Name/Title
"PHOTOPLAY,"DECEMBER 1928Entry/Object ID
2003.118.1.1Description
Color: Black; Green; Red; White
"Photoplay," December 1928 issue. The front cover has the title, month, and price at the top. Below is a color illustration of the face of actress Janet Gaynor, wearing a Christmas cap ith holidays balls around her with the topic below of "Exposing / Occult Hocus-Pocus in Hollywood." Gaynor's name is at the lower left of her portrait. Contents include regular features on the film industry, including film reviews, fan letters, advice on "girls' problems" and casts of current photoplays; and articles on actors and actresses such as Gaynor, Pola Negri, and Raquel Torres; the cover story on spiritualism; the awarding of a magazine award to the fim "Seventh Heaven;" gossip; a museum of Hollywood props opened by Charles Chaplin's assistant; a fiction story about the business; and others. There are many photograph illustrations and advertisements, some related to the film industry. With cover abrasions, creases, corner dents, light soiling, spine losses and stains, a few tears, and staple tarnish; page discoloration, folds, pest damage on page twenty-seven; and some water damage, the artifact is in good overall condition.Lexicon
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Motion picture industrySearch Terms
Three-dimensional, Magazines (periodicals), Photoplay Publishing Company, Motion picture actors and actressesLegacy Lexicon
Object Name
Magazines (Periodicals)