Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1951)

Page scan 000605 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1951
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1951)
Leaf #:
000605
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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I WAS born on July 16, 1907, and I’m now in my forties. The forties, I think, give a woman a wonderful, challenging decade. I’ve never understood why women want to be forever “young.” In my book it’s far better, and easier, to take advantage of each day as it comes, to live it to its fullest extent for what it is. My indifference to having my birth year printed has confounded some people, who assume that Hollywood has a particular fetish about letting an actress admit her age. It’s true that in studio biographies, the date of a star’s birth is nearly always carefully omitted. Each time one of these Stanwyck documents is typed I call the boys in the publicity department and just as carefully explain that I don’t in the least mind having my age printed. I find myself feeling genuinely sorry for women who refuse to admit their age — those who try to hold desperately to their twenties or thirties. I know one actress who was twenty-nine for so long I thought she’d never reach thirty. I aged five years while she was twenty-nine. ( Continued on page 72) I 49