Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1938)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul - Dec 1938
Publisher:
Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1938)
Leaf #:
000505
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Fan Magazines, 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:
July 25, 2024
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Photoplay introduces to its readers thirty-year-old John Swope, camera genius, whose pictures, part of a collection soon to be published in book form by Random House, are given an advance showing here. Native of New Brunswick, N. J. by birth and of Manhattan by adoption, he first allied himself with the University Players and that now-famous trio, Jimmy Stewart, Hank Fonda and Margaret Sullavan. This brought about a sojourn in Hollywood where he tried his hand at experimental color film work. Choosing photography as a career but three years ago, he is now the master of a new camera art Of . I £• ' * sZL"* o/T*'o, f>Orfr »r I mgg y* ">v,\ is W Ritual: the other side of Hollywood — a night scene in an extra girl's apartment ;-fe Continued on following pag Former housemate of Swope's: Hank Fonda, modeling a bust of his wife, Frances Brokaw