Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1930
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1930)
Leaf #:
000265
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema, Fan Magazines, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, PFA Library and Film Study Center
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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Photoplay Magazine for February, 1930 '3' JOHN FORDS "MEN WITHOUT WOMEN // An Even Greater TRIUMPH Sixteen men are caught in a disabled submarine. Faced with inevitable death, all their talk and thoughts center on the eternal subject —women. The amours of a thousand nights flash across memory's mirror. Then in the supreme, climactic moment, when one man must die to save the rest— woman is revealed as the motivating force that sends the hero to his sacrificial death. But not a woman appears in the cast! This is a picture of men and their varying reactions to the elemental urge of the Universe, persisting even in the face of death itself! "MEN WITHOUT WOMEN"-without a doubt John Ford's finest achievement— will be remembered as one of the greatest pictures the screen has ever known. Don't miss this i<#x MOVIETONE AGAIN THE HONORS GO TO ¥ For the second time in two years, Fox has been awarded the coveted Photoplay Gold Medal for the finest motion picture of the year. This is the first time any producer has ever won this award twice in succession. Awarded on the basis of an actual poll of its readers, Photoplay's Gold Medal is literally a symbol of the approval of a most important and critical portion of the great motion picture loving public. Last year this significant award for the most distinguished picture of the year was won by Frank Borzage's Fox production, " 7th Heaven". And now another Fox picture — John Ford's outstanding artistic achievement, "Four Sons"— has received the award. Although the winning of the Gold Medal for two successive years is an unprecedented achievement, the Fox organization is not resting on its laurels. The obligation to live up to the standard set in the past will continue to be its inspiration to still finer achievement in the future. Expect great things of Fox! JOHN FORD Director of this year's Gold Medal winner "Four Sons". He will also be long remembered for his direction of "The Iron Horse", "The Black Watch" and "Salute". FRANK BORZAGE Director of "7th Heaven" and "Humoresque", first Photoplay Gold Medat winner — not to overlook "Street Angel', "They Had to See Paris", and John McCormack's first singing and talking romance, now in production. When you write to advertisers please mention PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE.