Category Archives: 1940s

November 13, 2017 · 12:00 pm

Photoplay May-Aug. 1944

  • Cover girls: May – Hedy Lamarr; June – Olivia deHavilland; August – Betty Hutton.
  • Patriotic subjects dominated many magazines cover-dated July 1944; Photoplay’s July issue featured a war bond.
  • Dorothy Kilgallen’s list of “The Hollywood Men I’d Like to Be Married To” in the June issue included Frank Sinatra, Hollywood fashion designer Adrian, Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, Don Ameche, Joel McCrea, Bing Crosby, William Powell, Marlene Dietrich’s husband Rudolph Sieber, Charles Boyer, and George Sanders.

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November 6, 2017 · 12:00 pm

Photoplay Jan.-Apr. 1944

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Deanna Durbin, Greer Garson,  Joan Fontaine, Ginger Rogers.

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October 30, 2017 · 11:00 am

Photoplay Sep.-Dec. 1943


Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Olivia de Havilland in Rosie the Riveter mode; Ingrid Bergman; Ann Sheridan; Paulette Goddard.

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October 23, 2017 · 11:00 am

Photoplay May-Aug. 1943

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): the gorgeous Veronica Lake and her equally gorgeous friend; Betty Grable; Judy Garland; Janet Blair.

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October 16, 2017 · 11:00 am

Photoplay Jan.-Apr. 1943

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, Gene Tierney.

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October 9, 2017 · 11:00 am

Photoplay Sep.-Dec. 1942


Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Priscilla Lane; Deanna Durbin; Ginger Rogers; and Mrs. Miniver herself, Greer Garson.

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October 2, 2017 · 11:00 am

Photoplay August 1942

By 1942 the U.S. had entered the war and its magazines often featured the American flag on their covers. Photoplay was no exception.

Photoplay August 1942 United Flag

The Hollywood actors shown in the “In the Service” insets (l.-r): Robert Montgomery, Burgess Meredith, Wayne Morris, James Stewart, William Holden, Gene Raymond, Robert Cummings, Jeffrey Lynn, Ronald Reagan, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Tyrone Power, Tim Holt.

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September 25, 2017 · 11:00 am

Photoplay May-July 1942

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Cover girls: Betty Grable, Ann Sheridan, Judy Garland.

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September 18, 2017 · 11:00 am

Photoplay Jan.-Apr. 1942

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Barbara Stanwyck, Ann Sothern, Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine.

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September 11, 2017 · 11:00 am

Photoplay Sep.-Dec. 1941

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): the evergreen Olivia de Havilland (who, as of this post, is 101 years old!); Irene Dunne; Claudette Colbert; Lana Turner.

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