Anthony Slide Articles

Author and film historian Anthony Slide will be present at Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Hollywood to introduce and sign copies of his new book, Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers. The book-signing will take place at 1 p.m. on May 16. The actress on the cover of Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine is Joan Crawford, who was [...]

Silent film vamp Nita Naldi (The Ten Commandments), Picture-Play magazine Anthony Slide Interview Part II: Hollywood Fan Magazines, Scandals, and Innuendos The decline of the film studios — in terms of box-office revenues — in the mid-50s coincided with the appearance of several tabloids, most notoriously Confidential Magazine. Why did that happen since the studios seem to have been so powerful and all-controlling in previous [...]

Claudette Colbert drawing by James Montgomery Flagg on Photoplay; two-time Oscar winner Luise Rainer, whose "tempestuous life" is described in the magazine, turned 100 last January INSIDE THE HOLLYWOOD FAN MAGAZINE: Interview with Anthony Slide Part I I recall reading a quite negative and personal story in The New Movie Magazine written by columnist Herbert Howe about MGM star Ramon Novarro. How could something like [...]

Popular late '20s lovebirds Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell (7th Heaven, Street Angel), Photoplay INSIDE THE HOLLYWOOD FAN MAGAZINE: From Mary Pickford to Elizabeth Taylor How did the Hollywood fan magazine come about? Who came up with that idea? Had there been film fan magazines in Europe or was that an American invention? The fan magazine was an American invention. Earlier, there had been trade papers [...]