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frogmarch

(12,153 posts) Tue Apr 19, 2016, 10:30 AM Apr 2016

First movie fan magazine - February 1911

Motion Picture Story Magazine

http://www.moviemags.com/main.php?title=MOTION%20PICTURE%20STORY%20MAGAZINE%20&etos=% (42 issues shown)

First issue: February 1911
Title changed to Motion Picture Magazine: March 1914

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I don’t know what made me wonder this morning when the first movie fan magazines came out. I guessed it was maybe in the late 1940s, but I guessed wrong. The first ones I remember were from the early 1960s. The stories by that time were mostly gossip and fabrications (Liz was able to steal Eddie from Debbie because Liz wore lacy pegnoirs to bed and Debbie wore cotton pajamas), but they were fun.

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First movie fan magazine - February 1911 (Original Post) frogmarch Apr 2016 OP

How cool! femmocrat Apr 2016 #1

Yes, they were. frogmarch Apr 2016 #2

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

1. How cool!

Reply to frogmarch (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 11:46 AM

Apr 2016

Those early covers are beautiful.

frogmarch

(12,153 posts)

2. Yes, they were.

Reply to femmocrat (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 19, 2016, 12:14 PM

Apr 2016

I wish some of the articles were available to read online.

Here's a Motion Picture combined with Hollywood Magazine cover from December 1943, when I was born. I always liked Alan Ladd. It must have been destiny.

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