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PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE
MARILYN MONROE Ava Gardner AUDREY HEPBURN Piper Laurie MITZI Photoplay magazine
MARILYN MONROE Ava Gardner AUDREY HEPBURN Piper Laurie MITZI Photoplay magazine
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A very rare 50's issue of PHOTOPLAY magazine, published weekly in the fifties and now super scarce!
Monroe is featured on the cover, in the classic yellow swimsuit. 'Marilyn and her Man' feature.
Also in this issue -
'Marilyn and her Man' - 2 1/2 page+ feature in which the magazine brings to it's readers the first authentic story of the years most talked about marriage of Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio - includes three b&w glamour photos of Marilyn (one large, two largish) and a small b&w portrait shot of Joe (includes some comments from Marilyn early and later on in the feature).
'What Price Beauty?' - three-page feature/interview with Audrey Hepburn - six b&w photos featuring Audrey included.
'Editorial' - one-page article on censorship, with mentions of French Line, The Moon is Blue, The Captain's Paradise, Sadie Thompson and Ulysses (includes a very large b&w shot of Kirk Douglas as he appears in the movie).
'There's no holding Holden' - one-page+ feature on Bill (William) Holden who is to Hollywood what Rex Harrison is to the London and New York stage - includes a largish b&w photo of Bill having fun in his garden with sons Peter & Scott.
'Don't marry till you're twenty'...says 25-year-old Terry Moore in this two-page article by her in which she discusses marriage - includes a large b&w photo of Terry lying on a bench.
'This Infant Vincent' - two-page feature on five-year-old child actor Master Vincent Winter who recently starred in The Kidnappers (aka The Little Kidnappers) - four b&w photos featuring Vincent (includes one large with Jon Whiteley as the appear in a scene from the movie).
'Those Irish eyes are smiling' - 1 1/2 page+ feature/interview with Dublin born actress Audrey Dalton - includes a b&w shot of Audrey with husband James (Jim).
'Bachelor Bold' - 2 1/2 page feature/interview with Scott Brady who has his own reasons why there's no wife in his life - includes a large b&w photo of Scott wearing a gown and standing alongside an ocean wall as he gazes at the sea, plus three b&w shots of Scott pictured with Ann Blyth, Dorothy Malone and Elaine Stewart.
'The star with seven fur coats...' - near one-page feature on 21-year-old actress Abbe Lane - includes a largish b&w glamour photo of Abbe (no fur coat in sight!).
'She's he' - two-page feature on French actress Micheline (Michele) Carvel who plays both parts in Adam is Eve (aka Adam est Eve...) - six b&w shots featuring Michele as a male and female included !
'And baby made three' - 1 1/2 page+ feature/interview with Elizabeth Taylor on life with her young son Michael (Mike) junior - includes a largish b&w photo of Liz with young Michael (named after actor/father Michael Wilding).
This month's 'star' centrefold pages features full-page colour plates of Keefe Brasselle, Audrey Dalton and Robert Wagner (The fourth page features a full-page colour 'ad' from 20th Century Fox for How to Marry a Millionaire which features colour images of cover girl Marilyn Monroe with Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable).
'The legs have it!' - one-page feature on the Italian film industry as their audiences clamour for more and more starlets - includes a large b&w still from The Voice of Silence featuring the legs and 'rear' of Rossana Podesta!
'Bogarde - why so blue?' - two-page+ feature on Dirk Bogarde who is constantly being labelled as gloomy and glum looking in his film appearances - includes a largish b&w portrait shot of Dirk plus four b&w stills (from The Gentle Gunman, Desperate Moment, Appointment in London and Those Who Dare) which seem confirm to statement.
Kiss Me Kate - two-page photo feature/preview of the film which stars Kathryn Grayson, Ann Miller, Howard Keel, Keenan Wynn, Bobby Van, Tommy Rall, James Whitmore, Kurt Kasnar, Bob Fosse and Ron Randell - eight b&w stills featured (one very large).
'Home James' - 1 1/2 page feature on James Stewart's home life - includes four b&w photos (one large) featuring James, his wife Gloria and their four children Ronnie, Mike, Judy & Kelly.
'Some of my best friends are wolves' - two-page+ feature on actress Vanessa Brown who proclaims 'All men are wolves!' - here she tells how to tame them! - three b&w photos of Vanessa featured (one large).
'Picture Parade' - 2 1/2 page+ film review section which this month features: Hell Below Zero, Money From Home, Escape From Fort Bravo, Bad For Each Other, The Great Diamond Robbery, The Big Heat, Plunder Of The Sun, Calamity Jane, Here Come The Girls, Latin Lovers, The Moonlighter, The Weak And The Wicked and King Of The Khyber Rifles (includes a large b&w still featuring Tyrone Power & Guy Rolfe).
This month's 'Candid Camera' feature includes a large b&w photo featuring Robert Taylor as 'Lancelot' on the Elstree set of Knights of the Round Table, plus b&w shots featuring Charles Laughton & director David Lean pictured between takes on the Shepperton set of Hobson's Choice, Sebastian Cabot pictured on the set of Romeo and Juliet, Alan Badell pictured on a set and receiving some care from his daughter Sarah who appears to be Alan's wardrobe mistress for the day! and Dana Andrews pictured on location for Duel in the Jungle.
'Confidentially' - near one-page article by movie gossip columnist Sidney Skolsky.
Ava Gardner is pictured on the penultimate page in a publicity photo for Knights Of The Round Table (half page b&w).
This issue includes full-page film 'ads' for: How to Marry a Millionaire (colour) and Eight O'Clock Walk (b&w).
'Inside
Hollywood' - two-page monthly Hollywood news round-up - includes news
items (some small) concerning June Haver, Larry Parks, Gene Nelson, Jane
Powell, Donald O'Connor, Zachary Scott, Jeff Chandler, Rosemary
Clooney, Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell & Vincent Price, Audie Murphy,
Dale Robertson, Jean Peters, Piper Laurie & Tony Curtis, Robert
Taylor & Ursula Thiess, Barbara Stanwyck, George Nader, John Wayne,
Jean Simmons, Debra Paget, Van Johnson, Mario Lanza, Kathryn Grayson,
Burt Lancaster, Bill (William) Holden, Cary Grant, Richard Conte, and
Abbott & Costello. The round-up also includes b&w photos of:
Stewart Granger & actress/wife Jean Simmons, Mitzi Gaynor, Terry
Moore & Rock Hudson, Michael Rennie & wife, Merry Andrews &
Jay Robinson, Cameron Mitchell & Bella Darvi, Pat Crowley &
Jerry Lewis (on the set of Money from Home) plus a large b&w glamour
photo of Lauren Bacall.
An excellent 56 page film magazine featuring new and future movie releases of the time. This is the March 1954 issue of the monthly magazine 'Photoplay' (published in the UK).
An amazingly rare artefact. Smaller magazine circulation, meaning impossible to find now!
Excellent condition. Some light wear to cover as it is over 60 years old. Colours vibrant and odour free. Please inspect photo. All of our magazines are professionally stored inside acid-free archival and anti-UV plastic sleeves to protect from discolouration.
Scarce collector's item - posted with full insurance & online tracking. Mailed with an archival sleeve and a board and/or bubblewrap envelope. Many more rare fashion magazines in our shop...We are happy to combine post.
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