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  And they served their purpose well. More than a few young players, as yet unworthy of personal features and interviews in the magazines, solidified their status as up-and-coming stars by being on view in these layouts month after month until the fan magazines began to die off in the …

  The date layout was born in the late 1940s in the fan magazines, sired by major studios that in those days told – didn’t ask – their contract players what they would do for publicity. They were cotton candy layouts that paired attractive young people in quasi-romantic situations, usually …

  During the period Hollywood’s major studios were producing all the important pictures. In the mid-50s a new breed of production company loomed on the scene – the independent. Overnight a new notion of shooting on location rather than in the studio took shape. One of these independent companies was …

  GEORGE BARBIER (Nantes, October 10, 1889 – Paris, 1932) was a painter, illustrator and designer of French fashion. A pupil of Jean Paul Laurens at the Paris “National school of Fine Arts”, he began to display his work in the Humorists’ Salon in 1910, under the pseudonym of Edouard …

The two forces, in the early days such close collaborators, grew more at odds with one another as their goals changed, never more so than in the 80s and 90s. As magazines went from puff pieces to exposes, so did the Hollywood press agent change his stripes from pussicat to …