Category Archives: Photoplay

Photoplay Nov.-Dec. 1937

Photoplay Nov 1937 Shirley TemplePhotoplay Dec 1937 Loretta Young

  • Red-hot cover girls: November, Shirley Temple and December, Loretta Young.

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Photoplay Jan. 1935 – Hollywood’s Biggest Star

A real change of pace for the January 1935 cover!

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And why not? Without question, Shirley Temple was Hollywood’s biggest star during the Depression years.

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Photoplay Sep.-Dec. 1934

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Dolores del Rio, Irene Dunne, Margaret Sullavan, Greta Garbo.

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Photoplay May-Aug. 1934

  • Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Claudette Colbert, Carole Lombard, Marion Davies, Janet Gaynor.

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Photoplay Jan.-Apr. 1934

  • Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Joan Crawford, the ever-soignée Kay Francis, Norma Shearer, and–did you recognize her?– Katharine Hepburn.

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Photoplay Sep.-Dec. 1933

  • Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Marion Davies, Ruby Keeler, Marlene Dietrich, Ann Harding.

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Photoplay May-Aug. 1933

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Nancy Carroll, Bette Davis, Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn.

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Photoplay Jan.-Apr. 1933

  • Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Greta Garbo, Joan Bennett, Claudette Colbert (almost unrecognizable here if you ask me), and Norma Shearer.

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Photoplay May-Aug. 1932

Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Sidney Fox, Madge Evans, the ever-fashionable Kay Francis, and the star of the 1932 film Red Headed Woman, Jean Harlow–who was probably the most famous platinum blonde of the day.;)

 

 

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Photoplay Jan.-Apr. 1932

  • Garbo’s back and Gable’s got her–on January’s cover. The two were starring onscreen in Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise.
  • Garbo, Gable and the other cover subjects (in order of appearance): Mary Astor, Miriam Hopkins, and Norma Shearer.
  • Gable got around: in addition to Garbo, he’d appeared with Shearer in 1931’s A Free Soul and would co-star with Astor in Red Dust, released later in 1932.

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Filed under 1930s, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Mary Astor, Miriam Hopkins, Norma Shearer, Photoplay