Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he has lived in the U.S. for 13 years, birdlike Bernard Lamotte must still go back to Paris to find the scenes he most likes to paint. Last week, the results of his latest visit hung in a Los Angeles gallery. Hollywood's well-heeled art lovers (including Designer Adrian and wife Janet Gaynor, Artur Rubinstein, Fanny Brice, Producer Buddy de Sylva) turned out in strength...
...Hollywood, which is no place to be bald in, is an excellent place for people who claim they can cure baldness. Red-haired Patricia M. Stenz runs a hair and scalp clinic across the street from Hollywood's "Radio City" at Sunset and Vine. She has a theory that all baldness is caused by a fungus. A bald head, says Miss Stenz, is something like athlete's foot, at the other end of the body; it runs in families, as athlete's foot does, not through heredity but because sons catch it from their fathers...
Born. To Joan Bennett, 38, cinemadventuress (The Macomber Affair), and third husband Walter Wanger, Hollywood producer (The Long Voyage Home): their second, her fourth daughter; in Los Angeles. Weight...
...stage-struck Newark boy who acted on Broadway, then switched to writing. After six years as a Hollywood scripter, Dore Schary (rhymes, in Hollywood, with hoary sherry) won an Oscar for his work on Boys Town (1938). He moved forward fast-right into a producer's office, first with MGM, later with David Selznick...
Last year RKO hired Dore Schary as its production chief. The job made him one of Hollywood's biggest brasshats-the equal of Mayer, Zanuck and Warner-with an income of around $380,000 a year. Last week Schary was out of a job. Since May 11, when Howard Hughes stepped in as RKO's controlling stockholder, Hollywood has been speculating over Schary's future. Leftish Schary is proudest of having masterminded such films as the lowbudget, propaganda-heavy Crossfire; conservative Hughes favors blatantly sexy, splashily costly movies like his own Outlaw. They had never...