Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1950)

Page scan 000622 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1950
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1950)
Leaf #:
000622
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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Gloria (with director Billy Wilder) loaned Paramount the dozens of old paintings and photographs of herself used in this film PHOTOPLAY SNEAK PREVIEWS Hollywood tells this one on itself, with Gloria Swanson as the forgotten star she never became IN “SUNSET BOULEVARD” the Brackett and Wilder team use Hollywood’s studios, pools and boulevards for its stage. Its stars, directors and producers are their characters. Gloria Swanson, who returns to the screen after a nine years’ absence, plays a great star of the silent screen who lives completely in her past. Hollywood is toasting Gloria’s comeback. Her company did, too, when the picture was shooting. She helped Edith Head design her leopard-skin sarong. And when Bill Holden rebelled at spending hours with a dance instructor, she taught him the tango in three minutes. She presented one problem. She admits to being fifty-one, but had to be “grayed” so she wouldn’t photograph thirty-five. 48