Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood blandly announced plans to film a biography of Sigmund Freud...
Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart, 41, who gave up being Hollywood's Most Eligible Bachelor five weeks ago, retired from another fast-moving field. After his souped-up F51 won the Bendix Trophy at Cleveland this week, he announced that the ship was for sale: "I can't afford both a wife and a plane...
...Murray's Blockouts (produced by David W. Siegel) reached Broadway last week after playing for seven years in Hollywood. A freak success which was seldom the same show for two weeks running (TIME, Feb. 12, 1945), Blackouts grossed $5,000,000 from a 10,500. It reached Broadway in a slack season when no other new show was scheduled to open for weeks to come...
Even as the one new thing around, Ken Murray's vaudeville is by no means a treat. Part of its fantastic Hollywood success may stem, indeed, from its being just the kind of flesh & blood show a movie metropolis can condescend...
...Male War Bride. (20th Century-Fox) is a bedroom farce with a scattering of laughs which are muffled by as thick a mixture of stale crumbs and old chestnuts as Hollywood has ever stuffed into a high-priced turkey...