Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the average Hollywood magnate decides to make a picture, he rounds up a million dollars or so, mounts his curved-screen camera, and hires a host of stars. Several years later, the technicolor epic will, he hopes, draw enough people away from their 21 inch screens to pay the tremendous production costs. To put it mildly, motion pictures are big business, from Producer on down to Assistant Continuity...
...course of their study, the Hollywood sociologists have also investigated a specific minority group, the Italian Americans, and have reached some unshakable conclusions: 1) many of them speak broken English, 2) most of them eat spaghetti, 3) some of them grow up to be gangsters. As a matter of fact, that is what the heroine (Sophia Loren), the widow of a racketeer, is afraid her son will do. The boy is only twelve years old, and already he has been caught tampering with a parking meter and sent off to a work farm. The hero (Anthony Quinn), a well-preserved...
...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw. A British western shot in Spain that achieves satire on the Hollywood horse opera by starring Jayne Mansfield as the sheriff's cutie...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The Dingaling Girl by Playwright J. P. Miller (who made a name for himself with The Days of Wine and Roses last year) is a new treatment of the old tale about a shy young housewife catapulted to Hollywood stardom. In the cast: Diane Varsi as the modest heroine, Sam Jaffe as the shrewd director, Eddie Albert as the poor but ambitious husband...
...closer examination, however, the superficiality of this analysis becomes apparent; its incorrectness stems from the ambiguity of definition caused by two genres, both called "Westerns," one of which has been relegated mainly to television, the other of which is being produced in equal quantity by contemporary Hollywood. This second species, of which Bad Day is an example, can roughly be described as some combination of the High Noon plot, and Shane ethos, and a gimmick...