Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1959)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1959
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1959)
Leaf #:
000282
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:
June 20, 2024
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this page is yours by Angela Busoni Naples , Italy Hope Lange and Don Murray visited our Italian town “ Always movie stars!” Papa teased. Then he heard how Hope Lange and Don Murray visited the orphanage. 'T'hat’s me, Angela Busoni — in the picture with Hope Lange and Don Murray — and that’s my friend, Pia. We’re what you in America call “movie fans.” We see all the pictures we can — Italian and American. We were very excited when we heard Don Murray and Hope Lange were going to visit the Casa Materna Orphans Home near where we live. The whole town came out to see them. The Murrays went into all the classrooms, watched Dr. Eugenio Maida at work in his clinic, and examined some new buildings going up nearby. It was Mrs. Murray’s birthday and one ( Continued on page 81)