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Post by woofy on Oct 4, 2012 15:48:04 GMT
That should be it now Woofy. Cool! |
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Post by woofy on Oct 4, 2012 15:52:00 GMT
Today's post: Mar. 1936 - Shirley Temple Apr. 1936 - Joan Crawford May 1936 - Myrna Loy Jun. 1936 - Dick Powell & Marion Davies     |
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Post by woofy on Oct 4, 2012 15:55:24 GMT
I must say Dick Powell looks like a real sissy here. A far cry from his Philip Marlowe persona of a few years later.
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Post by Mrs Vindecco on Oct 5, 2012 21:46:05 GMT
I must say Dick Powell looks like a real sissy here. A far cry from his Philip Marlowe persona of a few years later. He's probably the most enthusiastic of the men I have seen on these covers. Nice to see Shirley Temple in a St Patrick's Theme cover. BTW glad this is working for you Woofy. |
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Post by woofy on Oct 5, 2012 23:34:37 GMT
I must say Dick Powell looks like a real sissy here. A far cry from his Philip Marlowe persona of a few years later. He's probably the most enthusiastic of the men I have seen on these covers. Nice to see Shirley Temple in a St Patrick's Theme cover. BTW glad this is working for you Woofy. I love all three incarnations of Dick Powell: the young crooner, the hard boiled gumshoe, and the middle-aged tired of it all romantic hero. You're right about Shirley. At first glance, I thought she was a pilgrim, but the March date and the green velvet really do give it away. Yes siree Bob, we got our "add images" back. Mega cool! |
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Post by woofy on Oct 5, 2012 23:40:32 GMT
Kay Francis looks pretty tense and Norma Shearer looks likes she's Robin Hood's Scottish cousin. There's a line in the play version of You Can't Take It With You where Alice Sycamore refers to herself as "The Kay Fwancis of the Adirondacks", a reference to Kay's lisp on the letter "r". The line was wisely deleted from the film version. (BTW, the film version strays pretty far afield from the Kaufman / Hart original.) Norma Shearer would look good in a burlap bag, imho. But you're right, she does look rather tartan-ized. |
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Post by woofy on Oct 9, 2012 16:02:30 GMT
You'll notice a bit of a change with today's post. These are sketches by J. M. Flagg that appeared on the Photoplay covers between July 1936 and February 1937. They're a throwback to the magazines origins. A non-Flagg sketch appears on the March 1937 issue, but beginning in April 1937 only photographs would appear on the covers. Jul. 1936 - Claudette Colbert Aug. 1936 - Bette Davis Sep. 1936 - Katherine Hepburn Oct. 1936 - Norma Shearer     |
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Post by Mrs Vindecco on Oct 11, 2012 10:21:36 GMT
These are a huge change Woofy, thanks for sharing. So do you think this was a deliberate nod to the past because the publishers knew that inevitably they would need to start printing actual photographs?
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Post by woofy on Oct 11, 2012 15:15:21 GMT
These are a huge change Woofy, thanks for sharing. So do you think this was a deliberate nod to the past because the publishers knew that inevitably they would need to start printing actual photographs? No, I think they committed themselves to popular illustrator Flagg and they weren't happy with the results. (Too "arty" for their customers.) The article content didn't change any so they didn't lose many subscribers, but they dropped the Flagg illustrations as soon as his contract was up. I think it's an interesting "experiment", but it made PhotoPlay look more like Art in America than a movie fan magazine, which is what it was essentially. |
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Post by woofy on Oct 14, 2012 19:52:18 GMT
Today's post: Nov. 1936 - Carole Lombard Jan. 1937 - Ginger Rogers Feb. 1937 - Joan Crawford Mar. 1937 - Jean Harlow     |
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Post by woofy on Oct 25, 2012 23:55:19 GMT
Note that PhotoPlay had returned to using photographs for the covers. Today's post: Apr. 1937 - Ginger Rogers May 1937 - Jean Harlow & Robert Taylor Jun. 1937 - Shirley Temple Jul. 1937 - Jeanette MacDonald     |
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Post by woofy on Oct 26, 2012 15:57:11 GMT
Interesting that the Winchell articles screams "Why she (Barbara Stanwyck) won't marry Robert Taylor." By the time of this article, the two were already living together. They were married in 1939 and remained so until 1950. (Stanwyck never remarried after Taylor and always described him as "the love of my life."
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Post by woofy on Oct 26, 2012 15:59:56 GMT
Also nice to see fellow Philadelphian Jeanette MacDonald in all her red-headed splendor. (You Brits/Aussies say "ginger", don't you? The only thing "Ginger" conjures up for us Yanks is Ms. Rogers and Gilligan's Island.) :-)
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Post by woofy on Nov 8, 2012 18:47:47 GMT
Today's post: Aug. 1937 - Claudette Colbert Sep. 1937 - Myrna Loy Oct. 1937 - Joan Crawford Nov. 1937 - Shirley Temple     |
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Post by woofy on Nov 26, 2012 2:29:02 GMT
Today's post: Dec. 1937 - Loretta Young Jan. 1938 - Irene Dunne Sep. 1938 - Jeanette MacDonald Jul. 1939 - Priscilla Lane     |
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