Thank God for Moving Pictures

Some highlights from flipping through fan magazines on the internet archive. If you have an Old Hollywood blorbo or a movie you wanna know more about, let me know! I love digging for specific stuff. Disclaimer: I do not support all opinions or people posted on this blog, I am running it for fun.

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Piquant Claudette Colbert has two handsome leading men, Fred MacMurray and Robert Young, in her scintillating Paramount film, “The Bride Comes Home,” directed by Wesley Ruggles

Photoplay 1936-02 Vol. 49, No. 2

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Photoplay 1936-02 Vol. 49, No. 2

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Her eyelashes are as light and charming as her conversation. You meet her, recall your most gay, least troubled moments. But in "Petrified Forest" you will find quite a different Davis!

Photoplay 1936-02 Vol. 49, No. 2

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Photoplay 1936-02 Vol. 49, No. 2

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Irene Dunne just can't say no to the innumerable requests for more tune-full films from her, so now that she has finished "Magnificent Obsession," she has gone into that musical delight, "Show Boat"

Photoplay 1936-02 Vol. 49, No. 2

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Photoplay 1936-02 Vol. 49, No. 2

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Profile of the Loy lady: not too proud to fight nor too womanly to win; leaps from melodrama in "Whipsaw" to romance in "The Great Ziegfield"; prepares inscrutably for marriage

Photoplay 1936-02 Vol. 49, No. 2

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Photoplay 1936-02 Vol. 49, No. 2

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Rhea Gable, Clifton Webb, Ruby DeRemer and Clark at the Troc the night before he left for South America. Did Gable, the screen's perfect he-man tire of endless social dinners like these distinguished by the Parks Avenue background of his wife and her friends?

Photoplay 1936-02 Vol. 49, No. 2

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Photoplay 1939-01 Vol. 53, No. 1

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For once, Carole Lombard was on the receiving end of a practical joke. When her birthday rolled around, the crew of "Made for Each Other" threw a party. Her present?--a mule, whom "Missy" promptly christened Scarlett and added to her menagerie at home

Photoplay 1939-01 Vol. 53, No. 1

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Photoplay 1939-01 Vol. 53, No. 1

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Exciting adventures make a thrilling motion picture with an R.A.F. accent: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Coleman, Errol Flynn in "Desperate Journey"

Photoplay 1942-11 Vol. 21, No. 6

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Photoplay 1939-01 Vol. 53, No. 1

Solo Act--With Reason

Are you free, white, twenty-one and can you date a beautiful girl any night in the week if you choose?

Well, lucky you. It’s more than two famous screen stars, James Stewart and Tyrone Power, can do.

One evening last week at the Beverly Brown Derby, Jimmy Stewart sat alone having a solitary dinner. Across the way sat two young ladies from Idaho. They were unable to swallow a bite—just sat watching the handsome young actor.

“Just think,” one said to the other, “of all the thousands of girls who would give their eye teeth to be eating dinner with Jimmy Stewart and yet here he is alone.” Finally, one of the girls could bear it no longer and sent over a note saying, “Couldn’t you get a date tonight?”

Jimmy grinned back but said nothing.

“It isn’t a question of getting a date and certainly not with Jimmy,” Ty Power said, when we told him of the incident. “It’s a question of having a date and facing embarrassment for both you and the girl. It’s got so I never step out the door with a young lady, even an old friend, that our marriage isn’t predicted by Hollywood. Or some romantic question is attached to it, at least.

“You can imagine how any girl feels when she’s faced with these constant explanations and embarrassments. So, like Jimmy, these days I either trot off alone or go everywhere with my mother, sister or friend who I know understands and won’t mind.”

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Gilbert Roland has been Connie Bennett's devoted slave for years, while Connie's titled husband remains in Europe

Photoplay 1939-01 Vol. 53, No. 1

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Photoplay 1939-01 Vol. 53, No. 1

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Why this little girl likes to take her music lesson! Judy Garland gets played up to by her husband Dave Rose, her piano teacher

Photoplay 1942-11 Vol. 21, No. 6