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Word: hollywood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bascomb captures the bomb, its inventor (David Kasoff) and his daughter (Jean Seberg), four policemen and a blustery, obtuse General. Unfortunately, the real bomb in the film is Miss Seberg, who though fetching, cannot act--even when one concedes that her part is largely a spoof on the Hollywood heroine type. After losing his heart to Miss Seberg and his insides to the Atlantic, Bascomb returns to Grand Fenwick as unwelcome victor...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: The Mouse That Roared | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

...Four ministers playing the board game "Diplomacy." What mars the film, apart from acting flaws, is chiefly an over-reliance on corn and gag lines, like Miss Seberg's "I always thought you were a snake, you snake." If the script is supposed to be satire on the usual Hollywood cliches, it does not come off as such, but sounds merely trite itself...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: The Mouse That Roared | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

...solemn pageant produced in 1911 by the late Max Reinhardt. Reinhardt's drama advanced through a series of large visions of the human condition, as successively they assailed a nun who had been lured from her convent by the Prince of this World, personified in a fluting cripple. Hollywood's version translates these noble obscurities into terms that the average moviegoer will more restfully recognize-right up to the moment when he falls asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Born. To Joan Caulfield, 36. long-legged blonde cinemactress (Dear Ruth) and sometime TV star (My Favorite Husband), who seven months ago divorced Hollywood Producer Frank Ross. 55 : their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Kevin Ross. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

Pillow Talk. Flighty feathers fluttering around Hollywood's 1958-59 Box Office Champs Rock Hudson and Doris Day, with almost all the flurry caused by top-notch Comic Tony Randall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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