilbert, Miss Joy, Cristina Montt, and Dorothy Seastrom.