Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1953)

Page scan 00051 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1953
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1953)
Leaf #:
00051
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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her decisions. His position is no match for the glamour of Esther’s postion as a Number One money-making star on the M-G-M lot. And no man likes playing second fiddle — Whence all the recurring riimors of trouble between Esther and Ben. Reports of Ben’s behavior in public have done little to cement any belief that he and Esther could be happily married . . . and right there seems to be the root of the trouble. For each time a colunimist hears of a public incident involving Ben and Esther, the report that they’re heading for separation and eventual divorce is rushed into type. Not long ago when Ben was reported to have en hvened the scene at a Beverly Hills restaurant by insulting other diners, a close friend of the Gages said, “It’s perfectly natural. He has to assert himself in public one way or another. And in spite of what you may read in the papers, Esther understands this.” At one time, Ben probably envisioned their restaurant, The Trails, as the locale for a show which he would produce and perform in as a singing star. But during the months and years of its operation, it has become an eating place, which Ben manages, and not a showcase for himself. “Esther likes to give the impression that she knows nothing about the dollar {Continued on page 86) 45