Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...window. The display consisted of some 200 portraits of assorted world notables, all taken from the covers of TIME. In the center, in large letters, was writ ten: "Who Are They?" Britain's Princess Margaret was there, side by side with Russia's Police Boss Lavrenty Beria, Hollywood's Gregory Peck, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, and the theater's redoubtable Tallulah Bankhead. At week's end, one of the 200 faces had been changed. The features of Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary had been replaced by those of Radio Comic Fred Allen...
...stop all but the most essential U.S. imports to Canada and let Canada live as best she could on her own production and high-priced overseas imports. That course for years to come would deny to Canadians such items as U.S.-made cars and clothes, U.S.-grown citrus fruit, Hollywood movies. Canada would save U.S. dollars, but it would undoubtedly place a heavy strain on the Canadian confederation, especially on the Western Prairies and the Maritime Provinces, where the facts of geography exert an extra pull toward trade with...
...Cannes, while his great & good friend, Hollywood's Merle Oberon, 38, watched his private plane take off for Venice, wealthy Italian Count Giorgio Cini, 30, was killed in a crash when he flew low to buzz the airstrip. Cinemactress Oberon cried: "My life is finished. There's no point in going...
...huge towers of brickwork that once formed the walls of the calidarium, Caracalla's is one of the world's biggest opera stages: more than a third of an acre. To keep it from looking empty, the Rome Opera summons a mob of supers that even Hollywood would admit was colossal. Ten horses, three elephants and a camel usually turn up onstage for Aida. In this season's Lohengrin, 700 performers (and Benito Mussolini's favorite white horse) were onstage at once...
Married. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, 48, oldtime crooner (Your Time Is My Time), now a Hollywood character actor (I Remember Mama); and Eleanor Kathleen Norris, 21, University of California ('49) psychology graduate; he for the fourth time; in Oakland, Calif...