Picturegoer — Week ending 19 August 1944
Robert Donat & Deborah Kerr cover · probable Perfect Strangers pre-release publicity · Irene Dunne feature
British wartime Picturegoer issue for the week ending 19 August 1944, with Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr on the colour cover in what is very likely pre-release publicity for Alexander Korda’s Perfect Strangers, then in production and not released until 1945. Inside, a substantial ‘13 Years of Stardom and Versatility’ feature surveys Irene Dunne’s career, while W. H. Mooring’s ‘Hollywood Once-Over’ provides current industry commentary.
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Good appearance for an original 1944 wartime issue, ungraded. The Donat/Kerr colour cover remains attractive and substantially intact, with moderate spine rubbing and small splits, edge and corner wear, light surface marks/creasing and some age-related handling. 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 19 August 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; Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr cover image is a high-confidence attribution to publicity for Perfect Strangers, then in production and released in 1945
Catalogue note
British wartime Picturegoer issue for the week ending 19 August 1944, with Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr on the colour cover in what is very likely pre-release publicity for Alexander Korda’s Perfect Strangers, then in production and not released until 1945. Inside, a substantial ‘13 Years of Stardom and Versatility’ feature surveys Irene Dunne’s career, while W. H. Mooring’s ‘Hollywood Once-Over’ provides current industry commentary. The rear page adds striking wartime context: Picturegoer’s own post-card service warns that dispatches are delayed ‘owing to Enemy Action’, while a current theatrical advertisement promotes Cecil B. DeMille’s The Story of Dr. Wassell. The issue consequently links British wartime publishing conditions, current cinema exhibition and star publicity in one object.
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Archive Importance: 9.5 / 10 · Gold Star.
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