Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1941)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan - Jun 1941
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1941)
Leaf #:
000120
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:
March 28, 2024
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=* This is about a smart girl who knew how to get places -fast, one Rita Hayworth. The technique is yours for the reading BY HELEN HOVER Today she is the photographers' darling, with her face on six magazine covers in one month Yesterday she was Rita Cansino, little nobody no one ever looked at on the Fox lot THE 1941 brand of Cinderella buys her own glass slipper. She's impatient and practical. Waiting for the prince too often pays off in nothing but a pair of flat feet. That's the way Rita Hayworth figures it. That's why Rita, an unknown Cinderella extra girl five years ago, today is glamorous "may -I -have your autograph Miss -Hayworth" movie celebrity today. No flesh-andblood prince effected the transition. The prince was her own horse sense. Rita was no wide-eyed yokel when she started work as an extra at the Fox studios five years ago. She knew and felt her ignominy intensely. One of three hundred on a night-club set. she watched Loretta Young, the star, come on the set accompanied by her maid and a hairdresser. Saw her sink into a luxurious limousine at the end of the day. The little Cansino girl — for that was Rita's pre-picture name — saw her as a rival, not an idol. She realized that so long as there were beautiful women in Hollywood, gorgeously gowned, her own natural assets would mean nothing. She knew she had ability that, given a chance, could be of value to a studio. But in her franker moments, she knew also that she was only one of hundreds of extra girls who felt the same way. Something else Rita knew. Her family had been in show business for three generations. The Dancing Can e: 3'. 22 photoplay combined ivith movif mirroh