Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1940)

CHOOSE THE BEST PICTURE OF 1939 Each year Hollywood watches for PHOTOPLAY'S Gold Medal Award. Once again our readers are invited to select the winner. Vote now! THE balloting for "The Best Picture of 1939" which began in the January issue is making Photoplay's Gold Medal Editor work overtime. Indicative of the widespread interest in our famous award are the hundreds upon hundreds of votes that are pouring into the office. Is your vote among them? If not, here is your chance to express your choice for the outstanding picture of the past year. Tell your friends about it, too. The balloting is open to everyone — old and young — and every vote counts! The winning film for 1938 was "Sweethearts." Which film will win for 1939? The Gold Medal Award, which has been presented by Photoplay every year since 1921, is one of the great honors of the screen world. The winning picture is not the selection of a small group of movie "specialists." It represents a much larger vote than that. It is the chosen favorite of the Smiths from Main Street, the Joneses from Broadway; it is the voice of all America and other parts of the world (the votes come in from every corner of the globe) speaking out on its movie preference. Small wonder Hollywood carefully studies the results of this poll! We have listed here many of the outstanding pictures of 1939 so that you may refresh your memory on those you saw last year. We wish to stress, however, that your selection is not limited to this list. You may vote for any film released in 1939. (Note: Due to the fact that their release dates have been changed to 1940, we have had to omit several films included in last month's list.) You may use the ballot provided below, or just write your choice on a slip of paper and mail it to the Gold Medal Editor, Photoplay, 122 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. It is as simple as all that! DON'T FAIL TO CAST YOUR VOTE FOR THE BEST PICTURE OF 1939! DO IT NOW! 0 UTSTA N D I PICTURES OF N G 1939 Allegheny Uprising Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever Another Thin Man Babes in Arms Bachelor Mother Balalaika Beachcomber, The Beau Geste Blackmail Broadway Serenade Cat and the Canary, The Child Is Born, A Clouds Over Europe Dark Victory Daughters Courageous Destry Rides Again Dodge City Drums Along the Mohawk Dust Be My Destiny Each Dawn I Die East Side of Heaven Everything Happens at Night First Love Five Came Back Four Feathers Golden Boy Gone with the Wind Goodbye, Mr. Chips Good Girls Go to Paris Great Victor Herbert, The Green Hell Gunga Din Harvest His Girl Friday Hollywood Cavalcade Honeymoon in Bali Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Idiot's Delight In Name Only Intermezzo, a Love Story Jamaica Inn Jesse James Lady of the Tropics Let Freedom Ring Little Princess, The Love Affair Maisie Man About Town Man of Conquest Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Ninotchka Nurse Edith Cavell Old Maid, The On Borrowed Time Only Angels Have Wings Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, The Pygmalion Rains Came, The Real Glory, The Rebecca Roaring Twenties, The Rose of Washington Square Rulers of the Sea Stagecoach Stanley and Livingstone Stolen Life Story of Alexander Graham Bell, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, The These Glamour Girls They Shall Have Music Three Smart Girls Grow Up Tower of London, The Under-Pup, The Union Pacific We Are Not Alone What a Life . 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