Monthly Archives: October 2016

October 31, 2016 · 11:00 am

Photoplay May-June 1929

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): June Collyer, Olga Baclanova, Bessie Love and–of course–Greta Garbo.
Bessie Love was riding high–she’d just appeared in MGM’s first two full-length MGM musicals of the sound era, The Broadway Melody of 1929 and The Hollywood Revue of 1929.
The Broadway Melody of 1929 was the first sound picture to receive the Best Picture Oscar.
Starting with July’s Bessie Love portrait, Earl Christy settles in as Photoplay’s regular cover artist.
Garbo’s erstshile beau John Gilbert married actress Ina Claire.

October 24, 2016 · 11:00 am

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Madge Bellamy, Estelle Taylor, Marion Davies, and “It Girl” Clara Bow.

October 17, 2016 · 11:00 am

Photoplay’s December cover girl Janet Gaynor was on a roll when it came to roles. In 1929 she’d nab the first Best Actress Oscar for three of them: 7th Heaven and Sunrise–both 1927–and 1928’s Street Angel.

October 10, 2016 · 11:00 am

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Gloria Swanson, Evelyn Brent, and Corinne Griffith.

October 3, 2016 · 11:00 am

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): blondes Greta Garbo, Marion Davies, Ruth Taylor–and brunette Billie Dove.
Garbo and John Gilbert (who “Writes His Own Story” in the June issue) had just appeared together in “Love”, a 1927 film adaptation of Anna Karenina. They’d next co-star in “A Woman of Affairs,” released in late 1928.