Innumerable Hollywood biographies and movie history books have been written in retrospect by film historians who relied partially if not extensively on the information provided by the industry's trade and fan magazines. Long before the modern concept of social media outlets were imagined, these magazines offered the curious public a way to further satisfy their obsession for movies outside the darkened auditoriums of the cinema. These publications, though tightly controlled by the industry, also served as documentation-a window into the popular culture of the day-in feature articles, movie...
Innumerable Hollywood biographies and movie history books have been written in retrospect by film historians who relied partially if not extensively o...
