Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1959
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1959)
Leaf #:
000126
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Early Cinema, 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:
June 20, 2024
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WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE FOR THE NEW YEAR? Would you like on autographed picture of your favorite star? Would you like to help select the personalities we'll feature in each issue, help choose the all-time greats we'll do stories on, and help suggest the topics Dick Clark should write about? You would! Fine. Here's all you have to do. Please fill out the ballot on this page and mail it immediately to Reader's Poll, Box 1374, Grand Central Station, New York 17, N. Y. If yours is among the first hundred answers received, we'll send you— as a token of our thanks— that signed photograph! What did you like in this issue? (D (2) (3) (4) WHAT CURRENT FAVORITES DO YOU LIKE? 1 want to read stories about (please check names): ACTOR (1) Elvis Presley (15) Everly Brothers (29) Jerry Lewis (2) Rick Nelson (16) Frankie Avalon (30) Jimmie Rodgers (3) Rock Hudson (17) Richard Egan (31) Cary Grant (4) Tommy Sands (18) Marlon Brando (32) Monty Clift (5) Pat Boone (19) Pat Wayne (33) Clint Walker (6) John Saxon (20) James MacArthur (34) Dale Robertson (7) Tony Curtis (21) John Gavin (35) George Nader (8) Tab Hunter (22) Hugh O'Brian (36) Eddie Fisher (9) James Garner (23) Perry Como (37) Bob Horton (10) Paul Newman (24) Tony Perkins (38) Mark Damon (11) Nick Adams (25) James Arness (39) Pat Conway (12) Dick Clark (26) Robert Wagner (40) Russ Tamblyn (13) Peter Brown (27) Will Hutchins (41) Jack Kelly (14) Sal Mineo (28) Jeff Chandler (42) Others you like ACTRESS (1) Debbie Reynolds (14) Brigitte Bardot (27) Kathy Nolan (2) Liz Taylor (15) Lana Turner (28) Ann Blyth (3) Carol Lynley (16) Marilyn Monroe (29) Patti Page (4) Natalie Wood (17) Dorothy Malone (30) Connie Francis (5) Dolores Hart (18) Jane Powell (31) Hope Lange (6) Doris Day (19) Jean Simmons (32) Lennon Sisters (7) Kim Novak (20) Diane Varsi (33) Dinah Shore (8) Janet Leigh (21) Deborah Kerr (34) Audrey Hepburn (9) Sandra Dee (22) Sophia Loren (35) Rosemary Clooney (10) Joanne Woodward (23) Molly Bee (36) Shirley Jones (11) Jayne Mansfield (24) Annette Funicello (37) Joan Collins (12) Gale Storm (25) Ingrid Bergman (38) Others you like (13) Carolyn Jones (26) Diane Jergens Others WHICH SUPER-STARS DO YOU LIKE BEST? 1 want PHOTOPLAY to tell me all about (check names of stars below): ACTOR (1) Robert Montgomery (ID Kirk Douglas (21) Donald O'Connor (2) Fred MacMurray (12) Henry Fonda (22) John Payne (3) Joel MacRae (13) Farley Granger (23) Ronald Reagan (4) Gene Autry (14) Robert Mitchum (24) Roy Rogers (5) Paul Muni (15) Charlton Heston (25) Mickey Rooney (6) Glenn Ford (16) William Holden (26) Frank Sinatra (7) John Garfield (17) Peter Lawford (27) James Stewart (8) Humphrey Bogart (18) Van Johnson (28) Robert Taylor (9) Clark Gable (19) Alan Ladd (29) John Wayne (10) Gary Cooper (20) David Niven ACTRESS (1) Norma Shearer (9) Jean Harlow (17) Jane Russell (2) Jean Arthur (10) Carole Lombard (18) Gene Tierney (3) Irene Dunne (11) June Allyson (19) Esther Williams (4) Greta Garbo (12) Claudette Colbert (20) Jane Wyman (5) Ann Sheridan (13) Ava Gardner (21) Loretta Young (6) Dorothy Lamour (14) Betty Grable (22) Shirley Temple (7) Hedy Lamarr (15) Rita Hayworth (23) Others you like (8) Grace Kelly (16) Ginger Rogers If mine is one of the first 100 answers. I’D LIKE AN AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO OF: NAME ADDRESS CITY ZONE STATE. WHAT ARE YOU LIKE? • Age: • Three Favorite Magazines: Three Favorite Hobbies: • How many records do you buy a month? • What type of records do you like: (popular, album, classical?) • How often do you go to the movies? • What helps you decide in choosing a movie?. WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE IN PHOTOPLAY? More stories on TV personalities? More on Recording Personalities? More beauty and fashion articles? More picture stories: candid portraits pinups What is your favorite column: On the Record Readers Inc. Inside Stuff That's Hollywood For You This Page is Yours Dick Clark Would you like the articles to run shorter? Yes .... No .... WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE DICK CLARK TO WRITE ABOUT? ... 1. Records and hit songs . . 2. Musical Personalities . . 3. Fads and fancies . . 4. New dance steps . . 5. Dating problems— with answers from Dick . . 6. Careers in music, television, films . . 7. Personality traits . . 8. Help wanted forum: Dick's points of view on meeting new problems, making friends, getting along with parents, etc. . . 9. Party Ideas . . 10. Jokes ...11. Others 26