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Radio And Cinema Magazines Of The 1920s

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Most of the 1920s film magazines were published to keep the public interested in the stars. The advent of sound or talking movies around 1927 saw the production and sales of film magazines and comics really take off.

(Note these are not the original images but substitutes as many of the images on this thread were lost. Viv)
 
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JohnO, I don't know about you but I am 71 in a few weeks time and really do not see many women with what I consider to be 'Class'. There are a few on the forum but it would be wrong to name them because if I leave any out they will be annoyed and those that are named will get big headed. Ha Ha, but I know what you mean about Mary Pickford and her ilk. Who today could even be remotely considered similar to Bridgette Bardot?? Now me, you. Alf, Postie, and I suppose Lencops and one or two other male members on the forum will alays be thought of as Marlon Brando and the likes but nuf said methinks.
 
Stitcher, I live in a remote forest, so I don't get to see many women at all! :(

As such, I'm VERY grateful for your postings! ;)

I'm sure many folk enjoy your submissions enormously, even though the comments are few. As they say, a good picture is often worth a thousand words; so please keep 'em coming!!
 
These are two editions of Radio Times from the 1920s. (Note these are substitute images, originals were lost. Viv)
 

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It's interesting that as well as the 'idealistic' the covers of the Radio times reflect the Art-Deco and the 'modernist' styles; where these days we just get pics of 'soap-stars' ... although 'Wallace and Gromet' feature currently, which I'm prepared to forgive...
 
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Mary Pickford - what a cracker! Swoons .....
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Mary Pickford’s been called the biggest movie star that ever was. Bigger than Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor. She was the hottest thing in Hollywood in 1917. Some held her to be the most popular woman in the world.

I don't disagree, but Josephine Baker held some allure I think. Baker's success coincided (1925) with the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs, which gave us the term "Art Deco", and also with a renewal of interest in ethnic forms of art and she represented one aspect of this fashion. Shown wearing a costume consisting of a skirt made of a string of artificial bananas for her (in)famous Danse Sauvage at the Folies Bergères
 
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