Picturegoer — Week ending 14 October 1944
Phyllis Calvert & Stewart Granger cover — Fanny by Gaslight · “Splashing to Stardom” Esther Williams
British wartime Picturegoer issue for the week ending 14 October 1944, with Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger on a colour cover from Gainsborough’s Fanny by Gaslight. Inside, W. H. Mooring’s “Hollywood Once-Over” surveys current American industry news, while “Splashing to Stardom” profiles Esther Williams as MGM converts her champion-swimmer identity into a new kind of film-star persona.
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Good appearance for an original 1944 wartime issue, ungraded. The colour cover remains strong and highly presentable, with moderate spine rubbing and small splits, light edge and corner wear, minor surface marks/creasing and small tears around the extremities. Interior and rear 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 14 October 1944
- Film
- Fanny by Gaslight
- 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 with a Fanny by Gaslight cover and contemporary Esther Williams stardom feature
Catalogue note
British wartime Picturegoer issue for the week ending 14 October 1944, with Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger on a colour cover from Gainsborough’s Fanny by Gaslight. Inside, W. H. Mooring’s “Hollywood Once-Over” surveys current American industry news, while “Splashing to Stardom” profiles Esther Williams as MGM converts her champion-swimmer identity into a new kind of film-star persona. The rear page adds a strong home-front advertising layer: personal-hygiene and beauty products are marketed through crowding, uniforms, servicemen and women’s service imagery, showing how wartime conditions were absorbed into ordinary consumer culture.
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Archive Importance: 9.4 / 10 · Gold Star.
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