Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1928 - Feb 1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Picture Play Magazine
Date:
Sep 1928 - Feb 1929
Publisher:
New York, N.Y. : Street & Smith
Volume:
Picture-Play Magazine
Leaf #:
000194
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines, Early Cinema, and Hollywood Studio System
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:
February 23, 2023
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Mary Pickford, left, is known the world over a s "America's Sweetheart." Lillian Gish, right, has often been referred to as "The Duse of the screen." Christened tke Fans Parentage and lineage are not consulted when the fans choose to give names to their favorites. Corinne Griffith, above, manages to carry on under the uncertain compliment of being called "The Orchid." Clara Bow, left, has never told any one whether she enjoys being known as "The 'It' Girl." Florence Vidor, right, is known to the fans as "The Aristocrat," but some facetious wits have been heard to call her, in a whisper, "The Frozen Dainty of the Movies."