Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1952)

Page scan 000349 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1952
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1952)
Leaf #:
000349
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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Ladies and gentlemen! “The Greatest Show on Earth” is coming to your town. You will see the circus, close up, as you never saw it before. You will fly with The Great Sebastian from the high wire. You will lie on the tanbark with the elephant girl, to watch the elephant’s foot, descend slowly upon her face. To iftake this unforgettable movie Cecil B. De Mille photographed the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus at its winter quarters in Florida, traveling in the gaily painted cars of its private train and playing in cities across the land. For many years now Cecil B. De Mille has enriched the screen with many magnificent productions. But it was because the editors of Photoplay believe this picture to be the greatest of them all that they honored Mr. De Mille, upon the occasion of this year’s Gold Medal Awards dinner, with the Photoplay Achievement Award. “The Greatest Show on Earth” is a beautiful and exciting spectacle. But it doesn’t stop there. It is also — through the magic of Mr. De Mille and stars like Betty Hutton, James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Cornel Wilde, Dorothy Lamour and Gloria Grahame — a human and exciting drama. The Editors i!