Word: glossed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movies' surest box office winners. Not everyone agreed with him, but by the time the screen started talking, L.B.'s star system had made M-G-M the most powerful voice in Hollywood. The studio splurged on giving its films a plushy elegance and a high gloss. If some happened to be mediocre entertainment, they were well insured at the box office with such names as Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. During the '30's, while older film empires tottered, M-G-M saw to it that...
Living Example. Then the man whose campaign slogan had been unity bluntly declared: "The Republican Party is split wide open. It has been split wide open for years, but we have tried to gloss it over." He added: "I am a living example that that doesn't work." What Dewey had in mind seemed to be a purge...
...Cole Porter first night is, in fact, a sort of ceremonial meeting of the two sides of Porter's life-show business and the high-living, high-gloss international society that lionized him long before his songs caught the public's ear. Between opening nights, Porter shuttles back & forth on a more or less rigid timetable between the greasepainted world of Ethel Merman and the gilded, brittle world of Elsa Maxwell...
Insane minds have become a favorite study of Hollywood dramas, but the psychological twist has generally been used as modern gloss to the standard boy-meets-girl glamor. In even the best of these, the deranged mind was merely held up as an interesting object to look at. "The Snake Pit," however, void of all hints of Hollywood glamor, achieves the startling effect of entering the diseased mind and reflecting its horrors and fears--its despair in groping in darkness for a ray of light. The mind is not exhibited but analyzed; the audience not merely understands it but feels...
...Gotta Stay Happy (Rampart; Universal-International) is a harmless and mildly entertaining little movie-unless it is butterfly-broken on the wheel of Social Significance. * It has lost none of its gloss in translation from a slick-magazine serial to the screen. Smoothly mounted, directed and acted, it is a pat little story about a painfully earnest flyer (James Stewart) who is running his small-time airline straight into bankruptcy. Then he takes aboard a runaway millionheiress (Joan Fontaine...