Cal York

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Cal York, an amalgam of California and New York, was a pseudonymous name used in the American film magazine Photoplay that ran from 1911 to 1980. Popular entertainment scholar Anthony Slide considered it one of the most reliable voices in the old Hollywood gossip columns.^[1] York (presumably the editors) was the "columnist" for "Inside Stuff," and also a contributor to other parts of the magazine, including "Plays and Players."^[2] Not every film scholar seems aware of the pseudonym, as many quote York without noting the meaning behind the name.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9] Slide notes that the surname York once morphed to Yorke, assuming a typo, but it may also have been an inside joke.^[10] He adds that toward the end of the magazine's life West Coast editor Richard Cuskelly wrote as Cal York.^[10] By the 1970s Photoplay was still using the old name, but Slide considered it an echo of the past.^[11]

There was also a character named Cal York in the 1955 American drama Toughest Man Alive, and it may have been a wink to the long-running character.

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References

↑ Slide, Anthony (2010). "Gossip, Scandal, and Innuendo". Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. p. 144.
1 2 Zimmerman, Tom (2022). The Queen of Technicolor: Maria Montez in Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. p. 178. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2kcwp28.8. JSTOR j.ctv2kcwp28.
↑ Kotowski, Mariusz (2014). Pola Negri: Hollywood's First Femme Fatale. University Press of Kentucky. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-8131-4488-7. JSTOR j.ctt5vkkpf.
↑ Cinemas of Boyhood: Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality (1 ed.). Berghahn Books. 2021. p. 156. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2tsxkkn.11. ISBN 978-1-78920-993-8. JSTOR j.ctv2tsxkkn.
↑ Griffin, Sean (2011). What Dreams Were Made Of: Movie Stars of the 1940s. Rutgers University Press. pp. 131, 134–135, 139. ISBN 978-0-8135-4963-7. JSTOR j.ctt5hj328.
↑ Frymus, Agata (2020). "Vilma Bánky and Whiteness: 'The Almost Perfect Anglo-Saxon Type, More English than the English'". Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent Hollywood. Rutgers University Press. p. 75.
↑ Graham, Cooper C.; Irmscher, Christoph, eds. (2020). Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin. Indiana University Press. p. 350. doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b742g8.11. ISBN 978-0-253-05292-6. JSTOR j.ctv1b742g8.
↑ Mahar, Karen Ward (2008-08-25). Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 248, 250, 252, 254–55, 259, 260, 263, 265. ISBN 978-0-8018-9084-0.
↑ Williams, Michael (18 December 2023). "'Hail! The Sign of the Cross': Industrial Campaigns and Commanding Performances in The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Cleopatra (1934)". In Nikoloutsos, Konstantinos P. (ed.). Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film. Netherlands: Brill. p. 130. ISBN 978-90-04-68682-3.
1 2 Slide, Anthony (2010). "James R. Quirk and Photoplay". Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 50–51, 62–63.
↑ Slide, Anthony (2010). "The People Generation". Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. p. 218.

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[1] Slide, Anthony (2010). "Gossip, Scandal, and Innuendo". Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. p. 144.

[:0-2] 1 2 Zimmerman, Tom (2022). The Queen of Technicolor: Maria Montez in Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. p. 178. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2kcwp28.8. JSTOR j.ctv2kcwp28.

[3] Kotowski, Mariusz (2014). Pola Negri: Hollywood's First Femme Fatale. University Press of Kentucky. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-8131-4488-7. JSTOR j.ctt5vkkpf.

[4] Cinemas of Boyhood: Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality (1 ed.). Berghahn Books. 2021. p. 156. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2tsxkkn.11. ISBN 978-1-78920-993-8. JSTOR j.ctv2tsxkkn.

[5] Griffin, Sean (2011). What Dreams Were Made Of: Movie Stars of the 1940s. Rutgers University Press. pp. 131, 134–135, 139. ISBN 978-0-8135-4963-7. JSTOR j.ctt5hj328.

[6] Frymus, Agata (2020). "Vilma Bánky and Whiteness: 'The Almost Perfect Anglo-Saxon Type, More English than the English'". Damsels and Divas: European Stardom in Silent Hollywood. Rutgers University Press. p. 75.

[7] Graham, Cooper C.; Irmscher, Christoph, eds. (2020). Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin. Indiana University Press. p. 350. doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b742g8.11. ISBN 978-0-253-05292-6. JSTOR j.ctv1b742g8.

[8] Mahar, Karen Ward (2008-08-25). Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 248, 250, 252, 254–55, 259, 260, 263, 265. ISBN 978-0-8018-9084-0.

[9] Williams, Michael (18 December 2023). "'Hail! The Sign of the Cross': Industrial Campaigns and Commanding Performances in The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Cleopatra (1934)". In Nikoloutsos, Konstantinos P. (ed.). Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film. Netherlands: Brill. p. 130. ISBN 978-90-04-68682-3.

[:1-10] 1 2 Slide, Anthony (2010). "James R. Quirk and Photoplay". Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 50–51, 62–63.

[11] Slide, Anthony (2010). "The People Generation". Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine: A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi. p. 218.

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