Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1938)

Page scan 00026 from Photoplay

Record Details:

Title:
Photoplay
Date:
Jan-Jun 1938
Publisher:
Chicago, Macfadden Publications, Inc.
Volume:
Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1938)
Leaf #:
00026
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:
June 20, 2024
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H^HHBHU^HH^MHHMKC // HXGEORGIE // BY EDWARD CHURCHILL Wi J From his maternal ancestry George inherited his liquid brown eyes and swarthy skin; from his father's — an all-consuming ambition that carried him to stardom. But beneath an unemotional surface lies a nature few know as well as Virginia Pine 'HEN I went East this last time," George Raft told me, "I was anxious to see Mom. I'd been a good boy. I'd worked hard. I wanted to tell her about my picture. And I had a big surprise for her." The surprise George referred to was the picture he had just made, "Souls at Sea." It had been previewed. Frances Dee, who appears in it, had told me: "It's George's picture." George had liked working with Henry Hathaway, the director, with Gary Cooper, costarred. It appeared that George, after six years as a Hollywood "bad boy," was getting into harness with the idea of staying there. The studio was talking of "the new and different Raft." As a man, much less trouble. As an actor, a Raft with the oil out of his hair, playing a seaman of the 1840's who gave his life for a girl. George caught the Louis-Braddock fight at