Cosmopolitan (magazine) as a "bland" and boring magazine by critics. Cosmopolitan's circulation continued to decline for another decade until Helen Gurley Brown became chief editor in 1965. Helen Gurley Brown changed the entire trajectory of the magazine during her time as editor. Brown remodeled and re-invented it as a magazine for modern single career women. Completely transforming the old bland Cosmopolitan magazine into a racy, contentious and well known, successful magazine. As the editor for 32 years, Brown spent this time using the magazine as an outlet to erase stigma around unmarried women not only having sex, but also enjoying it. Known
Helen Gilmore (1928). Helen left the theater in 1933. She became affiliated with Liberty Magazine. In 1938 she was appointed editor of Movie Mirror Magazine, a Macfadden publication. She became editor of Photoplay in 1941 after the periodical merged with "Movie Mirror". Her career as an editor lasted approximately a decade. In private life Helen was Mrs. Richard Florac. Helen Gilmore died at Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, of acute leukemia, in 1947. She was 47 years old. Helen Gilmore Helen Gilmore (1900 – October 8, 1947) was an American actress of the stage and silent motion pictures from Chicago, Illinois. She