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Word: hollywooden (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberty, which will distribute through RKO, plans at least one picture a year from Capra, Wyler and Stevens. The company's published credo includes some sensationally un-Hollywooden notions. If its talented producer-directors can live up to these intentions, moviegoers are in for a glorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

George M. Cohan, who loved Broadway and despised Hollywood, turned out to have left his heirs more Hollywooden nickels than stage money. Largest single asset of his $827,384 net estate proved to be his interest in the Yankee Doodle Dandy cinema version of his life: $421,766. "Mr. Broadway's" interest in songs: $65,000; in plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...picture's chief fault is that the Hollywooden heads, in attempting to produce a "best-seller," have turned a simple, true story into a lurid piece of sensationalism. Instead of the inspiring epic recited by President Roosevelt in his famous 1942 radio address, one sees a movie distinguished by its attempts to turn Dr. Wassell into a Lou Gehrig or a Sergeant York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 7/25/1944 | See Source »

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