Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)

Page scan 00056 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul-Dec 1951
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)
Leaf #:
00056
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:
June 20, 2024
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JOHN DEREK’S face is his fortune, it’s been said. But John doesn’t go along with this. His face, he’ll tell you, has often been a drawback. At school, the girls, wary of his looks, were too ready to rate him conceited. And it took many a fist fight to convince the fellows they’d better not continue calling him “Prettyboy.” John admits his appearance helped him get the role of Nick Romano in Knock on Any Door.” But he knows a guy can be too handsome for his own movie future — when it comes to getting such meaty parts as he knows he can tackle. Only this time he’s using his talents, not his fists. Glamour, says John, is strictly for — his leading ladies. BY LYNN PERKINS Specially posed photographs by Don Or nit x 50