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Word: hollywood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Jayne Mansfield has, the U.S. has seen so much of so often that she stirs only the mildest of ripples. But in Rio, where movie fans rarely see Hollywood oddities in the flesh, a hard-working girl can still stir a riot, especially at carnival time. Invited down for Mardi Gras by the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Jayne was instantly dubbed "0 Busto" and missed not an opportunity to justify the dubbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: O Busto at Work | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...domain is Bold Venture's producer, Cincinnati's Ziv Television Programs, Inc. (runners-up: CBS Films Inc., MCA-TV, Ltd.). Founded in 1937 as a radio syndication outfit by Cincinnati Adman Frederic W. Ziv, the company went into TV eleven years ago with a good backlog of Hollywood feature films. Even better were its first self-produced show, Yesterday's Newsreels, and its first adventure series, Cisco Kid. Others followed, including Men of Annapolis, West Point, Harbor Command, and this season's Dial 999 and Bat Masterson. Today Ziv employs 3,500 people, uses ten Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Pearl of the Indies | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...years later he packed off for Los Angeles, saved enough money jerking sodas to take flying lessons. He soloed in seven hours, became a partner in a flying school, coolly gambled with death by stunt flying for Hollywood movies. Soon Frye and two pals bought a single-engined Fokker, set up Standard Air Lines, one of the first in the nation, to lift Hollywood stars from Los Angeles to their desert hideaways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Man Who Would Fly | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Jayne Mansfield has such trouble speaking English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. Jayne Mansfield has such trouble speaking English that some customers may holler for subtitles, but Kenneth More manages to say wahoo with a sly British accent in this fairly successful attempt to put a satiric rein on the Hollywood horse opera. The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A genie, Cyclops and a floppy dragon conspiring against human types in a fine, sometimes frightening film for the kiddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Time Listings, Feb. 9, 1959 | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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