Picturegoer — Week ending 27 November 1943
Paulette Goddard cover · ‘Millions Like Us’ feature · wartime food and National Savings Christmas material
Picturegoer for the week ending 27 November 1943, with Paulette Goddard on the colour cover. The issue is particularly rich in home-front material.
Read the catalogue note →- Organisation
- Odhams Press
- Condition
- Good to very good appearance for an original 1943 wartime issue, ungraded. Strong and attractive colour cover with light-to-moderate spine and edge wear, small corner/edge defects, minor surface marks and expected paper toning. Rear and interior pages 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 27 November 1943
- 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 Paulette Goddard cover, a substantial reader-derived Millions Like Us feature and explicit Ministry of Food and National Savings Christmas messaging
Catalogue note
Picturegoer for the week ending 27 November 1943, with Paulette Goddard on the colour cover. The issue is particularly rich in home-front material. A substantial ‘Millions Like Us’ feature, freely adapted by Marjory Williams with Gainsborough’s permission, retells the wartime factory-worker story centred on Celia and her experiences of conscription, factory work, class mixing, romance and bereavement. The facing reader-response page preserves audience reactions to contemporary films. On the rear, Ministry of Food advice explains the current dried-egg ration and gives a jam-pancake recipe, while the National Savings Committee promotes Gift Tokens as a patriotic Christmas present. Goddard’s cover adds a transatlantic wartime-star dimension: in 1943 she starred as an Army nurse in So Proudly We Hail!, for which she received an Academy Award nomination.
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Archive Importance: 9.8 / 10 · Gold Star.
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