This collectable edition of Photoplay is from January 1974 and includes a centre pages calendar featuring photos of Veronica Carlson in Vampira, and Burt Reynolds in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing.

Fans of pop icon Cliff Richard will also love a two page feature on the star’s return to the film screen in the seventies movie Take Me High.

In other features actor Donald Sutherland reveals how he almost died on a movie location, and there's a spotlight on William Conrad, star of TV detective series Cannon.

Other features include a special on Disney’s animated Robin Hood, an article on The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, and a behind the scenes look at Gregory Peck turning producer for a film based on the book Dove.

Other highlights include a feature on Liv Ullman following in the footsteps of Garbo as she plays Queen Christina, an interview with Doris Day, a feature on the rebirth of the martial arts in the Bruce Lee epic Enter the Dragon, and a retrospective on An American in Paris with Gene Kelly.

Micki Siegel interviews Richard Widmark and John Austin goes on the set of occult thriller Man on the Swing.

With a mix of colour, and black and white photographs, the magazine is packed with news, reviews and previews from the international movie scene of the time.

Hailed as the inventor of celebrity media, Photoplay film monthly magazine was a bumper hit with movie fans over several decades in the 20th century. A best seller from the 1920s and favourite with die-hard cinema goers right up until the 1980s, it featured some iconic and very collectable front page covers and inside features.

This issue is in our opinion one of the most collectable, for its inside stories featuring many star names from the big screen. It has some age and usage blemishes but is fully legible with clear images and the central staples in tact. It has 64 pages and is approx A4 size.

Someone has penned in some answers on the crossword on page six. We do not know whether the answers are correct or not.