Word: hollywooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eric Von Stroheim, refugee from Hollywood who gained fame for his performance in "Grand Illusion," is featured in "Les Disparus de St.-Agil," presented by the French Talking Film Committee today and tomorrow at the Institute of Geographical Exploration. Also in the cast are three of the child actors who appeared in "Generaux Sans Boutons," earlier popular offering of the committee...
...Delight presented the fragmentary romance between an itinerant U. S. hoofer and the fake-Russian mistress of a munitions maker, in an Italian border hotel on the eve of a European war. All this added up to an amusing and superficially penetrating indictment of totalitarian politics. Whenever Hollywood touches material of this sort, it stirs up a tremendous agitation about whether or not the cinema will be courageous enough to retain the meaning of the original. In the case of Idiot's Delight, this agitation was augmented by the fact that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after almost deciding that Idiot...
...agitations about Hollywood's courage have little to do with the price of eggs. Hollywood not only has no courage but is not concerned with having any. Despite the fact that it will not be shown in Italy anyway, Idiot's Delight goes so far out of its way to avoid insulting Italians as to have its military characters talk Esperanto. The picture indicts nothing except war in general, and does even this halfheartedly. This caution, however, is not due primarily to Hollywood's reluctance to offend, but merely to its intense eagerness to make profits. Author...
Last week, while Hialeah was going full blast, a third track, Gulfstream Park, opened at seaside Hollywood, 15 miles north of downtown Miami. Its owner, wee-mustached, dimpled Jack Horning, 28-year-old heir to a Pittsburgh steel fortune, had never intended to own a racetrack. A contractor by trade, he had seen only three horse races in his life when he was hired by Promoter Joe Smoot last winter to build a racing plant on 190 acres of marshland...
Promoter Albert Nathaniel Chapereau (Shapiro) kibitzed Paris, Broadway and Hollywood because: 1) he craved fine-feathered friends, and 2) the right people could help him promote his interests. He wanted Cafe Society recognition for himself and his wife, Paula. On Paula's wrist Radio and Cinema Comedian George Burns saw a nifty bracelet. Soon No. 1 Zany Gracie Allen (Mrs. Burns) had $4,885 worth of duty-free baubles like Paula's. Soon Supreme Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer's wife, Elma, had a duty-free Paris wardrobe just as pretty as Paula...