Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bascomb captures the bomb, its inventor (David Kasoff) and his daughter (Jean Seberg), four policemen and a blustery, obtuse General. Unfortunately, the real bomb in the film is Miss Seberg, who though fetching, cannot act--even when one concedes that her part is largely a spoof on the Hollywood heroine type. After losing his heart to Miss Seberg and his insides to the Atlantic, Bascomb returns to Grand Fenwick as unwelcome victor...
...Four ministers playing the board game "Diplomacy." What mars the film, apart from acting flaws, is chiefly an over-reliance on corn and gag lines, like Miss Seberg's "I always thought you were a snake, you snake." If the script is supposed to be satire on the usual Hollywood cliches, it does not come off as such, but sounds merely trite itself...
...solemn pageant produced in 1911 by the late Max Reinhardt. Reinhardt's drama advanced through a series of large visions of the human condition, as successively they assailed a nun who had been lured from her convent by the Prince of this World, personified in a fluting cripple. Hollywood's version translates these noble obscurities into terms that the average moviegoer will more restfully recognize-right up to the moment when he falls asleep...
Born. To Joan Caulfield, 36. long-legged blonde cinemactress (Dear Ruth) and sometime TV star (My Favorite Husband), who seven months ago divorced Hollywood Producer Frank Ross. 55 : their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Kevin Ross. Weight...
Pillow Talk. Flighty feathers fluttering around Hollywood's 1958-59 Box Office Champs Rock Hudson and Doris Day, with almost all the flurry caused by top-notch Comic Tony Randall...