Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DOROTHY BLONDER Hollywood...
...longest-running team in show business began applying the brakes last week in Hollywood. After 36 years as the better half of Burns and Allen, pretty, professionally giddy Gracie, still slim and girlish at 53, announced that she will retire in May. "I'm going to sleep for six months," she said. "I'm going to invite people in to dinner, and visit my grandchildren. And I'm going to clean out the bureau drawers...
...nightspots, famed for his nonstop quips ("I, had a g-g-great day at the track. I got a r-r-ride home") and the Frisco Dance, a soft-shoe treatment of The Darktown Strutters' Ball trademarked by a tilted derby and a glowing cigar; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...young customers (70% under 24) in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota that he can afford to shrug off television. "TV is for the older folks." says he. "A teen-ager who has a date doesn't want to stay at home." Rhoden waves off major Hollywood productions ("Gary Grant won't sell teen-agers"), even throws out westerns unless they have a young cast. Result: his 1957 gross increased 18% over 1956; this year's is still growing...
...teens. Dagmar taught Nijinsky to foxtrot. In her 20s. after she reached Hollywood, she married Western Star Frank Mayo. In her 305, after a second marriage that lasted only half an hour, by her account, she fell in love with Igor Stravinsky and some dozens of other men. "How did I do it?" she wonders. "All those men in so little time? They're just shadows now. They were even then...