Screenland (Nov 1939–Apr 1940)

Page scan 00057 from Screenland

Record Details:

Title:
Screenland
Date:
Nov 1939–Apr 1940
Publisher:
[New York, Affiliated Magazines, etc.]
Volume:
Screenland (Nov 1939–Apr 1940)
Leaf #:
00057
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals","Television broadcasting -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System 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:
Mid-range fan magazine. Ran from 1920 to 1952, at which point it changed its name to Screenland Plus TV-Land. Merged with Silver Screen in 1971 and ceased publication. -- Anne Helen Petersen, 2013. Secondary sources consulted: Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine by Anthony Slide and MovieMags.com.
Date Added:
August 08, 2024
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They Write the Songs for Stars to Sing Meet those unheralded heroes, the hit-song writers By Jack Holland kURE was a swell song in that picture !" "Yeah! Wonder who wrote it?" Just a line of ordinary conversation heard from a couple as they leave the theatre after the showing of a motion picture. More people emerge. Many are humming a new tune they have just heard sung by a popular star. Who wrote it? They haven't the slightest idea. It's this sort of thing that makes one wonder when Hollywood is going to rise up and recognize its unheralded heroes, the song writers. Those steady-going tunesmiths who turn out hit songs for stars to sing and for the nation to hum, sing, and whistle. Out here in the land of gold and glamor, of broken promises and heartaches, scattered about among the different studios, are such names as Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, Harry Warren and Al Dubin, Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger, Mack Gordon, Harry Revel. Quiet, unassum (Please turn to page 86) 51