Vedette de Cinéma a l’Écran dans l’Intimité

Paris, 1931. Wraps. Very Good. Scarce relic of French movie fan magazine from the early Sound Pictures era, featuring stars of Hollywood. 4to. 32 by 24.5 cm. Unpaginated, 14 pages, plus wraps, with front cover having a oblong oval window cut-out showing Mary Brian and Richard Arlen embracing. Pages full of sepia toned photos, one to three per page, of Hollywood stars, with a major theme being the stars kissing -- an internal subtitle is "Baisers"! Stars are a mix of names still well-known and some more obscure other than to the most ardent cinema-phile. The better known stars include Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Marilyn Miller, Fay Wray, Lupe Velez, Joan Blondell, Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Loretta Young, Costance Bennett and Ramon Novarro, and virtually all of these stars look more youthful than they are generally remembered. The magazine is evidence of the reach of the Hollywood publicity machine back when. Scarce -- we could locate no other copies on OCLC of this ephemeral item. Condition: moderate soiling of the cover. Pages are age toned but clean.