Picturegoer — Week ending 11 November 1944
Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra cover · Caesar and Cleopatra production image · Ann Miller / Hollywood Once-Over
Picturegoer for the week ending 11 November 1944, with Vivien Leigh in costume as Cleopatra on an exceptionally striking colour cover. This is production-era publicity for Gabriel Pascal’s Caesar and Cleopatra, eventually released in 1945, making the cover an especially useful contemporary document of one of the most ambitious British productions of the war years.
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Very good appearance for an original 1944 wartime issue, ungraded. The colour cover is unusually strong and clean with vivid surviving tones, light spine/edge wear, minor corner rubbing and small handling marks. Rear and interior pages show expected age toning and light edge wear 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 11 November 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 with Vivien Leigh explicitly presented as Cleopatra during production of Caesar and Cleopatra, plus W. H. Mooring’s Hollywood column and an Ann Miller career feature
Catalogue note
Picturegoer for the week ending 11 November 1944, with Vivien Leigh in costume as Cleopatra on an exceptionally striking colour cover. This is production-era publicity for Gabriel Pascal’s Caesar and Cleopatra, eventually released in 1945, making the cover an especially useful contemporary document of one of the most ambitious British productions of the war years. Inside, W. H. Mooring’s ‘Hollywood Once-Over’ discusses the American film industry and British films in the United States, while ‘Even in Flops Ann is a Success!’ profiles tap dancer Ann Miller and illustrates her in Reveille with Beverly. The rear page preserves wartime consumer culture through service-themed dental advertising, restricted cosmetic supply language, women’s sanitary products and film-star print collecting.
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Archive Importance: 9.8 / 10 · Gold Star.
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