Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Novelist Erskine Caldwell mucked about in it so merrily that his novel has sold more than 8,000,000 copies in 25 years. Cleaned up for the cinema public, Caldwell's Acre still contains enough rich, smelly dirt to grow a mort of the sort of lettuce Hollywood loves best...
...characters, both quick and dead, were difficult to place. Raymond Chandler's story is complex, and it seems that a William Faulkner, who later rose to some measure of literary fame, has tampered with it along with two other fellows who were attempting to make a living out in Hollywood about 15 or 20 years ago; and Mr. Faulkner, according to certain critics, has never excelled in the virtues of simplicity anyhow. But this is quibbling, and with the movie the CRIMSON can have no cavil...
...second-rate magazines." Steirman announced plans to slip his new properties some pep pills. "The new Confidential won't look under beds, but it won't avoid a hot story either. Harrison had a homemade atomic cannon, but he just aimed it at one spot -Hollywood. There are other places -Madison Avenue, for instance...
...Actors' Studio Director Lee Strasberg, has bubbled quickly to the top, co-stars on film with Henry Fonda in Stage Struck, on Broadway with Helen Hayes in Time Remembered. ¶ James MacArthur, 20, son of Helen Hayes and the late Playwright-Journalist Charles (The Front Page) MacArthur, entered Hollywood as The Young Stranger, did so well that Walt Disney signed him for The Light in the Forest and the upcoming Banner in the Sky. ¶ Warner Le Roy, 22, son of Veteran Producer-Director Mervyn (Random Harvest, Quo Vadis) Le Roy, last year took over a movie theater...
...Landau, a blunt, rounded dynamo of 38, has made a career of turning his ambitions into achievements. In 1951, on a mere $500, he incorporated himself as a TV film packager and distributor; in 1953 he expanded the corporation and renamed it National Telefilms Associates, began buying and distributing Hollywood films for TV release. Soon he had talked 134 TV stations into providing him with prime time for NTA films, got many of them to agree to simultaneous showing-the basis for Landau's claim to "network" status. Impressed by this record of success, 20th Century-Fox came into...