Picture Play Magazine (Jul - Dec 1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Play Magazine
Date:
Jul - Dec 1929
Publisher:
New York, Street
Volume:
Picture Play Magazine (Jul - Dec 1929)
Leaf #:
000477
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Film Industry Fan Magazine",nyarc-museumofmodernar
Collection:
Fan Magazines, Hollywood Studio System, and Early Cinema
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Began publishing in 1915; mid-level fan magazine on par with Movie Classic and Screenland. Cost a twenty five cents an issue up until pricing pressure from New Movie (c. 1932) incited an across-the-board price decrease to 10 cents. Merged with Charm in 1941, which would later become Glamour magazine (1959). -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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91 Harking Back Five ladies of the cinema restlessly turn the pages of history and literature in quest of new roles. Dear, little Anita Page, above, becomes an old lady for the purpose of portraying Barbara Frietchie. Josephine Dunn, left, quaintly assumes an expression of martyrdom for her flapper impersonation of Edith Cavell. Gwcn Lee, below, makes her Betsy Ross a coquettish girl stitching history into the first flag, and all unmindful of it. Joan Crawford, above, elects to get herself up as Hamlcl in the act of intoning "To be or not to be," but one is safe in assuming that this Hamlet's legs are more eloquent than "his" voice. Renee Adoree, left, being French, naturally chooses Joan of Arc as her favorite heroine of history.