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Eugene V. (Eugene Valentine) Brewster
1869–1939
A colorful early film-era publisher, editor, and entrepreneur, he helped shape some of the best-known movie fan magazines of the silent-picture age. His life mixed law, journalism, art, publishing success, and a dramatic financial rise and fall.
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What's What in America
by Eugene V. (Eugene Valentine) Brewster
About the author
Born in 1869, Eugene Valentine Brewster was an American lawyer, editor, artist, and publisher whose career moved across several worlds. He practiced law before becoming deeply involved in publishing, and he became especially known for his work in the fast-growing motion picture press of the early 20th century.
Brewster is most closely associated with magazines such as Motion Picture Magazine, Motion Picture Classic, and Shadowland. Through those publications, he helped bring film culture to a wide public at a time when movies were becoming a major part of popular entertainment.
His career was marked by both major success and later hardship. Remembered as an energetic figure in early American publishing, he left behind a story tied to the glamour, ambition, and volatility of the silent-film era.