Howard Hughs and HELL'S ANGELS (Photoplay Magazine, 1930)"The Thrilling, romantic story of how Howard Hughes, the millionaire kid, who tossed fortunes into the making of HELL'S ANGELS"
The editors of Photoplay, like many in the Hollywood community between the years 1927 through 1930, were extremely curious about wunderkind Howard Hughes (1905 – 1976) and the wildly expensive film he was directing that never seemed able to reach a state of completion, "Hell's Angels". This article, by Bogart Rogers, makes clear that by the time the film was released, production costs had soared beyond the four million dollar range (although some contemporary sources believe it was a few hundred thousand south of that number)- and most infamously, four aviators had been killed during the filming. This article sums-up the Hollywood career of Howard Hughes up to 1930 and seeks to separate some of the falsehoods that circulated about the boy-director.
Jean Harlow (Photoplay Magazine, 1931)When this interview appeared on the newsstands, Jean Harlow (1911 – 1937) had fifteen credits under her belt (most of them short films) and only six years left until she would assume room temperature as a result of kidney failure. Written by the PHOTOPLAY reporter Leonard Hall (who would like us to believe that he was a Hollywood studio psychiatrist), this is a light and breezy two page interview conducted at the New Yorker Hotel at a time when that establishment appealed to Hollywood Royalty.
"Yes, young men, your worst fears are true! Miss Harlow (Jeanie to me) is calculated to knock you over with an eyelash at fifty paces. Both in circumference, diameter, and altitude she is eminently satisfactory..."
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Ronald Coleman (Photoplay Magazine, 1930)A PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE interview featuring British actor Ronald Colman (1891 – 1958) in which the journalist attempted to dispel all pre-conceived notions that the actor was "silent and aloof" and was, in reality, a regular guy.
Eighteen years after this fan magazine article appeared, Coleman would be awarded a "Best Actor" Oscar for his work in the film, A DOUBLE LIFE.
Greta Garbo Goes Hollywood (Photoplay, 1930)A five page article about the meteoric rise of Greta Garbo (B. Greta Lovisa Gustafsson: 1905 – 1990) in European films, her arrival in California, the contracts signed, and an account of her earliest Hollywood films.
Greta Garbo's First Impressions of Hollywood (Photoplay Magazine, 1930)Greta Garbo (1905 – 1990) was well known for keeping to herself and preferring to act on movie sets free of executives, pals and all sorts of other hangers-on and she was very famous for refusing to grant members of the press corps interviews. With that in mind, it is a wonder that Katherine Albert of PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE was able to piece enough together for this 1930 article:
"She has no place in the life of Hollywood. She has never adapted herself to it.
Garbo will continue to remain an enigma..."
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Howard Hughes Buys Multicolor (Film Spectator, 1930)When the deep-pocketed film director Howard Hughes (1905 – 1976) decided to tint a few sequences from his film HELL'S ANGELS (1930) he purchased the company that he believed capable of filling such an order: Multicolor in Hollywood, California (as it turned out, the work was actually done by Technicolor). Hughes was such a curiosity to the press and they followed his every whim; in this article, critic Donald Beaton refers to Hughes as a pioneer and salutes him for experimenting with color.
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