- January’s cover girl is Marie Doro.
- The hat trend continues!
Photoplay Jan. 1919
Filed under 1910s, Marie Doro, Photoplay
Photoplay July-Dec. 1918
- Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): Doris Kenyon, Mabel Normand, Lila Lee, Marguerite Clayton, Edith Story, Sylvia Breamer.
- 1918’s trendiest headwear is on display here!
- W. Haskell Coffin did the July (Kenyon), August (Norman) and October (Clayton) covers.
- The August issue extols slapstick queen Mabel Normand for reading Strindberg, Ibsen, and Shaw. You can read the article courtesy of the excellent Looking for Mabel Normand site, here’s the link:
Photoplay Jan.-June 1918
- Cover girls (l.-r., in order of appearance): June Elvidge, Alma Rubens, Virginia Pearson, Elsie Ferguson, Gail Kane, Olive Tell.
- All the covers except for February’s Rubens cover are by the great illustrator W. Haskell Coffin. The Feb. issue’s Table of Contents notes the Rubens Cover Design is “From a Pastel Portrait.”
- Also in the Feb. issue: “From Stenography to Stardom”, about the actress Virginia Valli; and a photo feature about “Alice Joyce and Her New Clothes.”
Before They Were Famous: President Ford, Cover Boy
Did you know President Gerald Ford did some modeling in his younger days? Here he is on this Cosmopolitan cover from April 1942.
The cover illustrator is Bradshaw Crandall and the image is from the informative and entertaining Presidential Trivia site, which has a ton of interesting stuff — check it out!
Filed under 1940s, Bradshaw Crandall, Cosmopolitan, Gerald Ford
Vintage Film and Theatre
Hi everyone. I love classic cinema and theatre ephemera such as magazines, posters, stills, etc. I plan on setting up a site about 20th century movie and theatre magazines, but until it’s up and running you may want to visit my Pinterest board. Lots of movie and stage memorabilia there!
To start with, here’s a favorite Pin of mine: a Photoplay cover of opera star Geraldine Farrar, who starred in Cecil B. DeMille’s silent film version of Carmen.
Filed under Introduction, Photoplay
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