Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen Mary, Negro Cinemactress Dorothy Dandridge, who has finished her chores as Bess in Sam Goldwyn's forthcoming movie version of Porgy and Bess, hoisted the conventional pretty wave for the flashbulbs on the day of a proud revelation: her engagement to Jack Denison, white proprietor of a Hollywood supper club...
...Colonel* Jimmy Carreras, 49, knocked the bung out of yet another barrel of blood: he gave Britons a fresh and frightening look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles. In three years, Hammer's remakes of Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and other items from Hollywood's library of horror classics have earned more dollars from world sales than the products of any other British moviemaker in the last decade. Cracks a Hammer executive inevitably: "We've pumped new blood into the industry...
...adopting the Jewish faith when she married her third husband, the late Mike Todd-born Avrom Goldbogen, grandson of a Polish rabbi. Her friendship with Singer Eddie Fisher, a Jew, may have increased her concern with Judaism. About six months ago she began studying under Rabbi Max Nussbaum of Hollywood's Temple Israel...
When Lenore Lafount moved to New York to study acting, he spent all his weekends there. In 1930 he went to work as a lobbyist for Aluminum Co. of America; when Lenore got an offer from Hollywood (she was a bit player), he convinced Alcoa that he would be more valuable in their West Coast office. "I kept thinking," he says, "that some movie hero would get her." Lenore thought she wanted a career, but George's persistence was overpowering. Just as M-G-M offered her a three-year contract, he persuaded her to marry him instead, took...
...Bravo (Armada; Warner) is a major ($3,000,000) attempt by Hollywood to outgun the six-gunslingers who have recently been pumping the TV audience full of lead (TIME, March 30). The trouble is, Producer-Director Howard Hawks has put too many shooting irons in the fire. The picture has not one but three heroes (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson); they divide the sympathies and overpopulate the screen. For another thing, the film lasts almost as long (2 hr. 21 min.) as five TV westerns laid end to end-and it makes about as little consecutive sense...