Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1927)

Page scan 000649 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul - Dec 1927
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1927)
Leaf #:
000649
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:
July 25, 2024
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names. New faces. New spirit abroad in Hollywood is its slogan By Ruth Waterbury Gary Cooper Josephine Dunn Richard Arlen ford, Junior Coughlan, Jeanette Loff, Joseph Striker, Sally Rand. Universal, pushing aside a couple of Germans, highlights Barbara Kent, Arthur Lake, George Lewis, Raymond Keane, and a real boy cowboy, Newton House. First National close-ups on Alice White, Yola d'Avril, Maria Corda, Gilbert Roland, JohnWestwood, Loretta Young, Donald Reed. Warner's have Dolores Costello. Even United Artists, where good stars go when they die, has among its tired profiles that vibrant daughter of the Dons, Dolores del Rio. This, however, is largely accident, for it is not quite polite to be young at United Artists. Dolores is under contract to Edwin Carewe and her success has been achieved all over Hollywood, at First National, Fox, Inspiration, Metro, wherever Eddie farmed her out. Now Eddie belongs to United Artists and when Dolores makes "Ramona," United Artists will release it. Consider the miracle of it, names unknown two years ago, world famous today, names world famous yesterday shunned tomorrow. The motion picture industry deals essentially in commodities and its greatest commodity today is youth. Youth is the common dream of all mankind. Childhood looks forward to it, age looks back at it, but [ continued ox page 134 ] Comes the second dawn in the movies, heralded by whole constellations of new stars in the movie sky. The older stars, overshadowed by the glow of the newly discovered, have become as pale sparks, twinkling feebly. Already many of them have set in the uncharted ocean of movie oblivion, their frescoed charms and starring vehicles worthless compared to the unstudied splendor of the young lights now holding the world's attention. Paramount's Hall boy, James, the sheba slayer Thelma Todd 47