Editing Modern Screen (section)

==Decline of the magazine==

''Modern Screen'' remained a major success through the 1950s but a downturn in movie ticket sales at the end of the decade led to a general sales decline in the magazine. Still '' Modern Screen'' managed to remain popular. On January 3, 1967, ''The Film Daily'' declared that 50% of movie ticket sales were influenced by fan magazines such as ''Modern Screen'' and ''Photoplay''.<ref name="Shine188"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Fan Mags Fill 50% of Seats?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgUPAQAAIAAJ&q=the+film+daily+january+3,+1967|access-date=September 5, 2011|newspaper=The Film Daily|date=January 3, 1967}}</ref>  The magazine remained popular through the 1970s, and [[Lily Tomlin]] released her 1975 comedy album ''Modern Scream'', a parody of celebrity magazines. In the early 1980s, however, the popularity of general interest celebrity publications like ''[[People Magazine]]'' proved to be the end of old-fashioned movie fan magazines. ''Modern Screen'' became a bimonthly magazine, but in 1985 publication of the magazine ceased.