Word: hollywooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rodgers & Hart enjoy today that special blessing which befalls successful songwriters, of having money rain in from all sides-from royalties on shows, from the sale of shows to Hollywood and foreign countries, from sheet music, from gramophone records, from radio recitals, from having their music played by bands. On shows they get 6% of the gross, which means about $750 a week apiece if a show is a hit. Their biggest money-maker was The Girl Friend which played all over the world. In Hollywood they got $50,000 to $60,000 a movie. And from the American Society...
...Women's teams outdraw men's teams as box-office attractions, not only in Hollywood but all over the country. Even Manhattan's famed Madison Square Garden succumbed to women's softball this summer to swell their coffers, put on a semiweekly program of double headers featuring their own Roverettes and visiting teams...
...translate its polyglot dialogue, Grand Illusion's principal defect is that an occasional exaggerated attention to detail tends to retard its pace. It is notable for restoring Erich von Stroheim (a top-priced director until a combination of extravagant pictures and his own erratic temperament cut short his Hollywood career) to the screen in a more sympathetic role than those he used to play. Good shot: the moment at the dress rehearsal of a prison show when the first member of the cast tries on a woman's dress...
...Hollywood Hearstattler Louella Parsons reported a rumor that Hitler had clapped his onetime favorite, oldtime Cinemactress Pola Negri, in a concentration camp because she talked too much...
Eighteen-year-old Ben Freedman, son of radio's late No. 1 Gagman David Freedman† left for Hollywood to write Al Jolson's radio scripts, took with him his father's private file of 40,000 jokes...