Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounded like the dizziest Hollywood logic, but it was a fact. Box-office grosses, despite a slight recent recovery, had not gone back to the wartime highs. Pictures had moved so fast through the nation's theaters that Hollywood's huge stockpile vas almost exhausted. The big sound stages were suddenly put furiously to work to supply the theaters' demands...
...Hollywood's restaurants the tips were at again; the Great Panic seemed to be over. The simple reason: box-office busi-less all over...
Last week 36 films were in production, compared with 23 in the last week in January. Employment of extras was 15% greater than it was last year at the same time. Applications for California unemployment relief were down by 300 at the Hollywood branch office...
...broke her heart, Hollywood's voluptuous Rhonda Fleming wired the Freshman Jubilee Committee yesterday, but she couldn't make her scheduled appearance at Harvard. Last minute revisions in her filming schedule will require Miss Fleming's presence at her studio early Monday morning, the telegram said...
...John Huston, maker of the 1948 prizewinner, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, As movie melodramas go, it is above average, but it is not Grade A Huston. Purporting to be a courageous film about Cuba's 1933 revolution, Strangers is, unfortunately, no stranger to some old, slick Hollywood tricks...