Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popular young hero appeared last week in the flesh of Thomas Edmund Dewey, 36, who, unlike his counterparts in Hollywood and elsewhere, has as his chief asset not theatricality but thoroughness. Thoroughly for three years he went about smashing the prostitution, restaurant and poultry rackets of New York City (TIME, Aug. 15, et ante) while his files on the "numbers" or "policy" racket, most lucrative of all, slowly accumulated. And last week, when his big numbers racket case finally went to trial, there was only one defendant, the biggest single political boss remaining in Tammany's battered machine...
John (formerly Jules) Garfield, like Franchot Tone, J. Edward Bromberg and Luther Adler, went to Hollywood from Manhattan's Group Theatre. In Four Daughters' almost negative cast, he is the sole positive charge...
Weekly U. S. attendance. . .83,000,000 to 88,000,000 Weekly world attendance. . . 220,000,000 Cost of U. S. 1937-38 production . . . .$135,000,000 Average U. S. admission price. . . .22? Hollywood payroll. . . . $86,000,000 Total U. S. theatres. . . .17,541 Total U. S. investment...
...Marie chanced instead to ask her friend whether he expected their romance to be celebrated by a cinema like the one in which this ironic little conversation occurs, any sensible young Swede, no matter how well-mannered, would certainly have answered no. Hollywood's tumbrils began rumbling five years ago, when an MGM story reader reported that Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette was "thoroughly modern, thoroughly plausible and slightly censorable." The picture was listed on the late Irving Thalberg's last production schedule, with his wife in the title role. The French Revolution, MGM, Shearer & Power, Director...
...with more color and smoothness than most of his colleagues, draws much of his material from newspapers and magazines. Hence, he scrutinizes a number of phenomena which are rarely mentioned in scientific books-Fred Astaire and Jessie Matthews, the chain-letter craze, the Big Apple, Fashion Stylist Adrian of Hollywood, Variety. He turns a coldly skeptical and sardonic eye on the standard apologies for capitalism, also on the ideologies of democracy ("the safest votes, as every practical politician knows, are those which have been 'bought' "). But neither does he show any enthusiasm for leftist or rightist panaceas. "Although...