Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1949)

Page scan 000267 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1949
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1949)
Leaf #:
000267
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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’ nr BY LOUGLLA 0. PARSONS The stories about Van and Evie have made a difference but not the way rumor would have it! Daddy’s girl, except for the freckles, Schuyler Van even has the Johnson mannerisms! rl a town of many distortions, fabulous exaggerations and tissues of false rumors, I want to say that much of the cruel est talk is that: Van Johnson is absolutely broke. His career is on the skids. He and Evie are unhappy and seldom step out of their home. They are just waiting for all the “bad publicity” to subside to get a divorce. Oh, you have heard it all, I am sure. The behindthe-hand stories about the Johnsons have been so bitter and black that, frankly, I have been surprised that any marriage could stand up under it. And, yet, for two years this past January, the Johnsons have held up under the bitterest barrage of gossip any Hollywood couple has ever weathered. The sideswipes at Van and Evie, printed and spoken, have been too loud to be ignored. They would have had to be made of stone and deaf and dumb not to have known what was being said. And, along with you, and you and you, I, too, have wondered how they have ( Continued on page 104)