Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, wanderlusting after fresh backgrounds and a chance to use up blocked foreign funds, keeps packing star off to location all around the globe (TIME June 6). Its No. 1 production colony England, which offers plenty of technical resources and no language bar. This week a leading British film critic voiced some frank qualms over the Yankee invasion
Wrote the Observer's C.A. Lejeune, in the New York Times: "The studios in and around London are tending to be come more & more a back lot for Hollywood." Almost all the major made-in-England films now coming up, Critic Lejeune noted, have a hands-across-the-sea flavor. Among their players (some in British-sponsored movies): Fredric March Orson Welles, Joseph Gotten, Valli, Ingrid Bergman, Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich Jennifer Jones, Robert Montgomery Douglas Fairbanks...
With 17 others who work in the movies or feel strongly about them. Mankiewicz was sounding off on his favorite subject. The sounding board: LIFE'S Round Table on Hollywood. For 2½ days at San Bernardino, Calif., some 100,000 words flew around the table between scholars, actors, technicians, a critic, a moviegoer, and some of the best U.S. moviemaking talent: 20th Century-Fox's Mankiewicz, M-G-M Production Chief Dore Senary, Warner's Jerry Wald, Independents John Huston, Hal B. Wallis and Robert Rossen...
...current issue, LIFE reports on the ideas that went round & round. Samples: ¶Creativeness in Hollywood is stifled by U.S. theater owners, who control the industry, reap most of its profits, and want nothing from it but, in Mankiewicz's phrase, "400 items of salable merchandise every year." The creators may get their big chance when the Government finally splits theater ownership from production. ¶The moviemakers recognize that a low-budget "special audience" film, e.g., Home of the Brave, can turn a profit without a mass audience, but Hollywood is geared to supply the bigger audience, where...
Production Code to forestall harsher action by public censors. The pressure group it fears most is the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency ("a C rating for a picture is death"). One speaker (protectively anonymous in the report) said: "[The Legion] is something that Hollywood should have fought and didn't ... for the same reasons that they have never fought anything: they didn't want to stop the flow of film for one week." ¶The U.S. mass audience, even the moviemakers admitted, is more grownup in its tastes than the run of movies are, and would support more...