Picturegoer — Week ending 16 September 1944
Humphrey Bogart cover · Show Business pictorial · Janet Blair “Rushing to the Top!”
British wartime Picturegoer issue for the week ending 16 September 1944, with Humphrey Bogart on the colour cover beside a large dog. Inside, a full-page Show Business pictorial recreates vaudeville and music-hall routines with Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis and Constance Moore, while “Rushing to the Top!”
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Good appearance for an original 1944 wartime issue, ungraded. The Humphrey Bogart colour cover remains strong and attractive, with moderate spine rubbing and small splits, light edge and corner wear, minor surface scuffing/creasing and ordinary handling wear. 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 16 September 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 featuring Humphrey Bogart, an illustrated Show Business (1944) pictorial and a Janet Blair star-making feature tied to Once Upon a Time (1944)
Catalogue note
British wartime Picturegoer issue for the week ending 16 September 1944, with Humphrey Bogart on the colour cover beside a large dog. Inside, a full-page Show Business pictorial recreates vaudeville and music-hall routines with Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis and Constance Moore, while “Rushing to the Top!” traces Janet Blair’s rapid transition from band singer to Columbia leading lady and highlights her role opposite Cary Grant in Once Upon a Time. The rear page combines a National Savings Committee campaign for Savings Certificates with beauty, hygiene and service-themed advertising, preserving another dense example of cinema fandom embedded within British wartime consumer culture.
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Archive Importance: 9.3 / 10 · Gold Star.
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