April 11, 2016 · 11:00 am
- The June and July covers break with tradition. First, the June cover has a mirror shot instead of the standard portrait shot.
- The June issue contains a profile on “The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful” by Adela Rogers St. Johns. The too beautiful girl in question? She’s not on the cover (that’s Mabel Ballin admiring herself) but it’s Barbara LaMarr, who had a banner year in 1922 with starring roles in Arabian Love, Domestic Relations, The Prisoner of Zenda and Trifling Women.
- And the July issue has an even more unusual cover–for the first time since the May 1916 issue ( D.W. Griffith), a man is spotlighted on Photoplay’s cover! It’s none other than Rudolph Valentino, in the famous portrait by Tempest Inman.
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March 28, 2016 · 11:00 am
- Cover girls are Dorothy Gish and Betty Compson.
- Both covers are by artist J. Knowles Hare. The covers sure are similar in color and composition, aren’t they? Botticelli rules.
March 21, 2016 · 11:00 am
- Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Corinne Griffith, Lila Lee, Olga Petrova.
- Love for three oranges? The cover layout that started with the December 1921 issue continues here, with the title and text at the bottom set on orange backgrounds.
- The January Griffith cover artist: Rolf Armstrong.
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March 14, 2016 · 11:00 am
- Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels, Betty Blythe, Agnes Ayres, Marion Davies, Lillian Gish.
- The November issue tackles the question “Are Women’s Colleges Old Maid Factories? The Results of an Interesting Investigation” by James R. Quirk.
- November also features an article touting the “Future Great Actor, Joseph Schildkraut, a New Griffith Protege.” Schildkraut, the son of actor Rudolf Schildkraut, was starring in Griffith’s Orphans of the Storm with the Gish sisters at the time. His long and illustrious career spanned well into the talkies.
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March 7, 2016 · 11:00 am
- Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Mary Thurman, Rubye De Remer, Priscilla Dean, Mary MacLaren, Dorothy Phillips, and appropriately, on the June cover: June Caprice.
- The price is 25 cents and the January cover proclaims “Over 500,000 Circulation”–not too shabby.
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February 29, 2016 · 11:00 am
In the second half of 1920, exotic hats are the rage!
- Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Martha Mansfield, Mae Murray, Constance Talmdage, Mary Pickford, Anna Q. Nilsson, Anita Stewart.
- The January 1920 cover featured Norma Talmadge; eight months later kid sis Constance adorns the September 1920 cover.
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February 22, 2016 · 11:00 am
- Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Norma Talmadge, Olive Thomas, Alice Joyce, Pearl White, Clara Kimball Young, Katherine MacDonald.
- The March 1920 issue features a cover portrait of Alice Joyce by Rolf Armstrong and the issue’s lead story is titled “If Christ Went to the Movies.”
- Think cinematic superheroes who perform daring feats are new? April 1920’s Pearl White was the serial queen who did her own stunts. She was so popular in 1914’s The Perils of Pauline that a whole slew of starring vehicles were built around her talents and athleticism such as The Exploits of Elaine, (1914-1915), The New Exploits of Elaine (1915), The Romance of Elaine (1915), Pearl of the Army (1916-1917), and other serials. She did a lot of her own feats–driving cars at breakneck speeds and swimming in rushing rivers–in these serials, until the producers realized she was just too valuable a commodity and started using stuntpeople in her place!
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