Picturegoer and Film Weekly No. 454 (New Series), Vol. 9
3 February 1940 · Jane Bryan cover · The Stars Look Down / Escape to Happiness previews
Picturegoer and Film Weekly No. 454 (New Series), Vol. 9, dated 3 February 1940, with Jane Bryan on the colour cover.
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Good appearance for an original 1940 issue, ungraded. Strong colour cover with moderate spine and edge wear, small splits/tears and light surface rubbing. The photographed rear page has notable small losses/tears along the upper edge; interior pages are age-toned but 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
- 3 February 1940
- Territory
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Format
- Illustrated film fan magazine; masthead reads “Picturegoer incorporating Film Weekly”
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Status
- Original period publication
- Release context
- Early wartime British Picturegoer issue during the 1939–41 Picturegoer and Film Weekly title phase, with Jane Bryan cover and contemporary previews of The Stars Look Down and Escape to Happiness / Intermezzo
Catalogue note
Picturegoer and Film Weekly No. 454 (New Series), Vol. 9, dated 3 February 1940, with Jane Bryan on the colour cover. The issue belongs to Picturegoer’s 1939–41 ‘Picturegoer and Film Weekly’ phase and was published only five months into the Second World War. The supplied preview pages are especially useful: ‘Another British Triumph’ discusses Carol Reed’s The Stars Look Down, with Margaret Lockwood and Michael Redgrave, while ‘Escape to Happiness’ previews the Leslie Howard–Ingrid Bergman film better known as Intermezzo: A Love Story. The rear advertisement for Illustrated explicitly invokes ‘the shadow of War’ and wartime restrictions while promoting snowy Norwegian imagery, giving the issue an unusually direct early-war publishing context.
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Archive Importance: 9.4 / 10 · Gold Star.
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