Arthur Unger

{{Short description|American entertainment journalist}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Arthur Unger

| caption =

| birth_date = {{Birth-date|1924 }}

| birth_place = Brooklyn, USA

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2004|07|09|1924}}

| death_place = Paris, France

| occupation = Journalist and author

| years_active = 1943–2004

| known_for = Datebook

}}

Arthur Unger (1924 — 9 July 2004) was an American entertainment journalist who reviewed movies and television shows for The Christian Science Monitor and the American teen magazine Ingenue.{{cite web |url=https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/c4027

|title=Arthur Unger Papers |last=Unger |first=Arthur |date=1943–2004 |website=shsmo.org |publisher=State Historical Society of Missouri |access-date=2022-03-11 }}

He edited and published several magazines such as Mechanix Illustrated and Datebook, and became famous for republishing the controversial "More popular than Jesus" interview with the Beatles.{{cite journal |last=Ward |first=Brian |year=2012 |title="The 'C' is for Christ": Arthur Unger, Datebook Magazine and the Beatles |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03007766.2011.608978 |journal=Popular Music and Society |volume=35 |issue=4 |pages=541–560 |doi=10.1080/03007766.2011.608978 |s2cid=191591852 |access-date=2022-03-10|url-access=subscription }}

Before becoming a journalist, Unger served as an Army cryptographer in the Pacific Theater in World War II.{{cite news |author= |date=July 13, 2004 |title=Paid Notice: Deaths UNGER, ARTHUR |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/13/classified/paid-notice-deaths-unger-arthur.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=2022-03-11}}

His artifacts are stored at the State Historical Society of Missouri, including recordings, transcripts and notes from his interviews with celebrities, his writing, Beatles publications and personal materials.