Photoplay (Jan - Jun 1939)

CHOOSE THE BEST PICTURE OF Each year Hollywood watchrs for PHOTOPLAY'S Gold Medal Award. Once again our readers are invited to select the winner. Vote now! THIS is the nineteenth time we have asked our readers to vote for "The Best Picture of the Year." We know you will vote with your usual enthusiasm and judgment for the picture produced during 1938 which, to your mind, had the most superb story, casting, direction, acting and photography. We will then present to the studio which produced that film the most distinguished award in the motion-picture business, Photoplay's Gold Medal. Despite the acrimonious controversy that has raged this year about pictures and picture personalities, no one can honestly say that the studios, particularly in the last six months, have not earned the right to say in truth, "Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment." It is well to remember, however, that you, the public, are judge of what is a good picture. Here is a way to register your opinion . . . Do you want to cry at the movies? Do you want to smile and forget there might be a world in which laughter comes but seldom? Do you want homespun stories that dramatize the daily lives of us all ... or do you want high-spirited tales of knights in shining armor toting off their lady in ;i shower of arrows? Do you want • of hurricane, fire, flood and wind to sweep you off your feet? Do you want musical comcopera, dancing delights or crime stories? All these sou have had this past year. If you ■ r the picture you liked m 1033, the prowill know what type of picture to make in IS in remember all the pictures he saw during the past year, we list below some of the outstandini e, does not permit us to list all the fine pictures, so. if your particular favorite is not here, vote for it any Therc ire no rules to this contest You either fill out the ballot printed here for youi venience. or write your choice on a Blip of paper and send it to the Gold Medal Editor, Photoplay. 122 East 12nd St . New York City, and ' arefully counted, the picture that wins the most I I This shining medal (a facsimile of which apsbove) i^ a symbol of achievement, and as such is vied f"i by all the Hollywood studios. There la no board of Judges You are the judge and the jury What UNU the be: t picture of ? You know. Vote for it! 64 /93% PREVIOUS GOLD MEDAL WINNERS 1920 "HUMORESQUE" 1921 "TOL'ABLE DAVID" 1922 "ROBIN HOOD" 1923 "THE COVERED WAGON" 1924 "ABRAHAM LINCOLN" 1925 "THE BIG PARADE" 1926 "BEAU GESTE" 1927 "7TH HEAVEN" 1928 "FOUR SONS" 1929 "DISRAELI" 1930 "ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT" 1931 "CIMARRON" 1932 "SMILIN' THROUGH" 1933 "LITTLE WOMEN" 1934 "THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET" 1935 "NAUGHTY MARIETTA" 1 936 "SAN FRANCISCO" 1937 'CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS" OUTSTANDING PICTURES OF 1938 Alexander's Rag Letter of Introduction time Band Lord Jeff Adventures of Love and Hisses Marco Polo, The Love Finds Andy Adventures of Robin Hardy Hood, The Mad About Music Adventures of Tom Mad Miss Manton Sawyer, The Mannequin Algiers Man to Remember, Amazing Dr. Clitter A house. The Marie Antoinette Angels with Dirty Men with Wings Faces Merrily We Live Arkansas Traveler Of Human Hearts Blockade Rage of Paris, The Bluebeard's Eighth Rebecca of Sunny Wife brook Farm Boy Meets Girl Room Service Boys' Town Shopworn Angel, Bringing Up Baby The Brother Rat Sing, You Sinners Buccaneer, The Sisters, The Carefree Slight Case of Citadel, The Murder, A Cowboy and the Snow White and the Lady, The Seven Dwarfs Crime School Sweethearts Crowd Roars, The Submarine Patrol Dawn Patrol Suez Drums Test Pilot Four Daughters Texans, The Goldwyn Follies, That Certain Age The Three Loves Has Girl of the Golden Nancy West, The Three Comrades Gunga Din Too Hot to Handle Happy Landing Toy V/ife, The Having Wonderful Valley of the Giants Time Vivacious Lady Holiday Wells Fargo If I Were King White Banners In Old Chicago Yank at Oxford, A Jezebel You Can't Take It Joy of Living with You Just Around the Young in Heart, The Corner Yellow Jack PHOTOPLAY MEDAL OF HONOR BALLOT GOLD MEDAL EDITOR PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE CHANIN BUILDING, 122 EAST 42nd STREET, NEW YORK CITY In my opinion the picture named below is the best motion-picture production released in 1938 NAME OF PICTURE NAME ADDRESS