Picturegoer — Week ending 25 November 1944
Lana Turner cover · “Meet Sexton Blake” / “Dear Katharine Hepburn”
British wartime issue of Picturegoer, week ending 25 November 1944, with Lana Turner on the colour cover. The photographed interior pairs a substantial David Farrar profile, “Meet Sexton Blake”, with Marjory Williams’s “Dear Katharine Hepburn”, illustrated by Hepburn and Turhan Bey in Dragon Seed.
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Good/fair appearance for an original 1944 wartime issue, ungraded. The Lana Turner colour cover remains strong and attractive, with visible spine rubbing and splits, edge and corner wear, small top-edge chips/tears, handling creases and light surface marks. Rear and interior pages are age-toned but clean and highly legible.
- Completeness
- Assumed complete under the standing TMR magazine rule unless the owner states otherwise. Front cover, rear page and one interior spread are supplied; no page-by-page collation has been performed.
- Date
- Week ending 25 November 1944
- Territory
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Format
- Illustrated film fan magazine; cover states “Every Other Thursday”
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Status
- Original period publication
- Release context
- British wartime Picturegoer issue published during the Second World War
Catalogue note
British wartime issue of Picturegoer, week ending 25 November 1944, with Lana Turner on the colour cover. The photographed interior pairs a substantial David Farrar profile, “Meet Sexton Blake”, with Marjory Williams’s “Dear Katharine Hepburn”, illustrated by Hepburn and Turhan Bey in Dragon Seed. The rear page is exceptionally revealing home-front material: a National Savings Committee appeal to keep saving despite improving war news sits alongside beauty advertising explicitly addressing women waiting for servicemen to return, plus tobacco advertising. Together these pages make the issue a compact record of cinema fandom, wartime citizenship, gender expectations, consumer culture and racialised screen representation.
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Archive Importance: 9.5 / 10 · Gold Star.
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