Screenland (Nov 1941-Apr 1942)

Record Details:

Title:
Screenland
Date:
Nov 1941-Apr 1942
Publisher:
[New York, Affiliated Magazines, etc.]
Volume:
Screenland (Nov 1941-Apr 1942)
Leaf #:
000192
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals","Television broadcasting -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines 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:
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 28, 2022
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A/\ A Y HIS is the most unpredictable household in the world. In the morning you never know whether Mel and Helen will be having dinner with the family or one or both of them be off on a plane to fill some last minute engagement. Mel may suddenly decide to attend a political banquet in Atlanta, Georgia, or get a hurried call to make a personal appearance in New York. While Helen may be on her way to San Francisco for a concert date or have a call to Washington, D. C. Or perhaps both of them, finding themselves free, are in their car, headed for their cottage at Carmel-by-the-Sea. When they are home it is never quiet like this. The minute Mel and Helen come in, things start happening." Walter Pick, young bachelor cousin of Helen Gahagan, who acts as personal secretary for both Mr. Douglas and his wife, Miss Gahagan, was speaking. He was showing me through the Melvyn Douglas house, while we were waiting for Melvyn to come home from the studio. There was a restful, almost cloister-like stillness in the spacious living room. The blue-grey walls, {Please turn to page 63) The Melvyn Douglas you see on the screen, making love to Ruth Hussey in "Our Wife," right, or to Greta Garbo in "Two-Faced Woman," above, is a far cry from "Mel," the unpredictable fellow you'll meet in this intimate story. Top, two views of the Douglas-Gahagan home, photographed expressly for Screenland by Columbia Pictures. 24