Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul - Dec 1916
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1916)
Leaf #:
000270
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Early Cinema, Fan Magazines, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
The leading Hollywood fan magazine of the 1920s and 1930s. Photoplay offered readers portraits of their favorite movie stars and stories about their personal lives. The magazine played an important promotional function for the Hollywood industry, but its editors and reviewers could also be highly critical of Hollywood. Beginning in 1921, Photoplay bestowed its annual 'Medal of Honor' for the film readers voted as the best of the year. -- Eric Hoyt, 2011.
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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Photoplay Magazine An unusual pose of Griffith and three former humble Biographers, Blanche Sweet, Mary Pickford, and, at the bottom, Dorothy Gish at the age oj seven in her first stage play, " Hei First False Step." photographer for the Biograph as he now is for Griffith, and he was then not permitted to do any work for an invader like the stranger fellow who had put into the few feet of Dolly's adventures more beauty, more thrill, more vivid interest, in fact more drama, than had been seen before in a dozen pictures. He was given Arthur Marvin as his first photographer. Marvin was described by Griffith as an expert photographer who was seldom afflicted with exuberance of ambition. He would sometimes refer to himself as "the captain of the good ship 'Take-ItEasy.' with nine decks and no bottom. which sails on forever, and forever sails on." Me probably did have some hankering for Bitzer's job ; not enviously, but in confidence in his own ability : but his master's certificate as skipper of "Take-ItEasy" forbade any such event. "There was one occasion." says Griffith in talking over this companion of his early fighting days, "when Marvin took great satisfaction in what he considered 'putting it over Bitzer.' "We were taking a canoeing scene ; the