Picture-Play Magazine (Sep 1926 - Feb 1927)

Page scan 000717 from Picture-Play Magazine

Record Details:

Title:
Picture-Play Magazine
Date:
Sep 1926 - Feb 1927
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Street & Smith
Volume:
Picture-Play Magazine
Leaf #:
000717
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System, Early Cinema, and Fan Magazines
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
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:
June 20, 2024
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93 Right, there's Dorothy Dwan's mother, for example— Nancy Smith, a newspaper woman who manages her daughter's business affairs. Above, Helene and Dolores Costello are fortunate in having a mother who knows the movie world inside out, for she is the wife of the first popular movie star, Maurice Costello. Below, Sally Rand introduces her mother to all her fan friends. Mother Knows Best Hollywood has a bumper crop of mothers. No star seems complete without one. They say some producers even put a mother clause in contracts, because mothers are such good publicity. But rarely are they the gray-haired, feeble mothers immortalized in song and poetry; usually they are found to be the driving power behind the star. Mrs. Talmadge, fami iarly known as "Peg," isn't just the mother of Norma, Natalie, and Constance— she's a movie institution. Her wit and repartee are the delight of interviewers, and the famous Talmadge parties wouldn't be the gay things they are if it weren't for Peg. Below, Louise Fazenda's mother is one of the rare exceptions to the flapper mothers of Hollywood. She is the the old-fashioned kind.