Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1956)

Page scan 000261 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1956
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1956)
Leaf #:
000261
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema, Hollywood Studio System, and Fan Magazines
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
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:
May 15, 2025
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mother and father, a happy home and the self-confidence to dream her dreams on the basis of reality. That was five years ago. A few days ago, Shirley Jones sat in the 20th Century-Fox commissary and gazed around her. Still blond and lovely — but not plump — her hazel eyes took on a look of wonder as she said, “All the stars sitting in here. And there’s Guy Madison. It’s the strangest feeling. It’s like seeing the first pictures and story on me in Photoplay last fall. Like a dream come true. It was such a short time ago that I was looking at the first story and pictures of some new comer and wondering if / would like them. It’s wonderful,” she sighed with pleasure. Shirley’s genuine pleasure in the situation was coupled with a simple dignity and maturity, unexpected in a twenty-one-yearold girl who flashed to stardom in her first picture, “Oklahoma!”, and was just completing the lead in a stronger dramaticsinging classic, “Carousel.” It has been said by the perennial speculators around Hollywood and Vine that her sudden fame and extreme youth are a combination that will lead Shirley to conceit, self-centeredness and souring. But they have overlooked the ( Continued on page 90) 45