photoplay

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A Photoplay writer declared Scheherazade was the muse of cinema, and studio bosses were known as “movie moguls.”

From New York Times

Around the time of the story’s publication, Mr. Hunter and Wood were featured in a fawning cover story by the magazine Photoplay.

From Washington Post

“An actor called Molly O’Day had her excess weight cut away by a surgeon. In 1929, Photoplay magazine explicitly blamed the death of comic actor Katherine Grant on the Hal Roach studio’s demands for her to lose weight.”

From The Guardian

But a brief three years later, when the right turned up the heat, he published an abject apologia in Photoplay magazine entitled, “I’m No Communist,” in which he distanced himself from the Ten.

From New York Times

The biggest row between director and his star, all parties agree, was over Hedren’s plan to attend an awards event in New York held by Photoplay Magazine in February 1964, during the filming of Marnie, an intense pyschological thriller about abuse co-starring Sean Connery.

From The Guardian