Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1939)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul - Dec 1939
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1939)
Leaf #:
000302
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Fan Magazines, Hollywood Studio System, and Early Cinema
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:
June 20, 2024
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If ^ JZ* m HHHf * Agj Bfc 'jjp . VyftftB Written with the frankness of friendship, this is the portrait of an adoring father and devoted husband, of a man both stubborn and generous, straightforward and sensitive — Gory Cooper IN this complex world of today, more particularly in this complex town of Hollywood, where emotion distorts many a resolve and ambition many an ideal, it is good to see a man traveling in a single, unconfused path, calling his shots as he sees them, being quietly true to himself. Gary Cooper is such a man. I call him '"Coop." He calls me, for no good reason, "McFee." We've known each other for ten or a dozen years. We are both very busy. Our paths often lead in opposite directions. But when we get together again, we pick up where we left off. When I was asked to contrive this "portrait" of Coop, I said I'd be glad to do it, and proud. 'Although," I added, "it may sound too complimentary to ring true. You see, I regard him highly." But the editor of Photoplay said, "Describe him as you see him. That is all I ask." So ... I give you the Gary Cooper I know. ft X.