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Word: hollywooding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Maxwell Everett ("Slapsie Maxie") Rosenbloom, 33, onetime light-heavyweight boxing champion, cinecomedian, Hollywood restaurateur; and one Muriel Faeder, 22; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Hollywood Cavalcade (20th Century-Fox) is a rather tiresome Technicolored sentimentalizing of Hollywood history under the guise of a love story about a cap-backwards movie director and a star with doorknob eyes. But it contains two silent, black & white remakes of oldtime flicker comedies, complete with piano banging, which make this picture a must for people who appreciate the art of plastering the human face with custard pie at 30 paces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...this nostalgic peep backward by Hollywood at its age of innocence, 20th Century-Fox studios appropriated $2,000,000, took more than three months for shooting, built 80 sets (average for a feature is 40), replaced the 1913 custard pie with a new-style, squshier, stickier, whipped-cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...results, solving the mystery of Napoleon's razor in a nick. This month the show tried picking its detectives from fans who write in. More like flatfeet than fancy-dans, the unpaid fans not only proved uniformly baffled, but dull. So last Sunday a group of experts from Hollywood appeared. One, Mystery Writer Harry Kurnitz, solved the mystery of the March of Death right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Clew of the Busted Hose | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Aside from these two scenes and some very interesting shots of pre-sound direction, the rest of the picture is taken up with a verbose plot about a director and his star. Alice Faye and Don Ameche do the best they can, but "Hollywood Cavalcade" is primarily a historical document, and, as such, is a fine show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

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