Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jul-Dec 1951
Publisher:
New York, MacFadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1951)
Leaf #:
000474
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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p Bridgeport’s Virginia McGuire, 21, kicked off shoes — went into her act Three to go — for the final test that will give one of these girls Photoplay’s great prize Joyce McLeod, 22, of Providence, R. I., knows she’ll be famous — her stars say so! The country-wide auditions are over. The three finalists are at the Pasadena Playhouse where the final audition will take place. The judges — Bette Davis, William Holden, Stanley Kramer, Joseph Mankiewicz, Dean Thomas Browne Henry, and Lyle Rooks, Hollywood Editor of Photoplay — will not find it easy to make a choice. For throughout this contest the runners-up always have been close behind. Our congratulations go to the three finalists who have started on the journey that well may change the course o' each of their lives. The winner, whoever she is, already has been promised a screen test by Twentieth Century-Fox. If successful in this test, she will be given a contract starting when she completes her studies at the Playhouse. Runners-up will be interviewed by casting directors at Twentieth Century, Warners and Paramount. Joyce McLeod from Providence, Rhode Island, just turned twenty-two, attends Emerson College in Boston. She is vicepresident of her sorority and last March was voted Junior Prom Queen. Joyce Raehelle Mendlovitz, 21, of Texas; Board said, “Emotional depth beyond years” 34