Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of Broadway turkeys slowed him hardly at all. He moved to Hollywood, began to grind out TV shows, a movie script and, finally, The Marriage-Go-Round. Everything he touched turned to money. And as he tried to fend off the tax collector, his corporate complex became as complicated as any in the New Hollywood, where tax angles are more important than camera angles...
Commanding a null income at 35, pudgy, archangel-faced Leslie Stevens is one of the hottest writer-tycoons in or out of the smog. He is also one of Hollywood's new breed: the curious combination of corporation executive and creative artist that is taking over the town. On Broadway, Stevens' Marriage-Go-Round, with Charles Boyer and Claudette Colbert, is spinning briskly into its second season. The pilot shows for a couple of TV series are ready for production. The Pink Jungle, his new, Broadway-bound comedy about the cosmetics industry, is in rehearsal. And last week...
...some, Mae West was bawdily suggestive, and her theatrical career has been beset by police raids and moralistic outcries. But to most, Mae's meanderings were enlivened and redeemed by an intuitive sense of the ridiculous and a cheerful vulgarity. F. Scott Fitzgerald found Mae the only Hollywood actress with "an ironic edge, a comic spark." British Author Hugh Walpole applauded her mockery of the "fraying morals and manners of a dreary world...
Matured Men. Away from what she calls "the linen battlefields," Mae became a vaudeville headliner, a star in Broadway musicals and in her own lubricous dramas -Sex, Diamond Lil, and The Constant Sinner. In a dozen Hollywood films, Mae triumphed on both sides of the Atlantic. During the war, her shape was saluted by R.A.F. pilots, who called their inflatable life jackets "Mae Wests." U.S. Indians, naturally with the dedicated help of publicity men, made Mae a member of the Lakota tribe as Princess She-Who-Mountains-in-Front...
...ensconced in a gold-and-white Hollywood living room surrounded by nude portraits and nude statues of herself, complacent Mae ends her autobiography with a scatter of advice for her sisters. She recommends that they find a man of 40 (by then "he has matured and ripened") with plenty of money ("in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone"), who is not too expert (the ideal "is the man a woman can teach something about love he never knew before"). She also tells women how to make themselves more attractive to men. The depressing formula...