Picturegoer — Week ending 8 August 1942
Joan Fontaine and Tyrone Power cover
A wartime Picturegoer issue dated 8 August 1942, pairing Joan Fontaine and Tyrone Power on a romantic colour cover while its interior mixes Hollywood reporting, star profiles and home-front advertising. The supplied spread contains W. H. Mooring’s ‘Hollywood Once-Over’, discussion of Rita Hayworth, and a substantial John Carradine profile.
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- Picturegoer
- Condition
- Good, ungraded. Complete-looking wartime issue with strong colour cover. Moderate spine and edge wear, small tears and losses, upper-right corner loss, horizontal handling creases and surface wear; interior pages remain clear and well attached in supplied views.
- Completeness
- Assumed complete under the standing TMR magazine rule unless the owner states otherwise. Front cover, rear page and representative interior spread supplied; no page-by-page collation performed.
- Date
- Week ending 8 August 1942
Catalogue note
A wartime Picturegoer issue dated 8 August 1942, pairing Joan Fontaine and Tyrone Power on a romantic colour cover while its interior mixes Hollywood reporting, star profiles and home-front advertising. The supplied spread contains W. H. Mooring’s ‘Hollywood Once-Over’, discussion of Rita Hayworth, and a substantial John Carradine profile. The rear page is particularly documentary, juxtaposing cosmetics and consumer advertising with an overt National Savings image in which a Nazi-marked shark swims through a flooded shopping street under the slogan ‘Spend less on yourself — lend more to your country’.
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Archive Importance: 9.1 / 10 · Gold Star.
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