Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1940)

MOTION ERNEST V. HEYN EXECUTIVE EDITOR HEYWORTH CAMPBELL ART EDITOR RUTH WATERBURY EDITOR FRED R. SAMMIS ASSOCIATE EDITOR On the Cover — Clark Gable, Natural Color Photograph by Paul Hesse HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS ISSUE Vivien Leigh, Rhett Butler and I Clark Gable ^ 1 • # as told to Ruth Waterbury 12 J tofaGMCUULGVll A Cable' s-eye view of ' 'Gone'with the Wind" +*** rvTrn^^rvr •-• How Movies Can Help Keep Us Out of War .... Eleanor Roosevelt 15 America's First Lady offers a solution for today's most vital problem The Man Garbo Would Diet For Harmony Haynes 16 Can this be love? Ask Dr. Hauser himself! . . .__ , ... _-»... , , ., ,, T T . T , .. _ „ // I AMES HILTON does not write for the screen," Tears Into Laughter Jim Tully 17 Barbara Stanwyck's story— as only an Irishman can tell it J sa;d Frank S. Nugent in his glowing review of "We Round-Up of Neglected People Sara Hamilton 18 . „ . , M v , T. nLJ. Eight talented players very much in the spot-news-light Are Not Alone in the New York limes. Mis Categorically Speaking as told to Howard Sharpe nove|s have a quietude, a gentleness and charm which Bill as Seen by Myrna Loy 20 Myrna as Seen by Bill Powell 21 are, ostensibly, too fragile and too precious to with Cash— and Cary . . . . . . . . . . . Alma Roberts 22 stand +he hurly-burly trip into cinemaland. Yet . . . "We What money has done for Mr. Grant — and vice versa ' ' We Are Not Alone James Hilton 23 Are Not Alone' emerges as a film of rare tenderness Photoplay' s Movie Book of the Month (somewhat condensed) complete . ... . in this issue.' and beauty ... Mr Hilton, we repeat, does not write Photoplay Fashions . . . . . . . . . . . Gwenn Walters 49 for the screen; but the screen has found in his writings Advance styles for playtime wear, both before and after dark Swiss Family Hollywood Gene Towne and Graham Baker 64 a vast store of the one substance it so greatly needs: Up-to-the-minute fiction in laugh-a-minute speed . ,, Claudetle Colbert Tells Why I Like Hollywood . . as told to Jack Smalley 67 Humanity. She's an enthusiastic "native daughter." Can you guess her reasons? Mr. Nugent ends his report with the comment, "It The Camera Speaks: — , , ., , ». ... „ must be counted one ot the best tilms ot the year. Old Stars Wear Best 40 They made film history in silent days— they're making it today. , , . . . ., . „,.„._,, ._ And the book on which it is based, I submit, is one of Iheir ravonte Photographs 42 Chosen by Hollywood' s favorite photographers the best novels of its year. That novel is published in A sneak-preview of the film starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine this issue of PHOTOPLAY. For the price of this mag Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair 48 azine you are offered this dividend— and will be of Holiday treat! Special arrangement of a Stephen Foster love song! ' fered a similar dividend in each issue of PHOTOPLAY NEWS, VIEWS AND REVIEWS from now on. Shopping for You and the Stars 1 Boos and Bouquets 4 The ^ovie Book of the Month Is an innovation that Choose the Best Picture of 1939 5 Brief Reviews of Current Pictures 6 I hope you will like. Some of the greatest writers of Close Ups and Long Shots Ruth Waterbury 9 America and England will be included in this library! We Cover the Studios Jack Wade 46 Cal York's Gossip of Hollywood 59 The Shadow Stage 62 PHOTOPLAY'S Own Beauty Shop Carolyn Van Wyck 68 •"! // Movies in Your Home Jack Sher 70 > ^jK/^/P' Hands-Up! Frances Hughes 75 {/X/VJ*^ (J Complete Casts of Pictures Reviewed in This Issue 87 VOL. LIV., No. 2, FEBRUARY, 1940 Published Monthly by Macfadden Publications, Inc., 333 N. 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