Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1958)

Page scan 000150 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1958
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1958)
Leaf #:
000150
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema, Fan Magazines, and Hollywood Studio System
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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TWO WORLDS I KNOW Tricks, yet! A Kitulgala elephant gives Bill a lift T)lease tell William Holden to come back to us soon again,” ended a letter to Photoplay from a fan in Ceylon. American stars, moviemaking in every corner of the globe these days, are winning new friends for themselves — and for America, too. Bill Holden is no exception. Probably the most traveled actor of all (twenty-six countries to date), he recently completed almost a year’s stay in the exotic jungles of Kitulgala in Ceylon, where Columbia filmed “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” a hard-hitting story of World War II. The temperature hovered in the high 80’s during the cool winter season and home away from jungle locations was a tiny bungalow shared by Bill and wife Ardis (the former Brenda Marshall). Bill loves the Orient. There many times since he made “The Bridges at Toko-Ri,” he has done much as a sort of roving, unofficial ambassador of American good will. In (continued) Bill ( with Ardis ’ help) had tailor make up some walking shorts. Both marveled at cheapness of fine, handmade products done locally 48 (Right) Only escape from Singhalese heat was a swim in the River Kwai. (Below) Bill and native actress take turns washing dust right out of their hair. “ Bill adapts quickly to new places, ways, climates,” says Ardis, “ even seems to enjoy roughing it in the jungle.”