Photoplay
Feb-Sep 1917
- Title:
- Photoplay
- Date:
- Feb-Sep 1917
- Author:
- Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
- Publisher:
- Chicago, Photoplay Magazine Publishing Company
- Volume:
- 11, 12
- Language:
- eng
- Subjects:
- Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine
- Collection:
- Fan Magazines
- Format:
- Periodicals
- Source:
- Print
- Contributor:
- Karl Thiede
- 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 into 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.
, The leading Hollywood fan magazine of the 1920s and 1930s. Photoplay offered readers portraits of their favorite movie stars and stories about their into 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