Picturegoer — Week ending 4 September 1943
Barbara Stanwyck cover · “Does this man make Villainy too Attractive?” — James Mason / The Man in Grey
British wartime Picturegoer issue for the week ending 4 September 1943, with Barbara Stanwyck on the colour cover. Its most important interior feature asks “Does this man make Villainy too Attractive?”
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Good appearance for an original 1943 wartime issue, ungraded. The Barbara Stanwyck colour cover remains vivid and highly presentable, 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 4 September 1943
- Film
- The Man in Grey
- 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 Barbara Stanwyck and a contemporary James Mason article reacting to his villainous screen persona in The Man in Grey
Catalogue note
British wartime Picturegoer issue for the week ending 4 September 1943, with Barbara Stanwyck on the colour cover. Its most important interior feature asks “Does this man make Villainy too Attractive?” and examines James Mason’s rapidly developing screen persona, focusing on his ruthless Marquis of Rohan in The Man in Grey and explicitly recording contemporary concern that his villains were becoming more compelling than conventional heroes. W. H. Mooring’s “Hollywood Once-Over” adds current industry commentary, while the rear page carries the National Savings Committee’s memorable “Swat that Squander Bug!” campaign beside beauty, hygiene and food advertising. The issue therefore joins Hollywood star glamour, the emergence of the Gainsborough melodrama anti-hero and British wartime savings propaganda in one object.
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Archive Importance: 9.6 / 10 · Gold Star.
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