Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as a boy in Mexico, José had been an unworldly sort. But his golden voice and romantic profile soon had him performing at the Chicago Civic Opera, most notably as Nicias in Thais. He went into the movies, made a succession of highly successful musical films in Hollywood, Mexico City and Buenos Aires...
...actual Fisher also looked at times like a morose Harold Lloyd, but he is played in the movie by an actor with a rubbery accent, bouncing jowls and a giggle. Most of the real Fisher has been filtered by Hollywood into the Stevens' character: his pugnacious salesmanship and his talent for such song titles as There's a Broken Heart for Every Light on Broadway and Come Josephine in my Flying Machine. In all, Fisher wrote or published a thousand tunes, but he had no connection with the song called Oh, You Beautiful Doll...
...Hollywood has to cope every day with pressure groups, but last week moviemen felt pressure from a fading minority which it has used as a villain ever since the movies were galloping tintypes. The Association on American Indian Affairs formed a national committee to get better movie treatment of the red man. Announced the association's president, Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge: "Motion-picture producers themselves are now more responsive to the problem, and are taking significant steps in current feature productions to give Indian material fair and authentic treatment...
...charm and down-to-earth bluntness. But thus far, he seems to be merely a clever craftsman with a great facility for squirting clear drops of sentiment into every shadow, gesture and cobblestone. The Bicycle Thief pictures the seamy side of life with no more reality than the average Hollywood movie shows the shiny side...
Pinky. The most skillful propaganda entertainment to come out of Hollywood's current preoccupation with the plight of the U.S. Negro; starring Jeanne Grain (TIME...