Photoplay (Jan-Sep 1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Sep 1937
Publisher:
Chicago, Macfadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Sep 1937)
Leaf #:
000393
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine
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:
September 21, 2023
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For magnificent fun Photoplay offers this liilarions liistory of star hoop-la STORY B JACK SMALLEY TAKE our word for it — the whirl of most of Hollywood's fun, the sizzling fury of most of Hollywood's hates, the birth of most of Hollywood's big romances started at the — Cocoanut Grove. It was at this night spot that Bing Crosby first crooned into the ears of the picture colony. Here Joan Crawford and Carole Lombard competed for sterling silver dance cups and first caught the eyes of producers. It was at the Cocoanut Grove that Chaplin wooed the violent Pola Negri, Elinor Glyn entertained royalty, Garbo and Stiller dined on Swedish herrings — in short, the Cocoanut Grove is good and it's never, never been dull. History, they say, is made at night; that is, interesting history. And it is at the Cocoanut Grove, for the past fifteen years, that some of the sweetest movietown history has made its initial bow. Today the cast has changed, but that is all. Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck romance at the table where once Bert Lytell and Claire Windsor held hands. Merle Oberon and David Niven dance where Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland showed their skill at the tango. And above and over and through it all ghosts 21