[nice clean copy, light external wear only, no damage to spine]. (B&W and color photographs, graphics, ads) A mid-run issue publisher Huntington Harford's ambitious attempt at creating a Life-type magazine devoted exclusively to the performing arts, including movies and TV; never a huge success, its initial large-format run lasted from just 1961 until 1965. (For an acerbically hilarious account of its rise and fall, see "Whistling Girl," a 1978 memoir by Helen Lawrenson, who served as the publication's associate editor for much of its run. An equally short-lived resuscitation, from 1970 to 1... View More...
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