Picturegoer — Week ending 23 December 1944
Greer Garson & Walter Pidgeon cover · ‘One up on Hollywood?’ · wartime Christmas savings and food guidance
Christmas 1944 issue of Picturegoer, dated 23 December, with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon on the colour cover. The interior mixes Hollywood culture with unusually revealing wartime domestic material: the editor’s ‘One up on Hollywood?’
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Good to very good appearance for an original 1944 wartime issue, ungraded. Cover colour and image remain strong with light-to-moderate spine and edge wear, minor corner rubbing and handling marks. Rear and interior pages show normal age toning and small edge defects but remain 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 23 December 1944
- Territory
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Format
- Illustrated film fan magazine; cover states ‘Every Other Thursday’
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Status
- Original period publication
- Release context
- Christmas 1944 British Picturegoer issue combining Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon star imagery, discussion of Hollywood Shakespeare adaptations, entertainment publicity, wartime food guidance and National Savings Christmas messaging
Catalogue note
Christmas 1944 issue of Picturegoer, dated 23 December, with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon on the colour cover. The interior mixes Hollywood culture with unusually revealing wartime domestic material: the editor’s ‘One up on Hollywood?’ considers whether film can improve on Shakespeare, while adjacent publicity promotes MGM’s Technicolor Bathing Beauty and newcomer Vera-Ellen. Ministry of Food panels provide a dried-egg omelette recipe and practical Christmas-party food suggestions. The rear page converts Christmas gift-giving itself into wartime finance through the National Savings Committee’s ‘Gift Tokens’ campaign, encouraging readers to give savings instruments rather than conventional presents.
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Archive Importance: 9.6 / 10 · Gold Star.
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