# Pour Vous

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{{For|the German card game sometimes called Pour Vous|Siebenschräm}}
{{Short description|French film magazine (1928–1940)}}
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{{Infobox magazine
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| editor          = [Nino Frank](/source/Nino_Frank)
| editor_title    = Editor-in-chief
| previous_editor = [Alexandre Arnoux](/source/Alexandre_Arnoux)
| founder         = Léon Bailby
| frequency       = Weekly
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| category        = Film magazine
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| founded         = 1928
| firstdate       = 22 November 1928
| finaldate       = 1940
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| country         = [France](/source/France)
| based           = [Paris](/source/Paris)
| language        = [French](/source/French_language)
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'''''Pour Vous''''' was a weekly film magazine which existed between 1928 and 1940 in [Paris](/source/Paris), France. During its lifetime it was one of the most read film magazines in the country.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Leila Wimmer|title=Modernity, femininity and Hollywood fashions: Women's cinephilia in 1930s French fan magazines|journal=Film Fashion & Consumption|doi=10.1386/ffc.3.1.61_1|date=March 2014|volume=3|issue=1|pages=61–76}}</ref>

==History and profile==
''Pour Vous'' was started by Léon Bailby in 1928,<ref name=moma/><ref name=erics/> and its first issue appeared on 22 November that year.<ref name=ninof>{{cite news|title=Nino Frank: from Dada to Film Noir|url=https://www.rememberninofrank.org/nino-frank/the-film-weekly-pour-vous|access-date=5 January 2023|work=rememberninofrank.org}}</ref> The magazine was a sister publication to the conservative daily newspaper ''[L'Intransigeant](/source/L'Intransigeant)''.<ref name=moma/> Its headquarters was in Paris.<ref name=erics>{{cite journal|author=Eric Smoodin|title=Going to the Movies in Paris, around 1933: Film Culture, National Cinema, and Historical Method|journal=The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists|date=Spring 2011|volume=11|issue=1|pages=25–55|doi=10.5749/movingimage.11.1.0025}}</ref> It was published on a weekly basis in the [tabloid format](/source/Tabloid_(newspaper_format))<ref name=moma/> and was the largest of all film magazines in France having a size of 55x31 cm.<ref>{{cite book|author=Myriam Juan|editor1=Daniel Biltereyst|editor2=Lies Van de Vijver|title=Mapping Movie Magazines. Global Cinema|year=2020|publisher=[Palgrave Macmillan](/source/Palgrave_Macmillan)|location=Cham|isbn=978-3-030-33277-8|page=208|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33277-8_10|chapter=Looking at Movie Fans: On Pictures Published in French Film Magazines of the Interwar Years|series=Global Cinema |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-33277-8_10 |s2cid=216419888 }}</ref> The magazine consisted of sixteen pages.<ref name=ninof/>

Its editor was [Alexandre Arnoux](/source/Alexandre_Arnoux).<ref name=moma/> In the first issue [Nino Frank](/source/Nino_Frank) published his first article on movies and worked in the magazine as the editor-in-chief until its demise in 1940.<ref name=ninof/> Unlike other movie magazines of the period it published full list of the films played in Paris.<ref name=erics/> It frequently covered news about the Hollywood stars and also, published photographs by [avant-garde](/source/avant-garde) artists, including [Lee Miller](/source/Lee_Miller) and [Man Ray](/source/Man_Ray).<ref name=moma/> Arnoux creatively mixed the photographs and textual materials to reflect the contrasts between the [French](/source/Cinema_of_France) and [American movie](/source/Cinema_of_the_United_States) traditions.<ref name=moma/> Colin Crisp was among the contributors of ''Pour Vous'' in 1932 and 1933.<ref name=erics/> The magazine also published interviews with leading figures, such as [Arletty](/source/Arletty).<ref>{{cite journal|author=Ellen Pullar|title='A star who is not like the others': Arletty's publicity persona during the 1930s|journal=Studies in French Cinema|year=2012|volume=12|issue=1|pages=7–19|doi=10.1386/sfc.12.1.7_1|s2cid=191492706}}</ref>

''Pour Vous'' folded in 1940 after producing 603 issues due to the [occupation of France](/source/German_military_administration_in_occupied_France_during_World_War_II) by the [Nazi Germany](/source/Nazi_Germany).<ref name=moma>{{cite web|author=Ron Magliozzi|title=Pour Vous: Looking at a Classic Cinema Fanzine from France|publisher=[Museum of Modern Art](/source/Museum_of_Modern_Art)|access-date=5 January 2023|url=https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2013/06/24/a-film-magazine-just-pour-vous/|date=24 June 2013}}</ref><ref name=ninof/>

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