Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vivant, capable of committing suicide by eating too many oysters. It is a warm and genial period piece which reaches its maximum distinction in that scene in which Edward Arnold, making the most of one of the fattest parts that it has ever been the good fortune of a Hollywood character actor to achieve, shows Brady effectively consoling himself for the collapse of his romance with Jane by setting to work alone on a wedding supper ordered for 100 guests...
...springs oasis and there built a complete, lavish money-spending plant, charged high prices, black-listed the Tijuana riffraff and called their settlement Agua Caliente ("Hot Water"). Repeal killed drab Tijuana, merely boomed the horse & dog racing, the Casino gambling, swimming, drinking at Hot Water. Natives of Hollywood, only an hour and a half away by plane, got in the habit of weekending there. Cineman Joseph Schenck bought into the Hotel, was delighted this year when Warners used his place for exterior shots in In Caliente (TIME, June 3). Into this playtime idyl last week crashed Mexico's ascetic...
Cinema producers who read the Catholic weekly America might have been pleased to find therein last week the first thoroughgoing compliment which the Church of Rome has paid the industry since the Legion of Decency campaign began last year. Wrote Jesuit Gerard B. Donnelly: "I hold no brief for Hollywood but somebody ought to insist that the producers have lived up to their promises with admirable fidelity. . . . They have shown a splendid spirit of co-operation with the official leaders of the Legion of Decency...
...with sharp eyes who have seen Shanghai may recognize a set or two cleverly redecorated and shot from new angles. (Boyer's apartment in Shanghai is the penthouse in Smart Girl; the Stock Exchange bar. the New York cafe.) Smart Girl was previewed six times before its official Hollywood unveiling in an effort to decide whether Pinky Tomlin ought to sing or not. Finally his song was removed but his jackass laughter and owlish solemnity as the milliner's Dummkopf of a son were left in with happy results. He is in real life an Oklahoma crooner...
...ousted, fat, jolly Producer Sheehan remained, on such good terms with Mr. Fox's enemies that, instead of losing his job as the studio's production head, he held it through two reorganizations. In 1932, when he had the nervous breakdown which is often another Hollywood euphemism for an ousting, it looked as if Producer Sheehan might be through. Instead, though his importance in Fox was somewhat lessened by the introduction of outside producers like Sol Wurtzel and Jesse Lasky, he continued in power, made such successes as Cavalcade and State Fair...