Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Tennessee Williams, who walked out on an M-G-M writing job before his Broadway success, returned to Manhattan from a second stint in Hollywood. "I had a lovely time," said Williams. "It isn't such a bad place, really." His assignment: writing a screen play from his stage hit, The Glass Menagerie. His latest experience: "I worked with [Warner Producer] Jerry Wold. We get along perfectly. We were in complete agreement on every point . . . Well, we did have to compromise on an ending. They wanted what they call an upbeat ending. I didn...
...think that Hollywood has gone to pot since the war, send an acquaintance to the Kenmore to see the two revivals now on display there. Do not go yourself. Your friend will return singing the praises of current productions, for the pair of films are respectively mediocre and ghastly...
...five first got together in a North Hollywood High School dance band. When it began to look more like a rut than a groove, 17-year-old Piano Player Johnny ("Curley") Williams (named after his drummer father) broke away and formed his own quintet. He took with him Mel Sidney, a bullfiddle slapper like his dad, Al Pollen. Other recruits were 16-year-old Perry ("Bunny") Bodtkin, the trombone-playing son of Bing Crosby's guitar accompanist, and Gene Estes and Don Ingle. "Boy," says Curley, "we yanked the nucleus right out of that Hollywood High band...
...Lane, Playwright Elmer Rice, chairman of its National Council on Freedom from Censorship, branded the board's proposal "flagrantly unconstitutional." Said Rice: "If the ... board is to have the power to ban pictures because the subjects are not presented with truth and sincerity, there will be very few Hollywood productions indeed which could ever be shown. [If] censorship on this ground should be limited to documentary subjects, then the attempted restrictions on free speech become all the more obvious ... If the board has power to censor for inaccuracies and hypocrisies, there is no reason why such a board could...
...again, off-again romances and marriages in Hollywood give newspaper and magazine editors the willies. They never know when they will be caught cooing over a couple that has stopped billing. When Shirley Temple and John Agar suddenly called it quits, the Detroit Free Press was thus booby-trapped. Its Sunday magazine section, which had gone to press before the divorce announcement but was distributed two days later, pictured the "happily wedded John Agars." But the Free Press neatly recovered the fumble in a note to its readers in the news section: "This was our darling, dimpled Shirley Temple...