Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ironically, Hollywood may be mincing a dead horse. As a journalistic form, the movie review has descended to the level of the pressagent's blurb-a blurb commonly reprinted by newspapers too idle or strapped to staff a reviewer. A few perceptive, readable critics are still at critical work. But many papers leave the job to worn-out deskmen, middle-aged ladies (the New York Daily News has three) or unqualified cubs, or else, like the Des Moines Tribune, spread it through the city room, at $3 a review...
Died. Marshall Neilan, 65, live-it-up Hollywood director of the silent era (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hell's Angels); of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. One of the most lavish spenders in filmland history, "Mickey"' Neilan regularly exhausted a drawing account of $10,000 a week...
...Word for It), poet, novelist, screenwriter; of cancer; in Los Angeles. In 1935, Missouri-born Zoe Akins won a Pulitzer Prize for her Broadway adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid, but despite her durable professional success she deplored "the tragedy of feminine careers." Writing for Hollywood was "not difficult," she said. "All you have to do is write six pages every day, then grab the money and run for the train...
Chief credit clearly belongs to Mervyn (Quo Vadis, No Time for Sergeants) Le-Roy, the old Hollywood pro who directed the picture. Under his skillful guidance. Actress Simmons gives one of her most sensitive and graceful performances. And even Rhonda Fleming has been persuaded to make a variety of facial expressions that generally accord with what she is saying. But Dan O'Herlihy steals the show with one of the year's finest screen performances. Limited, insensitive, frightened, petty, penny-pinching, pompous, ambitious, but with it all somehow trying to be decent, trying to be kind, the husband...
...From Hollywood...