Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feature pictures made by Hollywood each year, about 20% are always "Westerns." Most of these, turned out wholesale by minor studios to fill in the second half of double bills in U. S. rural theatres, are not good enough for grownups. Nonetheless, its scenery, its legends and its way of life make the U. S. Far West ideal cinematerial. Last week cinemaddicts were reminded of this fact by the release of two new "Westerns" which, made with high-grade casts and traditional respect for their subject, were each, in different ways, notable...
With a whiff of Lucius Beebe just to make it all authentic, Hollywood has produced its latest treatise on New York night life. "Cafe Society," now playing at the Metropolitan, is a gospel on the beauties of the sweet-and-simple life, ranting against the Futility of Society. But Madeleine Carroll, as the slightly pixilated cafesse, succeeds in making herself so delightful, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless newspaper hack, is so colorless, that everyone leaves the picture convinced that Success is Society and Society is Heaven. If the audience is willing to discount the film's moralizing...
...working hours in Hollywood are terrible. When I was making 'Abraham Lincoln,' we started work at nine in the morning and worked straight through to six, grinding all the while," he continued...
...think that of all the pictures I've worked in, I preferred 'Gabriel Over The White House,' the veteran actor said. "But just like so many other Hollywood productions this was produced to fit the times. Although it was very interesting and a propos at the time, it could never prove a success today...
...Hollywood has never been notable for its success in reflecting major social changes. This study of a minor one is no exception to the rule. The story of Cafe Society is the familiar one of a reporter (Fred MacMurray) who marries an heiress (Madeleine Carroll). It achieves the almost incredible distinction of libeling its subject...