Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Landslide. In West Hollywood, Fla., voters elected a mayor, defeated on the same ballot a proposal to incorporate the town, with the result that Frank Polage is the new mayor of no place...
...Sixth Happiness (20th Century-Fox) has just about everything the mass public is said to want. It has Ingrid Bergman in a part so flagrantly sympathetic that Hollywood may not dare refuse her a third Oscar. It has Curt Jürgens, a German matinee idol who looks like John Wayne with a monocle scar, and it has the late Robert Donat, playing a sort of Chinese Mr. Chips in his most magniloquent style of maudlin. It has Cinema-Scope, DeLuxe color, 2,000 Chinese extras, a $5,000,000 budget, a $450,000 set, a running time...
...From Hollywood...
Anyone buying a new Capitol 45-r.p.m. record titled Green Chri$tma$ can study these and other atrocities at yuletide leisure. Lyricist Stan Freberg is an adman himself, with an executive suite on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and a reputation for the cute commercial (TIME, Aug. 4).) But Freberg also had a solid Baptist upbringing (his minister father still has a church in Pasadena), and for years he has felt Christmas commercialism gnawing away at his religious vitals. "The funny thing is," he says, "that businessmen would sell as much soap or soft drinks at Christmas if they never...
After intermission, Elliot Forbes, conductor of the Glee Club and Choral Society, conducted a group of Christmas pieces, including a large group of modern works, and ending with three carols by Peter Warlock, whose orchestration sounded like something out of Hollywood. But they were an effective finish to a very enjoyable concert, and sent the audience home cheerful and happy...