Word: photoplay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actor of genuine promise, Dean made only three movies (East of Eden Rebel Without a Cause, Giant), and only the first had appeared at his death. Today he ranks No. 1 in Photoplay's actor popularity poll, draws 1,000 fan letters-a week ("Dear Jimmy: I know you are not dead") at Warner's-more than any live actor on the lot. Marveled one Wesf Coast cynic: "This is really something new in Hollywood-boy meets ghoul.'' Hollywood's explanation: Dean not only appeals to a "mother complex" among teen-age girls...
...arrive in bales. Her next three pictures (Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire) were box-office blockbusters. At the end of 1953, according to the trade press, she had made more money for her studio than any other actress in Hollywood. She also won the Photoplay Award as the year's most popular actress...
...With nearly all the annual film prizes, except the Academy Awards, presented or accounted for, Photoplay magazine slipped under the wire with its 1953 Gold Medal selections. Top winners: Alan Ladd and Marilyn Monroe...
Hollywood's legion of columnists, correspondents and reporters crowded into the Beverly Hills Hotel last week for movie journalism's traditional big night. It was the annual award-to-actors banquet put on by Photoplay, venerable pioneer (founded in 1911) of movie magazines. Master of Ceremonies Ronald Reagan, president of the Screen Actors Guild, rose for his polite remarks about Photoplay, then astounded the journalists with a diatribe against the "irresponsible press" of Hollywood...