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Word: hollywooding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret among close associates of James Roosevelt and his wife that the couple have not found the harmony they expected since Jimmy's migration to Hollywood. . . . He has been seen in company with Miss Romelle Schneider, the nurse who aided him in his fight to regain his health after an operation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. . . . It is reported that Mr. Roosevelt will make the first move about getting a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jimmy Gets It | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...evening last fortnight blonde Hedda Hopper, onetime actress, now a Hollywood gossip columnist for the Los Angeles Times, tapped out these lines on her typewriter and thereby set a new record for keyhole journalism. No secret was Hedda Hopper's news about the President's eldest son: Walter Winchell had hinted at it months ago, rumors had drifted about Hollywood and Washington ever since James Roosevelt became Vice President of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., leaving his wife Betsy (daughter of the late, great Surgeon Harvey Gushing) in the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Jimmy Gets It | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Senatorial dander up to the danger point. The Neely Block-Booking Bill, now locked up in the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, would prevent big movie producers from compelling exhibitors to book a whole list of pictures in order to get one on the list which they want. Hollywood would much prefer to have the Neely bill stay locked up. Last week irate Senators talked of getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Smith Riles Washington | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...passing from Broadway to Hollywood, On Your Toes has suffered a see change. Even Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, a high point of the original version, has no more bang than the pop-pistol percussion with which the orchestra burlesques its pantomime killings. Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Leonid Kinskey fling flat gags around with as much nervous energy as if they were hand grenades, but they never go off. Typical duds: "We are waiting for Levsky"; "Aha! mutiny on the ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Hollywood, Christopher Isherwood, Auden's old friend and collaborator, was at work last week on a scenario for Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Richard Aldington, who came to his conclusions about war ten years ago (Death of a Hero), left the Riviera last February to settle in the U. S., summered in Peace Dale, R. I., and last week was in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Noonday & Night | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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