Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1949)

Page scan 000278 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1949
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1949)
Leaf #:
000278
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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1. Cornel Wilde 2. Lassie 3. Frank Sinatra 4. Lucille Ball W|HIS is the season of the year in Hollywood I when stars lie awake at night tossing and turning with the question, “Will I win an award?” — a Gold Medal from Photoplay, an Oscar from the Academy, an award from the New York critics, from the home town paper. Everyone wants to get into the Award Act. Well, they can all relax. I have a whole bagful of awards for them. There’s one for almost everyone and for almost everything. To Bing Crosby, I am awarding an armchair with straps to hold his legs. So when I want to talk to him on the set, I’ll be spared a crazy man hunt all over the studio. Maybe I’ll add a loud bell to tie around his neck. It would help to hear where he is. On second thought, why bother? Even when you do pin Bing down physically, he’s so evasive and hard to get a story from, it’s hardly worth the struggle. To Joan Crawford* who was supposed to be 58