People (magazine) members regularly slept on the floor of their offices two or three nights each week and severely limited all non-essential outside engagements. The premier edition for the week ending March 4, 1974 featured actress Mia Farrow, then starring in the film "The Great Gatsby", on the cover. That issue also featured stories on Gloria Vanderbilt, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the wives of U.S. Vietnam veterans who were Missing In Action. The magazine was, apart from its cover, printed in black-and-white. The initial cover price was 35 cents (). The core of the small founding editorial team included other editors, writers, photographers
Motion Picture Magazine Early editions included fiction and information on how to get involved in film production. The magazine shifted to a focus on celebrities and attracted a larger female readership. In 1919, the circulation jumped from 248,845 to 400,000. Its sister publication "Motion Picture Classic", which was started as its supplement, was published monthly from September 1915 to March 1931. In 1941, "Motion Picture Magazine" merged with "Hollywood" and "Screen Life" and continued to be published for almost four more decades, ending its run in 1977. Motion Picture Magazine Motion Picture was an American monthly fan magazine about film, published from 1911