Word: hollywooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...membership is about 25,000. Since the last convention, the Guild conducted eleven strikes, more than in all its four previous years. About 450 strikers were involved, more than double the total ever on strike before. Of the eleven strikes, the Guild called nine "definite victories," one lost, one (Hollywood Citizen-News) still in progress...
Outstanding races of the 33-day meet will be the $50,000 Hollywood Gold Cup Handicap (for three-year-olds and up), and a special $50,000 race between Herbert M. Woolf's Lawrin, Kentucky Derby winner, and William du Pont's Dauber, Preakness winner, for the "three-year-old championship" of the year. Missing from Hollywood Park's stalls last week were Charles S. Howard's Seabiscuit and Maxwell Howard's Stagehand, the two outstanding California performers last winter, who were both going to Suffolk Downs instead for next fortnight...
...Garbo to studio gatekeepers, can take their labor difficulties to the National Labor Relations Board has been a controversial subject in the cinema industry since the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act last year. Last week it was answered when the NLRB handed down a long-awaited decision involving Hollywood's 350 screen writers, most of whom make between $150 and $5,000 a week...
...fighting in the front lines but on its consequences behind them. Glimpses of peasants fleeing from their farms, townsfolk with-pinched faces huddled beside ruined buildings or staring forlornly out to sea, make up its most effective sequences. As such, they constitute an interesting variation on the Hollywood war-picture formula but are scarcely enough to give the picture top rating, either as document or as drama. Typical shot: Fonda and Madeleine Carroll, having taken refuge in a cellar during an air raid, deciding they are permanently entombed when a pile of loose bricks blocks the windows...
...picture, a great deal of cinema film has run through projection machines since old New Orleans was first presented as the epitome of U. S. historical glamor. Nowadays it does not seem much better than a bore, and all the flounced dresses, veranda columns and old plantation dialogue in Hollywood-on which The Toy Wife appears to be trying to corner the market-cannot completely change it. Produced with MGM's customarily scrupulous attention to visual detail, the picture relates with considerable pictorial beauty the lachrymose story of Gilberte Brigard, nicknamed "Frou Frou." Pretty, light-headed little Frou Frou...