Word: hollywooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eloquence was matchless because he meant every word of it. Not for him was the Hollywood-Rudyard Kipling version of the Empire, compounded of pukha sahibs, Gunga Din, the little brown men, and domains beyond the sea-for him Empire was a living faith, a political necessity, a way of life, a practical program and sometimes almost a religion. Son of brilliant, sensitive Lord Randolph who died young, of a handsome, American mother, Young Churchill was groomed to rule from the start, never let himself or his friends forget it. At 20, after Harrow and Sandhurst, he held a dinner...
...Leading Citizen (Paramount) shows that when capital and labor get to scrapping in a Midwest U. S. city in the year 1939, Hollywood's sympathies are unequivocally on the side of Abe Lincoln...
...from a story by Irvin Cobb which had been designed as a vehicle for Will Rogers, sold by M. G. M. to Paramount after Rogers' death, Our Leading Citizen was reshaped by Producer George Arthur not only as a vehicle for bazooka-playing Bob Burns but as a Hollywood version of Broadway's The American Way. Despite the skepticism of Hollywood leftists, cutters left intact most of its supposedly inflammatory scenes, including a pitched battle between strikers and strikebreakers bloodier than any yet seen in the newsreels, a citizens' meeting where a cynical employer (Gene Lockhart) diverts...
West's pressagent, a photographer. Posed in her Hollywood apartment, Cinemactress West and Leader Buchman smiled happily, swapped compliments. Beamed Mae, billowy in pink negligee: "It is a wonderful work. ... I owe all my success to the kind of thinking Moral Re-Armament is." Gallantly responded Dr. Buchman: "You are a splendid character, Miss West. You have done wonderful work...
...forthcoming trip to Europe she hopes to spend much of the time in the nude. In Chicago she has ordered a is-ft. canvas roof enclosure, on the Normandie a private sundeck. Said she: "It [sun bathing] has been wonderful for my health. My only difficulty [in Hollywood] has been with a nasty man in a red airplane...