GABLE MAGAZINE COVERS

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  1. A Cena 1946
  2. Antena 5-18-1954
  3. Antena 11-12-1957 
  4. Antena 7-28-1958 
  5. AMC 4-1990
  6. A-Z 1934
  7. A-Z 1936
  8. A-Z 1938
  9. Bonjour 1938
  10. Bolero Film 10-16-1949   
  11. Cinema Illustrazione 7-24-1935
  12. Cine-Revue 2-15-1946  
  13. Family Circle 11-27-1936  
  14. Family Circle 3-25-1938  
  15. Family Circle 1939
  16. Family Circle 4-5-1940
  17. Family Circle 1941
  18. Family Journal 12-9-1947  
  19. Film Fan Monthly 3-1967  
  20. Film Fan Monthly 3-1972
  21. Film Journalen 12-1932
  22. Film News 1-12-1952  
  23. Film News 1-9-1954  
  24. Film News 9-20-1954  
  25. Film Pictorial 1934  
  26. Film Pictorial 1936  
  27. Film Pictorial 1937  
  28. Hollywood 1940  
  29. Hollywood 1941
  30. Hollywood Studio 4-1983
  31. Le Samed 7-1944  
  32. Liberty 1934
  33. Liberty 1975
  34. Life Magazine 10-13-1941
  35. Life Magazine 1-31-1961
  36. Life Magazine 5-1988
  37. Life 9-1991
  38. Look 3-23-1943  
  39. Look 1949
  40. Look 1954
  41. Look 1955
  42. Look 1956
  43. Look 1-31-1961
  44. Match 11-1960 
  45. Modern Screen 1933
  46. Modern Screen 1938
  47. Modern Screen 7-1942
  48. Modern Screen 3-1947
  49. Motion Picture 1943
  50. Motion Picture 2-1944
  51. Movie 1979  
  52. Movie Life 1940
  53. Movie Life 8-1943
  54. Movie Mirror 1939
  55. Movie Radio Guide 5-1941  
  56. Movie Radio Guide 9-12-1942  
  57. Movie Show 1942
  58. Movie Story 5-1938
  59. Movie Story 3-1939
  60. Movie Story 1945
  61. Movie Story 9-1949
  62. Our Dog Spring 1942
  63. Photoplay 1-1932
  64. Photoplay 7-1938
  65. Photoplay 2-1940
  66. Piccolo 1-15-1933  
  67. Piccolo 9-8-1935  
  68. Picture Goer 4-9-1941
  69. Picture Goer 10-17-1942  
  70. Picture Goer 1946  
  71. Picture Goer 7-17-1948  
  72. Picture Goer 9-17-1949
  73. Picture Goer 7-15-1950  
  74. Picture Goer 10-20-1951  
  75. Picture Goer: After Office Hour  
  76. Picture Goer: Chained  
  77. Picture Goer: Forsaking All Others  
  78. Picture Goer: Saratoga
  79. Picture Goer: San Francisco   
  80. Picture Goer: Test Pilot  
  81. Picture Goer: Wife vs. Secretary  
  82. Picture Show 1-9-1932
  83. Picture Show 3-26-1932
  84. Picture Show 4-9-1932  
  85. Picture Show 1932
  86. Picture Show 4-6-1935  
  87. Picture Show 9-24-1938  
  88. Picture Show 8-23-1947  
  89. Picture Show 11-13-1948  
  90. Picture Show 7-15-1950  
  91. Picture Show 1951
  92. Picture Show 1953
  93. Picture Show 1-9-1954  
  94. Picture Show 6-29-1957  
  95. Premiere 1994
  96. Screenland 3-1937
  97. Screenland 9-1938
  98. Screen Book 1938
  99. Screen Greats 1972
  100. Screen Guide12-1938  
  101. Screen Guide11-1939  
  102. Screen Guide 2-1944
  103. Screen Romance 4-1936
  104. Screen Romance 7-1941
  105. Screen Romance 9-1947
  106. Screen Stories 1942
  107. Screen Stories 1949
  108. Screen Stories 1952
  109. Screen Stories 8-1954
  110. Silver Screen 2-1940
  111. Speed Age 9-1950
  112. Sunday Mirror 8-17-1949  
  113. Time 8-31-1936
  114. True Romance 11-1936
  115. True Romance 11-1938
  116. True Story 8-1933
  117. True Story 1936
  118. TV Guide 11-6-1976  
  119. TV Guide 12-23-2000 Rhett Butler
  120. TV Guide 12-23-2000 Scarlett & Rhett
  121. TV Guide 12-23-2000 Scarlett -1
  122. TV Guide 12-23-2000 Scarlett -2
  123. TV Guide 12-23-2000 Scarlett -3
  124. Weekly Film News 7-1-1950  
  125. What's on in London 7-16-1937  
  126. What's on in London 8-20-1937  

Where to find these covers?

If you want to shop online, check with Ebay Auction site for the vintage Gable Covers. If you are visiting Los Angeles in the near future, there are many celebrity memorabilia stores on Hollywood Boulevard. The price is a little stiff - vintage magazines run about 30-50 dollars. Online bidding seems to be the better way to go about it.

How many Gable Covered Magazines are out there?

I think roughly a hundred or so. Maybe more if you count in foreign magazines. The most frustrating thing with vintage magazines is that you don't know if the magazine included a featured article on the covered star. For instance, the 1936 Time had a Gable cover, but inside there was no feature story on Gable. It's a little frustrating when you run into things like that.

Background Information

In the Golden Age of the Hollywood studio system during the 1930s and '40s, news stands displayed a dazzling array of movie magazines. Their very titles -- Photoplay, Modern Screen, Movieland, Movie Mirror, Silver Screen, Screenland -- reflected a time that was both more innocent and glamorous.

Compare these to the celebrity publications of today and it becomes obvious that the agendas of then and now were diametrically opposite. Whereas today's tabloids aim to dig up and dish the dirt, in the old days the purpose was to cover up any mishaps or misdemeanors with a glossy technicolor sheen.

The earliest covers of these fanzines featured drawings and paintings of the stars, some of them done by such noted illustrators as James Montgomery Flagg, Earl Chandler Christie and Rolf Armstrong. It wasn't until 1937 that a photograph of Ginger Rogers was used. From then on, glamour portraits by Clarence Bull, George Hurrell and other masters of film photography were the norm.

During the 1930s, most of the covers featured the female sirens and sweethearts of the silver screen. They included Miss Rogers, Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Jeanette MacDonald, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland and Deanna Durbin.

During and after World War II male stars joined the ranks. They went from old favorites like Clark Gable and Errol Flynn to bobby soxers' delights such as Van Johnson and Peter Lawford.

And what was to be found between the covers? The content was a balanced mix of gossip (much of it "exclusives") dispersed by such doyennes as Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper. There were also feature stories, "candid" photographs of the stars by day or at night, movie reviews and beauty hints. Interspersed with these were ads displaying the stars touting their favorite brand of cigarette or facial cleanser.

The fan magazine had its inception in 1909 when Eugene V. Brewster launched Motion Picture Stories, later renamed Motion Picture Magazine. But the man primarily responsible for the form and format of the genre was James R. Quirk, a newspaperman who became editor in 1915 of Photoplay, which had originated in Chicago in 1911. Once Quirk began feeding the star-obsessed public such articles as "Who's Married to Who in the Movies?," his success was assured. The value of vintage fanzines today depends largely on condition and the cover subject.

Credit: Linda Rosenkrantz, Copley News Service

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