Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1957)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul-Dec 1957
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1957)
Leaf #:
000172
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Fan Magazines, and Early Cinema
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:
June 20, 2024
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DORIS’ DANCING DAZE Facing difficult “Pajama Game” dances, Miss Day vowed she'd do them, if she had to knock herself out. She almost did! YYThen Doris Day was a young girl, her dream of dancing fame ended cruelly when her leg was badly shattered in an auto accident. Gamely, she switched to singing, and thereafter spoke little about her first love. And even when her musicals called for a bit of stepping, it was always just an accompaniment to her vocalizing. But the dances called for in her new film, “The Pajama Game” — these were something different. The slick, smash Broadway hit being brought to the screen by Warner Brothers called for really fancy footwork. Doris met the challenge with a gleam in her eye and a determination that, by golly, she wTas going to show everybody that she was a dancer, too. That she did, as Photoplay’s visit on set for this number with John Raitt, “There Once Was a Man,” amply testifies. Dodo performed with such verve that she came out of it limping. A doctor was called — and Xrays revealed that during the dance Doris had cracked two ribs! 48